Innerly IQ test reviewed: the entry price, the renewal and what the score rests on
Innerly sells a 25 question IQ test for 0.99 dollars and then, according to the text of its payment screen configuration, renews at 39.99 dollars a month after 3 days. This review reads its terms, cancellation and refund pages, test description and validity claims as they stood on October 6, 2026, prices a full year, and separates what is documented from what is only asserted.
The Innerly test is described on its welcome screen as 25 questions with six answer options each, and the renewal terms appear in the text of a separate payment screen configuration.
0 The short answer
The Innerly IQ test is a 25 question web test whose payment screen configuration, read as public text and not as a rendered page, states 0.99 dollars to unlock the result and, after a 3 day trial, a renewal at 39.99 dollars a month until you cancel, which makes a year of unbroken renewals cost 480.87 dollars by our arithmetic. Its own pages give two different refund statements, 30 days in the payment screen configuration and 14 days with no guarantee on the refund page, and they publish no technical manual, norm sample or reliability for the score. A short test of this kind can serve curiosity if you cancel inside the first 48 hours, but its public documentation does not support using the number for any decision that matters.
DisclosureACIS sells a competing paid IQ assessment, so we have a commercial interest in how this page reads. Every product fact below comes from Innerly's own pages as they appeared on October 6, 2026, from public third party records that are linked, or from a cited document, and we say where a fact could not be verified. The prices, the trial length and the renewal come from the text of Innerly's public payment screen configuration, because we did not pay and so never saw a rendered payment screen. We did not register, pay, or take the Innerly test. This is a competitor review written by the seller of a rival product, and a reader should weigh it that way.
0.99 dollars
The entry price in the text of Innerly's payment screen configuration on October 6, 2026, which also contains a 9.99 dollar figure and a promo line.
39.99 dollars
The monthly renewal that the same configuration text says begins after 3 days and is billed every 1 month.
480.87 dollars
The 12 month total if the subscription is never cancelled, our arithmetic: 0.99 dollars plus 12 monthly charges of 39.99 dollars.
The Innerly that sells this IQ test is the service at tryinnerly.com, which names TappAds Pte. Ltd. of Singapore as the party to its terms, and it is a different business from the similarly named innerly.me. The terms page, dated March 25, 2025 on its face, describes the agreement as one between TappAds Pte. Ltd., at an address on Circular Road in Singapore, and anyone who uses Innerly. A clause headed Seller and Merchant of Record adds that purchases made through the website "may be sold and processed by" Epic Growth LLC, a Delaware company, which the clause makes responsible for billing, payment processing, refunds, chargebacks and taxes where it is the merchant of record. A buyer can therefore see one name in the terms, another on a receipt or card statement, and a third in the product name, which is a reason to keep the receipt. The same terms set the minimum age at 16 and name Delaware law as the governing law.
The naming is confusing enough that another company published a notice about it. On its page for confused visitors, innerly.me says it focuses on professional development and soft skills assessment, that it does not provide IQ tests, that it does not sell subscriptions, and that it is not affiliated with tryinnerly.com. It names SoftPotential OÜ as its operator. It also lists iqtest-innerly.com, help-innerly.com and pay-innerly.com as services it has no connection with. Tryinnerly.com's own charge help page is titled "Questions About Your Innerly Charge?" and opens by saying the visitor has landed there after noticing a charge from Innerly on a bank statement. We did not see a bank statement, so we cannot say which descriptor appears on yours. If you are trying to find where a charge came from, the receipt email, the card statement and the pages above are the three places to compare.
Innerly describes itself as more than a test. The IQ test landing page carries a "Scientifically Validated" badge, a headline about discovering your cognitive potential and, lower on the home page, a counter reading "100,000+ Active Users." The payment screen configuration says the plan includes "unlimited access to tests, reports and AI-mentor," so the payment text describes the plan as more than a license for one IQ report. The page on IQ test apps covers how store listings differ from web tests.
2 What Does the Innerly IQ Test Cost on October 6, 2026?
On October 6, 2026 the text of the payment screen configuration offered the Innerly IQ result at 0.99 dollars, but that is the price of a 3 day trial and not the price of the service, which the same text states as 39.99 dollars a month. The configured screen has a heading saying the score is ready and a button reading "Unlock my IQ report," so the result sits behind the payment. A timer line reads "IQ score only" 0.99 dollars with an offer countdown, the plan block also contains a 9.99 dollar figure that we cannot place on the screen, and a line reads "Promo Code INNERLY90 Applied" with "You save 90 percent." Below it sits the renewal sentence, which in full says that after 3 days the plan auto-renews at 39.99 dollars billed every 1 month and includes unlimited access to tests, reports and the AI mentor, followed by "Cancel anytime." A checkbox is labeled "I accept the subscription terms." We read this text in the funnel's published screen configuration, which any visitor's browser downloads, and not as a rendered page, because the funnel requires payment to proceed and we did not pay. Every price and term attributed to the payment screen in this review is therefore configuration text, and the live screen may differ in layout, order and emphasis.
The general subscription terms are wider than the payment screen. They say a trial "may cost" 0.99 dollars or 1.99 dollars depending on the offer, that the monthly fee "may vary depending on the offer," and that current monthly prices may include 27.99, 36.99 or 39.99 dollars. Billing cycles can be weekly, monthly, semi-annual, annual or "any other option you selected at purchase," and the actual price is said to be displayed on the payment screen before purchase. The terms add that Innerly may adjust subscription prices with advance notice, in which case a user who does not accept the new price can cancel before it takes effect. The terms page does not say which of those prices applies to a given visitor. On the day we read it, the payment screen configuration named 39.99 dollars, and that is the figure used in the rest of this review.
Item
What Innerly's pages say
Where, read October 6, 2026
Entry price
0.99 dollars; a 9.99 dollar figure and promo code INNERLY90 marked as applied are also in the text
Trial 0.99 or 1.99 dollars; monthly 27.99, 36.99 or 39.99 dollars; other cycles possible
Subscription terms
Cancel before trial ends
At least 24 hours before the trial ends to avoid the first charge
Subscription terms
One time purchase
None found; the only plan on the payment screen is the trial and renewal
Payment screen configuration
Currency
US dollars; local conversion, taxes and regional adjustments shown at payment
Subscription terms
The page on how much an IQ test costs sets these figures beside one time prices across the market, and the page on free versus paid IQ tests explains why a low entry price is a separate question from whether the score is documented.
3 How Does the 3 Day Trial Turn Into a Subscription?
The trial is short enough that the decision to keep or cancel falls inside about 48 hours of paying, because the terms ask for cancellation at least 24 hours before the 3 day trial ends. The subscription terms say that "if you do not cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends," the subscription begins automatically and the price shown on the payment screen is charged. A trial of 3 days is 72 hours, so, assuming the trial starts at payment, the last moment to cancel is about 48 hours after paying. That is our arithmetic on the stated terms, and the cutoff is measured by the company's clock, which the pages do not describe. The terms also say the subscription renews at the end of each billing cycle until the user cancels, that cancelling stops renewal but keeps access until the end of the paid period, and that deleting an app does not cancel the subscription.
When
What happens
Basis
Day 0, at payment
0.99 dollars is charged and the report is unlocked
Payment screen configuration
Day 0 to about hour 48
The window to cancel without the first renewal
Subscription terms, 24 hour rule
Day 3
First charge of 39.99 dollars, unless cancelled
Payment screen configuration
Each month after
39.99 dollars again, until cancelled
Payment screen configuration and terms
After cancelling
Access continues to the end of the paid period
Subscription terms
Whether the renewal term is easy to see is a judgment about how the screen looks, and we did not see it rendered, so we describe only what the configuration contains. It contains the renewal sentence next to the plan, a checkbox labeled for accepting the subscription terms (whether it is required or pre-ticked we cannot tell from the configuration), and a separate reassurance line promising a money-back guarantee, with the phrases "Cancel anytime" and "no hidden fees." Public complaints, covered below, say some buyers did not realize a monthly plan was starting. The company's side, as the terms and the payment screen configuration present it, is that the renewal price, the 3 day timing and the acceptance checkbox are all shown before payment. Both statements can be checked by the reader on the live screen before paying, and we recommend a screenshot of it.
There is also a legal frame worth knowing, offered as background and not as a finding about Innerly. A United States federal statute on negative option marketing on the internet, 15 U.S.C. section 8403, requires a seller to provide text that clearly and conspicuously discloses all material terms before obtaining the consumer's billing information, to obtain express informed consent before charging, and to provide simple mechanisms to stop recurring charges. Whether a particular seller meets those requirements is a matter for regulators and courts, and this review makes no determination about Innerly. The statute is useful as a checklist for any trial that converts to a subscription: what the price will be, when it starts, and how to stop it. The page on paid IQ test billing models applies the same checklist across the market.
4 What Does a Year of Innerly Cost Compared With a One Time Test?
Left uncancelled, the plan costs 480.87 dollars over 12 months, which is about 9.6 times the 50 dollar one time price of the ACIS Full Scale form, and the table shows every point at which a user could have stopped the spending. The arithmetic assumes the 0.99 dollar charge on day 0 and then one 39.99 dollar charge a month starting at day 3, with no price change, tax or discount, which the pages say can occur. These totals are our arithmetic on Innerly's stated prices and are not figures Innerly publishes.
Scenario
Charges
Total
Cancel before the trial ends
0.99 dollars
0.99 dollars
Cancel after the first renewal
0.99 plus 1 charge of 39.99
40.98 dollars
Cancel after 3 renewals
0.99 plus 3 charges of 39.99
120.96 dollars
Cancel after 6 renewals
0.99 plus 6 charges of 39.99
240.93 dollars
Never cancel for 12 months
0.99 plus 12 charges of 39.99
480.87 dollars
If the 27.99 dollar monthly price from the terms applied, 12 months
0.99 plus 12 charges of 27.99
336.87 dollars
The comparison with a one time price is the center of this review for readers who arrive from a charge. ACIS prices, read on its home page on October 6, 2026, are 15 dollars for the Quick form with 6 subtests in about 45 minutes, 30 dollars for the Optimized form with 13 subtests in about 110 minutes, and 50 dollars for the Full Scale form with all 20 subtests in about 175 minutes. Each is a single payment with no subscription, and a 5 day quality guarantee applies. Those forms are much longer than a 10 to 15 minute test, so the prices buy different amounts of measurement, and the page on how long an IQ test takes explains why the time differs.
Price alone does not settle which product is better value. A person who wants a short test experience and cancels in time may pay under one dollar, which is cheaper than any ACIS form. A person who forgets pays far more than any one time test. The reviews of MyIQ, Test-IQ.org and Cerebrum cover other subscription based products with their own prices and terms, so the cost question recurs across brands and the answers differ by product.
5 How Do You Cancel Innerly, According to Its Own Pages?
Innerly publishes three cancellation routes, a web account route, a support email route and a PayPal route, and the one fact that matters most is that deleting an app or ignoring the emails does not stop billing. The FAQ gives the web steps: log in at go.tryinnerly.com, open the Settings tab, locate the subscription marked Active, click the three dots beside it and follow the prompts. If the plan was set up through PayPal, the FAQ says to cancel from PayPal itself: settings, the Payments tab, Manage Automatic Payments, find the Innerly entry and select Cancel. The third route is an email to support@tryinnerly.com from the address associated with the subscription. The FAQ says that using another address may lead to a request for additional information to verify the account.
The charge help page points to the same web account, saying cancellation takes under a minute through the portal after logging in, and the subscription terms say a trial or subscription can be cancelled "by contacting our support team or via your account on our website." The terms also contain instructions for plans bought through the Apple App Store or Google Play, which say to turn off auto-renewal in the Apple ID or Google Play account settings. These store instructions sit in the general subscription terms, and we did not determine which of them applies to a purchase made on the web. If you cannot tell how you paid, start with the receipt email.
A practical sequence, which is our suggestion and not Innerly's published procedure, is short. Cancel first and ask questions second, because the 24 hour rule favors early action. Take a screenshot of the confirmation. If a confirmation email does not arrive, write to support from the account address and keep the message. Then check the card statement on the next billing date. The help pages say support replies within 24 hours on Monday to Friday, and the contact page says within one business day, so a weekend purchase can sit close to the 48 hour mark before anyone answers. Do not count on a reply to beat the deadline.
Two cautions come from the terms. First, access continues to the end of the paid period after cancellation, so cancelling the same day does not forfeit what you already unlocked. Second, the terms mention that a secondary subscription can remain active while a primary subscription is active, and that cancelling the primary one deactivates the secondary one when it ends. If your statement shows two Innerly lines, mention both in your cancellation message.
6 What Do the Refund Pages Say, and Why Do They Differ?
Innerly's pages state two different refund policies, a 30 day full refund promise in the payment screen configuration and a 14 day, not guaranteed policy on the refund page, and a buyer should plan around the shorter one. The refund page says you "may be eligible for a refund if you contacted us within 14 days after the charge was made." It tells you to email support@tryinnerly.com from the subscription address with the subject line Refund Request and the date of the charge. It adds two notes: refunds "are not guaranteed" and are granted only if the stated conditions are met, and refunds can only be sent to the original payment method. The FAQ repeats the same text. The payment screen's configuration, read the same day, says "money-back guarantee" near the payment buttons and, lower down, promises a full refund within 30 days, with "no questions asked."
Source
Window
Wording on guarantee
Where
Refund page and FAQ
14 days after the charge
"Refunds are not guaranteed"
tryinnerly.com/refund and tryinnerly.com/faq
Payment screen configuration
30 days
"money-back guarantee"; full refund within 30 days
Funnel payment screen configuration
Terms, merchant clause
Not stated
Merchant of record responsible for refunds and chargebacks
tryinnerly.com/terms
We do not know which statement a support agent would apply, and we are not suggesting that either was written with any particular purpose. Two pages can differ because one was written for marketing and another for policy, or because they were updated at different times. For a buyer the useful reading is the cautious one. Ask in writing, inside 14 days of each charge, and quote the sentence from the screen you relied on. A charge help page on the same site also says to "skip the 30-day bank dispute process and contact us directly," which describes the company's preferred order of steps. A card issuer's dispute rules are set by the issuer and the card network, they are separate from Innerly's pages, and this review does not cover them.
The refund question has a timing wrinkle. The 14 days run from each charge. A refund request about the 0.99 dollar payment and one about the first 39.99 dollar charge, which comes 3 days later, start on different days, and a request about a later monthly charge restarts the count for that charge only, as the page words it. That reading is ours. The page on paid IQ tests compares how long refund windows run across brands, and the page on IQ test certificates explains why a purchase of a score from any seller does not create a document that institutions accept.
7 What Is on the 25 Question Innerly Test?
Innerly describes a single sitting of 25 questions with six answer options each, taking 10 to 15 minutes, and it does not say what the items ask, so a reader cannot tell which abilities the number reflects. The funnel's welcome screen says the taker will get 25 questions of increasing difficulty, asks the taker to stay focused for 10 to 15 minutes, and tells them to select the correct answer from 6 options. Its disclaimer says the products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Nothing on the screen says what kind of task the questions are, whether any is timed, or which abilities they sample. We did not take the test and we reproduce no item, so this description rests on the welcome screen text and not on a rendered view of the questions.
A test whose items share one answer format has a known limit. In the Cattell-Horn-Carroll framework, which the page on the CHC model explains, memory span is classified as working memory, written Gwm, and matching symbols quickly as processing speed, written Gs, and both are abilities separate from reasoning, so a test would need items that sample them. We cannot say which broad ability Innerly's items mark, because its pages do not say. The closest published evidence concerns Raven's Progressive Matrices, a different test. In an analysis across several large samples, Gignac reported that Raven's shared about 50 percent of its variance with general intelligence, about 10 percent with a fluid intelligence group factor, and was associated with about 25 percent test specific reliable variance, and he interpreted the results to suggest that Raven's is not a particularly remarkable test with respect to g. That does not transfer numerically to Innerly, which has published no such analysis. It does show that even a famous single format test is a partial measure, and a 25 item test offers less than a full battery. The page on matrix reasoning describes the matrix format as one subtest within a battery, and the page on fluid intelligence tests covers what the ability is.
The payment screen configuration's description of what the test measures is wider than the welcome screen's description of what it asks. Its FAQ says the test "measures reasoning, logic, memory, and speed," and the report is promised to cover "key cognitive areas like logic, focus, and memory." Memory, focus and speed are not tasks the welcome screen describes, and a score on them would need items that sample them. We cannot see the report without paying, so we do not say what it contains. We say only that the description of the test and the description of the report are not obviously about the same set of abilities, and a buyer can ask which questions produce which number. The page on cognitive domains lists what a six domain profile requires.
Two screens appear between questions, and their text is worth reading. One tells the taker they are faster than 87 percent of all test-takers and invites them to see how their performance stacks up. Another says they are in the top 16 percent and that their IQ score so far is higher than 86 percent of all participants. In the configuration files, each sentence is plain text with no field for a computed number, and the two statements do not agree with each other, because the top 16 percent is the same as higher than 84 percent, our arithmetic. We did not take the test, so we cannot say whether anything is computed elsewhere and substituted. What can be said is that a statement of standing needs a defined comparison group, a score and a calculation, and the page on IQ scores and percentiles explains how those fit together.
8 What Does Innerly Claim, and What Documents Stand Behind the Claims?
Innerly makes at least six validity and norm claims in its marketing, and none of the pages we read links to a technical manual, a norm sample description or a reliability coefficient that a reader could check. The table lists each claim as worded, where it appears and what we looked for. Absence from the pages we read is not proof that no document exists. It means a buyer cannot find one from the sales pages, which is where a decision gets made.
Claim as worded
Where
What a reader can check
"Scientifically Validated" badge
IQ test landing page
A validation study, its sample and its result: none linked
"Built on established psychological research and cognitive science principles for accurate results"
IQ test landing page
Which research and which principles: not named
"Based on the century-old" Stanford and Binet standard
Payment screen, "Why You Can Trust Innerly"
Which edition, which scales and how items were derived: not stated
"Built on the CHC model"
Payment screen configuration
Which broad abilities are scored and from which items: not stated; the welcome screen describes one item format
"Designed by experts using evidence-based psychometrics"
Payment screen FAQ
Who the experts are and what evidence: not named
"Results are normalized against population data to give a precise IQ score"
Payment screen FAQ
Population, sample size, country, years, age bands and score error: not stated
A reader can compare two of Innerly's own statements. The landing page says "Scientifically Validated." Section 6 of the terms says the company does not guarantee that the Services will always be secure or error-free, or that "the results of any tests or reports are scientifically validated or suitable for any particular purpose." A disclaimer of that kind is common in terms of service, and it does not show that a test is poor. It does mean the contract the buyer accepts makes a narrower promise than the badge does. The disclaimer and the badge sit on different pages for different purposes, and we leave the comparison to the reader.
The words "normalized against population data" deserve one more look because they carry the weight of the score. A deviation IQ is a position in a reference distribution, expressed on a scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, a convention the page on the standard deviation of 15 explains. The number means what its reference group makes it mean. A reference group of unknown size, country and date supports no interpretation beyond the arithmetic, and the page on how IQ scores are normed lists what a norm description contains. Likewise, a score on a short test has a margin of error, and neither the sales pages nor the FAQ give one. The page on reliability and validity explains why that figure sets how far apart two scores must be before the difference means anything.
Stanford and CHC are real and respected reference points, and naming them is not the same as being built to their specification. A test is "built on" a model in the sense that matters when items were written for specified abilities, tried out on a sample, scored with documented rules and checked against outside measures. The pages we read describe the model and do not describe those steps. We make no claim that the steps were not taken. We say that a reader cannot verify them.
A score should be read only as far as the documentation behind it supports, and the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing place the duty to supply that evidence on test publishers, while the APA assessment guidelines ask psychologists to choose tests that have it. The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, published jointly by AERA, APA and NCME in 2014, define validity in Chapter 1 as the degree to which evidence and theory support the interpretations of test scores for proposed uses, and add that it is the interpretations that are evaluated, not the test itself. Chapter 2 says test constructors and publishers are obligated to provide sufficient data to make informed judgments possible, and Chapter 4 says that when normative interpretations are intended, development should include a precise definition of the reference population and plans to collect appropriate normative data. The APA Guidelines for Psychological Assessment and Evaluation, published in 2020, say in Guideline 6 that psychologists endeavor to select assessment tools with sufficient validity and reliability, and Guideline 4 states that validity is not a unitary property of the test instrument and is evaluated within the context of its settings and purposes. Those guidelines address psychologists, and a casual buyer is not bound by them, but they describe the questions any careful user would ask.
The International Test Commission's guidelines on computer-based and internet-delivered testing address technological, quality, control and security issues, directed at test developers, publishers and users. The control issue is the relevant one here. A web test taken alone, at home, with no identity check, is an uncontrolled administration, and the same is true of ACIS and every other online test. It limits what any such score can claim. It does not make a result worthless for personal interest, and it does rule out uses where someone else needs to rely on the number.
Seven questions follow from these documents, and they apply to Innerly and to every other product, ACIS included:
What abilities do the items sample, and how many items sample each one?
Who was the reference group, how large was it, when was it collected and where?
What is the reliability of the score, and what is the margin of error around it?
What outside measure was the score compared with, in what sample, with what result?
Under what conditions was it administered, and what happens if conditions differ?
What can happen to the score if you take the same format again?
Does the publisher say what the score should not be used for?
On the Innerly pages we read, the answers to questions 2 through 4 were not published, question 1 was answered only by the welcome screen's description of 25 questions with six options, and question 7 was answered in part by a disclaimer that the products do not diagnose or treat disease. The payment screen configuration's FAQ says a user can retake the test at any time. Retaking a test of the same format is expected to change a score through familiarity alone, and the page on how to prepare for an IQ test separates preparation from contamination of the result.
10 What Do Customers and Public Records Report?
The public record of customer experience is dominated by complaints about unexpected recurring charges, and it also contains satisfied reviews, so it supports a documented pattern of friction but not a count of how many buyers were affected. On October 6, 2026 the Trustpilot page for tryinnerly.com showed 1,267 reviews and a TrustScore of 3.0, in the category Educational Testing Service. The profile was claimed in March 2026 and showed that the company had replied to 99 percent of negative reviews.
Stars
Share of reviews, October 6, 2026
5
31 percent
4
14 percent
3
6 percent
2
2 percent
1
47 percent
The distribution is split: 45 percent of ratings are 4 or 5 stars, our arithmetic on the profile's figures, and 47 percent are 1 star, with little in between. The most repeated complaint themes in that summary, which we paraphrase and do not treat as established facts, were an unexpected monthly charge after a small first payment of about 1 dollar, a belief that the subscription had not been made clear before paying, and difficulty cancelling or reaching account settings. Reviews are written by self-selected customers, anyone can post one, and a reviewer's account of what a screen said cannot be checked against the screen as it looked at the time. The themes below come from the profile's summary of its reviews, and we did not read every review or every company reply.
A second public record is a single report filed with the Better Business Bureau consumer tracker filed on February 12, 2026, categorized as an online purchase, listing a loss of 39.99 dollars. The consumer wrote that they paid 1 dollar for an IQ test on January 1, 2026, and then saw charges of 39.99 dollars on January 4 and February 4, that the February charge was refunded after contacting support, and that the January charge was not. It is one consumer's account, submitted to a tracker, and not a finding by the Better Business Bureau about Innerly. We cite it because its dates match the pattern the payment screen configuration describes, a small payment, a charge 3 days later and a monthly charge afterward. We make no claim about intent, because the pages we read document a billing model and its complaints, and the reader can draw conclusions from both.
The payment screen configuration carries a section of positive testimonials and a line reading "Over 12036 tests taken today," which are the company's own statements. We could not trace the testimonial authors or the counter's source. They tell a reader how the product presents itself, and the Trustpilot distribution tells a reader how a self-selected group of customers rated it. Neither is a measurement of the test's accuracy. The page on online IQ test accuracy covers what can and cannot be learned from reviews and star ratings.
11 Who Might Use the Innerly Test, and Who Should Not?
The Innerly test fits a narrow case, a short test taken for personal curiosity by someone who will cancel within 48 hours, and it does not fit any use that needs a documented, interpretable IQ. If you want 10 to 15 minutes of questions and a number to talk about, and you set a reminder to cancel the same day, the cost can stay at 0.99 dollars. Read the renewal sentence first, take a screenshot of it, and use a card or payment method whose recurring charges you can block, as the card issuer's own tools allow. Treat the number as undocumented until the publisher documents norms and reliability.
It does not fit when the score will be shown to anyone. Employers, schools, clinics and high IQ societies set their own requirements, and none of them accepts a self administered web score. The page on IQ test certificates explains why, and this applies to ACIS in the same way. It also does not fit when you want to understand your profile, because a short test with undocumented items cannot show whether a low or high result reflects reasoning, memory, speed or verbal knowledge, and the page on Full Scale IQ explains why a composite needs several domains behind it. Anyone with a clinical or educational question should consult a qualified professional, since a web test cannot answer one.
For readers choosing among options, the page on the best online IQ tests ranks the main online tests by the checks above, and the page on IQ tests for adults helps with choosing by purpose. The sibling reviews of CogniProfile and RIOT apply the same dated method to two other brands, and the page on adaptive IQ tests explains a feature that sales pages sometimes use as a selling point.
12 Where ACIS Sits, and What a Buyer Should Do
We sell ACIS, a competing paid assessment, so this section states its limits as plainly as its strengths, and the main difference with Innerly is the billing model and the amount of documentation, not a promise of a better number. ACIS has 20 subtests in six cognitive domains and reports a Full Scale IQ and six primary indices: verbal comprehension, fluid reasoning, quantitative reasoning, visual spatial, working memory and processing speed. Its report shows percentiles and a 95 percent confidence interval on the standard scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, and its technical manual is the place to read the documentation, which we do not summarize here because a summary would be our description of our own evidence.
The prices were read on the ACIS home page on October 6, 2026 and can change. The Quick form is 15 dollars for 6 subtests in 3 domains, about 45 minutes. The Optimized form is 30 dollars for 13 subtests in 5 domains, about 110 minutes. The Full Scale form is 50 dollars for all 20 subtests in six domains, about 175 minutes. All are one time payments with no subscription, breaks are allowed, a free trial needs no card, a 5 day quality guarantee applies and the purchased access lasts 30 days. A buyer who compares the two must weigh time as well as money. A test that takes 175 minutes asks for much more than one that takes 15, which is a real cost and a reason some readers will prefer something short.
ACIS has limits that match the category. It is online and unsupervised, so identity, environment and adherence to instructions are not controlled, which the International Test Commission guidance above treats as a limit on any score from that kind of administration. It is not a clinical or diagnostic instrument. It is not for hiring, for school accommodations or for admission to high IQ societies. It is in English only. Adult norms cover ages 16 to 90. The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (AERA, APA and NCME, 2014) and the APA assessment guidelines apply to ACIS as to Innerly: the question is whether the documentation supports the interpretation, and the technical manual is where a reader can read it.
What a buyer should do is the same for any product. Read the renewal sentence before paying and screenshot it. Note the date and the cancellation steps. If you want a short entry test and cancel in time, the cost is small. If you want a number you will rely on, prefer a product with a published manual, a stated reference group, a reported margin of error and a one time price you can read before you start, and check each against the seven questions above. If you already have a charge, cancel first and then request a refund in writing within 14 days, the shorter of the two windows Innerly states. The page on paid IQ test billing and the page on accurate IQ tests give the longer versions of those checks.
Every figure above traces to one of the following, linked where it is first used. Innerly's pages and the Trustpilot profile were read on October 6, 2026, and a subscription product can change its price, terms and screens without notice. Innerly's payment screen text was read in the public configuration file that the test funnel serves to every browser, because the funnel cannot be completed without paying. The 12 month totals, the 48 hour cancellation cutoff, the 9.6 times comparison, the 45 percent combined share of 4 and 5 star ratings and the conversion of the top 16 percent statement are our arithmetic on the published figures.
Innerly (TappAds Pte. Ltd.). Terms and Conditions, effective March 25, 2025. tryinnerly.com/terms. Read October 6, 2026.
Innerly. IQ test funnel, welcome and payment screens. start.tryinnerly.com/iqteststart. Screen text read in the funnel's public configuration, October 6, 2026.
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14 Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Innerly IQ test legit?
Innerly is an operating web service with terms naming TappAds Pte. Ltd. Whether its score is meaningful is a separate question, because the pages we read publish no norm sample, reliability or validation study. Until such documents exist, treat the number as an unverified estimate and not as a measurement.
Is the Innerly IQ test accurate?
Its accuracy cannot be judged from public information, because the sales pages give no reliability, margin of error or norm group. The welcome screen describes 25 questions with six options each and does not say what the items sample. Treat the number as a rough, unverified estimate and not as a documented measurement.
How much does the Innerly IQ test cost?
On October 6, 2026 the text of the payment screen configuration gave 0.99 dollars to unlock the result, followed after 3 days by 39.99 dollars a month. The terms say other prices are possible. If you never cancel, the first 12 months total 480.87 dollars by our arithmetic.
How do I cancel Innerly?
Log in at go.tryinnerly.com, open Settings, find the Active subscription, click the three dots and follow the prompts. If you paid through PayPal, cancel inside PayPal under Manage Automatic Payments. You can also email support from your account address. Deleting the app does not cancel it.
Is the Innerly IQ test free?
No. The result is behind a payment of 0.99 dollars in the payment screen configuration read October 6, 2026, and that payment starts a trial that converts to a monthly plan unless cancelled. We found no free tier and no one time purchase option on the pages we read.
Are the Innerly charges on my statement real?
Tryinnerly.com's own charge help page says the charge is for an active Innerly subscription and gives cancellation steps. We cannot see your statement, so compare it with your receipt email and the terms. Public complaints describe a small first payment followed by monthly charges. Whether any seller meets legal requirements is for regulators and courts.
How do I get a refund from Innerly?
Email support@tryinnerly.com from the subscription address, with the subject line Refund Request and the charge date, within 14 days of the charge. The refund page says refunds are not guaranteed, while the payment screen configuration promises a 30 day full refund. Quote both and keep screenshots.
Who operates the Innerly IQ test?
The terms at tryinnerly.com name TappAds Pte. Ltd., with an address in Singapore, as the party to the agreement. A clause adds that purchases may be sold and processed by Epic Growth LLC, a Delaware company, as merchant of record. Your receipt shows which seller applied to your purchase.
Is innerly.me the same as tryinnerly.com?
No. Innerly.me says it offers professional development and soft skills assessment, provides no IQ tests, sells no subscriptions and is not affiliated with tryinnerly.com. It names SoftPotential OÜ as its operator. It also lists iqtest-innerly.com, help-innerly.com and pay-innerly.com as domains it has no connection with.
How many questions are in the Innerly IQ test?
The welcome screen says 25 questions of increasing difficulty, each answered by selecting one of 6 options, and asks the taker to stay focused for 10 to 15 minutes. We did not take the test and reproduce no item, so we describe only what the screen states.
What happens after the 3 day Innerly trial?
Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, the subscription begins and the first monthly charge, shown as 39.99 dollars in the payment screen configuration, is billed on day 3. It then renews every month until you cancel. Access continues to the end of each paid period.
What does Trustpilot say about Innerly?
On October 6, 2026 the profile showed 1,267 reviews and a TrustScore of 3.0, with 31 percent five star and 47 percent one star ratings. Common complaints concerned unexpected monthly charges and cancellation difficulty, and some reviews were positive. Ratings are self-selected and change daily.
Does Innerly publish norms or reliability for its IQ test?
Not on any page we read. The payment screen configuration says results are normalized against population data, but it gives no sample size, country, date, reliability or margin of error, and we found no technical manual. Absence from public pages does not prove a document does not exist, only that a buyer cannot find one.
Should I pay for an IQ test that renews as a subscription?
Only if you can accept the renewal cost and will cancel in time. A subscription fits a service you use repeatedly, while a single IQ score is a one time need. Read the renewal sentence before paying, screenshot it, set a reminder inside the first 48 hours and check the next statement.
Can an Innerly score be used for Mensa, school or work?
No, and the same holds for any unsupervised online score. Mensa, schools and employers set their own requirements, which generally call for supervised, documented testing. Innerly's terms also disclaim that results are scientifically validated or suitable for any particular purpose, so the score should not be presented as a credential.
How does a one time IQ test differ from a subscription test?
A one time test charges once for a defined set of questions and a report, with no renewal to cancel. A subscription test charges a small entry fee, then renews. The billing model says nothing about quality, so also compare the documentation, the number of domains and the margin of error.
Does deleting the Innerly app cancel the subscription?
No. The subscription terms state that deleting the app does not cancel the subscription. You must cancel through your account, through PayPal if you paid that way, through the store account if the plan was bought there, or by contacting support. Check your next statement.
What should I check before paying for any online IQ test?
Check the total price over 12 months, whether it renews, the cancellation steps and deadline, the refund window and how it is worded, who operates the test, how many abilities it samples, who the reference group was and what margin of error it reports. Take a screenshot of the terms.
How do I dispute an Innerly charge?
Cancel the subscription first, then ask support for a refund in writing with the charge date. If that does not resolve it, your card issuer or payment provider sets its own dispute process and deadlines, which differ from Innerly's pages. Contact the issuer promptly and keep your screenshots and emails.
Can a short online IQ test tell me my IQ?
It can give a rough estimate at best. A 25 question test taken unsupervised, with undocumented items and an undocumented reference group, supports little more. For a profile across domains, a normed battery with a published reliability and margin of error is the better tool.
Is a high Innerly score reliable evidence of high intelligence?
Not by itself. A high number on an undocumented short test could reflect familiarity with the question format or luck on a few items, and the published record gives no way to separate those. Treat it as a prompt for curiosity and not as evidence to rely on.
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