Parenting TRICK vs Lowered Expectations
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Parenting TRICK
This app offers guidance and resources for parents based on the TRICK method: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness. Get personalized advice, learn strategies, and find daily activities to help raise successful children.
- Personalized advice from Esther Wojcicki
- Learn the TRICK method
- Daily activities and scripts
- Parenting challenges addressed
- Goal-oriented personal paths
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Hello and welcome! I’m Esther Wojcicki the creator of Parenting TRICK, a new app that aims to revolutionize the way we approach raising children. Here’s what publications like Inc., Worth, People, Fortune, BBC and CNBC say about me, “The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness: TRICK. Esther Wojcicki—“Woj” to her many friends and admirers—is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishments have in common? They’re the result of TRICK, Woj’s secret to raising successful people: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration, and Kindness.” The TRICK app is designed to guide parents through this process, offering valuable resources, tips, and strategies for implementing the method in their everyday lives. Join me on this journey and discover how you can raise successful and fulfilled individuals with the help of TRICK! When you install the app, you'll get the following: *Ask Esther about your parenting challenges and get advice. She’ll even create a personal path to help you achieve your goals. *Learn all about Esther’s TRICK method at your own pace. *Every path is filled with activities, scripts and tips to help you use the TRICK method daily. Keep an eye out for new features. We’re constantly making updates based on your feedback. Start the journey today to be a better parent, and help set your children up for success in the real world. We utilize the Apple Standard EULA that can be found at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Lowered Expectations
This app provides sarcastic reminders and fictional contacts to deliver scheduled disappointment. It helps manage expectations with humorous, deflating messages, offering a unique form of emotional self-defense. Customize message tones, unlock new contacts, and enjoy multilingual support.
- Sarcastic reminders
- Fictional contacts for scheduled disappointment
- Customizable message tones
- Unlockable contacts
- Multilingual message library
- Scratch-off reveals
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Whether you're spiraling through a rough week, need someone (fake) in your corner, or just enjoy a little scheduled disappointment, Lowered Expectations has you covered. Sarcastic reminders are one of the simplest and most honest tools for emotional self-defense. It's all about lowering the bar early, so you're never caught off guard by hope. Now you can get gently let down without even trying. Create fictional contacts, set how often they text you, and let them deliver positive affirmations — or hilariously deflating non-affirmations — right when you least expect them. Unlock new contacts as you go, customize the vibe of your messages, and share the ones that hit a little too close to home with friends. The app includes a growing multilingual message library across a range of tones — from warm to bleak — with new lines added regularly. - Positive and disappointing affirmations - Unlock contacts as you engage - Multiple languages: English, Spanish, French, Chinese - Scratch-off reveals for that little dopamine hit - Custom notification intervals Affirmations, lowered.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Lowered Expectations at none against Parenting TRICK's shown. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Parenting TRICK sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Lowered Expectations sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Parenting TRICK against 5.0 for Lowered Expectations. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 9 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Parenting TRICK ships an update every 2 weeks, Lowered Expectations every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parenting TRICK | Lowered Expectations |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Agentwire, LLC | King Chen |
Customer experience
Parenting TRICK
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In-app purchases
Parenting TRICK
- Parenting TRICK US7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- US7 Days trial$65.991 Year
Lowered Expectations
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$1.99
- Large Tip$4.99
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