HBDI® vs PwC Live
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HBDI®
Access and explore your personal HBDI® Thinking Styles assessment results. This app offers interactive tools to understand your thinking preferences, apply Whole Brain® Thinking, and share insights with others. Enhance communication, problem-solving, and decision-making.
- Interactive HBDI® profile exploration
- Personalized tips for communication and problem-solving
- Create 'Guesstimated' profiles for others
- Tools to apply Whole Brain® Thinking
- Share HBDI® Profile badge on social media
- Understand thinking under pressure
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The HBDI® App: Better Thinking, in Hand. Designed for anyone who has completed an HBDI® Thinking Styles assessment, the HBDI® app provides comprehensive, interactive access to your personal HBDI® results, along with new ways of exploring and understanding the powerful insights provided by the HBDI®. In addition to your HBDI® Profile results, this first version includes great features to help you apply Whole Brain® Thinking and share your thinking with those closest to you. ► Features: ‣ Understand your profile: Interactive HBDI® profile outputs, including new visual tools to help you explore your Thinking Clusters, How You See Yourself, Thinking at Work and Thinking Under Pressure, as well as personalized tips for better communication, problem solving and decision making ‣ Apply the insights: Practical tools to apply Whole Brain® Thinking, starting with creating “Guesstimated” profiles for your family, friends, colleagues and customers by identifying clues about their thinking preferences, which generate a profile and tips to improve your interactions with them ‣ Share your thinking: Post a badge of your HBDI® Profile to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or share it with a friend via email Planned features for upcoming versions of the HBDI® App include powerful comparison, training, application and sharing tools to help you put your Whole Brain® to work! The HBDI® (Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument®) is a cognitive styles assessment that defines and describes someone’s thinking preferences across the Whole Brain® Model. Originally developed at General Electric, the HBDI® was created to help people understand their thinking in order to solve problems in a business environment. It has since been completed by more than two million people around the globe and has become the assessment instrument of choice at many of the world’s most successful organizations, including 97% of Fortune 100 companies, leading universities, governments and non-profit institutions. Please note that the HBDI® is a professional tool and the HBDI® App should be used in accordance with best practices. All profiles should be debriefed by a Herrmann International Certified Practitioner or an approved alternative to avoid misinterpretation and misuse. The HBDI® App is not intended to replace a debrief with a Certified Practitioner, but rather as an alternative way of accessing the HBDI® profile information during the debrief, and to help reinforce and apply the insights to everyday situations after the debrief.
PwC Live
This application is designed for attendees of SpotMe-powered events. It provides event-specific information and features that are only visible to invited users. Contact SpotMe for platform setup and demonstrations.
- Event access for invited users
- SpotMe platform integration
- Event-specific information
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For all SpotMe powered events, this is the app you will use. Events within the app will only appear if users have been invited. To set up a platform overview and demo please contact SpotMe at james.scholefield@spotme.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HBDI® at 4.6 against PwC Live's 4.0. HBDI® also leads on ratings volume (98 vs 21) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). PwC Live's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HBDI® holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 98 and 21 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of HBDI®'s written reviews are positive against 100% of PwC Live's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HBDI® ships an update every 6 weeks, PwC Live every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HBDI® | PwC Live |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (98 ratings) — better | 4.0 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 98 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Herrmann International, Inc. | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
Customer experience
HBDI®
PwC Live
In-app purchases
HBDI®
No in-app purchases
PwC Live
No in-app purchases









