Principled Living vs Gateway Process
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Principled Living
This app guides you to live by your core values and ethical standards. It helps you identify your principles, offers practical tips for integration, and allows you to explore potential conflicts with shadow traits. You can also share your profile and compare principles with friends.
- Identify core principles
- Practical tips for integration
- Explore shadow traits
- Real-life examples
- Bookmark favorite principles
- Share profile with friends
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Principled living is the act of deliberately embracing and adhering to the core values and ethical standards that shape your thoughts, actions, and daily decisions. This app is your compass to living a principled life. This app helps you uncover the principles that define who you are and offers detailed insights on living by each one, serving as your daily guide to embodying your values. Explore comprehensive descriptions, practical tips, and real-life examples to help you integrate these principles into your life. With the ability to bookmark or save your chosen principles, you can easily revisit them whenever you need a reminder or inspiration. This app also allows you to select from a detailed and comprehensive list of shadow traits that may conflict with your principles. It helps you pinpoint the areas at risks and provides feedback on how to overcome. It also allows you to share your profile with friends and compare your principles with their shadows.
Gateway Process
Explore a declassified U.S. Army intelligence assessment on consciousness alteration techniques. This app breaks down the 29-page document into 13 files across 5 stages, offering guided learning and a built-in binaural beat generator for brainwave synchronization.
- Declassified U.S. Army intelligence assessment
- 13 files across 5 progressive stages
- Clear, structured sections: explanations, instructions, field notes
- Progress tracking and sequential stage unlocking
- Built-in binaural beat generator
- 8 target brainwave states
- Privacy-focused: no accounts, tracking, or network requests
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The Gateway Process is a 1983 U.S. Army intelligence assessment of the Monroe Institute's techniques for altering consciousness — originally classified, now fully declassified by the CIA. This app turns that 29-page document into something you can actually read, understand, and follow. 13 files. 5 stages. One guided path from "what is this?" to advanced practice. THE DOCUMENT In 1983, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Wayne McDonnell was asked to evaluate a program called the Gateway Experience — a set of audio techniques designed to synchronize the brain's hemispheres, induce deep relaxation, and ultimately move consciousness beyond the physical body. His assessment, filed under CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5, draws on neuroscience, quantum physics, and holographic universe theory to explain why and how the techniques work. It was declassified in 2003. THE APP Gateway breaks the document into 13 tappable files organized across five progressive stages — Understand, Learn the Method, Grasp the Theory, Practice, and Operate. Each file presents the original content in clear, structured sections: prose explanations, numbered step-by-step instructions, and highlighted field notes from the original text. The Progress tab tracks what you've read and unlocks stages sequentially — because every concept in the Gateway Process builds on the one before it. BUILT-IN BINAURAL BEAT GENERATOR The document's core mechanism is Hemi-Sync: two slightly different audio frequencies, one in each ear, that cause the brain to generate a third frequency internally. This app includes a real binaural beat synthesizer — not recordings, but live audio generated on your device using AVAudioEngine. Choose from 8 target states (Delta through Focus 21) and listen through headphones. Stereo separation is required for the effect to work. PRIVACY No accounts. No tracking. No network requests. Your reading progress and bookmarks are stored on your device and never leave it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Principled Living at Free against Gateway Process's $0.99. Principled Living also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 17.0). Gateway Process's advantage is chart position (#183 vs unranked) and ratings volume (11 vs 3). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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
Principled Living is free to download; Gateway Process costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Principled Living against 5.0 for Gateway Process. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 11 respectively.
| Parameter | Principled Living | Gateway Process |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #183 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Principled Living LLC | Paul Martinez |
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In-app purchases
Principled Living
No in-app purchases
Gateway Process
No in-app purchases
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