Self vs Personal Values Sort
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Conduct self-experiments
- Track behavioral outcomes
- Gain personalized insights
- Automated statistical analysis
- Daily check-in reminders
- Data-driven self-improvement
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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.
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.
- Personal values identification
- Evidence-based activity
- Mood improvement
- Outlook enhancement
- Family/partner activity
- Annual review
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Self | Personal Values Sort |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brown University Computing & Information Services | Jayen Agrawal |
Customer experience
Self
Personal Values Sort
In-app purchases
Self
No in-app purchases
Personal Values Sort
No in-app purchases









