Comparison

alma match vs Tap to Shift

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

Head to head
About

alma match

This app uses psychology-backed visual quizzes to help you understand yourself and your connections with others. Discover your values, strengths, and compatibility by answering quick, image-based questions and comparing results with friends.

Highlights
  • Psychology-powered quizzes
  • Immersive visual quizzes
  • Instant self-discovery
  • Compare profiles with friends
  • Science-backed insights
  • Playful, visual experience
Features
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Discover who you’re truly compatible with AlmaMatch is a psychology-powered tool that helps you uncover the real you — and how you connect with others. Immersive Visual Quizzes From “Family Focus” to “Money Mind,” explore swipeable image-based quizzes backed by psychological insights. Instant Self-Discovery Answer 16 quick image questions and instantly reveal your values, strengths, and hidden patterns. Compare with Friends Share a link, compare profiles, and discover surprising dynamics between you and your friends. Science-Backed, Seriously Fun AlmaMatch combines serious psychological science with a playful, visual experience. Download now and see yourself — and others — more clearly.

About

Tap to Shift

A simple tool to help you pause, soften, and return to presence during moments of stress or overwhelm. It guides you through a short reset experience to support clarity, grounding, and emotional steadiness.

Highlights
  • Moment-to-moment nervous system support
  • Gentle self-reset tool
  • Pause, soften, and return to presence
  • Short guided reset experience
  • Under a minute to reset
  • Supports clarity and grounding
Features
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Tap to Shift is a self-awareness app built for nervous system support. It is designed to help you pause, notice what is happening within you, and respond with more awareness during moments of stress, overwhelm, emotional activation, overthinking, or pressure. Tap to Shift does not generate answers for you. Instead, it gives you simple tools and guided experiences that help you notice your own patterns, needs, responses, and ways of regulating. Use short breathing and tapping practices to interrupt mental momentum and create a moment of space. Explore guided paths for overthinking, triggers, anxiety, pressure, gratitude, emotional regulation, and reflection. Your responses can be saved over time so you can begin to see what affects you, what supports you, and what helps you shift. Tap to Shift also includes Self-Awareness Mirrors that bring your own selections together into personal profiles. These mirrors can help you better understand what helps you feel safe, connected, supported, expressive, grounded, or more like yourself — based entirely on what you choose. With Tap to Shift, you can: Pause with short breathing and tapping practices Work through moments of overthinking, pressure, triggers, and emotional activation Reflect on anxiety, gratitude, body signals, and personal responses Notice patterns across your saved entries Build a Self-Awareness Mirror based on what matters to you Explore your Regulation Tendencies and how you tend to settle, reconnect, or support yourself Learn more about the practices used inside Tap to Shift Receive optional Today’s Shift awareness messages Save or share selected profiles and reflections as PDFs Access crisis and emergency resources when needed Tap to Shift is not designed to diagnose you or tell you what your experience means. It is designed to help you notice more of yourself. In a world where technology often generates answers, Tap to Shift helps you generate self-awareness. — Subscription Information Tap to Shift offers optional auto-renewable subscriptions: • Monthly — $4.99 per month • Yearly — $39.99 per year Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. — Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.taptoshift.com/english-privacy-policy

Screenshots

alma match4 screens
Tap to Shift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: alma match at free with in-app purchases against Tap to Shift's subscription. Tap to Shift's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. alma match sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Tap to Shift sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for alma match against 5.0 for Tap to Shift. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

alma match ships an update every 10 days, Tap to Shift every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
alma match versus Tap to Shift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameteralma matchTap to Shift
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB58 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAlma Match, Inc.Sheila Mae Balaga

Customer experience

alma match

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tap to Shift

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

alma match

One-time4
  • One Test Purchase$1.99
  • Retry Test$2.99
  • Special Test Purchase$4.99
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  • Unlock All Regular Tests$19.99
2 purchases

Tap to Shift

Subscriptions2
  • Tap to Shift Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Tap to Shift Premium Yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is alma match free?
alma match is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tap to Shift free?
Tap to Shift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, alma match or Tap to Shift?
alma match and Tap to Shift are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do alma match or Tap to Shift have ads?
alma match shows ads; Tap to Shift does not.
Which is updated more often, alma match or Tap to Shift?
alma match ships an update every 10 days, and Tap to Shift every 5 days. Most recently, alma match was updated on June 11, 2026 and Tap to Shift on September 9, 2026.

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