PhilosophMe vs Critical Thinking
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PhilosophMe
Explore your beliefs and thinking patterns through guided self-reflection. This app offers a calm space to build a map of your ideas, discover relevant philosophers, and revisit your thoughts over time without judgment.
- Explore five philosophical domains
- Guided reflection with daily prompts
- Visualize your belief map
- Discover resonant philosophers and ideas
- Track reflections over time
- Privacy-first, local storage
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PhilosophMe is a calm, reflective space to explore your beliefs, understand your thinking patterns, and engage with the ideas that shape human thought. Unlike personality quizzes or political tests, PhilosophMe is not about right answers or labels. It’s a guided journey into your own mind. *What You’ll Do* -Explore Five Philosophical Domains: Ethics, Politics, Meaning, Knowledge, and Self. -Reflect Deeply: Thoughtful questions and daily prompts let you pause, write, or consider your stance. -Build Your Belief Map: Visualize your tendencies and the tensions in your thinking without judgment or oversimplification. -Discover Philosophers & Ideas: See which thinkers resonate with your profile, and access a curated library of essays and reflections. -Return & Revisit: Keep track of reflections over time; your philosophical profile evolves as you do. *Why PhilosophMe is Different* -Reflection-first design: Slows down the experience, encouraging meaningful engagement. -Nuanced insights: Highlights internal tensions instead of forcing labels. -Context-aware library: Essays and thoughts relate directly to your profile, showing relevance without prescriptive advice. -Privacy-first: All reflections and profiles are stored locally; no accounts required. *Features* -Guided self-assessment across five domains, with 7-point nuanced responses. -Personal belief map with interpretable axes and confidence indicators. -Narrative summaries, domain interpretations, and philosophical tensions. -Daily reflection prompts with flexible engagement: write, select, or sit with ideas. -Curated library of essays, thoughts, and prompts tied to your profile. -Reflection archive to revisit insights over time. -Resumable and retakable self-assessment. PhilosophMe is perfect for curious, introspective users who want to step away from fast quizzes and social comparisons, and spend time understanding how they think. **PhilosophMe isn’t a test — it’s a conversation with your own mind.**
Critical Thinking
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Most bad arguments are not stupid. They are convincing — that is exactly why they work. This is a practice app, not a lecture hall. Every morning you get three questions built on a real case: a report that quietly leaves out the bad weeks, a headline that implies more than it says, an argument that almost holds. You answer, you see why the wrong options feel right, and you keep the move that defuses that trick next time. WHAT'S INSIDE Daily practice Three questions a day, each with a full breakdown. Three minutes, and the reasoning stays with you. Three courses, 66 lessons • Critical Thinking — 21 lessons with video and notes: testing arguments and sources, spotting manipulation, making better-balanced decisions. • Critical Thinking and Health — 21 lessons on telling evidence from persuasive stories, checking health claims and deciding without panic. • Cognitive Biases — 24 lessons on the most common thinking traps: how each one works, where it catches you in money, work and the news, and the move that defuses it. 50 quizzes Five topics — logic, biases, media, data and sources. Ten questions each, about five minutes. AI analysis Paste a news story, a claim or a situation you are stuck on. You get it taken apart: what is actually being claimed, what the facts support, where the weak points are, what is worth checking, and a balanced conclusion — plus one question to ask yourself. Progress you can read XP, a streak and skill bars by topic, so you can see which kind of reasoning keeps catching you out. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: the daily practice, the first two lessons of every course, five quizzes and five AI analyses. Premium: all 66 lessons, all 50 quizzes, the random quiz mix and unlimited AI analyses. SUBSCRIPTION Premium is available as a monthly or an annual auto-renewable subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase with no renewal. Prices are shown in the app before you confirm, and payment is charged to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PhilosophMe at 17.0 against Critical Thinking's 26.0. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | PhilosophMe | Critical Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 748 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Alon Weinsberg | Alexander Senin |
In-app purchases
PhilosophMe
No in-app purchases
Critical Thinking
No in-app purchases









