Compared · Genetic Lifehacks
Genetic Lifehacks never receives your file. That is a real advantage, and it has a cost.
Genetic Lifehacks reads a chip export inside your own browser and matches it to several hundred articles written by one person over a decade. On custody it wins outright. What it cannot read is a genome, and that is the whole difference.
Where Genetic Lifehacks wins
Custody. Its own pages say it plainly: "When you connect your file, it's read inside your own browser, on your own device. We never receive it, never see it, and never store it." Our free file check works the same way, but our report does not: the file is uploaded, analysed in Finland and deleted after analysis by default. For the core report tool, Genetic Lifehacks holds nothing, and no custodial service can match that claim. We do not try to.
Price for an ongoing read. Its membership page lists $11.99 a month, $49.99 a year, or $119 for life, and a professional tier at $179.99 a year. A year of membership costs less than a chip report here, and a lifetime costs about the same as a whole-genome report.
Depth of explanation. The homepage counts "over 420 in-depth genotype reports and 20 summary reports", written and curated by its founder. They are long, sourced and readable, and they cover nutrition and lifestyle ground our panel does not touch.
Where the two differ
| Genetic Lifehacks | Aimosti | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $11.99/month · $49.99/year · $119 lifetime (its membership page) | €49 chip · €89 whole genome · €109 reads panel, each one-time |
| What it reads | 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage and similar array exports as .txt, .csv or .zip; "Whole-genome data (VCF or BAM files need conversion first)" (its compatibility page) | Chip exports, VCF, gVCF, and BAM or CRAM for the reads panel, as delivered |
| Where the file goes | Nowhere: read in the browser and gone when the tab closes (its own words), for the report tool | Uploaded to Finland, analysed, deleted after analysis by default |
| What the report is | Your genotypes shown inside topic articles, plus summary reports | Fixed, named panels graded into three evidence tiers, each finding attributed to a pinned source version |
| Pharmacogenomics | Genotypes inside articles; no star-allele or guideline claim on its pages | CPIC star alleles from a VCF; a 29-gene panel called from reads, CYP2D6 copy number included |
| Clinician hand-off | Printable summaries for members; client reports on the professional tier | A one-page clinician hand-off with every analysed report |
| Entity | Moon Consulting, LLC, Kalispell, Montana (its privacy policy) | Aimosti Oy, Finland |
What "conversion first" costs a genome
A whole-genome VCF carries a few million positions. Converting it to an array-style file keeps the few hundred thousand that a chip would have typed and discards the rest, including the rare variants that the clinical and carrier panels turn on. The result is a good chip file made from a genome, read well. It is not a genome read. Here, a 30x VCF is read as what it is, and the aligned reads add what no genotype list can carry: whether each gene was covered, and the true structure of CYP2D6. A variant-only file's silence is reported as silence; a gene the reads cannot cover is declined.
If you hold a chip file and custody is your first concern, Genetic Lifehacks is the honest recommendation, and our free in-browser file check shows what your particular export can and cannot support before you spend anything anywhere. If you hold a genome, conversion throws away the reason you sequenced.
Genetic Lifehacks is described from its own public pages as read on 3 September 2026. Prices are quoted as displayed that day, in the currency shown there, and features change. We do not speak for Genetic Lifehacks. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
See what your file supports, in your browser, before you decide.
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