Comparison

Balsio vs BLOCC

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

Head to head
About

Balsio

This professional chat application helps you keep work conversations separate from personal life. It allows communication with colleagues and external contacts using only work emails, fostering focused productivity and cross-organizational collaboration.

Highlights
  • Separate work and personal conversations
  • Chat using work email only
  • Connect across companies
  • Collaborate with clients and partners
  • Interoperability with WhatsApp (select regions)
Features
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Balsio – A chat app for work conversations Work messages often end up in the apps we use with friends and family. Balsio gives work conversations a separate place. With Balsio, you can: - Message anyone using their work email. No phone numbers needed. - Keep work and personal messages in separate apps. - Keep all your team's chats in one shared workspace. Invite a new person once, and they can join any team chat they need. - Talk with people outside your company: clients, partners, and suppliers. They do not have to join your team. - Message your WhatsApp contacts without leaving Balsio (available in the European Economic Area, where contacts have enabled third-party chats). - Organize chats into lists by project or client, reply in threads, and snooze chats or mark them as done. Tools like Slack and Teams are for conversations inside your company. Balsio is for your team and for the people outside your company: clients, partners, and suppliers. If you have used a personal chat app before, Balsio will feel familiar.

About

BLOCC

Features
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Ditch distractions, supercharge your concentration, and achieve your goals faster. Make every minute count: use BLOCC today and master your focus!

Screenshots

Balsio4 screens
BLOCC4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Balsio at none against BLOCC's 1. Balsio also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 9 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BLOCC sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Balsio asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Balsio ships an update weekly, BLOCC every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Balsio versus BLOCC: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBalsioBLOCC
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB14 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperFyello Productivity SIALearnSalat

In-app purchases

None

Balsio

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

BLOCC

One-time1
  • BLOCC donation$2.99

Questions

Is Balsio free?
Balsio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BLOCC free?
BLOCC is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Balsio or BLOCC have ads?
Neither Balsio nor BLOCC shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Balsio or BLOCC?
Balsio ships an update weekly, and BLOCC every 9 months. Most recently, Balsio was updated on October 24, 2026 and BLOCC on October 12, 2026.

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