TrashBlitz vs FathomVerse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TrashBlitz
This app allows users to log and track the trash they collect from various locations, including national parks, neighborhoods, and cities. It helps users contribute to environmental cleanup efforts by documenting their impact.
- Track trash pickup
- Log environmental cleanup efforts
- Document trash collection
- Support National Park cleanups
- Community cleanup tracking
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Trashblitz is the app to allow people to track the trash they pick up in National Parks or around their house, company, city, or town.
FathomVerse
Explore the ocean world through an immersive game that trains AI for scientific research. Discover and identify over 50 groups of ocean animals using real imagery collected by researchers. Contribute to science while playing minigames, completing quests, and earning badges.
- Play minigames with real ocean imagery
- Identify over 50 groups of ocean animals
- Save and share favorite images
- Participate in quests and earn badges
- Unlock awards for gameplay contributions
- Customize soundscape with Ocean Radio
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The ocean covers more than 70% of our planet, yet most of the life within it remains undiscovered. FathomVerse is changing that, one dive at a time. FathomVerse invites everyone to take part in real ocean exploration and discovery. Through interactive mini-games, FathomNauts identify animals in real underwater photos and contribute to a growing library of labeled images that helps scientists catalog and understand marine life. With FathomVerse, you can: - Be among the first to review real imagery collected in the ocean. - Learn to identify more than 70 groups of marine animals. - Help train AI models by labeling animals in underwater images. - Participate in quests, earn badges, and track your scientific contributions. - Save and share your favorite ocean images in a personal gallery. Whether you're a lifelong ocean lover or simply curious about what lives in the depths, FathomVerse makes it easy to contribute to meaningful scientific research.
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Verdict
TrashBlitz and FathomVerse both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of FathomVerse's written reviews are positive against 71% of TrashBlitz's. FathomVerse also leads on ratings volume (88 vs 13). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for TrashBlitz against 4.6 for FathomVerse. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FathomVerse has 88 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of TrashBlitz's written reviews are positive against 86% of FathomVerse's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TrashBlitz | FathomVerse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) | 4.6 (88 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 88 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 284 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The 5 Gyres Institute | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |
Customer experience
TrashBlitz
FathomVerse
In-app purchases
TrashBlitz
No in-app purchases
FathomVerse
No in-app purchases
