Comparison

DotDot Tasks vs Bloomling

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

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DotDot Tasks

Features
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Tasks earn stars. Stars earn rewards you agreed on. Plus: Travel Memories, Growth Tracking, Voice Diary. No accounts. No ads or cross-app tracking. Syncs via iCloud. DotDot Tasks turns your family's daily routine into a star-earning adventure. Parents assign the tasks, kids check them off, and every approved task earns stars to spend in the family reward shop. Beyond tasks, it keeps the little things of childhood: the places you've been, how they've grown, and what they had to say. TRAVEL MEMORIES: THE PLACES YOU'VE BEEN, AND HOW OLD THEY WERE - Start a trip and pick a few photos; the app finds where they were taken and sorts them into places - Every place becomes a photo sticker on a soft world map, or browse your trips on a timeline - Each place gets a memory stamp with the place name, the date, and how old each child was - Add a one-line memory and note your child's firsts: first whale shark, first flight - Photos without location data (screenshots, forwarded pictures) can be placed by hand - Family sharing: the other parent joins with your family code, and trips, places and photos sync via iCloud. Photos move over Wi-Fi only by default - No photo library or location permission needed. Shared travel data lives in the share owner's iCloud; anyone signed in to iCloud with the link can join and read/write it GROWTH TRACKING: WATCH THEM GROW UP - Log height and weight; BMI is worked out for you - See your child on the WHO growth curves and percentiles for their age - Changes since last month and over the past six months, laid out clearly - Each child has a chart of their own VOICE DIARY: YOUR KID'S OWN VOICE, KEPT - Tap once and start talking; speech becomes text as they speak, no typing needed - Add photos and pick today's mood to finish the entry - The original recording is kept, so years from now you can still hear how they sounded - Parents can export the whole diary as a backup: audio, photos, and an offline album web page - Speech recognition runs on the device; diaries stay on your device and your own iCloud THE KID SIDE - Tap to finish daily tasks and earn stars - Fireworks celebration when everything is approved - Spend stars in the reward shop you set up together - Level up the growth tree, keep streaks, and earn badges THE PARENT SIDE - Assign tasks by weekday, difficulty and star value - Review and approve with one tap, or return it for another try - Promises: when behavior slips, take a few stars, then let a make-up task earn them right back. Levels and badges never go backwards - Weekly and monthly summaries at a glance - Four interface styles: kids pick Doodle (the default), Candy Stickers or Storybook, and parents can also choose Classic. Everyone sets their own - Sync across devices. The other parent joins with your family code and, once the phone that created the family allows it, changes from both sides sync to the whole family, even with different Apple IDs PRIVACY FIRST - No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs - Family snapshots (no PIN, photos or diaries) are in the app's iCloud public database and readable with the family code. The snapshot's travel link lets signed-in iCloud users join and read/write photos and locations. Share codes and links only with people you trust - The parent PIN is stored only as a salted hash and is never shared with the other parent - Photos use the system picker only, so the app needs no photo library access Big touch targets let kids as young as 4 check off tasks on their own. For iPhone and iPad. Built by a parent, for parents.

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Bloomling

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Bloomling is one warm little garden with three things inside: 11 logic puzzles made by the developer, a set of fully offline learning activities, and a walled-garden web area you control - only the pages you hand-pick can open, and everything else is gently blocked. HAND-MADE LOGIC PUZZLES (NO ADS, NO SIGN-IN) • Slide Puzzle, Ball Sort, Tower of Hanoi, Pipe Flow, Shape Bridge, Push the Boxes, Car Trip, Rolling King, Matchstick Math, Smart Squares, Marble Run • 50-120 levels each, from gentle to tricky, every one machine-verified to be solvable; Easy mode hints the next move and every move can be taken back • They train spatial reasoning, cause and effect, debugging and number sense - not reaction speed • One card per game, ready to play; no in-app purchases inside the games, no lucky draws, no timers BUILT-IN LEARNING ACTIVITIES (OFFLINE, NO NETWORK NEEDED) • Math Tutor: generates arithmetic questions and reads them aloud; answer by voice or by tapping. Voice is recognized entirely on-device - audio is never uploaded or stored • Story Machine: original bundled stories, narrated entirely with on-device speech • Read-Along: follow along sentence by sentence, in English and Chinese All three sit right at the top of the home screen the moment the app opens - no setup required. THE WALLED-GARDEN WEB AREA • Strict allow-list: only the exact URLs you add will open - even other pages on the same domain stay blocked (the one exception is the developer's own Puzzle Garden, where the child can move between games and tap Back) • No search box, no address bar, no outbound links - tapping anything outside your list just shows "Ask a grown-up for this page" • YouTube videos and playlists, and single Instagram posts: embedded in a locked, distraction-free view you can't navigate out of • Parent settings behind a gate: adding / editing / deleting / reordering sites requires solving a multiplication problem, or entering a 4-digit passcode you set • Adding a card is quick: paste a URL and see a green check (tap it to preview), a red cross or a duplicate warning right away; the card name can be filled in from the page title or typed by hand TOOLS FOR PARENTS • Groups: sort web cards into groups you name; each group is its own section on the home screen, and the order of the sections (including Today's Activities) can be rearranged by drag and drop • Per-weekday scheduling: choose which days of the week each card and activity appears • Usage review: see which pages were opened and for how long, by day, week or month - stored only on the device • Clear browsing data: wipe the cache and website data left by the web area in one tap • Cross-device setup: configure on another device, then send it over via AirDrop or the same Wi-Fi - no Apple account, no cloud • Export the list as a plain-text file (.md), edit and group it on a Mac with any editor, then import it back • Text editor: the whole web list as one page of text - copy it all as a backup, or paste a list and save • One app for iPhone and iPad YOU CAN RELAX • 100% ad-free • No third-party analytics, ad, or tracking SDKs (all Apple-native) • Collects no personal data; all settings and records stay only on your device • Every feature costs nothing and there is no paywall; the only purchase is an optional tip jar in the grown-ups area, and it unlocks nothing Offline learning activities, plus one little garden you trust - explore with peace of mind.

Screenshots

DotDot Tasks4 screens
Bloomling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DotDot Tasks at none against Bloomling's 3. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Bloomling sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. DotDot Tasks asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DotDot Tasks ships an update every 8 days, Bloomling every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
DotDot Tasks versus Bloomling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotDot TasksBloomling
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaochiao WengRUEI YI WU

In-app purchases

None

DotDot Tasks

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Bloomling

One-time3
  • Small Coffee$0.99
  • Medium Coffee$4.99
  • Large Coffee$9.99

Questions

Is DotDot Tasks free?
DotDot Tasks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bloomling free?
Bloomling is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DotDot Tasks or Bloomling have ads?
Neither DotDot Tasks nor Bloomling shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DotDot Tasks or Bloomling?
DotDot Tasks ships an update every 8 days, and Bloomling every 11 days. Most recently, DotDot Tasks was updated on October 11, 2026 and Bloomling on October 24, 2026.

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