Comparison

Bloomster vs Empatia

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

Head to head
About

Bloomster

This app helps children aged 9-14 develop essential life skills like confidence, focus, and emotional regulation through engaging animated lessons and practical exercises. It provides parents with tools to support their child's growth and track progress in areas academics often miss.

Highlights
  • Expert-designed skill courses
  • Growth plans for challenges
  • Life event support plans
  • Scenario-based knowledge checks
  • Parent lesson guides
  • Reflections and journaling
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Bloomster is a life skills learning platform that helps kids ages 9–14 build confidence, focus, emotional regulation, resilience, communication, and problem-solving. Through short animated lessons and guided practice, Bloomster teaches skills academics don’t cover — but growing up requires. Designed by educators and learning scientists, Bloomster turns real challenges into teachable moments kids can apply in life and at school. Parents get tools to guide skill-building at home, track growth, and encourage positive habits. If your child needs support staying focused, managing emotions, building confidence, or navigating social situations, Bloomster makes skill-building practical, engaging, and enjoyable. KEY FEATURES • Expert-Designed Skill Courses — Short, animated lessons that teach life skills kids don’t learn in school. • Growth Plans for Challenges — Structured plans for focus, confidence, emotional regulation, and social skills. • Life Event Plans — Support for changing schools, sibling conflict, test anxiety, and sports pressure. • Scenario-Based Knowledge Checks — Interactive scenarios that assess skill application, not memorization. • Parent Lesson Guides — Quick guides showing parents what to say and do to reinforce learning at home. • Reflections & Journaling — Prompts that help kids reflect and internalize skills. • Boosters for Encouragement — Motivational nudges to support progress for kids and parents. • Badges, Challenges & Rewards — Kids earn badges while parents add custom rewards to make learning fun. • Track Growth Across Skills — Follow improvements across focus, confidence, emotional regulation, communication, and resilience.

About

Empatia

Explore your emotions and values through interactive game cards. Organize insights, save them in a diary, and share your emotional landscape. Designed for ages 5 and up with parental controls.

Highlights
  • Interactive game cards for emotions and values
  • Personalized diary for emotional journey tracking
  • Shareable insights in image and PDF formats
  • Parental Care with age-adaptive content
  • Colorblind and dark modes for accessibility
Features
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Welcome to Empatia, an innovative app designed to deepen your emotional intelligence and self-awareness. Empatia presents a diverse array of interactive game cards encompassing emotions, core values, choices, thoughts, areas of life, body awareness, and other personal insights. As you explore these cards, select the ones that resonate with your current experience. The app allows you to thoughtfully organize these cards, highlighting favorites to identify elements central to your situation. This thoughtful organization aids in visualizing and comprehending the core aspects of your emotional and personal journey. After arranging the cards, you can save your selections in a diary, creating a personalised record of your emotional journey. This feature allows you to revisit and reflect on past entries and to add comments, enriching your understanding over time. Empatia serves as a dynamic tool for discovery and reflection, assisting you in a deeper exploration of your emotional landscape. You can also share your organised landscape of feelings in image and PDF formats. Be it with close friends or with your therapist. For Families: Empatia is designed to be a valuable tool for ages 5 and up. For users under 13, we require that the account be managed by their parent or tutor. The app features a 'Parental Care' setting, which allows customisation of the app to specific age ranges. Options include 5-7, 8-10, 11-12, and 13+. This feature adjusts the vocabulary and complexity of the app to offer a more enriching and wholesome experience. Accessibility: - Colorblind mode - Dark mode - Parental Care (Age-Adaptive Content): 5-7, 8-10, 11-12, 13+

Screenshots

Bloomster4 screens
Empatia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Bloomster at free with in-app purchases against Empatia's subscription. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Bloomster sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Empatia sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bloomster against 5.0 for Empatia. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bloomster ships an update every 3 weeks, Empatia every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Bloomster versus Empatia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBloomsterEmpatia
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB246 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperBalanced Tech Inc.Empatia Produtos Psicopedagogicos Ltda

Customer experience

Bloomster

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Empatia

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Bloomster

Subscriptions4
  • Single Child - Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Family - Monthly$29.991 Month
  • Single Child - Annually$199.991 Year
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  • Family - Annually$299.991 Year
2 purchases

Empatia

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly plan$1.991 Month
  • Annual plan$7.991 Year

Questions

Is Bloomster free?
Bloomster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Empatia free?
Empatia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bloomster or Empatia?
Bloomster and Empatia are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Bloomster or Empatia have ads?
Neither Bloomster nor Empatia shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bloomster or Empatia?
Bloomster ships an update every 3 weeks, and Empatia every 2 weeks. Most recently, Bloomster was updated on October 4, 2026 and Empatia on October 14, 2026.

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