Comparison

SickleBuddy vs Shadow's Edge

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

Head to head
About

SickleBuddy

This app helps children and adolescents learn about and manage sickle cell disease. It provides easy-to-understand information, health tips, and a quiz to reinforce learning. Designed with input from young people, it aims to empower them to understand and care for their condition.

Highlights
  • Information on sickle cell disease
  • Health tips for managing the condition
  • Ideas for staying healthy
  • Interactive quiz
  • Child-friendly design
Features
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SickleBuddy is an App for children to learn and live with sickle cell disease. Sickle Cell Disease is a red blood cell illness that some people are born with. Young people may need some help to understand sickle cell disease and look after themselves. SickleBuddy is an App for children and adolescents with sickle cell disease to help them learn about their condition. This App was made by talking to them and finding out how it should be designed. The App has different sections with pictures that make it easy for young people to understand. As a start, the Facts section gives information about sickle cell disease, and how it affects children and adolescents including pain and other problems. There is a section for keeping Healthy with Tips about medicines and other things doctors and nurses usually tell young people with sickle cell disease to do. Another section has Ideas about things that can be done to keep Healthy such as eating well, and taking it easy when worried or unhappy. The App also has a Quiz to help make it easier to remember the important things about sickle cell disease that have been learnt.

About

Shadow's Edge

Explore a world of art, writing, and puzzles to improve your emotional well-being. This game offers a safe space to reflect, express yourself creatively, and connect with a supportive community while overcoming personal challenges.

Highlights
  • Story-driven casual and creativity game
  • Writing prompts based on narrative therapy
  • Collect colors, stickers, and stencils
  • Solve puzzles to defeat personal shadows
  • Supportive in-game community
  • In-game art exchange
Features
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"Really Eye Opening. This game has a pretty unique story in which you go to fill a dark, gray world with talent and color once again with your own masterpieces. The writing in the black journal gives you a place to quickly reflect on all sorts of different types of personal feelings, all in your pocket or bag. I enjoy my time with this app, and I hope to find more like it!" – Player testimonial "A wonderful app! There is something so therapeutic to me about being ‘creatively destructive’ and this is a perfect outlet for that!”⁠ – Player testimonial "I love this game, I like writing a diary and this is such a fun way of doing it. The questions are really helpful." – Player testimonial More than 10 awards and nominations including: Edison’s New Product Innovation, Serious Play Gold Medal and the Global Mobile Award for Enhancing Kid’s Lives. Life can get challenging at times, to say the least. Between school, work, and relationships, it’s easy to let our emotional needs take the back seat... But what if taking care of our emotional health could be fun like a video game? Discover a safe space entirely for you in the world of Shadow’s Edge! Vent it all out in your own private journal, unlock yourself through art and writing, and join a supportive and creative in-game community where we support each other through the tough times. And not only do you get to level up your self-care game, but Shadow’s Edge is the only mental health game where you can bring life back to a storm-wrecked city and defeat your personal shadows by solving puzzles at the same time! Features: - Story driven casual and creativity game. - Writing prompts based on narrative therapy and positive psychology. - Collect colors, stickers, stencils and player titles to build power. - Help Ty, the angry one, Maize, who's got an artistic block and Pax who sees no problem in anything to overcome their Shadow. - Get support from Phoenix, the wise pigeon along the way with exercises to relax and destress. - Easy to learn. - In-game art exchange "Shadowgram" Shadow's Edge is an ad-free game with no in-app purchases. A project developed by The Digging Deep Project, an award-winning small nonprofit with a mission to create mental health tools that are based on expression, psychology and gaming. If you have suggestions or opinions - say hello to us at: feedback@shadowsedgegame

Screenshots

SickleBuddy4 screens
Shadow's Edge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Shadow's Edge at 4.6 against SickleBuddy's 3.0. Shadow's Edge also leads on ratings volume (33 vs 2). SickleBuddy's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

Shadow's Edge holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shadow's Edge has 33 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of SickleBuddy's written reviews are positive against 94% of Shadow's Edge's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SickleBuddy versus Shadow's Edge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSickleBuddyShadow's Edge
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.6 (33 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better94.1% of reviews
Number of ratings233 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB273 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperKofi AnieResonance House, LLC

Customer experience

SickleBuddy

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Shadow's Edge

All ratings33 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.9%

In-app purchases

None

SickleBuddy

No in-app purchases

None

Shadow's Edge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SickleBuddy free?
SickleBuddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shadow's Edge free?
Shadow's Edge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SickleBuddy or Shadow's Edge?
Shadow's Edge is rated higher. SickleBuddy averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Shadow's Edge averages 4.6 from 33 ratings.
Do SickleBuddy or Shadow's Edge have ads?
Neither SickleBuddy nor Shadow's Edge shows ads.

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