Comparison

HBDI® vs LifeHikes

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

LifeHikes

This app provides team-based and individual training solutions for professionals to enhance their skills. It integrates coaching, content, and community into interactive learning experiences, offering data-driven assessments and personalized recommendations for growth.

Highlights
  • Team-based learning experiences
  • Individual training solutions
  • Live, coach-led training
  • Data-driven assessment reports
  • Personalized skill growth recommendations
  • Interactive learning modules
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LifeHikes® is a provider of team-based and individual training solutions to help professionals all over the world to grow and reach more of their potential. Our ecosystem of learning experiences, programs, and services untangles complex employee training and offers live, coach-led training powered by human-centered technology. Developed over 25 years, LifeHikes proprietary methodology integrates coaching, content, and community into fun, interactive learning experiences. Professionals will understand their opportunities for skill growth through clear, data-driven pre- and post-assessment reports. Plus, our Hike learning experiences provide recommendations, in-app practices, and exercises underpinned by our proprietary technology. This enables professionals to grow their skills outside of their live training using our LifeHikes Mobile App. Team-based, social learning sparks joy and ignites a passion for lifelong growth. With LifeHikes, teams will grow their personal and professional skills to deliver higher sales, increase productivity, engage an audience, host more effective meetings, better project management and customer relations, and leadership.

Screenshots

HBDI®4 screens
LifeHikes4 screens

Verdict

The call

HBDI® and LifeHikes both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of LifeHikes's written reviews are positive against 81% of HBDI®'s. LifeHikes also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). HBDI®'s advantage is ratings volume (98 vs 22). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for HBDI® against 4.5 for LifeHikes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 98 and 22 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of HBDI®'s written reviews are positive against 100% of LifeHikes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HBDI® ships an update every 6 weeks, LifeHikes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HBDI® versus LifeHikes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHBDI®LifeHikes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (98 ratings) — better4.5 (22 ratings)
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings98 — better22
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB88 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHerrmann International, Inc.Blue Planet Training, Inc.

Customer experience

HBDI®

All ratings98 ratings
Positive88.8%
Neutral2.0%
Negative9.2%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.8%

LifeHikes

All ratings22 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HBDI®

No in-app purchases

None

LifeHikes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HBDI® free?
HBDI® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LifeHikes free?
LifeHikes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HBDI® or LifeHikes?
HBDI® is rated higher. HBDI® averages 4.6 out of 5 from 98 ratings, while LifeHikes averages 4.5 from 22 ratings.
Do HBDI® or LifeHikes have ads?
Neither HBDI® nor LifeHikes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HBDI® or LifeHikes?
HBDI® ships an update every 6 weeks, and LifeHikes every 2 months. Most recently, HBDI® was updated on November 1, 2026 and LifeHikes on November 2, 2026.

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