Comparison

Self vs Ask Yourself Everyday

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Self

This app helps you conduct self-experiments to understand the impact of behavioral changes on your health, wellness, and productivity. It provides tools to set up trials, track outcomes, and gain personalized insights through automated analysis and daily reminders.

Highlights
  • Conduct self-experiments
  • Track behavioral outcomes
  • Gain personalized insights
  • Automated statistical analysis
  • Daily check-in reminders
  • Data-driven self-improvement
Features
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Self-experimentation is the process of conducting trials where you are both the researcher and the subject. Through modifying your behaviors and reporting outcomes, you can gain concrete insights into the efficacy of whatever self-improvement you seek to make. Self-experimentation is a data-driven way to gain ultra-personal insights into the driving factors behind your health, wellness, and productivity. Through Self-E, you can set up experiments, view your data, and attain individualized insights through automated statistical analysis. Self-E sends daily reminders to check in so that your experiment stays consistent and structured.

About

Ask Yourself Everyday

This app helps you understand your life better by answering custom or community-suggested questions daily. It provides advanced statistics and trends to offer insights into your well-being and life changes. Set daily reminders to make self-reflection a habit without the time commitment of traditional journaling.

Highlights
  • Create custom questions
  • Community question suggestions
  • Advanced statistics and trends
  • Daily reminders
  • Journaling alternative
Features
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TRACK ANY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE WITH "ASK YOURSELF EVERYDAY" "Ask Yourself Everyday" is a unique tool that lets you understand your life better with a simple act of answering questions daily. What questions? Well, questions that matter to YOU, really! You can create your own questions, or you can select one from from the list suggested by our community. Keep answering daily and in just 18 days you'll unlock powerful statistics and insights that will let you see your life at a glance! "I've been tracking how happy I am on my job with this app for a few month - once I started noticing that my job satisfaction score was quickly going down, I realized that I needed to take a vacation. Helped a lot!" "At some point this year, I was struggling with severe anxiety. I felt like I was going nowhere. I started to use this app to track my symptoms - I hoped that I would eventually see it trending down in the app. And, of course, it soon did." "It's easy to stop caring for yourself when you're immersed by something. I was working on this new project for a few weeks pretty much non-stop, and just ignoring everything else. But once I saw that my 'How do you feel today physically?' score was heading down rather dramatically, I realized that I had to at least go for a walk once a day." "Helped me escape a toxic relationship - I was responding 'this sucks' pretty much every single day. Data doesn't lie" FEATURES: • Create your own questions, whatever's important to you! "Did I drink too much coffee today"? "How's my pet turtle doing"? "Did I go for a run this morning"? Whatever you need! • Need inspiration? Find your next question in our curated list of Community Suggestions. It might have just what you need. And if you're in a sharing mood - please submit your own too! • Your life at a glance: explore trends and advanced statistics to better understand yourself, your life and how it's changing. • Never miss a day: make simple daily self-reflection a habit by setting a daily reminder - we'll remind you daily at 9:15pm. • Self-reflection without a journaling! Yes, we love journaling, but we also understand that it takes lots of time and effort. Answering questions with predefined answers though takes none! It's a simplest form of self-reflection there is. For more information, see our Privacy Policy: https://askyourself.app/privacypolicy Terms of Use: https://askyourself.app/termsofuse

Screenshots

Self4 screens
Ask Yourself Everyday4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Self at none against Ask Yourself Everyday's 5. Self also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). Ask Yourself Everyday's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ask Yourself Everyday sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Self asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Self holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ask Yourself Everyday has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Self ships an update every 6 weeks, Ask Yourself Everyday every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Self versus Ask Yourself Everyday: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSelfAsk Yourself Everyday
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.8 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings215 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.514.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB15 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperBrown University Computing & Information ServicesOleg Dreyman

Customer experience

Self

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ask Yourself Everyday

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Self

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Ask Yourself Everyday

Subscriptions4
  • Ask Yourself PRO Monthly1 Month trial$5.991 Month
  • Ask Yourself PRO Annual$19.991 Year
  • Ask Yourself Annual1 Month trial$29.991 Year
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  • Ask Yourself Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ask Yourself PRO Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Self free?
Self is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ask Yourself Everyday free?
Ask Yourself Everyday is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Self or Ask Yourself Everyday?
Self is rated higher. Self averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Ask Yourself Everyday averages 4.8 from 15 ratings.
Do Self or Ask Yourself Everyday have ads?
Neither Self nor Ask Yourself Everyday shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Self or Ask Yourself Everyday?
Self ships an update every 6 weeks, and Ask Yourself Everyday every 3 months. Most recently, Self was updated on June 11, 2026 and Ask Yourself Everyday on August 21, 2026.

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