Comparison

HBDI® vs PwC Viewpoint

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

PwC Viewpoint

Access timely accounting and business knowledge with real-time updates and predictive search. This platform offers curated content and user-friendly sharing to help you find the insights you need quickly.

Highlights
  • Real-time updates
  • Predictive search
  • Curated content pages
  • User-friendly sharing
  • Accounting and business knowledge
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Viewpoint is PwC’s global platform for timely, relevant accounting and business knowledge. A modern experience with real-time updates, predictive search functionality, PwC curated content pages and user-friendly sharing features, Viewpoint helps you find the insights and content you need when you need it.

Screenshots

HBDI®4 screens
PwC Viewpoint2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PwC Viewpoint at 5.0 against HBDI®'s 4.6. HBDI®'s advantage is ratings volume (98 vs 2) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

PwC Viewpoint holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HBDI® has 98 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HBDI® ships an update every 6 weeks, PwC Viewpoint every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HBDI® versus PwC Viewpoint: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHBDI®PwC Viewpoint
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (98 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings98 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHerrmann International, Inc.PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Customer experience

HBDI®

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

PwC Viewpoint

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HBDI®

No in-app purchases

None

PwC Viewpoint

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HBDI® free?
HBDI® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PwC Viewpoint free?
PwC Viewpoint is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HBDI® or PwC Viewpoint?
PwC Viewpoint is rated higher. HBDI® averages 4.6 out of 5 from 98 ratings, while PwC Viewpoint averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do HBDI® or PwC Viewpoint have ads?
Neither HBDI® nor PwC Viewpoint shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HBDI® or PwC Viewpoint?
HBDI® ships an update every 6 weeks, and PwC Viewpoint every 5 months. Most recently, HBDI® was updated on September 12, 2026 and PwC Viewpoint on June 2, 2026.

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