GoodShape vs Brave Bloom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GoodShape
Manage work absences and access clinical support easily. Follow personalized care plans, explore wellbeing resources, and track your recovery. Connect fitness apps for comprehensive health insights and get back to work safely and quickly.
- Report, update, and close absences 24/7
- Follow personalized daily care plans
- Access wellbeing advice library
- Browse wellbeing service directory
- View personal absence statistics
- Connect fitness apps via Healthkit
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The GoodShape app is available for all users of the GoodShape service. It is designed to make it simpler, easier, and quicker to manage absences from work and receive clinical support when unwell. Our goal is to help you get back to health, and then to work, as early and safely as possible. Key Features: Report, update, and close absences 24/7. Follow daily care plans designed for you by our clinical team. Access a library of wellbeing advice covering physical and mental health. Browse a wellbeing service directory with 60+ services available. View personal statistics regarding your absences. Manage and configure your GoodShape profile. Connect your other fitness apps and control what data our clinical team can see when carrying out medical assessments. (Connections are made possible via secure Healthkit API’s that can be enabled and disconnected at any time). Key Benefits: A simpler way to report absences from work. Greater medical advice and support to help you get back to health as quickly, and safely, as possible. Easier access to other health services that can support you. Complete control over your GoodShape record.
Brave Bloom
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Brave Bloom helps you build real confidence in social situations, not by pushing through fear, but by taking small, real-world steps at your own pace. Social anxiety often feels bigger in your head than it turns out to be in reality. Brave Bloom is built around a simple idea: small, graded steps toward the things that make you anxious, paired with honest before-and-after reflection, is one of the most effective ways to build lasting confidence. HOW IT WORKS - Pick a small, real-world step, from making eye contact with a stranger to speaking up in a group - Rate how anxious you feel beforehand, honestly - Do it, in your own time, with no deadline - Rate how you felt afterward, and add a quick reflection - Watch your own evidence build that these moments are usually easier than you feared NO STREAKS. NO SCORES. NO PRESSURE. Brave Bloom is built to be the opposite of most habit apps. There's no streak to protect and no way to fail. If you try something and it doesn't go perfectly, that still counts, fully. Missing a few days changes nothing. Come back whenever you're ready. SIX GENTLE CATEGORIES Small talk, being seen, calls and messages, groups, speaking up, and everyday brave moments, so you can work on exactly the kind of situations that are hardest for you. YOUR GARDEN GROWS WITH YOU Every brave moment you log becomes part of a growing garden that reflects your journey. Not a leaderboard, not a number. Just a quiet, visual record of how far you've come. YOUR PRIVATE JOURNAL Beyond brave moments, there's a quiet space just for you. Organize entries into as many notebooks as you like, give one a title, a mood, a soft color, even a few photos if you'd like. It's completely private, always free, and entirely yours. BRAVE BLOOM+ (OPTIONAL) For anyone who wants to go deeper, Brave Bloom+ unlocks personalized insights drawn from your own check-ins: which categories are actually easing your anxiety the most, how your anxiety trends over time, and gentle, evidence-based encouragement. The core experience is, and always will be, completely free. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your check-ins, reflections, journal entries, and photos are stored only on your device. No ads, no tracking, no analytics, and nothing is ever sold. Brave Bloom isn't about becoming a different person. It's about discovering, one small step at a time, that you already are someone who can. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GoodShape at none against Brave Bloom's 2. Brave Bloom's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Brave Bloom sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. GoodShape asks for nothing beyond the download.
GoodShape ships an update every 6 weeks, Brave Bloom fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GoodShape | Brave Bloom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 13.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GoodShape | BAILEY MARK CROOKS |
In-app purchases
GoodShape
No in-app purchases
Brave Bloom
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- 6 Months$9.996 Months





