Know Your Ethos vs ShaveMe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Know Your Ethos
This app uses AI to analyze your spoken thoughts, acting as an inner guide to reveal patterns and blind spots. It helps you build a personal philosophy based on your own words and values, offering a unique approach to self-understanding and personal growth.
- AI-powered voice journaling
- Personalized inner voice reflection
- Pattern and blind spot identification
- Ethos and values building
- Voice-first transcription
- Searchable journal entries
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Most people live by default. Know Your Ethos helps you live by design. The AI mirror that shows you the patterns running your life. Speak your thoughts. Your daimon listens, learns your values, reads your patterns, and reflects back what you need to hear. Not generic advice. Not affirmations. The truth. This is not a journaling app. It is a system for understanding yourself and intentionally shaping how you live. Built on 2,400 years of philosophy. YOUR DAIMON In ancient philosophy, your daimon was your inner guide: the voice that knew who you were meant to become. We brought it to life. Your daimon learns your values, reads your patterns, and speaks as your inner voice. Honest, specific, grounded in who you actually are. VOICE-FIRST Tap the mic and talk. No prompts, no blank page. AI transcribes your words and captures emotional nuance that typing misses. 10x faster than writing. Or type if you prefer. 6 SELF-KNOWLEDGE TESTS Discover your blind spots, values, virtues, characteristics, ethos archetype, and default patterns. Each test feeds your daimon so it can mirror you more precisely over time. ENTRIES AND REFLECTIONS Entries are deposits — speak your mind, and your daimon responds with what it sees. Reflections are dialogues — sit with your daimon and examine what's underneath. Two modes, one mirror. INSIGHTS AND PATTERNS Your daimon finds what you cannot see on your own: • Blind Spots: areas you avoid looking at • Strengths: patterns that show your best self • Growth: how you are evolving over time • Ethos Updates: suggestions to refine your philosophy All grounded in YOUR values, not generic categories. SEARCH YOUR MIND Filter entries by feeling, topic, virtue, or value. Find every time you felt anxious. See which entries reflect Courage. Track how your patterns shift over months. PRIVATE BY DESIGN End-to-end encryption. No ads. No data selling. Your thoughts stay yours. Delete anytime. FREE TO START Every entry gets full AI analysis: mood, feelings, tags, and a personal daimon response. Build your ethos, take every test, and track streaks — all free. Premium: $9.99/month or $79.99/year (save 33%) Unlock ongoing conversations with your daimon, long-term pattern memory, cross-entry insights, and conversation digests. The mirror gets sharper the longer you use it. Your daimon is waiting. Start knowing yourself. Terms: https://knowyourethos.com/terms-of-use Privacy: https://knowyourethos.com/privacy
ShaveMe
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Open ShaveMe and you are looking at yourself, with the cut lines of your beard or shave style already drawn on your face. THE MIRROR • Live front camera, edge to edge, from the moment the app opens • Your usual style is drawn on your face and re-locks every frame • Change the style, see the numbered steps, or read the full guide — without leaving the mirror • Cheek line, neckline, jawline, mustache edge, sideburn level • Prefer a photo? Take three — front, left, right — and study the lines at your own pace ON YOUR PHONE, NOT A SERVER Face detection runs inside the app. No account. No analytics. Nothing you see in the mirror is ever uploaded. 49 STYLES, FROM EVERYWHERE Not only the shapes an American barber keeps on the wall. Designer stubble and the short boxed beard, yes, and also the Khaleeji and the shanab, Turkish and Persian cuts, Mexican and Brazilian shapes, European handlebars, and the beards worn for faith and custom around the world. Each one has its own cut-line diagram, numbered steps, and a note on where it comes from. MAKE IT YOURS Four themes and six accent colours in Settings — paper, sand, charcoal, midnight — so it is easy on your eyes at 6am. TIPS & CARE 14 guides. Guard sizes in millimetres. Shaving with the grain. Razor burn vs ingrown hairs. Oil vs balm vs butter. Working with patchy growth. The four-week plan. KIT Gear the guides refer to, on Amazon. Opens in your browser. As an Amazon Associate, ShaveMe earns from qualifying purchases. TWO WEEKS FREE, THEN $0.99 Everything is unlocked for your first 14 days. After that, five styles and six care guides stay free, and a single $0.99 purchase keeps the rest. No subscription, no account, nothing to cancel. ShaveMe is a grooming guide, not medical advice.
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Verdict
Know Your Ethos and ShaveMe are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Know Your Ethos sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and ShaveMe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Know Your Ethos ships an update fortnightly, ShaveMe every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Know Your Ethos | ShaveMe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexandria Solutions LLC | JONATHAN BILES |
In-app purchases
Know Your Ethos
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Basic Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Pro Subscription7 Days trial$29.991 Month
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- Unlimited Subscription7 Days trial$49.991 Month
- Premium Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
ShaveMe
- ShaveMe Pro$0.99









