Empathable vs NextGen Skills
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Empathable
This app offers immersive, science-backed video experiences to help leaders and teams cultivate empathy. Through short, real-life scenarios, users can explore diverse perspectives and reflect on their reactions to foster understanding and improve performance. It provides measurable progress tracking for organizations.
- Immersive, science-backed video experiences
- Real-life scenarios for diverse perspectives
- Psychology-based reflection questions
- Measurable progress tracking for teams
- Focus on DEI, mentorship, and feedback
- Short-burst learning modules (under 5 minutes)
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Empathable helps leaders, teams and communities apply empathy better, and faster, measurably driving performance. Immersive and backed by world-class scientists, Empathable's short-burst videos are based on real life experiences that your team can integrate back into their own day to day. EXPERIENTIAL: Empathable creates the link between concept and reality, allowing participants to feel supported in areas like mentorship, one-on-ones, feedback, and DEI topics. The nuances of diverse identity features are woven into the learning itself – through Empathable, participants are immersed in real moments and interactions: leader to employee, team member to peer, human to human. NO RIGHT OR WRONG: We believe in positive empowerment. Our experience is not meant to define what’s right or wrong for you. Instead, you have the opportunity to take a Walk in someone else’s shoes in less than 5 minutes. With our psychology-based reflection questions, learn how to examine your reactions to these moments, and then apply your learning to daily life. REAL, NOT DRAMATIZED: Our experiences are created based on the lives of real people. We never use hypothetical situations. We recreate pivotal moments in the lives of these knowledge holders, so they can be shared and passed on, at scale. EASY, REFLECTIVE, AND SOCIAL: In just 5 minutes, experience a Walk, take time to reflect in-app, then build connections with those experiencing the app with you. MEASURABLE: We provide teams with measurements of progress throughout your engagement. WALK IN THE SHOES OF Z - a Black woman with an MBA working at a Fortune 50 company J - a nonbinary White individual I - a Black, queer, low-income, first-generation college student K - a Black trans man A - a visibly-pregnant White woman Y - an Asian American manager More to come! THE SCIENCE BEHIND EMPATHABLE Empathable is backed by top scientists in the fields of social science, psychology, and bias intervention and has impacted more than 15,000 people to date, showing measurable increases in belonging, psychological safety, and retention across dozens of organizations including Meta, Ford, Target, and Cisco. Most learning is box-checking, cerebral information, designed for compliance, then forgotten. It doesn’t change anything. This is because "...behavior change occurs through...making meaning of another's experience. [This is] long recognized as a key driver in a team's success." - Harvard Business School Here are results from a recent team who experienced Empathable 42% increase in empathy 26% increase in trust 24% increase in emotional connection with peers 20% increase in advocating for marginalized groups 22% increase in sense of belonging HOW EMPATHABLE WORKS WITH TEAMS We work with teams at corporations, K-12 schools, universities, medical institutions, nonprofits, and more. We co-design a curriculum for your team to acknowledge challenges you may be facing. By taking a Walk once a week and reflecting with your team in check-ins, you will learn how to build an empathic team or community that achieves goals better. If your team is interested in working with us, reach out at info@empathable.com
NextGen Skills
Build essential career and life skills through engaging, bite-sized lessons. This AI-powered platform offers microlearning content to enhance productivity, leadership, and personal development in just minutes a day.
- Bite-sized skill-building lessons
- AI-powered personalized learning journeys
- Focus on career and life success
- Develop durable skills like public speaking and resiliency
- Entertaining and actionable insights
- Microlearning format
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“It’s like TikTok, but productive.” Skills are the bedrock of a successful career. NextGen Skills exists to help you build skills that actually matter, so you can succeed at work and in life. Work is changing. Advances in technology are upending entire industries. The technical skills we learn in school become “old news” seemingly overnight. That’s where we come in. NextGen Skills helps you to thrive at school and in the workforce. With our fun, bite-sized lessons, you can learn how to be more productive, improve your interviewing skills, build powerful habits, grow as a leader, and much more. BUILD SKILLS THAT MATTER If you’re like us, you’re searching for a well-paying career. Ideally, one that aligns with your values and interests. If you’re lucky, you may even love what you do. But over the course of your career, what you do will change… and change again, and again, and again as the world (and what you’re called to!) evolves. In just two minutes a day, you can develop durable skills like public speaking, resiliency, and creativity to achieve your dream career. MICROLEARNING THAT’S ENJOYABLE Imagine TikTok, but productive. Our bite-sized lessons are curated to help you develop skills that you’ll actually use. Our AI-powered platform delivers short-form, entertaining content. You’ll experience an endless number of actionable insights inspired by industry experts. AI-POWERED LEARNING JOURNEYS Tell us about your goals, and our AI engine will show you the content that’s most important so you can succeed at work and in life. Don’t waste time or energy searching the web for good content. Just open the app and we’ll take care of the rest. NextGen Skills is your partner in becoming future proof. It’s time to unlock your potential. Let’s get started. — For more information, including how we protect your data, please visit NextGenHQ.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NextGen Skills at 5.0 against Empathable's 4.4. NextGen Skills also leads on device support and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
NextGen Skills holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 12 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Empathable | NextGen Skills |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 11 days |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Playground of Empathy Inc. | Next Gen Summit, Inc. |
Customer experience
Empathable
NextGen Skills
In-app purchases
Empathable
No in-app purchases
NextGen Skills
No in-app purchases









