Ethea
Training that fits who you are
Ethea reads six traits from 60 short statements, then trains the thing you want to change with one small challenge a day for 28 days — chosen to fit your profile, so two people with the same goal get different challenges.
iPhone · iOS 17 or later · The assessment and your full profile are free. $22.99 once for the training — no subscription.
No account. No tracking. Your answers never leave your phone.
Personality apps hand you four letters and a compliment. Habit apps hand everyone the same checklist. Neither turns who you are into what you do tomorrow morning. Ethea is built around exactly the part they skip: challenges that fit your personality — two people with the same goal get different ones.
Three steps — and the first decides what the other two look like.
You rate 60 short statements — about five minutes — and get your position on all 6 HEXACO dimensions. Then you rate yourself on 20 everyday situations, from speaking first in a room of strangers to telling someone they hurt you. That is your baseline, and nothing else is ever compared against.
Ethea recommends the growth area your profile makes hardest, and you pick one. From then on it is one challenge a day for 28 days, in three phases: notice it happening, try it where it costs you nothing, then do it in the rooms that actually matter.
After 28 days you rate the same 20 situations a second time. The app never shows you your old answers first, because a number you can see is a number you will anchor to. What you get is your own before and after — a check-in between one cycle and the next, not proof.
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Personality types
Your traits
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HEXACO is the Big Five with a sixth dimension the Big Five leaves out: Honesty-Humility — how much status, image and advantage pull at you. No end of any scale is the good end here, and the app is written that way.
Sincerity, fairness, and how much status matters to you.
How strongly you feel fear, worry, and attachment.
Where your energy comes from around other people.
How readily you forgive, yield, and stay patient.
Order, diligence, and thinking before acting.
Curiosity, imagination, and appetite for the unfamiliar.
Your type comes from three dimensions — Extraversion, Emotionality and Honesty-Humility — because those are the three the training actually works on. It is a summary layer, and the app says so on the same screen it shows you. The full six-dimension profile is the real picture.
Warm, loyal, and all in on the people they love
Big feelings, bright lights, and no apology for either
The calm, straight-dealing center of any room
Cool head, quick moves, and every angle covered
Still waters, deep loyalty, and no hidden agenda
Guarded heart, sharp eye, and their own best advocate
Quietly reliable, scrupulously fair, hard to rattle
Unhurried, unruffled, and always three moves ahead
Eight social skills, 28 challenges each, written to start embarrassingly small. Day one of Empathy is to notice one feeling and tell nobody. Day 22 is not.
Reading what someone feels, and letting it land
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Getting into rooms and conversations you would otherwise skip
28
Saying what you feel while you are still feeling it
28
Hearing someone out instead of waiting for your turn
28
Staying in the room when you disagree
28
Telling people what they did well, out loud
28
Letting someone see the part you would rather hide
28
The first two minutes with someone you barely know
28Every skill runs the same three phases, and each one lasts as long as it needs to.
The statements come from the IPIP pool for the six HEXACO traits — free to use, no license, no gatekeeping. The selection of 60 is ours, so Ethea calls it an honest reading of how you answered today and never a validated inventory.
No percentiles, no “higher than 74% of people”, no invented average. There is no normative sample behind a consumer app, and pretending otherwise is the most common lie in this category. You see your position on the 1–5 scale itself.
The Learn library carries the 2018 Nature Human Behaviour study that found four personality types in more than 1.5 million people — and the three reasons that finding cannot be used to type you here. That article is on this site too.
Everything you enter lives on this device and nowhere else.
The assessment, your full profile on all 6 dimensions, your type, the recommended growth areas and the whole Learn library are free and always will be. One payment opens the training — no subscription, nothing to cancel, nothing to remember.
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The items come from the IPIP pool built for the six HEXACO traits, which is public-domain research material used in academic work. The particular 60-item selection is ours, so it is an honest reading of how you answered today rather than a validated clinical instrument — and the app says exactly that on the results screen.
HEXACO measures six dimensions instead of five. The extra one is Honesty-Humility: sincerity, fairness, how much money and status pull at you, and whether you present yourself as ordinary or as someone worth noticing. It predicts a lot the Big Five misses, and it is the reason Ethea uses HEXACO rather than the model everyone else uses.
The assessment, your full profile on all 6 dimensions, your type, the recommended growth areas and the whole Learn library are free — you see everything about yourself without paying. The training is what you buy: every daily challenge, every growth area and the re-measure open with a single payment of $22.99. There is no subscription and nothing is sold per area — one payment is all of it, forever.
No. There is nothing to sign in to, no email, no password. Your answers, ratings and notes are stored on your device and are never uploaded.
Trait scores are stable, and Ethea does not claim to move them. What the training works on is behavior in specific situations — whether you speak first, whether you say the difficult thing, whether you notice what someone else is feeling. After each cycle you rate the same 20 situations again and see your own before and after. Ethea calls that a check-in, not proof: you have just spent 28 days practicing exactly these situations and know what you hope to see. It is useful to you — it is not evidence, and the app never pretends it is.
Eight, from high and low on Extraversion, Emotionality and Honesty-Humility: Companion, Performer, Anchor, Maverick, Confidant, Keeper, Steward, Strategist. Each one is written with real advantages and real costs, including the ones nobody wants to read about themselves.
There is no server to be safe from. No analytics, no advertising identifiers, no third parties. Reset All Data erases everything immediately, and deleting the app does the same — there is no copy anywhere for anyone to hand back.
Not yet. Ethea is on iPhone, iOS 17 and later.
Five minutes for the assessment. The profile, the type and the whole library are free.
iPhone · iOS 17 or later
