Comparison

Think Like Churchill vs Blending Stack

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

Head to head
About

Think Like Churchill

Step into Winston Churchill's shoes and face historical dilemmas. Make critical decisions, analyze your choices with expert psychological insights, and discover the nature of his leadership genius. Explore pivotal moments in history through an engaging graphic novel format.

Highlights
  • Interactive historical dilemmas
  • Expert psychological analysis
  • Graphic novel style presentation
  • Access to historical documents
  • Learn decision-making skills
  • Narrated by Boris Johnson
Features
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Challenge yourself. Challenge your friends. Discover if you can Think Like Churchill. This app lets you stand in the shoes of Winston Churchill as he faces some of the most difficult and challenging dilemmas in history. At the end of each scenario, your choice is dissected and analysed to help you understand how to become a better decision maker. “The story of Winston Churchill’s life shows that one man can make a difference. He wasn’t always right, but his mixture of brains, brawn and guts enabled him to make difficult decisions quickly. This app takes you into his thinking process and helps to reveal the nature of his leadership genius. I have no doubt Churchill would be a man for apps of all kinds.” — Boris Johnson, Mayor of London. CAN YOU THINK LIKE CHURCHILL? Each scenario will immerse you in a different pivotal moment in Churchill’s life. Some dilemmas are personal, some are controversial and some helped shape the fate of the world. You will decide: • Should Britain fight or negotiate with Germany? • Should you press ahead with the Dardanelles campaign at Gallipoli? • Should you order the sinking of the French naval fleet? • Should you risk death and recapture to escape from prison? • Should you learn to fly? Throughout the app you will have access to Churchill’s own thoughts and writings, the advice of friends and colleagues, as well as rare archive material, including intelligence reports, private letters, telegraphs and briefing documents. Once you have made your decision, discover how closely it matches Churchill’s. “Churchill loved new technology and thought innovation led to change. This app is a way of reaching today’s new decision-makers, whether gamers, leaders or entrepreneurs, and giving them a masterclass in Churchillian thinking as well as an appreciation of his legacy.” — Randolph Churchill FEATURES INCLUDE: • Told in the style of a beautifully animated, thrilling graphic novel. • 6 decisions to explore (with more to come) from different parts of Churchill’s life. • Expert psychological analysis to help you learn how to make better decisions. • Narrated by Boris Johnson. • Historically accurate stories. • Featuring over 80 original documents from the Churchill archive, including secret intelligence, personal letters, telegraphs and unique photographs. If you enjoy this app please consider leaving a review. It really helps!

About

Blending Stack

This app helps educators and parents support students with learning differences, like dyslexia, by creating customizable blending stacks. It aids in building decoding skills step-by-step through a structured phoneme progression, suitable for one-on-one or small group instruction.

Highlights
  • Customizable blending stacks
  • Supports CVC to multisyllabic words
  • Structured phoneme progression
  • Step-by-step decoding skill building
  • Ideal for one-on-one instruction
  • Suitable for small group lessons
Features
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**Create customized phonics and decoding practice for every learner.** Blending Stack is a flexible reading instruction tool designed for reading tutors, teachers, interventionists, and homeschool parents. Instead of using the same word lists for every student, create blending stacks that match the exact phonics patterns you're teaching. **CUSTOMIZE YOUR PRACTICE** Choose beginning, middle, and ending patterns to build targeted blending stacks. Practice everything from simple CVC words to more advanced decoding patterns. **SAVE STACKS FOR STUDENTS** Create and save customized stacks for individual students, making it easy to return to specific skills during future lessons. **SHARE PRACTICE WITH FAMILIES** Share blending stacks with parents so students can continue practicing the skills they're learning between tutoring sessions. **DESIGNED FOR STRUCTURED LITERACY** Use Blending Stack during one-on-one tutoring, small-group reading intervention, or homeschool instruction. Its customizable format supports explicit, systematic phonics instruction and targeted decoding practice. **CREATED BY A CERTIFIED DYSLEXIA PRACTITIONER** Blending Stack was developed by Allyson Gardner, a reading tutor and Certified Dyslexia Practitioner, to solve a real instructional challenge: creating individualized blending practice without spending valuable teaching time preparing materials. Whether you're teaching beginning readers or supporting students with dyslexia and other reading difficulties, Blending Stack helps you provide focused practice that matches your student's needs. Choose the patterns. Build the stack. Practice reading.

Screenshots

Think Like Churchill4 screens
Blending Stack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Blending Stack at 5.0 against Think Like Churchill's 4.6. Blending Stack also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 90%) and price ($3.99 vs $4.99). Think Like Churchill's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.2). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Think Like Churchill costs $4.99 and Blending Stack $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Blending Stack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Think Like Churchill has 35 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Think Like Churchill's written reviews are positive against 100% of Blending Stack's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Think Like Churchill ships an update every 10 months, Blending Stack every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Think Like Churchill versus Blending Stack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThink Like ChurchillBlending Stack
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.6 (35 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 9 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size815 MB3 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperNatureGuides Ltd.Kids n Books

Customer experience

Think Like Churchill

All ratings35 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews108 reviews
Positive89.8%
Neutral0.9%
Negative9.3%

Blending Stack

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Think Like Churchill

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App crashes on iPhone 4
  • App crashes on iPad mini 3
  • Long loading screens
  • Text paragraphs cut off on iPad screens
  • Performance issues causing crashes
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  • Incompatibility with older iOS devices

Requested features

10 requests
  • More scenarios and chapters beyond current content
  • Decisions that actually change the story outcome
  • Churchill's own speeches and audio recordings
  • More historical figures (Stalin, Patton, Eisenhower, Napoleon)
  • Complete archival documents (not truncated)
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  • Multi-language support
  • D-Day and post-WWII chapters
  • Churchill's own voice narration
  • Extended gameplay with more decision points
  • Continuation of incomplete sections

Blending Stack

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Think Like Churchill

No in-app purchases

None

Blending Stack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Think Like Churchill free?
Think Like Churchill costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blending Stack free?
Blending Stack costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Think Like Churchill or Blending Stack?
Blending Stack is rated higher. Think Like Churchill averages 4.6 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while Blending Stack averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Think Like Churchill or Blending Stack have ads?
Neither Think Like Churchill nor Blending Stack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Think Like Churchill or Blending Stack?
Think Like Churchill ships an update every 10 months, and Blending Stack every 9 months. Most recently, Think Like Churchill was updated on November 13, 2026 and Blending Stack on November 14, 2026.

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