Comparison

The Blox vs shotby

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

Head to head
About

The Blox

Access a unique competition docu-series featuring startups, learn from expert mentor consultations, and utilize guided meditations and functional music designed to enhance focus and relaxation. This platform offers free tools and assets to educate and empower entrepreneurs.

Highlights
  • Startup competition docu-series
  • Mentor consultations
  • Guided meditations
  • Functional music (binaural beats)
  • Task-specific music settings
  • Topic-based content filtering
Features
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Welcome to The Blox! We are a series of tools and assets designed to entertain, educate, and empower entrepreneurs - for free! Our flagship asset is a competition docu-series about 20 startups living under a single roof, competing to se who is the best startup on The Blox. This show is exclusively available on the app. Use it to binge-watch their trials and tribulations in the largest live-in startup competition on the planet. We also have hundreds of hours of video and audio based consultations between our world-class mentors and our startups. This will allow you to be a fly-on-the-wall of a startup accelerator - so you can learn alongside our teams. Use the app to filter by topic to ensure you're learning only the things that are most relevant to you! The app also features a series of guided meditations designed to help entrepreneurs harness the power of their brainspace. By doing so, we can physically strenghten your brain, allowing you to more easily build your business. We also have functional music, AKA bi-naural beats, which is ambient music with a scientific twist. Use the app to pick a task, such as study, sleep, flow state, etc. Our music will then auto-tune subliminal frequencies into the background of the music that will sync your brainwaves to the optimal frequency for the task. Use it to help you turn on your focus for the day, or relax at night when it's time to wind down.

About

shotby

Discover the creative minds behind music videos. Follow directors, cinematographers, and editors to see their full filmographies and discover new content. Rate videos and explore collaboration networks.

Highlights
  • Music video credits database
  • Follow directors and creators
  • Personalized content feed
  • Build custom video channels
  • User-generated ratings
  • Collaboration network visualization
  • Submit new content for indexing
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Every music video has a director. You just never saw their name. shotby is the credits database for music videos. Who directed it, who shot it, who cut it — and everything else they have made. FOLLOW THE PEOPLE, NOT THE ALGORITHM A director's work hides across a hundred artist channels. Follow them here and everything new lands in one feed, under their name instead of somebody else's. YOUR TV Build channels out of the directors and artists you follow. Shuffle them, sort by newest or best rated, and play the whole run end to end. THE PEOPLE'S RATING Score anything you watch, or put two videos side by side and throw the one you like. Your taste comes from what you actually watch, not from what an algorithm decided to push. COLLABORATION GRAPHS & 6 DEGREES OF ASSOCIATION See who works with who. Every director joined to every artist they have shot, drawn as a map you pull apart with your fingers. Run six degrees between any two names. CREDITS, PROPERLY The full crew on every video — director of photography, editor, colorist, production designer, producer. Tap any name to open their filmography. GET INDEXED Shot something that is not in here? Send a channel or a single video and the team indexes it, credits and all. shotby is free. Claiming your page is free.

Screenshots

The Blox4 screens
shotby4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: shotby at none against The Blox's shown. shotby also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). The Blox's advantage is ratings volume (235 vs 6) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for The Blox against 5.0 for shotby. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Blox has 235 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Blox ships an update every 9 days, shotby every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
The Blox versus shotby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Bloxshotby
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (235 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings235 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB9 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperBetaBlox Series, LLCshotbyTV, Inc.

Customer experience

The Blox

All ratings191 ratings
Positive98.4%
Neutral0.5%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews135 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

shotby

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

The Blox

No in-app purchases

None

shotby

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Blox free?
The Blox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is shotby free?
shotby is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Blox or shotby?
shotby is rated higher. The Blox averages 4.9 out of 5 from 235 ratings, while shotby averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do The Blox or shotby have ads?
The Blox shows ads; shotby does not.
Which is updated more often, The Blox or shotby?
The Blox ships an update every 9 days, and shotby every 4 days. Most recently, The Blox was updated on October 30, 2026 and shotby on October 24, 2026.

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