Ben's Virtues vs Pi, your personal AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ben's Virtues
This app helps you cultivate personal growth by tracking your adherence to thirteen virtues, inspired by Benjamin Franklin's original plan. Review your day nightly and mark transgressions to improve your conduct over time.
- Thirteen virtue tracking chart
- Weekly virtue focus
- Daily transgression marking
- Yearly cycle completion
- Personal conduct regulation
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Follow Benjamin Franklin's 13-week virtue system used for nearly 300 years to build discipline, honesty, moderation, industry, humility, and more. • Focus on one virtue each week • Takes one minute every evening • Free, no ads, and no account necessary • Apple Watch and widget make it even easier to track your virtues In 1726, while on an 80-day ocean voyage from London to Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin developed a plan and corresponding chart for regulating his future conduct. He based his plan on a chart of thirteen virtues. He committed to giving strict attention to one virtue each week - placing a mark on his chart each time he transgressed that week’s virtue. After thirteen weeks he moved through all thirteen virtues. He would repeat the course four times a year. Use this modern incarnation of Benjamin Franklin’s original chart to improve and regulate your daily conduct. Every evening review your day. Tap the day's date to place a mark if you transgressed the week's virtue. One virtue is highlighted every week and the whole chart should be completed four times in a year. The goal is to live your days - giving strict attention to each virtue - without having to place any marks on your chart. Thank you for checking out Ben's Virtues. If you like the app please let me know what virtue you are currently focusing on by leaving a quick review.
Pi, your personal AI
An emotionally intelligent AI companion designed to provide support and empower users to navigate everyday life. Engage in conversations to explore ideas, discuss challenges, or simply have someone to listen. It learns and evolves with your interactions.
- Emotionally intelligent AI companion
- Talk through difficult topics
- Explore new ideas and topics
- Brainstorm and get recommendations
- Voice mode for live conversation
- Personalized learning and growth
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Hey, I'm Pi, your personal intelligence partner. I'm designed to empower you to feel confident and supported to tackle everyday life. Whether you're looking to explore new ideas, talk through a difficult topic, or just want someone to listen, Pi is here for you. TALK IT OUT - Prep for a hard conversation, or just vent when you need someone to talk to. Try voice mode to talk it out live! FUEL YOUR CURIOSITY - Learn about a new topic, or practice a language. GET THINGS DONE - Talk through decision-making, or come up with an action plan to tackle something new. GET INSPIRED - Brainstorm new ideas, or get recommendations on what to watch next. HAVE FUN - Ask Pi anything! Pi grows with you – the more you talk with Pi, the better it evolves and understands you. Pi is created by Inflection AI, the Public Benefit Corporation empowering people with emotionally intelligent, human-centered AI.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pi, your personal AI at every 2 days against Ben's Virtues's every 4 weeks. Pi, your personal AI also leads on ratings volume (2.5K vs 37). Ben's Virtues's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, review sentiment 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Ben's Virtues against 4.4 for Pi, your personal AI. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pi, your personal AI has 2.5K ratings behind it against 37, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 60% and 60% positive.
Ben's Virtues ships an update every 4 weeks, Pi, your personal AI every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ben's Virtues | Pi, your personal AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (37 ratings) | 4.4 (2.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 60.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 37 | 2.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 169 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Reason Interactive | Inflection AI |
Customer experience
Ben's Virtues
Pi, your personal AI
User reviews
Ben's Virtues
From 37 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and clean design
- 💡 Great idea for self-improvement
- ✅ Easy to use
- ✨ Inspiring and practical
- 🎯 Helps with personal growth
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Data loss and resets
- 🐛 Blank screen issues
- 🐛 Inconsistent functionality
- 🐛 Not working on newer OS/devices
Pi, your personal AI
From 2.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤖 Realistic and natural conversations
- 💬 Empathetic and supportive responses
- 🧠 Impressive knowledge and insights
- 🤝 Feels like talking to a friend
- 🆓 Free and no ads
Room to improve
- 🤯 Occasional memory lapses and inconsistencies
- 🚫 Strict content restrictions leading to suspensions
- 🔇 Voice feature issues and bugs
- 🔍 Difficulty deleting or organizing conversations
Bugs and requests
Ben's Virtues
Reported bugs
25 issues- Blank screen
- Crashes every time it's opened
- App no longer works
- Keeps resetting and losing progress
- Data doesn't get stored or saved
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- App doesn't work
- Can only choose one virtue line
- Updates remove data
- Keeps losing progress
- Dots don't appear on any other virtues except the highlighted one
- History/tracking deleted on iOS update
- Impossible to put marks on any of the virtues except the one highlighted
- Impossible to put more than one mark on a virtue per day
- Rewording of Franklin's description of Chastity
- Chart boots out after 3 or 4 weeks
- Doesn't move forward each day
- No way to manually set the calendar date
- App completely reset itself
- Randomly resetting itself and deleting prior progress
- Keeps randomly reseting itself and deleting prior progress
- Just freezes immediately on opening
- App doesn't work...at all
- Wil not run on ipad
- Didn't work on my iPad
- Not working right now
Requested features
23 requests- Allow setting custom start day
- Enable marking all virtues daily
- Allow adding custom virtues
- Improve visibility of virtue tracking
- Option to export data
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- Include samples of Ben Franklin's tracked virtues
- Allow multiple marks per day
- Support for more than one virtue focus at a time
- Add ability to cycle through thirteen weeks with marking on other virtues
- Make it able to put dots in EVERY spot per day
- Add ability to change "virtues" to add your own
- Add tab with passage from Franklin's bio
- Allow user to set start day
- Add ability to put more than one mark on a virtue per day
- Allow tracking of multiple virtues
- Add option to create custom virtues
- Set alarm/push notification for daily rating
- Include video and autobiography section
- Update app to 4.0
- Allow marking any virtues on any given day
- Include option of creating your own list of virtues
- Add higher level of personalization
- Add more discussion on each virtue
Pi, your personal AI
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent freezes and unresponsiveness
- Inconsistent behavior with voice and text inputs
- Sync issues between web and mobile versions
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to save and revisit past conversations
- More voice options and customization
- Improved memory and consistency across conversations
In-app purchases
Ben's Virtues
No in-app purchases
Pi, your personal AI
No in-app purchases
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