Comparison

Helios vs How is it?

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

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About

Helios

This AI-powered coach helps you unlock your potential through personalized plans, daily affirmations, and guided journaling. It uses techniques from CBT, meditation, and psychoanalysis to transform your mindset and achieve lasting personal growth.

Highlights
  • Personalized 6-Week Mindset Mastery Plans
  • Daily Affirmations and Meditations
  • AI Journaling with Tailored Prompts
  • Weekly Planning and Progress Reviews
  • Techniques from CBT, Meditation, Psychoanalysis
Features
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Unlock your full potential with Helios, the AI-powered mindset coach designed to empower you to live your best life. Whether you're striving for personal growth, enhancing your productivity, or redefining your relationship with yourself, Helios provides personalized support to help you overcome limitations and achieve your goals. Helios leverages techniques from top cognitive behavioral therapies, meditation schools, and psychoanalysis to transform your mindset. By reframing limiting beliefs, identifying root issues through personalized journaling, and reprogramming the subconscious with meditation, Helios offers a comprehensive plan for your personal growth. Our approach ensures that you not only address surface-level challenges but also cultivate lasting, transformative change. Personalized 6-Week Mindset Mastery Plans: Embark on a transformative journey with our Custom 6-Week Mindset Mastery Plans. Each plan is meticulously tailored to your personal goals and growth areas, ensuring you receive the guidance and structure needed to achieve profound change. Daily Affirmations and Meditations: Start each day with purpose and clarity using our Daily Affirmations and Meditations. Crafted to align with your specific mindset goals, these practices keep you inspired, focused, and centered, helping you build a resilient and positive outlook to start your days. AI Journaling: Tailored Prompts and Expert Feedback: Dive deep into self-discovery with our Tailored Journal Prompts and Expert Feedback. Designed to address your unique mindset growth, these prompts guide you through introspection and provide actionable insights to accelerate your transformation. Weekly Planning Sessions and Progress Reviews: Stay on track and celebrate your successes with our Weekly Planning Sessions and Progress Reviews. These sessions help you map out your goals, review your progress, and adjust your strategies, ensuring continuous growth and motivation. At Helios we take an active role in the progress of our app, continuously looking to improve our user's experience and provide impactful features. Have a suggestion? Contact us on Twitter and we would love to hear your feedback! Apple's Standard Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

How is it?

Quickly track your daily progress with simple button presses and emojis. View your progress over time, spot patterns, and customize the app to fit your needs. Your data stays private on your device.

Highlights
  • One-tap progress recording (thumbs up/down/so-so)
  • Add emojis to entries
  • Home Screen widgets and Lock Screen controls
  • View daily, weekly, and 50-day progress
  • Day-time grid for pattern spotting
  • Customizable phrases and emoji stickers
  • Data export as CSV
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It’s easy to forget your progress when you’re frustrated. Mood trackers aren’t reflecting the progress you’ve made and diaries need too much attention. How is it? is the quick and easy solution. Simply open, press a button and that’s it. All just happening on your device. How is it? is a tool for it to look back, see your progress and spot patterns in your day-to-day routine. Record your progress - Press thumbs up, thumbs down or "so-so" - Add emojis to your recording - iOS 18: Add a Control on your Lock Screen or to the Control Center to quickly open the app - NEW: Use the Home Screen widget to quickly record on the fly - NEW: Use the shortcut "Record an entry" in Apple Shortcuts to create automations Reflect on it - See your progress daily - See changes throughout the week  - Reflect on the last 50 days of progress - Spot patterns in your day-to-day routine with the day-time grid (after 14 days of records) Make it yours - Adjust your phrase or question - Add or remove emoji stickers - Change the color theme Your data, period. - Only on your device - Export your data anytime as CSV How is it? might not have all the features you want. It's not fancy. It won't regularly consume your time, storage space, or money. But it’s just enough to help you keeping track of your progress at low cost, payed once.

Screenshots

Helios3 screens
How is it?4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Helios at Free against How is it?'s $0.99. Helios also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.2). How is it?'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Helios is free to download; How is it? costs $0.99 up front. Helios sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. How is it? asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Helios against 5.0 for How is it?. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Helios versus How is it?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHeliosHow is it?
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.4 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew RussellChristian Xu

Customer experience

Helios

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

How is it?

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Helios

Subscriptions2
  • Helios Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Helios Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
None

How is it?

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Helios free?
Helios is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is How is it? free?
How is it? costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Helios or How is it??
Helios and How is it? are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Helios or How is it? have ads?
Neither Helios nor How is it? shows ads.

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