Comparison

Happier vs TrueHands

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

Head to head
About

Happier

Discover personalized tools and daily guidance to cultivate a happier life. This app helps you identify what brings you joy and build sustainable habits through flexible tracking methods and fun challenges. It adapts to your unique personality and goals for lasting self-improvement.

Highlights
  • Daily content and reflection prompts
  • Flexible habit tracking methods
  • Personalized recommendations based on personality
  • Fun, quick challenges
  • 7-day habit Jump-Starts
  • Self-improvement and personal growth focus
Features
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The Happier app gives you the tools, tips, and insights to build a happier life—based on the research of happiness expert Gretchen Rubin. Apps that tell you what to do will never work for everyone. Happier is designed to help you figure out what actually makes you happier, then gives you the tools and guidance to make it happen. WHAT YOU GET: Daily content to keep you moving forward: Learn from fresh tips, reflection prompts, quick challenges, and insights every day. Habit-building tools that match how you work: Try different tracking methods to find what clicks: streaks, photo logs, journal entries, number tracking, and more. Track any habit you choose—exercise, reading, sleep, relationships, creativity, organization, whatever matters to you. Personalized recommendations based on your personality: Take the Four Tendencies quiz to discover whether you’re an Obliger, Questioner, Upholder, or Rebel–then try the tools and approaches that fit your tendency, so you’re working with your nature instead of against it. Fun challenges when you need a boost: There’s always room for a bit of fun. Spin the Challenge Wheel for instant prompts you can complete in minutes—clear a drawer, text a friend, take ten deep breaths, try something new. Or, dive into a 7-day Jump-Start, designed to help you break out of old patterns. Whether you're focused on self improvement, personal growth, or simply building better daily habits, Happier gives you a flexible approach that adapts to your life. TRY THE HAPPIER APP FOR FREE: Download Happier for free and start building a new happiness habit. Subscribe to unlock unlimited habit tracking and full access to all tools and daily content. ABOUT GRETCHEN RUBIN Gretchen Rubin is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers on happiness and habit formation, including The Happiness Project and The Four Tendencies. WANT TO LEARN MORE? For resources and support: https://thehappierapp.com Terms of Service: https://thehappierapp.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://thehappierapp.com/privacy-policy

About

TrueHands

This app helps horse owners meticulously track their horse's measurements, care schedules, riding activities, and finances. It offers guided camera measurements, detailed horse profiles, event calendars, ride tracking, and expense management. Secure iCloud sync ensures all your data is organized and accessible.

Highlights
  • Guided horse measurement with LiDAR
  • Detailed horse profiles and care records
  • Event calendar for appointments and activities
  • Ride tracking with route mapping
  • Financial tracking for expenses and income
  • Private iCloud synchronization
  • Customizable PDF exports
Features
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Know your horse. Track your progress. Keep your stable connected. TrueHands brings horse measurements, ride tracking, fitness, daily care and your riding community together in one app. HORSE MEASUREMENTS — PATENT PENDING Measure your horse using your phone with patent-pending LiDAR measurement technology on supported devices. Guided captures help you position your horse and phone for height and body measurements, with weight estimates and manual entry options. Save measurements, review changes over time and keep a history for each horse. Built-in instructions and a horse anatomy guide help you get started. RIDE TRACKING — IPHONE & APPLE WATCH Record rides from your iPhone or Apple Watch, including Watch rides without your phone nearby that sync back afterward. Assign each ride to a horse and review its route, distance, total time, moving and stopped time, average speed and maximum speed. Explore estimated gait time and distance for walking, trotting, cantering and galloping, plus elevation changes and turning statistics. Calibrate gait speed ranges for each horse to make tracking more useful for your riding style. HORSE FITNESS & GOALS Turn ride history into a clearer picture of your horse’s activity. Review total rides, hours, distance, gait breakdowns, personal bests and comparisons with previous rides. Switch between week, month and year views to explore your progress. Set goals for ride count, time or distance for each horse. Create named ride goals for time, distance or multiple gait targets, and follow your progress while riding in the app, on Apple Watch and in the iPhone Lock Screen Live Activity. Use a previous ride’s statistics to create your next goal. Export fitness summaries as branded PDFs or share progress with your riding community. YOUR HORSES, ORGANIZED Create individual horse profiles with photos, details, measurements, ride history and events. Keep photo galleries, documents, feeding instructions, diet history, care contacts and costs organized around the horse they belong to. Save competition results and other milestones alongside everyday records, so your horse’s story stays together. CARE, CALENDAR & REMINDERS Plan one-time or recurring appointments for farrier visits, dental care, veterinary visits, vaccines, medication and more. Add an appointment to multiple horses, choose a repeat interval in days, weeks or months, and set an optional reminder. See upcoming care from your Home screen and horse profiles. Farrier and scheduled dental visits show countdowns, with overdue appointments highlighted. Reschedule an upcoming recurring appointment and future dates follow the new schedule. CONNECT & SHARE Find friends, exchange private messages and create riding groups. Add a group photo, share updates in the group feed and plan rides together. Build your Social profile with photos, posts, results and shared horses. Choose which horse details, measurements, rides, events and gallery photos others can see. Shared horse information updates as you maintain your records. Choose public, friends-only or private profile visibility. Report inappropriate users, posts or images and control notifications for messages, friend requests, group invitations and appointment reminders. TRY PREMIUM FREE Enjoy an automatic 14-day Premium preview with no subscription signup or automatic charge. Premium includes unlimited horses, measurements and saved rides, plus Fitness and PDF exports. After the preview, the Free plan lets you save one horse, three measurement sets and two rides. Existing records are retained when Premium access ends. Measurement and weight results are estimates. LiDAR features require a compatible device. GPS-based gait, elevation and turning statistics are estimates and depend on location accuracy. Privacy Policy: https://truehandsapp.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ https://truehandsapp.com/terms

Screenshots

Happier4 screens
TrueHands4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: TrueHands at 5.0 against Happier's 3.9. Happier's advantage is ratings volume (57 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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. Happier sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and TrueHands sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TrueHands holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Happier has 57 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Happier ships an update every 4 weeks, TrueHands every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Happier versus TrueHands: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHappierTrueHands
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (57 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews22.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings57 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeyboard, LLCJohnny Delaney

Customer experience

Happier

All ratings57 ratings
Positive64.9%
Neutral14.0%
Negative21.1%
Written reviews94 reviews
Positive22.3%
Neutral20.2%
Negative57.4%

TrueHands

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

Bugs and requests

Happier

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Login screen freezes and prevents app access
  • App stuck on subscription page in endless loop
  • Password validation rejects valid passwords
  • App crashes repeatedly on launch
  • Daily quote doesn't update to new day
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  • Wheel spin challenges show as used when not completed
  • Don't Break the Chain shows false X marks for completed tasks
  • Blank white screens that cannot be closed
  • App doesn't recognize new day for daily challenges
  • Subscription not recognized despite successful payment
  • Error message 'Something went wrong' blocks access
  • 5-minute challenge instructions don't display fully on screen
  • App only fills small portion of iPad screen
  • Request timeout errors when accessing aims
  • Data loss after app updates
  • Inconsistent time zone handling causing broken chains
  • App won't accept valid password combinations during signup

Requested features

15 requests
  • Ability to backdate or edit entries for past days
  • Calendar view to see progress over time
  • Support for multiple tracking methods simultaneously (journal AND photo)
  • Ability to edit aims after creation
  • More flexible aim scheduling (specific times, days of week)
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  • Photo captions for tracked images
  • Community features to connect with other users
  • Lower subscription pricing
  • More diverse 5-minute challenges (currently repeats)
  • Integration of Neglected Senses quiz into app
  • Recording one-word themes within the app
  • Ability to track yearly lists and accomplishments
  • Better organization/grouping of aims
  • More substantial free version with multiple aims
  • Email notifications when app issues are resolved

TrueHands

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Happier

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$7.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$79.991 Year
3 purchases

TrueHands

Subscriptions2
  • TrueHands Premium Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • TrueHands Premium Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • TrueHands Lifetime PremiumFree

Questions

Is Happier free?
Happier is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TrueHands free?
TrueHands is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Happier or TrueHands?
TrueHands is rated higher. Happier averages 3.9 out of 5 from 57 ratings, while TrueHands averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Happier or TrueHands have ads?
Neither Happier nor TrueHands shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Happier or TrueHands?
Happier ships an update every 4 weeks, and TrueHands every 3 weeks. Most recently, Happier was updated on October 7, 2026 and TrueHands on October 15, 2026.

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