Comparison

Self vs Personal Values Sort

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

Personal Values Sort

This app guides users through an evidence-based activity to identify and clarify their personal values. Understanding your core values can lead to more meaningful decisions and an improved outlook on life. It's recommended for individuals, families, or partners to complete annually.

Highlights
  • Personal values identification
  • Evidence-based activity
  • Mood improvement
  • Outlook enhancement
  • Family/partner activity
  • Annual review
Features
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Can you list your top five most important values? As we go about our daily lives, it's all too easy to go through the motions without ever taking time to examine and clarify our personal values. Making decisions based on our values allows us to live lives with more meaning and purpose. This evidence-based activity is proven to change your mood and improve your outlook. All it requires is your careful attention and honest responses. We highly recommend doing this activity as a family or with a spouse or partner. We also recommend doing it at least once a year to see what has changed for you. This is especially true if you are a teenager or a young adult. This exercise is based on research conducted by William Miller, Janet C'de Baca, Daniel Matthews, and Paula Wilbourne and is used by therapists, career counselors, teachers, etc., all over the world.

Screenshots

Self4 screens
Personal Values Sort3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Self at 5.0 against Personal Values Sort's 4.8. Self also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.5 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Self ships an update every 6 weeks, Personal Values Sort every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and August 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Self versus Personal Values Sort: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSelfPersonal Values Sort
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.8 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.5 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrown University Computing & Information ServicesJayen Agrawal

Customer experience

Self

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

Personal Values Sort

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Self

No in-app purchases

None

Personal Values Sort

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Self free?
Self is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Personal Values Sort free?
Personal Values Sort is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Self or Personal Values Sort?
Self is rated higher. Self averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Personal Values Sort averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Self or Personal Values Sort have ads?
Neither Self nor Personal Values Sort shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Self or Personal Values Sort?
Self ships an update every 6 weeks, and Personal Values Sort every 3 months. Most recently, Self was updated on June 11, 2026 and Personal Values Sort on August 4, 2026.

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