Open Blue vs Valrhona®
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Open Blue
Explore a sustainable open ocean farm with immersive 360-degree tours. Experience the journey of fish from egg to plate, virtually flying over the ocean and diving deep into the waters off Panama. Discover the care and innovation behind healthy, delicious seafood.
- 360-degree virtual reality tours
- Behind-the-scenes farm exploration
- Ocean flight and deep-water dives
- Experience fish from egg to plate
- Offline video downloads
- Restaurant and retail store locator
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Take a deep dive into the world of sustainable open ocean farming with the Open Blue Virtual Reality Experience. Open Blue will take you behind the scenes on a 360 degree tour of the world’s largest deep water open ocean farm. The Open Blue story was filmed using revolutionary 360 degree cameras, that put you in the center of the action and let you experience Open Blue’s unique, innovative farm like never before. You will fly high over the ocean and dive deep in the clear blue waters 8 miles off the Caribbean coast of Panama with 30,000 Cobia and Lucy the Whale shark. You will see how much care and respect goes into every healthy, sustainable and delicious fish Open Blue raises from egg to plate. This mobile 360 player app allows you to enjoy some of these unique perspectives on your mobile device with or without a cardboard viewer. After installing the app, we highly recommend that you swipe the videos left to download them to your mobile device for the highest quality and offline viewing. We also recommend that you watch the 360 experiences with headphones or earbuds for the best experience. You will also find links to Open Blue’s website where you can search for Open Blue in restaurants or retail stores near you. Additional 360 videos and new app features will be rolled out in the near future.
Valrhona®
This app offers pastry professionals a suite of tools for recipe development, including essential recipes, chocolate pairing guides, and conversion utilities. It's designed to inspire and streamline the creative process for chefs.
- Recipe development tools
- Valrhona Essentials recipes
- Chocolate pairing guides
- Conversion tools
- Inspiration for creation
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The Valrhona App is a revolutionary platform for pastry professionals, built with the technical expertise of leading pastry chefs. It provides built-in, adaptable tools for recipe development such as the Valrhona Essentials recipes, chocolate pairings, conversion tools, and more, all of which facilitate and inspire the creation process at the touch of a button.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Open Blue at none against Valrhona®'s shown. Open Blue also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Valrhona®'s advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 2). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Open Blue holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Valrhona® has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Open Blue's written reviews are positive against 67% of Valrhona®'s.
Open Blue ships an update every 6 weeks, Valrhona® every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Open Blue | Valrhona® |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wemersive Inc | Valrhona Inc. |
Customer experience
Open Blue
Valrhona®
In-app purchases
Open Blue
No in-app purchases
Valrhona®
No in-app purchases









