Comparison

CaringBridge vs Turning Hearts

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

Head to head
About

CaringBridge

This platform offers a private, ad-free space for family caregivers to share updates and coordinate care for loved ones on a health journey. It fosters a supportive community, helping to alleviate feelings of isolation and overwhelm by connecting people through shared experiences.

Highlights
  • Private, ad-free health journey platform
  • Share updates with everyone at once
  • Document health journey progress
  • Coordinate care with family and friends
  • Connect with a supportive community
Features
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CaringBridge is a no-cost, 501(c)(3) nonprofit health platform that surrounds family caregivers with support while they care for a loved one on a health journey. A donor-supported nonprofit founded in 1997, the organization offers tools to share and document a health journey, simplify care coordination, and connect caregivers with a supportive community. CaringBridge addresses feelings of overwhelm, isolation, and loneliness by improving emotional health and social connectedness, helping people come together in support of healing. With over 300,000 people on the platform every day sending or receiving support, there are over 1,600 messages of love, hope, and compassion posted every hour. And every 12 minutes a new CaringBridge page is started. The CaringBridge community includes all 50 states and more than 242 countries around the world. To learn more visit www.caringbridge.org. Private, protected, and ad-free · A trusted, private, and ad-free space that only a nonprofit like CaringBridge can provide to support family caregivers and their loved ones on a health journey. Communicate to everyone all at once · Communicate to everyone all at once in a safe and private space, relieving the burden of individually updating people. Capture and process every step of the health journey · The very act of capturing a loved one’s health journey improves emotional health and social support. Coordinate care with family and friends · Making it easy to ask for help, because we know it’s often the most difficult thing to ask for.

About

Turning Hearts

Create personalized virtual memorials with photos, biographies, and important dates to honor loved ones. Share these tributes with family and friends, and use QR codes to link physical resting places to digital memories.

Highlights
  • Personalized virtual memorials
  • Photo and biography uploads
  • Important date tracking
  • Social media sharing
  • QR code medallions for gravestones
  • Global access
Features
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Turning Hearts is an innovative app that allows you to create virtual memorials in tribute to your dearest loved ones who have passed away. With this app, you can personalize every aspect of these tributes, from photos and biographies to important dates that celebrate the lives of those who are no longer with us. Additionally, you can easily share these tributes with family and friends through social media, bringing loved ones together to remember and pray. Turning Hearts also features 'Turning Hearts Medallions', which allows you to attach a QR code to the gravestone or resting place of the deceased, enabling visitors to access their memorial by scanning the code with their smartphone. The app is perfect for those seeking a meaningful and modern way to preserve the legacy of their loved ones. What you'll get with the app: Create personalized memorials with photos, biographies, and key dates. Share tributes via social media with family and friends. Access the 'TurningHearts Medallions' feature with QR codes for interactive memorials. Preserve and share the legacy of your loved ones worldwide. Key Features: Personalized Memorials: Upload photos, biographies, and key dates like birthdays, death anniversaries, or weddings. Share with Family and Friends: Easily connect your loved ones by sharing tributes on social media. 'Turning Hearts Medallions': Scan a QR code to view the memorial of your loved one at their resting place. Global Access: Create and share tributes from anywhere in the world.

Screenshots

CaringBridge4 screens
Turning Hearts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CaringBridge at 4.9 against Turning Hearts's 4.1. CaringBridge also leads on ratings volume (19K vs 7). Turning Hearts's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). 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

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

CaringBridge holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CaringBridge has 19K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of CaringBridge's written reviews are positive against 100% of Turning Hearts's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CaringBridge versus Turning Hearts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCaringBridgeTurning Hearts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (19K ratings) — better4.1 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews63.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19K — better7
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB80 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCaringBridge.orgNetforemost Inc

Customer experience

CaringBridge

All ratings19,469 ratings
Positive97.9%
Neutral0.6%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews319 reviews
Positive63.0%
Neutral10.7%
Negative26.3%

Turning Hearts

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

CaringBridge

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App freezing/crashing issues
  • Inability to view recent updates
  • Sharing/linking functionality problems
  • Inconsistent behavior across platforms

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improve app stability and performance
  • Clarify donation process and usage
  • Enhance user experience and navigation
  • Provide better notification system

Turning Hearts

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CaringBridge

No in-app purchases

None

Turning Hearts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CaringBridge free?
CaringBridge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Turning Hearts free?
Turning Hearts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CaringBridge or Turning Hearts?
CaringBridge is rated higher. CaringBridge averages 4.9 out of 5 from 19K ratings, while Turning Hearts averages 4.1 from 7 ratings.
Do CaringBridge or Turning Hearts have ads?
Neither CaringBridge nor Turning Hearts shows ads.

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