Comparison

Self vs NOVOS Life

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

NOVOS Life

This app helps you understand and improve your biological age through lifestyle changes. It provides a biological age assessment and daily actions to boost your lifestyle score, aiming to make you biologically younger for a longer, healthier life.

Highlights
  • Biological Age Assessment
  • Daily Action Tracking
  • Lifestyle Score Improvement
  • Longevity Science Backing
  • Personalized Coaching
Features
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Aging is 90% lifestyle, 10% genetics. NOVOS Life is backed by top experts and the latest in the science of longevity. How it works: 1. Start with a Biological Age assessment. 2. Then, through Daily Actions, watch your Lifestyle Score improve. 3. As your Lifestyle Score improves, your Biological Age should get younger. Whether you’re a general wellness consumer or seasoned biohacker, NOVOS Life is your co-pilot to a long and healthy life. Who you are: You aren’t training for a competition or for your next blood test. You’re training for life. You just want to look, feel, think, and live as healthy as possible for as long as possible. There really isn’t a clear “benchmark” you can strive for — until now. Your North Star is your Biological Age. The younger you are, the better your chances for a long, healthy life. And with NOVOS Life, your chances are as good as ever. NOVOS Life provides general wellness and longevity information only and is not medical advice. Always consult your physician or another qualified health provider before making medical decisions.

Screenshots

Self4 screens
NOVOS Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Self at 5.0 against NOVOS Life's 4.6. Self also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). NOVOS Life's advantage is ratings volume (34 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Self holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NOVOS Life has 34 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Self ships an update every 6 weeks, NOVOS Life every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Self versus NOVOS Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSelfNOVOS Life
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.6 (34 ratings)
Positive reviews—83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings234 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.5 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB100 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBrown University Computing & Information ServicesNOVOS Labs

Customer experience

Self

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

NOVOS Life

All ratings34 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

None

Self

No in-app purchases

None

NOVOS Life

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Self free?
Self is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NOVOS Life free?
NOVOS Life is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Self or NOVOS Life?
Self is rated higher. Self averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while NOVOS Life averages 4.6 from 34 ratings.
Do Self or NOVOS Life have ads?
Neither Self nor NOVOS Life shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Self or NOVOS Life?
Self ships an update every 6 weeks, and NOVOS Life every 4 weeks. Most recently, Self was updated on November 3, 2026 and NOVOS Life on November 3, 2026.

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