Comparison

Self vs Persona Analysis

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

Persona Analysis

Discover your personality and connect with others through popular psychometric tests. Gain insights into your relationships and friendships for improved self-discovery and daily life.

Highlights
  • Take popular personality tests
  • Learn about yourself
  • Connect with others
  • Analyze friendship dynamics
  • Find ideal partners
  • Store test results
Features
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Persona is a self improvement and social networking app based on personality psychology. On Persona, you can: - Take popular personality tests - Learn about yourself and your friend group - Connect with others like you Our cutting edge psychometric analysis offers detailed insights into: - Your ideal partner for happiness and fulfillment - The unique dynamics of your friendships and how to make the most of them People who learn about their personalities can better achieve efficiency, purpose, and grace in their day to day activities and relationships. Decades of rigorous scientific research on personality has produced the key to better self discovery. Take our tests, store your results, connect with your friends and receive personalized analytics about you and your friend group! Download today!

Screenshots

Self4 screens
Persona Analysis3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Persona Analysis at every 6 days against Self's every 6 weeks. Persona Analysis also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 2). On price, rating, 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Self against 5.0 for Persona Analysis. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Persona Analysis 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, Persona Analysis every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Self versus Persona Analysis: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSelfPersona Analysis
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings215 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.513.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrown University Computing & Information ServicesPersonality Applications, Inc.

Customer experience

Self

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

Persona Analysis

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Self

No in-app purchases

None

Persona Analysis

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Self free?
Self is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Persona Analysis free?
Persona Analysis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Self or Persona Analysis?
Self and Persona Analysis are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 15 ratings respectively.
Do Self or Persona Analysis have ads?
Neither Self nor Persona Analysis shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Self or Persona Analysis?
Self ships an update every 6 weeks, and Persona Analysis every 6 days. Most recently, Self was updated on June 11, 2026 and Persona Analysis on June 5, 2026.

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