Comparison

HBDI® vs Q

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

Q

Features
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Q-MOBILE+はイベント管理システム「Q-PASS」用のアプリで、イベント主催者様向けに以下の機能を提供しています。 ・QRコードを読み取っての会場受付 ・当日の来場状況の把握 ・来場者検索 【ご注意】 ・本アプリのご利用にはQ-PASSアカウントが必要になります。 ・カメラが搭載されていない端末ではQRコードの読み取りが出来ません。

Screenshots

HBDI®4 screens
Q4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Q at 13.0 against HBDI®'s 15.6. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HBDI® ships an update every 6 weeks, Q every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
HBDI® versus Q: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHBDI®Q
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (98 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings98 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHerrmann International, Inc.Copro System Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

None

HBDI®

No in-app purchases

None

Q

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HBDI® free?
HBDI® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Q free?
Q is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HBDI® or Q have ads?
Neither HBDI® nor Q shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HBDI® or Q?
HBDI® ships an update every 6 weeks, and Q every 2 months. Most recently, HBDI® was updated on September 12, 2026 and Q on September 18, 2026.

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