PLAYED vs Thought Patterns
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PLAYED
Learn to identify 5 common political ad manipulation tactics. Play this educational game to test your emotional responses and improve your critical thinking skills. The aim is to encourage informed voting without falling for deceptive advertising.
- Identify 5 political ad manipulation tricks
- Learn about emotional manipulation in ads
- Play like a video game
- Check your score
- Understand how ads influence voters
- Encourages informed voting
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Using current and historical ads, you feel fear, anger, hope, and pride while you learn 5 tricks political ads use to manipulate your emotions and win your support. Play this app like a video game, check your score, and see for yourself if you get played. The goal: Do vote, but don’t get played!
Thought Patterns
A compact reference tool designed to assist users in navigating complex situations. It provides helpful resources for understanding and managing the intricacies of the world around us.
- Pocket reference tool
- Navigates complex world
- Simple and small design
- Helpful resources
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A small, simple reference containing tools to help us navigate the complicated world.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Thought Patterns at 5.0 against PLAYED's 3.7. Thought Patterns also leads on update cadence (every 7 months vs every 19 months). PLAYED's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Thought Patterns holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
PLAYED ships an update every 19 months, Thought Patterns every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PLAYED | Thought Patterns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Honest Ads Inc | Raphael DeFranco |
In-app purchases
PLAYED
No in-app purchases
Thought Patterns
No in-app purchases
