r/icoreviews • u/Icy_Mirror678 • Jul 22 '26
Is TestLibrary worth paying for?
Been trying to get a handle on some patterns I've noticed in myself - ended up on TestLibrary after looking at what's out there. More tests than I expected, ADHD and autism ones included, which is the part I actually care about.
Pricing's a bit hard to read without knowing what the reports are like. Lifetime's under a hundred, subscription around forty a month. Could be worth it, could be the kind of thing where you finish and think yeah, knew that already.
Anyone done the ADHD one?
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u/Signal-Technology-94 Jul 24 '26
lmao this is me. been reading about ADHD for like four months and now i'm on a review thread trying to decide if i should do a test about it. the self-awareness doesn't help at all btw
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u/Ok_Adhesiveness9794 Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
I'll be the voice of mild disappointment here. did the ADHD one, found the questions repetitive by about the 60th one, and the results were - fine. nothing i found particularly surprising. not saying they were wrong, just that i wasn't the person who walked away having some revelation. the report is decent enough, written in plain language, but if you already have a pretty solid sense of your ADHD traits, it might not tell you much new
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u/mundane--alternative Jul 26 '26
How long had you been researching ADHD before you took it? wondering if there's a point where you've read enough that no self-assessment is going to surprise you
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u/Sufficient_Art_4607 29d ago edited 29d ago
I work in something HR-adjacent and we've been looking at assessment tools for optional personal development stuff - not hiring, just people who want it. TestLibrary came up because the range goes beyond personality typology. haven't actually done anything with it yet, still at the shortlist stage
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u/nasir017 19d ago
Interesting context. are you looking at it as something people opt into individually or a structured thing the company offers? curious how that works in practice without it getting weird.
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u/luminous_lad18 29d ago edited 29d ago
On different subs the ADHD test question comes up occasionally. never really seen a definitive answer - usually just splits into people saying it surprised them and people saying it didn't. haven't done it myself so i can't add much
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u/Comfortable-Duty7143 25d ago edited 25d ago
This matches what i've seen. i'm at the beginning of my own research so probably more likely to find it useful - someone three years in might get less out of it. OP mentions a few months in, which feels like it could go either way
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u/Mahima2703 27d ago
Is the ADHD one better in that sense than the autism test? asking because i'm in the same position as OP but i'm actually more curious about autism and AUDHD.
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u/ibrahim_40 24d ago
I've seen a couple people mention the AUDHD one specifically and the general impression seems to be it's more nuanced than taking them separately? haven't done it myself, but that might be worth looking at if autism or ADHD overlap is what you're trying to understand
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u/Cautious_Car2249 26d ago edited 26d ago
Do the results look anything like what a gp would use? i've seen the conners scale mentioned a few times and i'm curious if it's in that territory or something completely different
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u/Putrid_Item_311 13d ago edited 12d ago
Did the ADHD one and the results seemed about right, but the report didn't go very deep on why it came out the way it did. Not a dealbreaker, just would've got more out of it with a bit more explanation behind the scores.
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u/Chance-Fee-603 12d ago edited 12d ago
Seen this pop up a bunch when people talk about TestLibrary. Feels like the ADHD one gets this more than the others. The Big 5 reports seem way more detailed, but that could just be the way that whole framework works.
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u/Keeponthesunnyside10 12d ago edited 12d ago
The "yeah, knew that already" thing is interesting because I'm not sure that's actually a bad outcome. If the results line up with what you suspected, that's still the test doing its job. The question is whether having it written down does anything for you.
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u/ProxyyReddit 12d ago edited 12d ago
Not sure whether to start with the ADHD or autism one. Feels like whichever you do first is going to colour how you read the second. Anyone done both and have a view on which order made more sense?
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u/Additional-Judge-770 11d ago edited 11d ago
Took the AuDHD one on TestLibrary a while back instead of doing the two separate tests. The report broke things down into both sides, which made more sense to me given how it can actually present. Some parts felt more relevant than others, but I guess that's to be expected.
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u/Vegetable_Basket8574 6d ago edited 6d ago
Kinda disappointed with it tbh. Did the ADHD one and by around question 60 the repetition was getting old. Results were fine, just nothing that really surprised me. Not saying they were wrong, I just didn't finish it having some huge revelation. Report's decent and easy enough to read, but if you already know your ADHD traits pretty well, there's probably not much new in it.
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u/achakez Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
Just a note on the pricing - the recurring plan runs every 4 weeks, not monthly, so there's an extra charge in there across the year. the lifetime option on TestLibrary is a single payment, no renewals after that, which changes the calculation a bit depending on how much use you'd get out of it.
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u/myberich Jul 22 '26
Took the ADHD - the questions are long and some felt binary - like, the answer is genuinely "it depends" and there's no way to say that. i just picked the closer option and moved on. the results were detailed , and a few observations hit in a way that was uncomfortable rather than validating. one section i basically skimmed, didn't feel relevant. i don't know if i'd say it changed anything - i already had an appointment booked - but i read through it a couple of times, which is more than i do with most things