Comparison

Align vs Optimal State

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

Head to head
About

Align

Discover your unique life roadmap with this app, offering a full breakdown of your Human Design. Get personalized daily tips, meditations, and compatibility insights. An AI feature provides tailored answers to your life questions.

Highlights
  • Personalized Human Design breakdown
  • Unlimited compatibility charts
  • Customized daily tips
  • Guided meditations
  • AI-powered life question answers
  • Unique life roadmap
Features
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Human Design is a new science that gives you your unique roadmap to becoming Who You Came Here to Be. There is a reason why following other people’s advice never fully works - because you were designed to do Life your unique way. This app will give you a full breakdown of your Design, unlimited charts and compatibility with the people in your life, customised daily tips and meditations. Now with Ask Jenna AI to receive answers to any life question, tailored to YOU. The most powerful things you can do is become who you came here to be, and unbecome everything that was never really you to begin with. Everything we desire shows up when we are true to our Selves.

About

Optimal State

Track your mental and emotional state alongside physical sensations. Gain insights into your patterns with visual charts and receive personalized tools and suggestions for improvement. Daily reminders help you stay balanced and make positive life changes.

Highlights
  • Mental/Emotional State Tracking
  • Body Feeling Assessment
  • Visual Pattern Charts
  • Daily Check-in Reminders
  • Personalized Tools & Suggestions
  • Intuitive Navigation
Features
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Track your Mental/Emotional State & how that’s connected to how you feel in your body! We now have 6 assessment charts, 2 for Mental Health & 4 regarding how your body feels. Simply click on the app chart title at the top of the page to bring up the full list and choose one of the 6 chart options. Navigate Easily: We get it, navigating through apps can be stressful. We’ve designed our app to make things easier for you by being extremely intuitive. You will always be a click away from wherever you want to go – so there’s no stress. Our App is simple enough that we know your main focus will still remain on what really matters: improving your life! See our Getting Started Guide. Intuitive Way to Track: We have used colors and a visual representation to help you track your patterns more easily. We feel that the language of the red, blue, white and gold zones makes it easy for everyone to have self-awareness and check in throughout the day. Clear Snapshot of Habits & Patterns: Get a quick snapshot of your habits & patterns, giving you a better overview of your mental and physical health. Once you learn your personal patterns at different times of day, days of the week, months or seasons of the year, you will have valuable insight into why and how you get out of balance. Check in Reminder: Daily reminders for ideal times to have you check in will help us create personalized real-time targeted interventions to bring you back into balance. There are certain times of day that are the best time to check in, allowing us customize your intervention based on what might be most helpful at this particular point. Personalized Tools & Suggestions: Whether you’re looking for a way to change your energy levels, or trying to improve how you feel, or you want to have more contentment, we have the tools and suggestions that can help you change your life from the inside out. We offer personalized plans that will help bring out your state of health both mentally and emotionally, as well as on a physical level. The newest research in neuroscience is showing that our mental health resides not only in our brain, but also in our nervous system and our tissues. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Align4 screens
Optimal State4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Optimal State at 5.0 against Align's 4.5. Optimal State also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and device support (3 vs 1). Align's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Align sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Optimal State sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Optimal State holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Align has 1.6K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Align's written reviews are positive against 100% of Optimal State's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Align ships an update every 8 days, Optimal State every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Align versus Optimal State: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlignOptimal State
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.6K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.6K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#87 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB36 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer38 (Guernsey) LtdOptimal State LLC

Customer experience

Align

All ratings1,551 ratings
Positive84.5%
Neutral4.4%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews680 reviews
Positive79.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative15.0%

Optimal State

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Align

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login issues and inability to receive password reset emails
  • Incorrect or jumbled birth time information
  • Sections of the app not loading or functioning properly
  • Paid content not unlocking despite subscription

Requested features

5 requests
  • More information on gates and channels
  • Ability to track transits
  • Improved readability and accessibility
  • Consistent and reliable daily content updates
  • Better integration between app and website

Optimal State

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Align

Subscriptions4
  • Silver Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Gold Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Silver Yearly$99.991 Year
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  • Gold Yearly$149.991 Year
One-time2
  • My People$0.99
  • My Chart$14.99
1 purchases

Optimal State

Subscriptions1
  • Optimal State$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Align free?
Align is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Optimal State free?
Optimal State is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Align or Optimal State?
Optimal State is rated higher. Align averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while Optimal State averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Align or Optimal State have ads?
Neither Align nor Optimal State shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Align or Optimal State?
Align ships an update every 8 days, and Optimal State every 5 months. Most recently, Align was updated on October 30, 2026 and Optimal State on October 14, 2026.

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