Comparison

Principled Living vs BloomValues

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

Head to head
About

Principled Living

This app guides you to live by your core values and ethical standards. It helps you identify your principles, offers practical tips for integration, and allows you to explore potential conflicts with shadow traits. You can also share your profile and compare principles with friends.

Highlights
  • Identify core principles
  • Practical tips for integration
  • Explore shadow traits
  • Real-life examples
  • Bookmark favorite principles
  • Share profile with friends
Features
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Principled living is the act of deliberately embracing and adhering to the core values and ethical standards that shape your thoughts, actions, and daily decisions. This app is your compass to living a principled life. This app helps you uncover the principles that define who you are and offers detailed insights on living by each one, serving as your daily guide to embodying your values. Explore comprehensive descriptions, practical tips, and real-life examples to help you integrate these principles into your life. With the ability to bookmark or save your chosen principles, you can easily revisit them whenever you need a reminder or inspiration. This app also allows you to select from a detailed and comprehensive list of shadow traits that may conflict with your principles. It helps you pinpoint the areas at risks and provides feedback on how to overcome. It also allows you to share your profile with friends and compare your principles with their shadows.

About

BloomValues

Features
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BloomValues — Stories that build who they become. Children don't learn values from lectures. They learn them from choices. BloomValues puts your child inside immersive moral stories where they are always the hero — and every story ends with a decision that is genuinely theirs to make. How it works Your child reads a story set in a familiar world — a school cafeteria, a family home, a swimming pool. At the moment of moral tension, they face 2–3 real choices. No option is cartoonishly right or wrong. The weight of the decision is real. The outcome follows naturally from what they chose. After the story, a Conscience Question asks them to reflect. Then a Real World Quest gives them one concrete action to take this week — in their actual life — to practise the value they just encountered. 12 core values. One story at a time. Every story in BloomValues is anchored to one or two of twelve foundational human values: Courage, Kindness, Honesty, Perseverance, Empathy, Respect, Responsibility, Gratitude, Fairness, Humility, Forgiveness, and Self-Discipline. As your child reads, they build a visible value garden — a growing portrait of their character that changes with every story they complete. Built for ages 5–14 Stories are tagged by depth level so the right story finds the right child: (1 star) Level 1 — Clear choices, direct consequences. Ages 5–10. (2 star) Level 2 — Genuine moral tension. No obviously right answer. Ages 8–13. (3 star) Level 3 — Competing values, real ambiguity. Ages 11–14. For parents — a window into how your child thinks The Parent Dashboard shows you every value your child has explored, every moral choice they made inside a story, and how their character is developing over time. Not as a report card — as a conversation starter. See which values are growing. Notice which choices they tend toward. Use the built-in Conversation Starters to bring what happened in the story into your dinner table. What makes BloomValues different Most apps for children entertain. A few educate. None ask children to make moral decisions and live with the outcome. BloomValues is built around a single belief: that character is formed through repeated experience of moral choice — not through instruction, reward points, or passive consumption. Every story is written with literary care. Every choice is treated with dignity — including the ones a child might regret. Every quest is designed to be doable today, by a real child, in a real life. Features — Branching moral stories written in literary second person — 12 foundational values across all stories — Real World Quest after every story — Value garden that grows with your child — Parent dashboard with choice history and value progress — Stories for ages 5–7, 8–10, 11–13, and 14+ — New stories added regularly without app updates — Available in English. Coming soon in Hindi, Spanish, and Portuguese etc. BloomValues. Teaching kids what the world forgets. Terms of use: https://bloomvalues.github.io/terms Privacy policy: https://bloomvalues.github.io/privacy

Screenshots

Principled Living4 screens
BloomValues4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Principled Living at none against BloomValues's 3. Principled Living also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). 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. BloomValues sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Principled Living asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Principled Living versus BloomValues: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrincipled LivingBloomValues
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.4 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPrincipled Living LLCPankaj Mittal

In-app purchases

None

Principled Living

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

BloomValues

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$5.991 Month
  • Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is Principled Living free?
Principled Living is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BloomValues free?
BloomValues is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Principled Living or BloomValues have ads?
Neither Principled Living nor BloomValues shows ads.

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