Wellington vs Truity

What does Truity offer?

Truity is a personality test publisher with a catalogue rather than a single product. At the time of writing its site lists a TypeFinder test, a Big Five test, an Enneagram test, a career aptitude test, a love styles test, a DISC test and an emotional intelligence test, alongside a separate service for workplace and team use. Each test stands on its own, so what you get depends on which one you take.

• TypeFinder. Truity describes it as based on the personality theory of Isabel Myers and Katharine Briggs, and is explicit that it is not the official Myers-Briggs instrument. It scores the four familiar dimensions and adds 23 narrower facets to personalise the result. The site puts it at 130 questions and roughly ten to fifteen minutes.
• Big Five test. A trait measure of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism, put at 60 questions and about five to ten minutes, with scores expressed as a comparison against a large international sample.
• Enneagram test. A questionnaire for the nine-type Enneagram model, which describes types by their core motivation.

The commercial pattern is consistent across the catalogue: you take a test without paying, you see a short free summary of your result, and a fuller report is available for a fee. Truity is clear about this on its test pages, which is more than many sites manage.

What does Wellington offer?

Wellington is a science-based personality assessment from Therabot Labs LLC. It measures personality as continuous traits, built on the Big Five and HEXACO models, and writes the results back as a personal report rather than a type.

There is one assessment, and it grows. The free Snapshot asks 60 questions, takes about 7 minutes and scores 6 broad dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Openness to Experience and Honesty-Humility. The first ten questions are answered before anything is asked of you; after question ten you sign in with an email address so your answers are saved and your results can be shown. No card is needed. Each dimension comes back as a percentile against a reference sample, a band, and a written page for that band.

The Wellington Membership, $4.99 a month, adds the Portrait: 336 more questions that take the report to 90 traits, including every Big Five facet and all 24 character strengths from the standard classification (Peterson & Seligman, 2004), with domain overviews, a strengths constellation, a growth plan and a downloadable PDF, then adds a short weekly module that carries the report toward 255 traits across eight domains over 104 weeks, with retests in year two. Wellington is a wellness tool for reflection, not a medical or psychological diagnosis, and it does not replace care from a qualified professional.

Where do Truity and Wellington agree?

More than the comparison format suggests. Truity's Big Five test is built on the same trait model Wellington is built on, reports continuous scores rather than a type, and compares you against a reference sample, which is exactly the right way to make a personality score interpretable. On that test the two products differ in depth and presentation rather than in kind.

Both also run on the same commercial logic: a substantial free result, with money charged for the long-form writing. And both are self-report questionnaires, which means both inherit the same limits. A questionnaire knows what you are willing to say about yourself, it is sensitive to mood and self-presentation, and it is more reliable when each score rests on several questions rather than one.

Where do they differ?

• Types versus traits, on the TypeFinder. A sixteen-type result assigns you to one side of each dimension. Most people sit near the middle of most scales, so the letter can turn on a small difference. The research on that format comes from the MBTI, the instrument it shares its four dimensions with: those scales behave as continuous traits lining up with four of the Big Five (McCrae & Costa, 1989), and a review for practitioners concluded that a four-letter type formula does not support the inferences commonly drawn from it (Pittenger, 2005). Wellington never rounds a score to a side; the percentile is the result.
• A sixth dimension. Truity's Big Five test measures five dimensions. Wellington measures six, adding Honesty-Humility from the HEXACO model, a sixth factor that lexical studies in several languages support (Ashton & Lee, 2007) and that Five-Factor Model instruments capture only partly (Ashton, Lee & de Vries, 2014).
• Written pages per band. Every Wellington trait has three pages, one for each band, written in advance by the writing and psychology team. Your answers choose which page you read, rather than a paragraph being assembled around a label.
• A catalogue versus one growing report. Truity's breadth is real: if you want an Enneagram result and a career aptitude result, they are there. Wellington has one assessment that keeps going, with the Wellington Membership adding a weekly module and, in year two, retests that show movement.

Neither approach is dishonest about what it is. The question worth asking is whether you want a broad sweep across several frameworks or one instrument measured deeply on a model that came out of decades of lexical research (Goldberg, 1993).

Side by side

Wellington scores each trait from several statements on a 5-point accuracy scale and places it against a reference sample; those norms are provisional while the norming sample is completed, and the methods page says so. The bands and the Portrait names exist to make the result easier to talk about; the percentile is the measurement, and it is always shown alongside. Neither product is designed for hiring or selection. Wellington never sells answers or profiles, and users can export and delete their data.

Questions people ask

Is Truity's Big Five test any good?

It is a genuine trait measure on the model with the strongest evidence in personality psychology, it reports continuous scores, and it compares you against a large sample. Its free summary is short and the fuller report is paid. If what you want is a straightforward Big Five result, it is a reasonable place to get one.

Is the TypeFinder the same as the MBTI?

No, and Truity says so. The official Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is published by The Myers-Briggs Company. The TypeFinder is Truity's own instrument built on the same four-dimension theory, with additional facets. Both report a four-letter type, which is where the measurement question sits rather than with the branding.

Which one should I take?

If you want several frameworks quickly, Truity's catalogue covers more ground. If you want one instrument measured deeply, with six dimensions rather than five and a written page for each band, start with the free Wellington Snapshot. Taking both is cheap: the Snapshot takes about 7 minutes.

How much does Wellington cost?

The Snapshot is free and needs an email address so your answers are saved and your results can be shown. The Wellington Membership is $4.99 a month, cancel any time.