Comparison

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy vs OnStrategy

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

Head to head
About

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

This interactive learning tool allows users to experience strategic business environments and learn how to choose and execute the right strategy. Players adapt their approach to selling lemonade across five distinct New York City boroughs, each representing a different strategic environment. It's based on insights from the book "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy."

Highlights
  • 5 strategic environments based on NYC boroughs
  • 15 levels of gameplay
  • Sandbox mode for custom play
  • In-game tips and post-game debriefs
  • Interactive Learn More section
  • Sample content from the book
Features
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Your Strategy Needs a Strategy is a hands on learning tool for business executives, students, and curious strategists of any kind to experience strategic environments and understand how to choose and execute the right approach to strategy. Using the simplest of businesses - selling lemonade, players must adapt their strategic approach to the various business environments of New York City's five boroughs. Based on the insights of the book Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (Harvard Business Press 2015), this app brings to life the different strategic approaches necessary to survive and thrive in today's dynamic and diverse business environments. Key features: - 5 different boroughs representing 5 fundamental strategic environments: classical, adaptive, visionary, shaping, renewal. - In total, 15 levels of gameplay against an increasingly challenging and strategically adept, computer opponent named after BCG's founder Bruce D. Henderson - A Sandbox level where you can choose your prefered environment and level of difficulty - In-game tips and post-game debriefs connect the gameplay to both theory and strategy in the real world - Interactive Learn More section that provides background on the strategic concepts underlying each environment and approach to strategy - Sample content from the book Your Strategy Needs a Strategy (Harvard Business Press 2015) - Direct links to further materials and videos, such as a TED talk (http://www.ted.com/watch/ted-institute/ted-bcg/martin-reeves-your-strategy-needs-a-strategy) - Extended seminar version of game available as part of BCG's broader strategy offering. Please reach out to the BCG Henderson Institute at bhi@bcg.com for more information.

About

OnStrategy

This app helps organizations maintain a clear strategic direction by providing a personal dashboard to manage goal performance. It allows teams to collaborate on supporting actions and monitor progress in real-time, ensuring alignment and agility.

Highlights
  • Personal dashboard for goal performance
  • Real-time progress monitoring
  • Team collaboration on actions
  • Agile goal modification
  • Focus on priorities
Features
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Have a clear vision of your organization’s strategic direction by putting your strategic plan in your pocket. With your own personal dashboard, you can manage your goal’s performance in seconds while seeing what’s active, what’s coming up, and what needs attention. Full-feature goal setting allows you to collaborate with your team to add, modify, and monitor supporting actions on the fly. Your business life matters. Make it count. OnStrategy Mobile’s key features: FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS MOST Stay focused by seeing priorities with a single glance. OnStrategy Mobile keeps you aligned by monitoring your performance and keeping what’s important front and center. MANAGE PERFORMANCE IN 30 SECONDS OnStrategy Mobile provides simple, streamlined progress reporting so you can manage your performance in a matter of seconds. STAY AGILE Plans can change as soon as the ink dries, so OnStrategy Mobile allows you to add, edit, and modify goals as you need. COLLABORATE WITH YOUR TEAM You’ll see your teammate’s goals and actions that support your goal performance so you can connect, monitor progress, and adapt to stay on target. FREE, UNLIMITED USAGE As an OnStrategy subscriber, get unlimited access to OnStrategy Mobile.

Screenshots

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy3 screens
OnStrategy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: OnStrategy at 100% against Your Strategy Needs a Strategy's 55%. OnStrategy also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.5). Your Strategy Needs a Strategy's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 11.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OnStrategy holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Your Strategy Needs a Strategy's written reviews are positive against 100% of OnStrategy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy ships an update monthly, OnStrategy every 4 months. Both last shipped on June 11, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy versus OnStrategy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYour Strategy Needs a StrategyOnStrategy
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (11 ratings)4.5 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better4
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Boston Consulting Group, IncOnStrategy Mobile

Customer experience

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

All ratings11 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative36.4%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive55.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative25.0%

OnStrategy

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

No in-app purchases

None

OnStrategy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Your Strategy Needs a Strategy free?
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OnStrategy free?
OnStrategy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy or OnStrategy?
OnStrategy is rated higher. Your Strategy Needs a Strategy averages 3.5 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while OnStrategy averages 4.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Your Strategy Needs a Strategy or OnStrategy have ads?
Neither Your Strategy Needs a Strategy nor OnStrategy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy or OnStrategy?
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy ships an update monthly, and OnStrategy every 4 months. Most recently, Your Strategy Needs a Strategy was updated on June 11, 2026 and OnStrategy on June 11, 2026.

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