Comparison

PersonalityVIEW vs Know Yourself

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

Head to head
About

PersonalityVIEW

Discover your unique personality and understand its impact on your career and relationships. Explore detailed profiles of 16 personality types, receive tailored career advice, and gain insights to strengthen your connections with others.

Highlights
  • 16 personality type assessment
  • Detailed personality profiles
  • Personalized career guidance
  • Relationship compatibility insights
  • Matchmaking feature
  • Inspirational examples of famous personalities
Features
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PersonalityVIEW helps you understand yourself and the people around you. A short, carefully built assessment measures four axes of personality preference: where your energy comes from, how you take things in, how you decide, and how you meet the world. Together they map to 16 personality types across four families: Beacons, Compasses, Currents, and Anchors. Choose the test length that fits your moment: a two-minute Quick read, a steadier Standard run, or the In-depth version for the most reliable result. See the shape of your profile on an interactive chart, and retake the test any time to watch it settle. When an axis is too close to call, your result says so, whatever the length. Every type comes with rich insights: your traits, potential, career paths, relationships, and growth areas. Home opens with your type at a glance: a short summary, then cards to swipe through on your strengths, your watch-outs, you at work and with others, how you communicate, how you handle stress, and how you grow. A new insight arrives every week, written for your type, and the last 20 weeks stay on hand to reread. Add friends and see how your profiles fit, axis by axis: where you lean the same way, and where you usefully differ. The match follows your latest results and updates when either of you retakes the test. With a subscription, each friendship also gets its own AI-written read, based on both people's actual scores: how you click, how you talk, how you handle disagreements, everyday life together, and how you grow. Create circles for your couple, family, friends, or team, and invite people with a code or a link. Once two or more have joined, you see how the group mixes, and an AI-written profile describes the whole circle: its strengths and watch-outs first, then how it collaborates, communicates, makes decisions, and handles conflict, its blind spots, and how to get the best out of everyone. When the group changes, the profile is rewritten. It takes just one member with a subscription for everyone in the circle to read it. On a renewing premium plan, an AI coach that knows your result answers your questions about work, relationships, and growth, with conversations kept private. Type your messages or dictate them by voice. Premium also unlocks the full written profile for your type and removes ads everywhere in the app. Want it all about you? The Personal Edition rewrites your whole profile from your exact scores, in your language, and comes with a PDF report to keep. It is a one-off purchase, not a subscription. You can also unlock one friend match in depth on its own. And to bring every type to life, your profile and all 16 type pages feature famous people whose biographies illustrate each type. Start as a guest with no account: your result stays on your device until you decide to keep it. Download PersonalityVIEW and start seeing yourself, and others, more clearly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Know Yourself

Explore new destinations tailored to your thinking style and connect with like-minded individuals in real life. Discover places, people, and experiences that resonate with you, starting in Los Angeles.

Highlights
  • Interactive map with tailored destinations
  • Save favorite places
  • Connect with like-minded people
  • Explore new places
  • Discover experiences
Features
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Welcome to Know Yourself — the app that helps you explore new places that match the way you think across Los Angeles and beyond. Looking to connect IRL? Explore the city and meet like-minded people who share your interests and mindset. Real-world connection starts here. Here's what you can expect from the app: An interactive map with Destinations tailored to your intelligence type Ability to save your favorite places to explore later Meetups — find, create, and join group hangouts with people who think like you. Filter by interest, chat with the group, and show up ready to connect. Know Yourself is your guide to discovering places, people, and experiences that feel just right. Download now and start exploring Los Angeles your way. Keywords: explore new places, finding friends, social, travel, fun, meet new people, like-minded people, things to do, IRL, in real life, Los Angeles, meetups, group hangouts, events

Screenshots

PersonalityVIEW4 screens
Know Yourself4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Know Yourself at none against PersonalityVIEW's 5. Know Yourself also leads on ads (none vs shown). PersonalityVIEW's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and device support 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. PersonalityVIEW sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Know Yourself asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for PersonalityVIEW against 4.8 for Know Yourself. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 26 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PersonalityVIEW ships an update weekly, Know Yourself every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PersonalityVIEW versus Know Yourself: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPersonalityVIEWKnow Yourself
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (9 ratings) — better4.8 (26 ratings)
Positive reviews—95.2% of reviews
Number of ratings926 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB87 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperOVVIO SolutionsKnow Yourself LLC

Customer experience

PersonalityVIEW

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Know Yourself

All ratings24 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive95.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.8%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

PersonalityVIEW

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Quaterly$5.993 Months
  • HalfYearly$7.996 Months
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  • Yearly$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$14.99
None

Know Yourself

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PersonalityVIEW free?
PersonalityVIEW is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Know Yourself free?
Know Yourself is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PersonalityVIEW or Know Yourself?
PersonalityVIEW is rated higher. PersonalityVIEW averages 4.9 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Know Yourself averages 4.8 from 26 ratings.
Do PersonalityVIEW or Know Yourself have ads?
PersonalityVIEW shows ads; Know Yourself does not.
Which is updated more often, PersonalityVIEW or Know Yourself?
PersonalityVIEW ships an update weekly, and Know Yourself every 3 weeks. Most recently, PersonalityVIEW was updated on November 3, 2026 and Know Yourself on October 30, 2026.

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