Comparison

Bestie vs Temper text app

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

Head to head
About

Bestie

This app helps you understand modern relationships and text conversations. Get insights into what people really mean and receive suggestions for replies that match your energy, reducing overthinking.

Highlights
  • Decode text messages
  • Get reply suggestions
  • Advice for dating and friendships
  • Gain emotional clarity
  • Stop overthinking conversations
Features
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Bestie helps you make sense of texts, situationships, and the social chaos that comes with modern relationships—so you always know what to say (and what’s really going on). Whether you're decoding a late-night “wyd,” trying to figure out if he’s losing interest, or just want help texting back, Bestie gives you honest insights and replies that match your energy. What Bestie helps with: – Understanding what he really means in texts – Reply suggestions based on vibe, tone & intention – Advice for dating, friendship drama, and situationships – A place to vent, get clarity, and stop overthinking Built for real-life conversations. Designed for emotional clarity. Interpreted with bestie energy. Terms of Service: https://about.askbestie.app/Terms-of-Service-22ddf6f28b73817b887edf1b1383b6d9 Privacy Policy: https://about.askbestie.app/Privacy-Policy-22ddf6f28b7381efb9eee7bdd173ce09

About

Temper text app

Features
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Welcome to Temper, a deliberately simple app and iMessages extension that helps you soften reactive text messages before sending them and decode hurtful texts you receive from others. It uses AI to reframe texts to be constructive, relational, and respectful. It’s for those few seconds right at the beginning of a text fight when you have enough presence of mind to recognize that you should shut up but not enough self-control to actually shut up. If you can open Temper during those few precious seconds of self-awareness, you have a shot at diverting things onto a more constructive path. The name of the app comes from the Old English temprian and Latin temperare—to mix in due proportion, to moderate. In metalworking, to temper steel is to heat it and cool it carefully, transforming brittleness into resilience. The name suggests the same process applied to emotion: bringing reactive heat under control to produce something stronger and more considered. The app is optimized to make the text tempering process as easy as possible: • The “temper” button constructively reframes an angry text you’re about to send, then with one click pastes it into your text thread. • The “decode” button constructively interprets the hurt feelings beneath your fight-partner’s angry text, giving the message back to you in a form that’s easier to hear. It also suggests a constructive reply that you can easily one-click into the thread. • The “request a pause” button copies over to your thread a pre-written request for a time-out for 20, 30, 45, or 60 minutes and also activates an alert on your phone to remind you to reconnect at the end of the time-out. When we’re flooded with stress hormones, we’re already in a space of automatic response. Temper is designed to take one form of very destructive automaticity and allow you to choose, by opening the app and pushing the button, to replace it with another form of automaticity that’s carefully designed to do less harm (and maybe even some good). That’s it. Open the app or the iMessages extension. Write or copy in a message, let it reframe or decode, and send a de-escalatory text back. Maybe take a breather.

Screenshots

Bestie3 screens
Temper text app2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Temper text app at none against Bestie's 7. Temper text app also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Bestie's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Bestie sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Temper text app asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Temper text app holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bestie has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Bestie versus Temper text app: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBestieTemper text app
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (14 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings14 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperUncovered LabsEm Karimifar

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Bestie

Subscriptions7
  • Weekly Subscription$6.997 Days
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$14.991 Month
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  • Yearly Subscription$19.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription$29.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription1 Month trial$29.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

Temper text app

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bestie free?
Bestie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Temper text app free?
Temper text app is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bestie or Temper text app?
Temper text app is rated higher. Bestie averages 4.6 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Temper text app averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Bestie or Temper text app have ads?
Neither Bestie nor Temper text app shows ads.

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