Nerdish vs Healthy Relationships
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nerdish
Expand your general knowledge with concise, engaging articles on diverse topics like science, history, and art. Designed for busy adults, this app delivers quick, fact-checked reads in 5-10 minutes daily to foster lifelong learning and personal growth.
- Concise articles on science, history, art, and more
- Daily 5-10 minute learning sessions
- Fact-checked and well-structured content
- Connects key ideas for deeper understanding
- Topics include psychology, technology, and daily life
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Nerdish is a learning app that helps you grow your general knowledge. The articles inside are our own — written to show you things you'd never thought to look up, feed your curiosity, and help you learn more about the world. You can read them or listen to them, and most take about ten minutes: why people like spicy food, what Nefertiti actually looked like, how the internet crosses oceans. What's inside: - Articles we write ourselves. Each one starts with a question our editors find interesting, and gets researched properly before it's written. - Topics from the life around you. Sleep, coffee, déjà vu, the internet, Nefertiti — things you pass by every day without wondering about them. - Our own writing framework. It keeps every article interesting and concise, but still genuinely educational — a lot of thought went into getting all three at once. - Built as microlearning for adults. Short chapters of a couple of minutes each, designed to fit a phone screen and a busy day. - Audio for everything. Read it, listen to it, or follow the text while it plays. - Historical photographs, archive material and artwork alongside the text, with facts and details in the margins. - A wide range of subjects, from the human body to ancient history — and the connections between them. We built Nerdish for people who: - would rather spend phone time on something better than socials. Same ten minutes, different outcome. - enjoy learning random things for no particular reason. Curiosity doesn't need a goal attached to it. - want to stay mentally sharp. Reading something unfamiliar is a small habit that keeps the mind working. - want to find their way back to reading. Short pieces are easier to start with than a book you've been meaning to open for months. - want to have more to say — about art, history, or why the sky is blue. Why it works: There's no way to measure general knowledge and no point where you have enough. But it's what you're using when you read the news, or decide whether something sounds true, or find a solution that came from somewhere unrelated. Hardly any of us sets out to work on our knowledge. Nobody ever taught us how — there's no course in general knowledge, nowhere obvious to begin. So it stays on the list of things you'd like to do. Nerdish works because the mechanism is already there. Curiosity is what built your general knowledge in the first place, and it doesn't need much — an interesting question and ten minutes. And knowledge doesn't stay in separate piles. We write science with its history in it, history with its culture, and culture with the people behind it — nothing is only about one thing. Pick a topic, read or listen, learn something you'd never thought to look up. That's how general knowledge grows. Learn with us about: - Health and the human body: sleep, memory, ageing, and how the body actually works. - History: ancient empires, revolutions, great discoveries, and the people who changed things. - Science and technology: space, evolution, physics, AI, inventions, and everyday phenomena explained properly. - Daily things: why déjà vu happens, how coffee was discovered, where common ideas come from. - Art and culture: painting, music, architecture, design, literature, and the movements behind them. - Food: where dishes come from and why we like what we like. - Famous people: the lives behind the names. Welcome to being Nerdish with us! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Healthy Relationships
This app offers guidance on maintaining healthy relationships by educating users on recognizing abusive behaviors and understanding domestic abuse. It uses interactive quizzes and case studies to engage users and provides contact information for support agencies.
- Information on healthy relationship management
- Identification of abusive behaviors
- Explanation of domestic abuse forms
- Interactive quizzes and case studies
- Support agency contact information
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The Healthy Relationships app provides information, advice and guidance on how to manage healthy relationships. It educates on how to spot signs of abusive behaviours and characteristics of unhealthy relationships, in any type of relationship, and explains the various forms of domestic abuse. The Healthy Relationships app shares information in the form of interactive quizzes and case studies to engage more with the user. It provides contact information on various support agencies who are able to support individuals with any concerns about unhealthy relationships and/or domestic abuse.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Healthy Relationships at none against Nerdish's 5. Healthy Relationships also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Nerdish's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (2.6K vs 9). On price, ads 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. Nerdish sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Healthy Relationships asks for nothing beyond the download.
Healthy Relationships holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nerdish has 2.6K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Nerdish ships an update weekly, Healthy Relationships every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and August 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nerdish | Healthy Relationships |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.6K ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.6K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #87 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Nerdish OU | The Paul Lavelle Foundation |
Customer experience
Nerdish
Healthy Relationships
Bugs and requests
Nerdish
Reported bugs
3 issues- Incomplete articles with missing content
- Frequent app crashes and freezes
- Subscription issues and billing problems
Requested features
4 requests- Add audio narration option
- Implement bookmarking and note-taking features
- Improve search and filtering capabilities
- Provide more free content without ads
Healthy Relationships
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Nerdish
- Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Nerdish Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Easy Quarterly Plan$11.993 Months
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- Nerdish Annual Special$29.991 Year
- Nerdish Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Healthy Relationships
No in-app purchases
Questions
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