HelloBlink vs Tin Can
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HelloBlink
Easily print your favorite photos, drawings, and images directly from your device to a sticker maker. Select your desired pictures and send them to the printer for instant sticker creation.
- Print photographs
- Print drawings
- Print images
- Image library access
- Select images for printing
- Send images to sticker printer
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This app is for use with the Hello Blink sticker maker and can be used to assist in printing photographs, drawings and images from the apps image library. It will allow the user to choose which images they want to print and then send that image to the sticker printer and have it printed on a sticker.
Tin Can
This app allows parents to manage a screen-free phone designed for children. It enables control over approved contacts, call hours, and call history, ensuring a safe communication experience for kids.
- Approve contacts
- Set call hours
- View call history
- Manage multiple devices
- Share device access
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Tin Can: The Kid Phone That’s All Talk. Remember when phones just made calls? When your best friend’s number lived in your head and your social network was whoever answered the landline? Tin Can brings that freedom back — but for your kid. It’s a screen-free phone that runs on Wi-Fi and only calls approved contacts. No apps. No strangers. No doom scrolling. Just grandparent chats, playdate plans, and “Can I stay five more minutes?” calls. The Tin Can companion app gives parents (and only parents) the behind-the-scenes magic that controls their Tin Can phone: • Approve who they can call (and who can call them) • Set call hours (like bedtime is not party line time) • See call history • Share your Tin Can with friends to grow the crew • Control multiple cans from one place (power move) Tin Can: Built for kids. Approved by the same generation that made prank calls on rotary phones.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HelloBlink at 4.7 against Tin Can's 3.0. HelloBlink also leads on ratings volume (11K vs 105) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). Tin Can's advantage is chart position (#10 vs unranked). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HelloBlink holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HelloBlink has 11K ratings behind it against 105, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of HelloBlink's written reviews are positive against 71% of Tin Can's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HelloBlink ships an update fortnightly, Tin Can every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HelloBlink | Tin Can |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (11K ratings) — better | 3.0 (105 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.5% of reviews | 70.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 105 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #10 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Yihengke Electronic Technology Co.,Ltd. | Tin Can |
Customer experience
HelloBlink
Tin Can
Bugs and requests
HelloBlink
Reported bugs
4 issues- Printer not connecting
- App freezing on print screen
- Gallery not loading
- Unresponsive buttons
Requested features
3 requests- More design options
- Improved app stability
- Better troubleshooting steps
Tin Can
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HelloBlink
No in-app purchases
Tin Can
No in-app purchases







