Comparison

NHTM vs The Blox

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

Head to head
About

NHTM

Explore the rich history of telecommunications with a self-guided museum tour. Discover artifacts like antique telephones, switchboards, and learn about key moments in telephone innovation.

Highlights
  • Self-guided museum tour
  • Telecommunications history
  • Artifact collection
  • Key historical moments
  • Educational resource
Features
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The New Hampshire Telephone Museum houses a tangible history of telecommunications. With well over a thousand artifacts, including wall-mount telephones, candlesticks, dials phones, switchboards and more. NHTM highlights important moments in telephone history, such as the race to the patent office and the undertaker who invented the dial system. The New Hampshire Telephone Museum is one of the must-see attractions in the state, as well as an important educational resource.

About

The Blox

Access a unique competition docu-series featuring startups, learn from expert mentor consultations, and utilize guided meditations and functional music designed to enhance focus and relaxation. This platform offers free tools and assets to educate and empower entrepreneurs.

Highlights
  • Startup competition docu-series
  • Mentor consultations
  • Guided meditations
  • Functional music (binaural beats)
  • Task-specific music settings
  • Topic-based content filtering
Features
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Welcome to The Blox! We are a series of tools and assets designed to entertain, educate, and empower entrepreneurs - for free! Our flagship asset is a competition docu-series about 20 startups living under a single roof, competing to se who is the best startup on The Blox. This show is exclusively available on the app. Use it to binge-watch their trials and tribulations in the largest live-in startup competition on the planet. We also have hundreds of hours of video and audio based consultations between our world-class mentors and our startups. This will allow you to be a fly-on-the-wall of a startup accelerator - so you can learn alongside our teams. Use the app to filter by topic to ensure you're learning only the things that are most relevant to you! The app also features a series of guided meditations designed to help entrepreneurs harness the power of their brainspace. By doing so, we can physically strenghten your brain, allowing you to more easily build your business. We also have functional music, AKA bi-naural beats, which is ambient music with a scientific twist. Use the app to pick a task, such as study, sleep, flow state, etc. Our music will then auto-tune subliminal frequencies into the background of the music that will sync your brainwaves to the optimal frequency for the task. Use it to help you turn on your focus for the day, or relax at night when it's time to wind down.

Screenshots

NHTM4 screens
The Blox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: NHTM at none against The Blox's shown. NHTM also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). The Blox's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 14 months) and ratings volume (191 vs 5). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for NHTM against 4.9 for The Blox. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Blox has 191 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NHTM ships an update every 14 months, The Blox every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
NHTM versus The Blox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNHTMThe Blox
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.9 (191 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5191 — better
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB28 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperThe New Hampshire Telephone MuseumBetaBlox Series, LLC

Customer experience

NHTM

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

The Blox

All ratings191 ratings
Positive98.4%
Neutral0.5%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews135 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

NHTM

No in-app purchases

None

The Blox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NHTM free?
NHTM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Blox free?
The Blox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NHTM or The Blox?
NHTM is rated higher. NHTM averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while The Blox averages 4.9 from 191 ratings.
Do NHTM or The Blox have ads?
The Blox shows ads; NHTM does not.
Which is updated more often, NHTM or The Blox?
NHTM ships an update every 14 months, and The Blox every 9 days. Most recently, NHTM was updated on September 24, 2026 and The Blox on October 7, 2026.

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