Comparison

Blue Room vs Hint (Home Intelligence)

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

Head to head
About

Blue Room

This surf app, created by surfers, helps you plan sessions with friends, log your waves, and track your progress. It's designed to keep you connected to your surf routine, whether you're a beginner or an experienced surfer.

Highlights
  • Plan surf sessions with friends
  • Log surf spots, conditions, and ratings
  • Track progress and identify patterns
  • Friendly competition and real-time tracking
  • Surf journal creation
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Introducing Blue Room: a surf app built by surfers, for surfers. Plan sessions with friends, log your waves, and track your progress—all in one place. Whether you’re paddling out for the first time or logging your hundredth session, Blue Room keeps you connected and dialed into your surf routine. Key Features: • Plan with Friends: Set your session details, invite friends, and coordinate surf plans with ease. • Log Every Session: Record surf spots, conditions, and personal ratings to build your own surf journal. • Filter Your Surf History: Sort sessions by spot, swell direction, or ratings to spot patterns and progression. • Friendly Competition: Compete with friends and track your progress in real time.

About

Hint (Home Intelligence)

This app analyzes your home's unique characteristics and potential risks to create a personalized maintenance plan. It acts as a central library for important home documents and proactively alerts you to upcoming deadlines and potential issues.

Highlights
  • Home risk assessment
  • Personalized maintenance plans
  • Digital home document library
  • Renewal and deadline alerts
  • Problem identification and solutions
  • Find local service professionals
  • Compare insurance and utility options
Features
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Download Hint and enter your address. In under a minute, Hint maps out your home: when it was built, its climate, soil, and the risks it faces. From there, it builds a maintenance plan around your home and the season. Share your inspection report, insurance policy, and bills as you go. Hint reads them closely, so you don't have to, and keeps everything in one place as your home's library. The more Hint knows, the more it catches, like a renewal flagged before it sneaks up on you. Hint helps you: • Hit the ground running. See your whole home and what to tackle from day one. • Stay ahead. Hint flags renewals and deadlines, so you've got time to plan. • Handle problems fast. Snap a photo, and Hint tells you what's going on and how to fix it. • Find local pros for the job. • Compare your options. Shop insurance, utilities, and internet in one place. When something needs you, Hint speaks up. Otherwise, it stays quiet Behind Hint are experts who've spent their careers around the home: contractors, inspectors, and insurance adjusters, alongside co-founder Martha Stewart. Your home is yours. Your data is too. Hint never sells it, never shares it without your say, and never uses it to train models. “I’ve wanted to create something beyond education, something that could actually help proactively manage one’s home the way that I do. The technology wasn’t ready for my vision. Hint is.” Martha Stewart, Co-founder What new homeowners are saying. “The thing that was amazing was when you put in your address. It tells you all these little details about your house that you didn’t know.” Homeowner, Davie FL. Free to download. Homeownership without the guesswork.

Screenshots

Blue Room4 screens
Hint (Home Intelligence)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Blue Room at 5.0 against Hint (Home Intelligence)'s 3.8. Blue Room also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Hint (Home Intelligence)'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (46 vs 3). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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

Blue Room holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hint (Home Intelligence) has 46 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Blue Room's written reviews are positive against 66% of Hint (Home Intelligence)'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Blue Room versus Hint (Home Intelligence): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlue RoomHint (Home Intelligence)
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better3.8 (46 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better65.5% of reviews
Number of ratings346 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB103 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKyle ZimmermanHome Hub Labs, Inc.

Customer experience

Blue Room

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hint (Home Intelligence)

All ratings45 ratings
Positive68.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative31.1%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive65.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative34.5%

In-app purchases

None

Blue Room

No in-app purchases

None

Hint (Home Intelligence)

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Blue Room free?
Blue Room is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hint (Home Intelligence) free?
Hint (Home Intelligence) is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Blue Room or Hint (Home Intelligence)?
Blue Room is rated higher. Blue Room averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Hint (Home Intelligence) averages 3.8 from 46 ratings.
Do Blue Room or Hint (Home Intelligence) have ads?
Blue Room shows ads; Hint (Home Intelligence) does not.
Which is updated more often, Blue Room or Hint (Home Intelligence)?
Blue Room ships an update every 3 days, and Hint (Home Intelligence) every 3 days. Most recently, Blue Room was updated on November 3, 2026 and Hint (Home Intelligence) on October 31, 2026.

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