Comparison

Crossroads Trading vs Blur!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Crossroads Trading

Discover fashionable, eco-conscious resale clothing. Sell gently used items for cash or trade, and shop name-brand and designer pieces at great prices. Find stores, check hours, and reserve your spot in line.

Highlights
  • Find nearby stores
  • Check store hours and services
  • View seller queue
  • Reserve a spot in line
  • Receive turn notifications
Features
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With more than 100 “Best of” awards, Crossroads has been leading the resale fashion industry for over 25 years. Our fashionable and eco-conscious customers sell gently used clothing for cash or trade; shop for name-brand and designer clothing at amazing prices and help keep clothing out of landfill. The Crossroads app lets you: - Find a store near you. - Check store hours, services, and number of sellers in line. - Reserve a spot in line. - Receive a notification when it is your turn.

About

Blur!

Features
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Blur is a journal where your life is the exhibition. Most days blur together. Blur helps you keep the ones worth remembering, then lets you walk back through them like a visitor in your own museum. YOUR MUSEUM OPENS FULL You already have years of photographs on your phone. Blur catalogues them for you when you first open it, reads the date each one was taken, and hangs them in wings by year. Your museum has a history before you write a single word. THREE WAYS TO KEEP A DAY Write a line. Say it out loud and let Blur transcribe your words, then tidy the rambling into something clean. Or draw a small doodle with your finger, which hangs itself in your Doodles wing. BUILD YOUR MUSEUM Every memory becomes an exhibit. Place them into rooms like Best Meals, People You Love, or Summer 2026. Watch each room warm up as it fills, and see little visitors wander in to look around. WALK BACK THROUGH YOUR LIFE Browse a wing as a gallery wall, a shelf, a set of pedestals, or a scrapbook page, with the whole room on one screen and the animals wandering below. Each exhibit opens like an artifact, with a wall label giving the day, the hour, and the place. A WING FOR EVERYONE WHO MATTERS Give the people in your life a face and a name. Every entry that mentions someone hangs in their own wing, so you can walk through years of one person. Their names are taught to the microphone too, so even the tricky ones come out spelled right. COLLECT YOUR VISITORS Cats, dogs, rabbits, ducks, snails, birds and butterflies wander your halls, and 21 different breeds arrive as your museum grows. The Guest Book shows who has visited and what will bring the rest. FIND ANYTHING The Archive searches every word, person and place you have ever kept. Filter by favorites, food, trips and more. Open the calendar to write for any day in the past, so nothing is lost just because you were busy. BRING YOUR OLD JOURNAL Already keep a journal somewhere else? Import your exported file and the entries arrive dated, tagged, and placed in your museum. You can also paste in older entries one at a time. GENTLE, NEVER PUSHY Soft daily prompts ask for one small thing, never your whole day. Stamps and quiet milestones mark how far you have come. There are no streaks, no guilt, and no pressure. Blur is warm and a little playful, and never another thing to keep up with. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Blur never sends your journal anywhere. It lives on your iPhone. Lock it with Face ID, back it up to your own iCloud, and export everything whenever you want. Your memories are yours alone. Start with one small thing you noticed today. Before it blurs, keep it here.

Screenshots

Crossroads Trading4 screens
Blur!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Blur! at 5.0 against Crossroads Trading's 2.2. Crossroads Trading's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Blur! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crossroads Trading has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crossroads Trading ships an update every 6 weeks, Blur! every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Crossroads Trading versus Blur!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrossroads TradingBlur!
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.2 (29 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews17.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCrossroads Trading Co.Austin Shin

Customer experience

Crossroads Trading

All ratings29 ratings
Positive31.0%
Neutral3.4%
Negative65.5%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive17.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative80.0%

Blur!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Crossroads Trading

No in-app purchases

None

Blur!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crossroads Trading free?
Crossroads Trading is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blur! free?
Blur! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Crossroads Trading or Blur!?
Blur! is rated higher. Crossroads Trading averages 2.2 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while Blur! averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Crossroads Trading or Blur! have ads?
Neither Crossroads Trading nor Blur! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crossroads Trading or Blur!?
Crossroads Trading ships an update every 6 weeks, and Blur! every 2 months. Most recently, Crossroads Trading was updated on October 24, 2026 and Blur! on October 24, 2026.

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