Greatness Reviews

I stupidly paid $66 from the Instagram link because they advertised it as “The best deal.” I go to download Greatness from the payment confirmation page, and it makes me take the questionnaire again. Okay, no big deal. So I get to the part where you enter your email, and it says “account already exists.” But I can’t go back to log in again, the back button won’t work. So I’m stuck using the free version with prompts to upgrade. Mind you, the upgrade price on Greatness is only $44 for a year. So why did I have to pay $66 for the “greatest value”??!

I’m not even five minutes into dealing with Greatness and am already seriously regretting it. I’ve emailed both emails related to Greatness asking for an immediate refund. If that doesn’t work, I’ll dispute via PayPal. DO NOT BOTHER WITH Greatness!

I really do see Greatness as being great for an individual’s in need of some guidance on developing consistency in habit and self-investment. It just wasn’t my forte.

My biggest concern is that I canceled my subscription a year ago, but was just charged for it!?! I didn’t even receive any emails or other notifications I was being charged. In my third party payment provider the company that owns this app, Joggo, etc. Kilo Research - just billed me $66. No indication whatsoever. Now I’m haggling with the company via email (which I had to dig to find), as there’s no profile/account button in Greatness (that I had to just download again to see if I could check my cancelation from a year ago).

These business practices are not ethical. Consumers should have access to their account to see their subscription status, and before a major corporation takes money out of someone’s account they should receive notice. Very unethical. Just worried about people who aren’t watching their transaction histories as closely as I do.

READ THE FINE PRINT WORH Greatness. After seeing Greatness add almost daily I purchase it for $66 for a year. I was hesitant because most of the apps I subscribe too have a monthly. I tried using Greatness multiple times but it was clunky, didn’t always work as it was described & send way too many notifications. I forgot about Greatness & my mistake did not cancel the subscription. Fast forward a year, I was contacted by my bank for fraud activity. I did not recognize the vendor in question (this app was not in the name) so I declined the payment. Immediately cancelled my card & PayPal account. Only after filling the fraud claim with my bank did I find out it was the renewal for the this app App. this app App felt I should pay the renewal fee & suggested my bank decline my claim. I have since cancelled Greatness & am paying for a year of the not so great app. After doing some research, this is typical of the company. Locating the verbiage of the renewal is not easy to find but the company has it at their fingertips when you ask for a refund.

I tried this all for a week and it was not helpful. It doesn’t look nice, the habit tracking is clunky, and if you make a mistake tracking a habit there’s no intuitive way to fix that. I found using Greatness to be frustrating and cumbersome—definitely not something I want to add to my daily routine!

Plus if you want to do the “21-day challenge”, be ready for them to continually say that your tracking didn’t actually happen in Greatness . It seems you have to track your habits exactly within their certain chosen timeframe in order for it to “count” toward the challenge. Talk about adding frustration onto an already annoying app!

Downloaded and registered for Greatness after being inundated with social media ads promoting a “refund challenge” entitling users to a full refund for their subscription after using the apps for 21 days. There is no documentation of this offer on their website or seemingly anywhere but the social media campaign. However, the terms and conditions in their app and on the website state unequivocally that refunds are only available 1.) within 14 days of purchase, 2.) only if the product is either not as described or faulty, and 3.) the user will lose access to the product once/if a refund is issued. All three of these conditions entirely contradict what is promised by the social media campaign.

Please have an option to dismiss your insane number of pop ups. It was completely unclear that you need to actually start a pre-set program to see any navigation options. That onboarding experience was probably the worst I’ve ever seen, between the underlying screens zipping around and being so dark you didn’t get any sense of context for the feature you are trying to teach me how to use, there being no way to dismiss any of the screens, and forcing me to click on things to watch before I have even seen the homepage. People like to get oriented to a new product before they’re ready to consume content. Literally any amount of user research should have caught this. Pretty enough UI, absolutely terrible UX. I’m generally pretty calm, but this filled me with so much rage I immediately deleted Greatness .

Got the this app App because of an Instagram ad. After paying for a subscription, two things happened. First, it was immediately obvious that Greatness is extremely confusing, difficult to use, disorganized, sloppy, and poorly designed. Second, I discovered that there were MANY reports of fraudulent billing practices from other this app App customers. This included unauthorized charges, charges much higher than they should be, refusal to refund, no response to emails, etc. I immediately contacted the this app App for a refund. However they refuse to refund the purchase, saying “as an exception, I would like to offer you a 50% discount for the latest charge since your satisfaction is our team's highest priority.” Greatness is happily scamming people even when users try to hold them accountable, and doesn’t care one bit about customers. Or, quiet frankly, ethical behavior. Stay far away.

Overall, there is some great content and I like the layout of the programs. However, there seems to be some bugs and glitches that need to be worked through. For some reason, my completed habits show for the previous day and not for the current day, even though I’m on the correct date. Another issue is when it’s time to add a new habit in a program, it will repeat the process to pledge to the habit for multiple days. Just a couple issues I’ve noticed that are a little annoying.

Unfortunately Greatness isn’t as customizable as they lead you to believe. It may still work for you however if your habits closely align with their set (but “customized”) program, such as fasting and drinking water in the morning—just an example as these are both solid choices for some folks and yes I have been doing the water one. If you have been around the incremental habit community or any kind of self help, meditation, workout or nutrition apps or programs, the informational articles and audio they provide will not necessarily contain anything new. They are decent reminders but I found myself skimming and checking them off because there wasn’t a lot of value there for me. If you are new to this, however, you may see some benefit. A free trial would have been great—I upgraded to premium and then 3 days later they offered a “do a habit for 21 days and get a full refund” challenge that excludes those of us who already signed up. When I reached out they just reiterated new people only. So, I would say try another app first unless you can get a free trial here. Won’t be renewing after the year is up.

Just got a paid subscription 2 weeks ago. When it works, it is awesome 👏. Unfortunately, I am experiencing navigation glitches every single day. I am stuck on screens and there is no way to get out 😟. You have to wait for hours, or sometimes the whole day for it to come back to life.

1. Played the morning stretch routine video. After that no way out, happened twice (tried twice, so now feel like I should not try again)
2. When you open Greatness , sometimes it shows you yesterday status and you have to manually go to today from drop-down calendar.
3. There is no feedback button on Greatness .
4. Just now I got stuck at the continue button after finishing a routine. Still waiting to come out of it, yikes 😬.

I am a developer myself and know we’re always eager or under pressure to ship out features that are untested, but this is not a great way to create products especially if you want to be in for the long run 🏃‍♀️. I would always like a product that is robust and has less bells and whistles than too many features at the expense of basic functionality issues.

Hope these can be fixed soon, or I’ll be asking for cancellation and looking somewhere else.

Cheers!

I did the free trial but couldn’t finish the class because…paywall. This is the Fabulous all over, with different graphics and less value. The habits can’t just simply be marked without a bunch of screens telling you how great you’re doing. It’s the same screens every time and you can’t stop it. I don’t like platitudes and this feels disingenuous.

You can’t I mark if you do accidentally hit completion, and it’s overall clunky. There are fewer classes when compared to the Fabulous, as well. Seriously, if you want an app like this that gives you a month to feel it out, go with the Fabulous.

There’s no monthly option to really feel it out so I feel like it’s a bait and switch. I already requested a refund but Apple says it’s not eligible. I am completely disappointed and I will actually rescind my recommendations to the people I did tell to try it out.

So hard to just tick off the tasks you’ve done and get on with it. As others have said, there’s just too much going on here, too many screens and messages popping up. I like the idea of different programs to follow, I just really despise how overly complicated it is to check things off as you do them. After a month I find myself forgetting to use this and when I do, it’s a massive ball ache to go back and check previous days’ items that it’s just not worth it. Wish I hadn’t purchased. I would not recommend this, even though it’s the only app I’ve seen that gives background info on creating habits. They need a design overhaul to make that info less intrusive and make the actual check off of tasks throughout the day one clear, easy to navigate screen. Very strange layout and interface, and buggy as all get out.

I’ve been using this app for a few months now and credit it with helping me establish a good morning and evening routine. I was inspired by some of the content, but have found the daily coaching to be hit or miss.

That said, _basic_ app features are often broken - like being able to check off a habit, see accurate habit history, and having push notifications match content. Whatever data model they're using is just not solid, and the core functionality suffers. There’s also no undo, and the UI is often broken too. It’s surprising given the otherwise polished look of Greatness . Customer service is good, likely overwhelmed by repeat bug reports, and I just hope they get their engineering house in order.

There are so many great things about Greatness. I love the courses and I truly believe this can help you create healthy habits. There are a lot of glitches—many times I was stuck in the intermittent fasting section. I would complete one section of a course and try to move onto the next section the next morning and was told that I could only complete one section per day (which is what I was trying to do). The same coaching session would show up two days in a row. Many great features, but overall slightly annoying to use. Tried a one week free trial, but don’t feel this is currently worth $50.

UPDATED: I did finally get my refund. Not overly impressed by Greatness - it was more of a task for me than really a motivator.

I signed up for Greatness , excited about their claim to be so committed to customers’ success that they promised to reimburse me for the full purchase price if 3+ habits were kept for 21+ days. “Simply send an email and we’ll reimburse you right away!” they claimed. I’ve sent two emails 5 days ago to the designated address, received nothing back from one, and heard that “my concern requires assistance from a senior specialist” and then nothing since. Disappointing that their word doesn’t seem to be good…

Greatness, yes could use improvements, but the philosophy behind the reasoning for elementary beginning is because you need to take the time, the steps, and then the,shall I say wear with all, approach to build these skills to achieve this app. It’s a beautiful way to gracefully find your route problems if you take the time to see them. I want to work for this company because I see the advance thought process and pure inspiration.

Just from the beginning I like how thorough Greatness is. It goes into greater detail than most fitness/health apps with information how you can form a habit. It has podcasts that are inspirational and understandable.

It has a variety of attainable goals that feed everyone’s needs. I’m excited to utilize this every day!

The only downside is the purchasing portion states it’s $5 per month for 12 months but you pay the total cost upfront so keep that in mind before paying!

i’ve had Greatness for a week and i’ve already made more progress in my life than months of willpower got me. as someone with BPD, i’ve struggled with creating any level of stability for myself, and Greatness is perfectly designed to make that easier. their methods are based in behavioral science, and Greatness has truly changed the way i look at all of my actions. 10/10, can’t recommend it enough

I’ve only been using Greatness since Yesterday, and I can already tell that it’s going to work. The free version is really good. But I wish I could use it to its full potential. The only reason I don’t use the full version is simply because I’m on a fixed income, and can’t afford subscriptions or hefty up front costs. It would be nice if there was a way for those of us on a fixed income to be able to get the full version for free. I feel it could help a lot of people if that was the case. By the way, thank you for making Greatness accessible to the Blind. It helps more than you know. Take it from someone who knows. Keep up the good work, and have a good day wherever you are in the world. ☺️

I’m one of those people who seeks change but sometimes need help getting there. this app has been the help I needed!. From setting up the simplest thing of drinking a glass of water in the morning to exercising and goal setting, this program helps to hold me accountable for the change I want to make in my life ❤️