KNOW YOUR TYPE The Personality

Five Stars for version 1.0.7 Know Your Type - Enneagram Mapping System As a teacher of the Enneagram, in Northern Ireland, I have found this APP an excellent resource. The APP is very user friendly and contains quality information about each of the Enneagram Types. I am recommending this APP to participants in my Enneagram Courses.

I've been trained to apply the Enneagram and use it with senior executives. This is a very well thought through application with lots of practical information for Enneagram beginners and enthusiasts / experts alike. The section 'Test your knowledge' gives great insights into each Enneagram type in ten real live scenarios such as "You have a time sensitive issue, which is the best delivery method for each type?" E.g. e-mail, call him / her, talk in person. The session on 'Prevent Conflict' is worth the price of the app alone. It looks at each type suggesting what each type does when angry, their conflict triggers and how to prevent conflict with them. It even goes into Wings, Arrows and Enneagram subtypes. It has development tips and a great card sort to help identify types. I would suggest that the iPhone was made for an Enneagram App like this. Well done Ginger!

A brilliant app which contains a wealth of information to discover your type, help with interactions with others, prevent conflict and hone your practical skills applying the ancient wisdom of the enneagram - and there's loads more. If you are already familiar with the enneagram this will be very useful, if not it will surely tempt you to discover more about the wisdom and yourself (there's plenty of good introductory books around to get started). Thanks Ginger!

Purchased app, will not even open. Closes immediately.

This app might have been great in the past but it crashes and is a fail in my book

Once you install this app and figure out your personality type there are limited additional features to explore. But those tips per my type that arrive through my notifications are so perfect. It's amazing! Just the right words at just the right time. It's as if the app is in my head. Which I guess it is. Lol.

I use enneagrams in my work daily, teaching people about how their unthinking patterns of behavior impact their lives. This is the best app I've seen towards that end.

There's no real 'test' or questionnaire. The app describes each type on a card and asks a vague question that is very circumstantial. Every card will apply to you and without a guided list of question you'll never find out your type. You can't seriously be expected to evaluate yourself this way because the way the mind works, this like the visible self, blind self, and the fact that people tend to evaluate their lives and standing in life differently than it really is. A complete waste of $3. Like another reviewer, I've never actually felt like I needed a refund but this time I really do...

I'm pretty sure some of the absolutely glowing reviews for this app were written by the author's friends. It's an okay app, but it's not great. There's a lot of information on there, and her enneagram quiz is fun. I like that you can test your knowledge of the different enneagram types as well. Her video clips of the types are pretty bad, however. For example, in her video clip for type Four, the supposed exemplar admits to being prone to an "us versus them" attitude which, if you've read much on the enneagram, you know is almost verbatim how a number of other authors describe type Six! It seems that anyone claiming to have expertise on the enneagram ought not to have video clips as exemplars for one type saying things that are stereotypical of another type. Someone who wasn't very informed about the enneagram might easily mistype themselves based on this. The other problem with her app is the type tips. The type tips are very hit or miss, and some weeks, they can be downright trite. It includes tips like "write down three things you like about yourself," "think of some positive things in your life" and "when you start to feel bad about yourself, stop...just STOP!" Also, she doesn't show an in-depth understanding of the fixations in her type-tips. The type Four ones, for example, are almost always geared towards depression and could be applicable to anyone of any type who was depressed. Her type Six tips have a similar problem with anxiety, in that it seems like the general advice therapists would give someone with GAD, rather than specific to type Six per se. I think if she could "get back to basics" and work the fixations of the types into her tips occasionally, they would improve immensely.

For anyone who study the enneagram this app is very useful. The weekly tips help you to live it!