Competitive Analysis

     The Encourage Me application is intended to lift people up in stressful times during their lives. Know a time when you are especially stressed out? Mark it down through the optimizer application and you will be blasted with a text message of encouragement from a famous inspirational person of your choosing.

Live Happy 

URL: http://www.signalpatterns.com/iphone/livehappy_std.html

Overview: Live Happy is an application you can get from the App Store on iTunes. It is an application which promotes happier well-being and lifestyle changes which can increase happiness of the user. My application, Encourage Me, is similar to Live Happy because they both promote happy lifestyle by letting the user receive positive reinforcement. For example, Live Happy has an option called "replay happy days" which allows the user to see things that happened in their past that put a smile on their face. Similarly, my application also sends positive messages to uplift the user through encourage words. 

     However, when it comes to the details, these two apps are not all that similar. For instance, live happy requires the user to input a lot of information such as photos, personal anecdotes, and goals in order to have the application function to its best extent. While on the other hand, my application simply requires the user to input their role models and the time period they wish to be encouraged.

iStress

URL: http://www.psiappsinc.com/
Overview: iStress is an application which you can also purchase at the App Store on iTunes. This application is similar to Encourage Me since it also promotes positive living and a happy attitude. It does this by giving the user stress-relief techniques and information on relaxation. iStress differs from Encourage Me though since its target audience is specifically users who take psychiatric medication, and it is more medically aligned. 

Although both applications are both beneficial to people who need to be encouraged and/or cheered up, neither are extremely similar to Encourage Me. Live Happy is an application that promotes lifestyle changes and requires a lot of user input and iStress is a relaxation applications which is meant for users who take medicine. My application is simply a pickmeup for anybody in need for a bit of encouragement from people they find important.