Shadow Self vs Becoming
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shadow Self
Explore your hidden self with an AI companion trained in Jungian psychology. Discover your shadow archetype, engage in deep conversations, and use tailored exercises to understand and integrate this part of your personality. Your journey is private and stays on your device.
- AI companion for shadow discovery
- Jungian shadow archetype identification
- Personalized shadow work exercises
- Deep one-on-one conversations
- Private journaling for breakthroughs
- Behavioral pattern analysis
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There's a part of you that runs in the background shaping your choices, your reactions, your relationships without you ever seeing it clearly. Shadow Self helps you find it. Through Sage, an AI companion trained in Jungian psychology, you discover your shadow archetype: the hidden pattern beneath your behavior. Then you learn to work with it. What you get: Your shadow archetype from six Jungian archetypes Deep one-on-one conversations with Sage Journal to track patterns and breakthroughs Shadow work exercises tailored to your archetype Deep Analysis: behavioral patterns, root causes, integration plan Private by design. No account required. No data sold. Your conversations stay on your device.
Becoming
This daily journaling app provides a private space for reflection and personal growth. It offers AI-powered reflections on your entries, weekly summaries of patterns, and seasonal reports to track your evolution. Prompts adapt to your writing over time, fostering deeper self-understanding.
- AI-powered reflections on entries
- Weekly pattern summaries
- Seasonal growth reports
- Personalized adaptive prompts
- Private and encrypted journaling
- No social sharing or gamification
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A daily journal that helps you reflect over time to see who you are and who you're becoming. Becoming is a daily journaling app built for reflection and growth — it's a quiet space to write or speak, with an AI that listens carefully. Each entry gets a short reflection — not advice, not diagnosis, just a thoughtful mirror of what you actually said. Once a week, you receive a summary of your patterns and a question worth sitting with. At the start of each new season, a deeper report looks back at who you were and what's shifting. What Becoming does: • Receive 2-4 sentence reflection after each entry • Go deeper with a single follow-up question • Weekly reports with themes, tone patterns, and something to think about • Seasonal Becoming reports at the start of each new season • Personalized prompts that learn from your patterns over time • Private and encrypted — your journal content is never sold or used for advertising What Becoming doesn't do: • No public feed or social sharing • No manufactured urgency or gamification • No clinical language or unsolicited advice • No training AI models on your entries Becoming is for people who already know that reflection matters — and want a tool that takes that seriously. Privacy Policy: https://www.notion.so/Becoming-App-Privacy-Policy-eb41347b05584147acbfbea5cf6ca566 Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shadow Self at none against Becoming's 2. Shadow Self also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). Becoming's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. Becoming sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Shadow Self asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Shadow Self against 5.0 for Becoming. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Becoming has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Shadow Self ships an update every 6 days, Becoming every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shadow Self | Becoming |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | yehuda breuer | ALEXANDER REY RODRIGUEZ |
In-app purchases
Shadow Self
No in-app purchases
Becoming
- Becoming Premium$8.991 Month
- Becoming Annual$59.991 Year
