Comparison

Virtual Hope Box (new) vs Rooted

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

Head to head
About

Virtual Hope Box (new)

This app provides tools to help users cope with difficult emotions, relax, and engage in positive thinking. It allows for personalized content creation with loved ones and therapists, offering distraction techniques and guided exercises.

Highlights
  • Multimedia content storage
  • Personalized coping cards
  • Positive activity planning
  • Distraction tools
  • Guided relaxation exercises
  • Controlled breathing techniques
Features
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The Virtual Hope Box (VHB) is a smartphone application designed for use by patients and their mental health providers as an accessory to treatment. The VHB contains simple tools to help patients with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. Patients and providers can work together to personalize the VHB content on the patient's own smartphone according to the patient's specific needs. The patient can then use the VHB away from clinic, continuing to add or change content as needed. Patients can use the VHB to store a variety of rich multimedia content that they find personally supportive in times of need. For example, a patient can include family photos, videos and recorded messages from loved ones, inspirational quotes, music they find especially soothing, reminders of previous successes, positive life experiences and future aspirations, and affirmations of their worth in their VHB. A patient can also collaborate with their provider to create coping cards to use in response to personal problem areas they experience. Finally, the VHB provides the patient with positive activity planning, distraction tools, and interactive relaxation exercises including guided imagery, controlled breathing and muscle relaxation.

About

Rooted

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Rooted is a daily audio affirmation ritual designed for first and second-generation immigrants who are carrying more than they show. If you’re doing well on paper but feel exhausted underneath, this space is for you. Rooted delivers personalized audio affirmations daily written from your background, family role, and current emotional weight. Not motivation. Not manifestation. Not productivity. Just permission to exhale. What you’ll experience: • Personalized daily audio affirmations • A grounding ritual morning and evening • Gentle, non-preachy language • Space that acknowledges the invisible weight you carry • A private ritual built entirely around you Built for: • First-generation and second-generation immigrants • The eldest child who holds the family together • The dependable one who never gets to fall apart • Anyone navigating life between cultures Subscription Details Rooted offers a 3-day free trial. After the trial, choose between: • Monthly plan • Annual plan (best value) Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rooted-app.notion.site/PRIVACY-POLICY-Rooted-310a0807a36b8088a428cf90c3aa5ccf

Screenshots

Virtual Hope Box (new)4 screens
Rooted4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Virtual Hope Box (new) at none against Rooted's 2. Rooted's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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. Rooted sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Virtual Hope Box (new) asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Virtual Hope Box (new) versus Rooted: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVirtual Hope Box (new)Rooted
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDefense Health AgencyIsmael Adam Soule

In-app purchases

None

Virtual Hope Box (new)

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Rooted

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Virtual Hope Box (new) free?
Virtual Hope Box (new) is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rooted free?
Rooted is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Virtual Hope Box (new) or Rooted have ads?
Neither Virtual Hope Box (new) nor Rooted shows ads.

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