Calm Glitter Jar vs Bloople
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calm Glitter Jar
A digital sensory experience designed for relaxation and mindfulness. Shake, stir, and watch the glitter settle to unlock charms and discover a peaceful escape. Enjoy a customizable, ad-free environment for moments of calm.
- Shake and stir digital glitter
- Collect 33 illustrated charms
- Unlock 9 glitter colors
- Customize glitter amount and flake size
- Choose between midnight and daylight themes
- Zen mode for full-screen immersion
- Gentle harp score or ad-free silence
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Glitter Jar is a pocket of quiet: a glass jar full of glitter that you stir, shake, and then simply watch. Trace a finger across the glass to stir. Give your phone a real shake to slosh everything up. Then comes the good part — be still. The flecks drift, sparkle, and settle, and the jar quietly notices your calm. There is no score, no streak, no timer, and nothing to fail. As the glitter settles, charms unlock on their own unhurried schedule. • 33 illustrated jewel-enamel charms to collect, common to ultra rare • 9 glitter colors, granted at milestones along the way • and the collection is said to hold a secret… Set the glitter amount and flake size, add water for a slower, dreamier fall, choose how much it twinkles, and pick your mood: a midnight theme washed in indigo and stars, or a daylight theme in blush and lavender — each with its own matching art. When you want nothing but jar, zen mode fills the screen edge to edge. Underneath it all, a gentle harp score rises and falls with the glitter — or switch it off and let the sparkle keep its own quiet. Calm by construction. • no ads, no accounts, no notifications • charms and colors unlock just by watching the glitter settle • your jar lives on your device — nothing about you is collected or sent anywhere Reach for it as a fidget for restless hands, a wind-down before sleep, or a small ritual between one thing and the next. Every shake ends the same way: slowly, gently, and with a little more unlocked. Complete and quiet by design. Open the lid whenever you need a moment.
Bloople
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Some buttons are just asking to be pressed. Bloople is a pocket-sized fidget toy for your iPhone, with colorful 3D controls, satisfying sounds, and clicks you can feel. Press the big red button. Glide around the purple dial. Slide through the blue notches. Flip the green switch. Give the yellow rollers a spin. Each one has its own feel, with haptic feedback and sound tuned to every movement.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bloople at none against Calm Glitter Jar's 4. Calm Glitter Jar's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Calm Glitter Jar sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Bloople asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Calm Glitter Jar | Bloople |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Groundmass | Cynthia Chen |
In-app purchases
Calm Glitter Jar
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Halloween Charms$2.99
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- Large Tip$4.99
Bloople
No in-app purchases









