Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame vs NSE Panthers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame
This bilingual app helps young children develop essential life skills like problem-solving, self-control, and planning. Through interactive activities and playful animations, children learn a "Breathe, Think, Do" strategy to manage everyday challenges and emotions.
- Problem-solving activities
- Self-control techniques
- Planning and task persistence
- Bilingual (English/Spanish)
- Interactive animations
- Parent resources
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This is a resource app for you to share with your child to help teach skills such as problem solving, self-control, planning, and task persistence. Laugh and learn as you help a Sesame Street monster friend calm down and solve everyday challenges. This bilingual (English and Spanish), research-based app helps your child learn Sesame’s “Breathe, Think, Do” strategy for problem-solving. Tap and touch to help the monster friend take deep breaths, think of plans, and try them out! Your child will enjoy silly animations and playful interactions as she is exposed to important emotional vocabulary, a calm breathing technique, personalized encouragements, and more! Features: • Explore five interactive activities with a unique, everyday challenge • Tap, pop bubbles, and more to help the monster breathe, think, and do to solve problems and feel better • Personalize encouraging phrases that your child will hear as they help the monster think of a plan • ”Breathe with the Monster” activity to help children practice taking deep breaths to calm down • Robust Parent Section with great resources for navigating everyday challenges with your young child Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame is intended for parents and caregivers to use with their young children (ages 2-5). This app is part of Sesame Street’s Little Children, Big Challenges initiative, which aims to provide tools to help children build skills for resilience, and overcome everyday challenges and more stressful situations and transitions. You can access other Sesame Street resilience materials online at sesamestreet.org/challenges About Us: Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit educational organization that revolutionized children’s media with the landmark Sesame Street. Learn more at www.sesameworkshop.org
NSE Panthers
Stay connected with your school community through this app. Access important news, interactive resources like event calendars, and quick links to online school information.
- School news updates
- Interactive event calendars
- Access to online resources
- Stay connected with school
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The NSE Panthers app enables parents, students, teachers and administrators to quickly access the resources, tools, news and information to stay connected and informed! The NSE Panthers app features: - Important news from your school - Interactive resources including event calendars and more - Quick access to online resources
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NSE Panthers at 4.7 against Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame's 3.8. NSE Panthers also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 8 months). Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame's advantage is ratings volume (149 vs 3) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
NSE Panthers holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame has 149 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame ships an update every 8 months, NSE Panthers every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame | NSE Panthers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (149 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 149 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 383 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sesame Workshop (Apps) | Livingston Parish School District |
Customer experience
Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame
NSE Panthers
Bugs and requests
Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame
Reported bugs
10 issues- Constant crashing
- App freezes
- App won't start
- App closes spontaneously
- Volume issues (too low or not working)
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- Stuck on loading screen
- App not working on certain devices
- Buttons not locking, causing crashes
- App stops working after updates
- Refuses to download updates or re-download
Requested features
8 requests- More levels or scenarios
- More content and updates
- Fix bugs and improve stability
- Improve volume levels
- Add dark mode
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- More examples of monster getting upset and finding solutions
- Less 'ask an adult for help' prompts, more child-led solutions
- Content adjustment for teacher-child interactions (hugs)
NSE Panthers
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Breathe, Think, Do with Sesame
No in-app purchases
NSE Panthers
No in-app purchases
Questions
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