Autistic Empathy vs HelloMate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Autistic Empathy
This app connects individuals aged 18+ who identify as autistic or Asperger's with like-minded people for dating or friendship. It aims to provide a more understanding and direct approach to forming connections, bypassing the complexities of mainstream social apps. Managed by autism specialists, it offers support and advice for members.
- Dating and friendship connections
- For autistic and Asperger's individuals
- Direct communication style
- Managed by autism specialists
- Helpline support
- Dating and friendship advice
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A dating and/or friendship app for 18+ individuals who identify as having Asperger's syndrome/Autism and who are seeking the companionship of like-minded individuals who can provide the empathic understanding they are seeking and which they deserve. Apps for all neuro-types are not discerning enough for Asperger's/Autistic individuals, and the potential for harm to the Aspergic/Autistic individual is enormous. Literal, black and white thinking, which is part of the Asperger's/Autistic mindset, while it can be a benefit in certain areas of life and living, it can be problematic in relationships if not empathically understood by the person with whom you wish to be close to. Finding someone who thinks in a similar way to how you think at first encounter, this app provides a shortcut through the social dance that the more mainstream dating/friendship apps engender. This app is managed by qualified autism-specialist counsellors, who will be on hand with bespoke advices, if, for whatever reason, a difficulty is encountered via a helpline. Autistic Empathy also provides generic advices reference dating and friendship for all members to access.
HelloMate
Reconnect with friends you haven't contacted in a while. This app helps you initiate conversations by randomly selecting contacts and tracking your attempts to send a "hello." Share your successes and challenge friends to do the same.
- Random contact selection
- Retake counter for sending 'hello'
- Share feature to boast and challenge
- Initiate conversations with old friends
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Use HelloMate to reach out to a friend you might not have spoken to for a while. Click the yellow button to pick a random person from your contacts. The retake counter will tell you how many times you cancelled to finally send a 'hello'. use the share button to boast to your friends that you sent a 'hello' and challenge them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HelloMate at 100% against Autistic Empathy's 6%. HelloMate also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and update cadence (daily vs every 2 months). Autistic Empathy's advantage is ratings volume (47 vs 9). 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.
HelloMate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Autistic Empathy has 47 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of Autistic Empathy's written reviews are positive against 100% of HelloMate's.
Autistic Empathy ships an update every 2 months, HelloMate daily. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Autistic Empathy | HelloMate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (47 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Action for Neurodiversity | Yechiel Vogel |
Customer experience
Autistic Empathy
HelloMate
In-app purchases
Autistic Empathy
No in-app purchases
HelloMate
No in-app purchases
