Comparison

Monster Messenger vs ChatMinder

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

Head to head
About

Monster Messenger

This app provides a secure and engaging platform for children to communicate with friends and family. It allows for sharing photos, voice messages, drawings, and text, all under strict parental control and with a zero-tolerance bullying policy.

Highlights
  • Photo, voice, drawing, and text messaging
  • Cute sticker library
  • Photo personalization
  • Collection pinning and sharing
  • Full parental control
  • Reporting and blocking features
  • Zero-bullying policy
Features
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Monster Messenger is a safe instant messaging app for our little monsters. With Monster Messenger, kids communicate with their friends and family in a safe, fun and creative way! GROW UP WITH LOVE! Monster Messenger enables children and their relatives to exchange all these little daily signs of love and reinforcement that are oh-so important to help children to grow up in harmony and confidence. Sharing with your child a photo, a voice message, a drawing or a short text message gives you instant presence by your child, wherever you are. Your child can also safely communicate with family members and closest friends, because you validate all invitations received, and sent. With Monster Messenger, share all day long with your children what matters most for their growth: your love. Loaded with fun features: ‣ Photos, drawings, voice and text messages ‣ Tons of cute stickers to share ‣ Personalize your photos with stickers, drawings and text! ‣ Pin your favorite pictures to your collection ‣ Discover your friends' collections, like their images and enrich your own collection with the best ones A kid-safe experience: ‣ Full parental control: parents manage their children’s accounts, invitations, have access to their contact lists and can block contacts at any time ‣ Simple one-swipe gesture to report a conversation or to block a user ‣ 0-bullying tolerance policy: we invite children to think twice before sending some inappropriate messages ‣ Kid-safe and kid-appropriate content and behavior only are allowed within the App ‣ Professional trained moderators enforce anti-bullying, safe content and behavior policies ‣ Children (and all users') personal data is covered by a public privacy policy. In plain English: all of your children’s personal information (including conversations) is encrypted and never shared with any third party. One more thing: Monster Messenger is 100% free! :) Monster Messenger is created by eduPad, whose educational apps are already used by 10 million children in 146 countries.

About

ChatMinder

Features
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Helping parents proactively nurture safe communication as children learn to chat online. Includes all the familiar features of any chat app (such as WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger). Safety protection features baked in from the start. - Contact Protection: Approve both incoming and outgoing contact requests. - Message Protection: Choose if incoming or outgoing messages require approval or not and use AI to help moderate those messages. - Real-time Supervision: Real-time notifications, visibility of chats and moderation (approve or reject). - Cross-Platform: Works on mobile devices and in any browser. - AI Safety: Use AI to help moderate messages, ensuring that only messages requiring a human touch are flagged. - Appropriate for all ages: Increase levels of autonomy and trust as children mature. Guardians can create protected user profiles without needing protected users to register. Terms of Use: https://chatminder.app/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: https://chatminder.app/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Monster Messenger4 screens
ChatMinder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ChatMinder at every 9 days against Monster Messenger's every 3 weeks. Monster Messenger's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monster Messenger ships an update every 3 weeks, ChatMinder every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Monster Messenger versus ChatMinder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonster MessengerChatMinder
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (703 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings703 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB121 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCentres RelierMichael Sudnik

In-app purchases

None

Monster Messenger

No in-app purchases

None

ChatMinder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Monster Messenger free?
Monster Messenger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChatMinder free?
ChatMinder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Monster Messenger or ChatMinder have ads?
Neither Monster Messenger nor ChatMinder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Monster Messenger or ChatMinder?
Monster Messenger ships an update every 3 weeks, and ChatMinder every 9 days. Most recently, Monster Messenger was updated on October 15, 2026 and ChatMinder on October 14, 2026.

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