BlossomUp IQ test reviewed: the report fee, the 7 day trial and what the score rests on
BlossomUp sells an IQ quiz whose terms of service name a 1.95 dollar report fee, a 7 day trial and a paid plan that starts on the 8th day unless you cancel. This review reads those terms as they stood in an archived copy of October 6, 2026, prices a year, quotes the cancel and refund wording, and separates what is documented about the score from what is only asserted.
This is a generic photograph and not a BlossomUp screen; the BlossomUp landing page in an Internet Archive capture of July 15, 2025 carried the label 5 min quiz.
0 The short answer
The BlossomUp IQ test is a quiz sold by Transcend Labs LLC, doing business as BlossomUp, and its terms of service say that a one time report fee (1.95 dollars in the terms’ example) unlocks the result, starts a 7 day trial and is followed on the 8th day by a paid plan (29.95 dollars a month in the terms’ example) unless you cancel. The same terms call the service as a whole "purely for entertainment and general information purposes" and say any results "should not be considered accurate or comprehensive assessments", and no page we could read states how many questions the IQ quiz has, which abilities it samples or which population its score is compared with. Treat it as a curiosity purchase that needs a cancellation reminder, and choose a test with a published manual and a one time price if you want a number you can rely on.
DisclosureACIS sells a competing paid IQ assessment, so we have a commercial interest in how this page reads, and a reader should weigh it that way. We did not register with BlossomUp, pay it or take its test. On October 20, 2026 the public BlossomUp test pages returned a not found page to us, so every BlossomUp term below comes from an Internet Archive copy of its terms of service captured on October 6, 2026, from one Internet Archive copy of its IQ landing page captured on July 15, 2025, or from public review pages that are linked, which we read through a page summarizing tool and not as raw pages, so counts and tallies are stated as read and some are approximate. We never saw the live offer page or checkout, and we say where that limits a statement.
1.95 dollars
The one time premium report fee named in BlossomUp's terms of service, mostly as an example (archived copy of October 6, 2026), which the terms call non-refundable.
7 days
The length of the discounted trial in the same terms, after which a paid plan, given as 29.95 dollars a month in the terms’ example, starts on the 8th day unless canceled.
361.35 dollars
The 12 month total if that plan is never canceled, our arithmetic on the terms’ example prices and a monthly cycle: 1.95 dollars plus 12 charges of 29.95 dollars, against 50 dollars for the ACIS Full Scale form.
1 Which BlossomUp Is This, and Why Could We Not Open Its Test Pages?
The BlossomUp that sells this test is the service at blossomup.co, which its terms attribute to Transcend Labs LLC, and on October 20, 2026 every public test page we tried returned a not found page, so this review rests on dated archived copies and not on the live checkout. The addresses we tried for the IQ quiz were blossomup.co/lp/iq-test/, funn.blossomup.co/quiz/fiq/ and app.blossomup.co. We requested each of them twice on October 20, 2026, once with an automated request and once in a browser pane, and each time the page said that it could not find the page, with links only to Contact Us, Privacy Policy and Terms And Conditions. The automated requests to the quiz addresses received the HTTP status 403, the app address first redirected to the main site, and the browser pane showed the same message. The old terms address, blossomup.co/terms-and-conditions/, redirected to blossomup.co/terms-of-service/, which showed the same message. We do not know why. A regional gate, a campaign that has ended, a retired page and a bot filter would all produce what we saw, and we have no evidence for any of them. We did not try to get around the block, and we did not register, pay or take the test.
What we could read is the terms of service in the copy the Internet Archive captured on October 6, 2026, which says on its face "Last Updated: June 24, 2026". It states that the site "is an Internet property of Transcend Labs LLC d/b/a BlossomUp", and the legal block at the foot of that copy gives the company a street address in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The terms set the minimum age at 18 and state that the agreement contains a class action waiver and a requirement to arbitrate claims, which matters if you ever dispute a charge, although we are not giving legal advice. The terms also name a help center form and a support email as the places to send cancellation and refund requests.
One naming point helps a reader who is tracing a charge. The terms give the operator’s address in Albuquerque, New Mexico, while the Trustpilot profile for blossomup.co shows no business address, only a country, an email and a website, so the terms are the better place to find the company’s details. If you are looking for the source of a charge, the receipt email, the card statement and the terms are the three documents to compare. The page on paid IQ test billing models explains how other sellers structure the same kind of offer.
2 What Is the BlossomUp IQ Test, According to the Pages We Could Read?
The pages we could read describe BlossomUp as a personality and relationship quiz platform that also offers an IQ quiz, and none of them states how many questions the IQ quiz has, what abilities it samples or which population its score is compared with. The terms describe the paid account as giving access to the results of a "Love Language" quiz, personalized relationship challenges, a partner compatibility analysis and additional features, and a later clause says the service provides online tools and content "including IQ and personality tests". Some Trustpilot reviewers mention personality or EQ tests next to the IQ test, which fits a catalogue in which the IQ quiz is one product among several. A company reply posted to a Trustpilot review says the payment for results includes a 7 day trial of its personal growth platform, so the company describes what follows the report fee as a trial of a growth platform. The same terms list "personal growth challenges, and premium features accessible via subscription plans", and the example in section 6.4 calls the plan "monthly access to premium tests", so we cannot say what a plan contains.
For the IQ quiz itself, the only page we could read is an Internet Archive capture of the IQ landing page from July 15, 2025, more than a year old. Its visible text was a headline reading "Discover Your IQ Score", a prompt to choose a gender to start, and the label "5 min quiz". Reviewers in October 2026 describe the test in general terms. On the Trustpilot view filtered to the word IQ, the first ten reviews, all five stars, include the words thorough, intense and accurate, and two of them report a score of 134. A one star reviewer in the one star view of the same filter also reports 134 and says the test is not validated. Reported scores on both sides say nothing about what the number means, and we use them only to show that the quiz produces a figure that buyers treat as their IQ.
What we could and could not documentThe table separates what a page states from what we found absent. An absence means the pages we could read did not say it, not that BlossomUp lacks it. The live IQ page and offer page were not reachable to us, and the footer of the terms lists a Subscription and Cancellation Policy and a Refund Policy that we also could not read.
Item
What we found
Where, read October 20, 2026
Operator
Transcend Labs LLC d/b/a BlossomUp
Terms of service, archive copy of October 6, 2026
Product family
Love language, personality and IQ quizzes, with a paid account
Terms of service
Test label on landing page
"Discover Your IQ Score"
Landing page, archive copy of July 15, 2025
Advertised length
"5 min quiz"
Landing page, archive copy of July 15, 2025
Number of questions
Not found
None of the pages we could read
Abilities sampled
Not found
None of the pages we could read
Norm group or sample
Not found
None of the pages we could read
Reliability or validity study
Not found
None of the pages we could read
Minimum age
18
Terms of service
Stated purpose of the service
Entertainment and general information
Terms of service
3 What Does the BlossomUp IQ Test Cost on October 20, 2026?
BlossomUp's terms do not publish a price list: they name a 1.95 dollar report fee and a 29.95 dollar monthly plan, mostly with the label "e.g.", and say the billing terms appear on an offer page before purchase, which we could not open. Section 6.3 of the terms says a "premium test report generated through the Service during the trial period requires a one-time payment (e.g., [1.95 dollars]), distinct from the trial or subscription fees, solely for immediate delivery of your test results". The same section says a discounted trial converts "to a paid plan at full price (e.g., [29.95 dollars]/month) unless canceled before the end date". The brackets replace the dollar sign, which this page does not print in body text. The abbreviation "e.g." means the figures illustrate the structure and are not guaranteed prices. A few clauses name the figures without it, such as the overview of section 6, which mentions "the non-refundable [1.95 dollars] premium report charge", and section 6.10, which mentions "the first [29.95 dollars] charge after the trial ends"; we read those as the same example amounts. Section 6.2 says billing terms "are displayed on the Site’s offer page before purchase, including total price, recurring charges, and cancellation rights".
Public reviews quote other amounts, which suggests that the figures vary by country and by offer. On the one star view of the Trustpilot profile, reviewers who give pound amounts describe paying about 1 pound or 1.95 pounds and then a charge of about 25 pounds. Reviewers who give euro amounts describe a first payment of about 1.89 or 1.99 euros and a later charge of about 30 euros. One reviewer says a small first payment was followed by a 30 dollar charge, and another, in the one star view filtered to IQ, reports an automatic payment of 49 dollars a month. We attribute each of these to its reviewer, and we have not seen the receipts. The point for a buyer is that the number printed on your own offer page, in your own currency, is the one to read, since the terms tie recurring fees to "the price agreed upon at signup", and the terms say prices, refund policies and billing methods may change with "at least 30 days’ notice via email, or as required by state law".
Item
What the terms say, archive copy of October 6, 2026
What reviewers report, October 2026
Premium report fee
1.95 dollars given as an example; one time; described as non-refundable except where law requires
About 1 to 2 in local currency; some say it was not disclosed before they paid
Trial
A 7 day discounted trial is named as an example of the Initial Period and as something a subscription "may include"
Some describe a later charge within days or about a week of the first payment
Plan after the trial
29.95 dollars a month given as an example, "starting on the 8th day unless canceled"
Amounts of about 25 pounds, 29.99 or 30 euros, 30 dollars and 49 dollars per charge or per month, each reported by individual reviewers
Billing period
"Weekly, monthly" given as examples, set in the purchase confirmation
One reviewer reports 25 pounds for a 4 week autorenewal, and one company reply describes the plan as continuing every 4 weeks
Currency and tax
Prices exclude sales tax in the United States; VAT is included for EEA and UK users
Not discussed in the reviews we read
The company has also published its own explanation. In replies to Trustpilot reviews it says the payment for results includes a trial of the growth platform, that the recurring terms are given during checkout and in the purchase confirmation, and that taking the assessment is free while the full results are part of its premium offering. We read those replies as the company’s account of its own offer, and we cannot confirm what a given buyer saw on a given screen. The page on how much an IQ test costs lists what other routes charge, and the page on free versus validated IQ tests explains why a low first price is not a statement about the product.
4 How Does the 7 Day Trial Turn Into a Subscription?
According to the terms, paying the report fee also starts a 7 day trial, the trial converts to a paid plan on the 8th day unless you cancel, and no separate end of trial notice is promised. Section 6.3 says subscriptions "may include a 7-day discounted trial, converting to a paid plan at full price" and that "No separate end-of-trial notice is sent unless mandated by applicable law." Section 6.5 says automatic charges are as outlined in the transaction receipt, "with reminders of terms and cancellation processes provided", and does not say when a reminder is given. Section 6.4 says the plan is charged in advance "for as long as that subscription remains active", and that you agree BlossomUp "will not obtain any additional authorization from you for the applicable Recurring Fees." Section 2.4 says a buyer must give affirmative consent to the recurring billing terms, with a checkbox reading "I agree to the recurring billing terms" given as the example. We did not see the checkbox, so we cannot say whether one appears on the offer page, how prominent it is or what it links to.
The sequence below is our reading of those sections. It uses the terms’ own examples and the day counts they state, and a buyer’s actual dates come from the purchase confirmation email that the terms say carries the subscription details.
When
What the terms say happens
Section
Day 0, at payment
The one time premium report fee is paid, the report is delivered at once and the 7 day trial starts
6.3
Days 1 to 7
Canceling "during discounted trials or promotions" ends access immediately
6.9
Day 8
The paid plan starts "on the 8th day unless canceled", at a price given as 29.95 dollars a month
6.3
Day 8
No separate end of trial notice is sent unless a law requires one
6.3
Each billing period after
The plan renews at the frequency on the offer page, "weekly, monthly" being the examples given
6.1, 6.4
After canceling a paid plan
Access continues until the current billing period ends
6.9
Price changes
At least 30 days notice by email, effective on the next scheduled payment
6.6
Two features of this structure deserve a plain statement. The first is that the report fee and the plan are separate charges for separate things. The terms call the fee payment "solely for immediate delivery of your test results" and say it is "distinct from the trial or subscription fees", so canceling the plan does not reverse the fee, and the fee does not pay for any month of the plan. The second is that the terms list personal growth challenges and premium features among what the service provides, the company’s replies call what follows the report fee a trial of its personal growth platform, and the example in section 6.4 calls the plan "monthly access to premium tests", so a buyer who wanted only an IQ number should check on the offer page what the plan contains. Whether that content is worth a monthly price is the buyer’s judgment. The page on how paid IQ tests bill compares the structures sellers use, and the page on IQ test apps covers how store subscriptions differ from a web payment.
5 What Does a Year of BlossomUp Cost Compared With a One Time Test?
Using the terms’ own example prices, a buyer who cancels inside the trial pays 1.95 dollars and a buyer who never cancels pays 361.35 dollars in 12 months if the plan renews monthly, or 391.30 dollars if it renews every 4 weeks, while each ACIS form costs 15, 30 or 50 dollars once. The table is our arithmetic on the example figures in section 6.3 of the terms and not a published BlossomUp price list. It assumes the first plan charge on day 8 and one charge for each month after, so 12 plan charges fall inside the first 12 months. It excludes sales tax, currency conversion and any price BlossomUp may set for your account. If your offer page shows a different plan price, replace 29.95 dollars with it and multiply the same way. One company reply on Trustpilot describes the plan as continuing every 4 weeks, and one reviewer reports a 4 week autorenewal; on that cycle, with the first charge on day 8, 13 plan charges fall inside 365 days, which gives the last BlossomUp row of the table.
Scenario
Charges
12 month total
BlossomUp, cancel before the trial ends
1.95 dollars report fee
1.95 dollars
BlossomUp, cancel after the first plan charge
1.95 plus 1 charge of 29.95
31.90 dollars
BlossomUp, cancel after 3 plan charges
1.95 plus 3 charges of 29.95
91.80 dollars
BlossomUp, cancel after 6 plan charges
1.95 plus 6 charges of 29.95
181.65 dollars
BlossomUp, never cancel, monthly cycle
1.95 plus 12 charges of 29.95
361.35 dollars
BlossomUp, never cancel, 4 week cycle
1.95 plus 13 charges of 29.95
391.30 dollars
ACIS Quick form, 6 subtests, about 45 minutes
One payment
15 dollars
ACIS Optimized form, 13 subtests, about 110 minutes
One payment
30 dollars
ACIS Full Scale form, 20 subtests, about 175 minutes
One payment
50 dollars
The ACIS prices were read on the ACIS home page on October 20, 2026 and can change. Two comparisons are fair and one is not. It is fair to say that a buyer who cancels in time pays less at BlossomUp than for any ACIS form, and that a buyer who forgets pays several times more than the most expensive ACIS form. It is not fair to say the two buy the same thing. The BlossomUp fee buys a quiz labeled in 2025 as a 5 minute quiz, and the ACIS forms buy 45 to 175 minutes of testing across several cognitive domains, so a price comparison that ignored that difference would flatter us. The page on what an IQ test costs by route places both in the wider range.
6 How Do You Cancel BlossomUp, According to Its Own Terms?
The terms give three ways to cancel, an online My Account option, a help center request and an email, and they say access ends immediately if you cancel during a trial. Section 6.9 says "You may cancel your subscription at any time via the “My Account” cancellation option on the Site, by submitting a request through our Help Center, or by emailing" a support address. It adds that a confirmation email with a cancellation number is sent when you cancel through the help center or by email, and that for "cancellations during discounted trials or promotions, access ends immediately". The footer of the archived terms page lists a "Cancel Subscription" link that points to a page on the app subdomain, which we could not open, and a separate Subscription and Cancellation Policy that we could not read either. The archived July 2025 landing page also carried a Cancel link in its footer, and a company reply on Trustpilot points a reviewer to the Cancel button in the website footer, which it says does not require a login. The steps below are therefore the terms’ steps and not a walkthrough of the screens.
A practical sequence follows from those words. If you want only the report, save or screenshot the result before you cancel, because the terms say a trial cancellation ends access at once and do not say whether the delivered report stays available afterward. Then cancel on the day you pay, since the plan is the part that renews. Use the My Account route first, since the terms describe a confirmation email with a cancellation number only for the help center and email routes. Keep the confirmation, or take a screenshot of the cancellation screen. If you use the help center or email, keep the cancellation number. Then check your card statement 8 to 10 days later to confirm that no plan charge appeared. The terms state that refunds may be issued for cancellations made before the Initial Period ends, at the company’s discretion, so cancellation timing affects what you can ask for, as the next section shows.
Customers describe the cancellation experience in different ways, and we report only what the pages we opened show. On the Trustpilot view filtered to the word cancel, read on October 20, 2026, the first eight reviews were split between negative and positive. One one star reviewer says closing the account asked for more personal details than signing up did. Another says they tried twice and were told to confirm by email. A third says they could not cancel. A five star reviewer says they forgot to cancel and support refunded them within about five hours. Another five star reviewer advises others to cancel after the trial to avoid a charge of about 29.99 euros. A company reply on that view says that a subscription not canceled in the trial period continues as a paid service. One review in a different filtered view says the company asked for identity documents. We have no way to verify any individual account, and these eight are not a sample of all reviews.
7 What Do the Refund Terms Say, and What Does the Timing Mean for a Buyer?
The terms call the report fee non-refundable for all users except where law requires, treat subscription refunds as a matter of local law, stated promotions or company discretion, and require requests within 7 days of purchase, a window that sits next to the 8th day on which the plan starts. The wording is in section 6.11, with the regional rules in section 6.10 and the chargeback rule in section 6.12. The table gives each in the terms’ words or a close paraphrase, and the quoted figures have the dollar sign replaced by "dollars" in brackets.
Item
What the terms say
Section
Report fee
"The one-time premium report fee (e.g., [1.95 dollars]) for test results is non-refundable for all Users", and section 6.3 says "except where required by law"
6.11, 6.3
Subscription fees, general rule for other users
"subscription fees are non-refundable unless required by state law" and other named laws, or at the company’s discretion; refunds are also available under section 6.10 and "where explicitly stated in promotional terms"
6.11
Window to ask
"Refund requests for subscriptions must be submitted within 7 days of purchase" for most users, 14 days for users in the EEA and UK, with supporting evidence, through the help center or by email
6.11
Processing
Refunds "are processed within 14 days of approval, subject to review"
6.11
Canceling before the Initial Period ends
Refunds of subscription fees "may be issued", at the company’s discretion
6.9
California residents
A 3 business day cancellation right counted from agreeing to the terms, by a signed, dated notice, with a refund of subscription charges already paid and not the report fee
6.10
EEA and UK residents
A 14 day withdrawal right for the subscription, and a waiver of that right for the report fee when the buyer consents at checkout to immediate delivery
6.10, 6.3
Disputing with your card issuer
The buyer agrees to ask BlossomUp for a refund first, "unless such a requirement is prohibited by applicable law"
6.12
A timing ambiguity we could not resolveThe terms say refund requests must be made within 7 days of purchase and also say the plan starts on the 8th day. If purchase means the day you pay the report fee, a request about the first plan charge would fall outside the window, and the California paragraph supports counting from signup, since it says its 3 day period starts at signup and not at the first plan charge. If purchase means the date of each charge, the window would run from the charge. The terms do not say which reading BlossomUp applies, and the Refund Policy page named in the footer, which might say, was not reachable to us. A buyer with a charge should therefore ask for the refund at once, in writing, and keep the dated message.
The practical weight of these terms is in the order of events. A buyer who notices the plan charge only when it appears, around day 8, may already be at or past the window as the terms count it, and the terms promise no reminder. That is a statement about the terms and not about any buyer’s outcome. Some reviewers report refunds and some report unanswered requests, and we cannot weigh them. For a charge you did not expect, the sensible order is to cancel, request the refund in writing citing the date, and only then contact your card issuer, which is also the order the terms ask for. The page on accurate IQ tests carries a short checklist for what to confirm before paying any seller.
8 What Is the BlossomUp IQ Score Based On, and What Does the Company Say About It?
BlossomUp does not document what its IQ score rests on in any page we could read, and its own terms describe the service as a whole as entertainment whose results "should not be considered accurate or comprehensive assessments". That is the company’s wording in the disclaimer section of the terms, which also says the service is "intended for personal use only and not for business, education, or employment purposes" and is not a tool for diagnosing or evaluating mental health or personality traits. The disclaimer does not name the IQ quiz, and a more specific line limits reliance on the results as an assessment of psychological well-being or personality, so we read it as applying to the service as a whole and not as a statement about the IQ number in particular. Those statements are still plain and they matter. They place the service, as the terms describe it, in the category of entertainment, and a buyer who treats the IQ number as a measurement should know that the seller’s own disclaimer points the other way. In a reply to one reviewer the company says its assessment "may not meet everyone’s expectations of what constitutes a formal IQ test", and in a reply to another that it is designed to give "an indication of cognitive performance across several areas", without naming the areas.
The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (AERA, APA and NCME, 2014) are the professional yardstick for what a score needs behind it, and we apply them to BlossomUp as a yardstick and not as a legal requirement, since they address test developers and users who claim to measure and not necessarily a company that sells quizzes. Standard 5.1 calls for "clear explanations of the characteristics, meaning, and intended interpretation of scale scores", and Standard 5.8 says "Norms, if used, should refer to clearly described populations." Standard 6.10 asks that interpretations explain in simple language what the test covers, what the scores represent, how precise they are and how they are intended to be used. If a report’s interpretive text is generated automatically, Standard 6.11 says its sources, rationale and empirical basis should be available. Against that list, the pages we could read give one label ("5 min quiz" in 2025), one disclaimer, and no statement of coverage, reference group, precision or basis.
A reader can make three inferences from that, each marked as inference. First, a quiz that took five minutes, as its 2025 landing page label said, cannot have sampled many abilities, although we do not know its current length, and one reviewer says a BlossomUp quiz took 25 to 30 minutes. The model behind modern IQ batteries, described on the page about the CHC model, separates reasoning, verbal knowledge, quantitative skill, spatial processing, working memory and speed, and a Full Scale IQ assumes several of them were measured, as the page on Full Scale IQ explains. The short ACIS form takes about 45 minutes for 6 subtests in 3 domains, so a quiz of five minutes would be one ninth as long and a different kind of instrument. That is our reasoning from the advertised length and not a finding about BlossomUp’s items, which we have not seen. Second, without a stated norm group the number cannot be placed on a percentile scale, a problem the page on how IQ scores are normed describes, and the page on IQ score versus percentile explains why the two are not interchangeable. Third, without a reliability figure a buyer cannot know how far the number would move on a second try, which the page on reliability and validity explains. None of this says the BlossomUp score is wrong. It says the documentation that would let a reader judge it is absent from the public pages we could read.
9 What Do Customers and Public Records Report?
The public record is split sharply by platform, with Trustpilot showing a 4.0 TrustScore and 73 percent five star ratings and ProductReview showing a rating of 1.1 across 579 reviews, and we cannot say why the two differ. All figures below were read on October 20, 2026, through a page summarizing tool, unless the row says otherwise, and a review count changes by the hour.
A bar labeled "Positive vs Negative" showing 0 percent and 100 percent, and the text we read did not say which value is which
Trustpilot widget in BlossomUp’s own footer, archive copy of October 6, 2026
15,574 reviews
Labeled Great, no number shown
A count displayed on the company’s own page
The Trustpilot count on the profile page and the count in the company’s footer widget two weeks earlier do not agree, and Trustpilot’s own AI summary on October 20, 2026 refers to 8,707 reviews, a third figure. We did not resolve the difference, which could come from caching, from the widget’s update schedule, from reviews added or from the summary covering only recent reviews, and we report each as read. By our arithmetic the four and five star ratings together are about 78 percent of the Trustpilot total, since the page rounds each share. Trustpilot labels its own summary of recent reviews as created with AI, and the version we read says reviewers had a great experience while also flagging unexpected costs to see final quiz results and small first payments that became automatic monthly subscriptions. The page states that the company replies to 99 percent of negative reviews, typically within 24 hours.
The reviews that name the IQ test are the most useful for this page. On the Trustpilot view filtered to the word IQ, the first ten reviews were five star and mostly short, and one buyer called the small fee for results surprising. On the one star view of the same filter, the first ten reviews, dated from late August to early October 2026, were different. In the summaries our tool extracted, most of the ten describe an unexpected subscription, a recurring charge or difficulty canceling, and one or two question whether the quiz is a real IQ test. The tool’s extraction differed from one read to the next, so we give no exact count. Reviewers in several countries describe a similar sequence: a low first price, a later charge of about 25 to 49 in local currency, and difficulty canceling, and some say they did not see the recurring terms. We attribute each to its reviewer and make no claim about the truth of any one.
Company replies on those reviews give a consistent account of the offer. In several, the company says the initial payment for results includes a trial of its personal growth platform and that the recurring terms are given at checkout and in the purchase confirmation. In one it says it is sorry that its subscription model was not clear, in another it says its assessments "are designed as tools for self-reflection and personal growth", and in others it asks the reviewer for more information to find the account. A fair reading is that the company says the terms are disclosed and, in at least one reply, regrets that the subscription model was not clear to a reviewer.
10 What Does U.S. Billing Law Require, and What Does Checkout Research Show?
A federal statute sets three conditions for selling by recurring charge on the Internet, and research on checkout design shows why a buyer should hold any trial offer against them, but this page does not find that BlossomUp’s checkout fell short, because we never saw it. The statute is the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act, codified at 15 U.S.C. section 8403. As we read it on October 20, 2026, a seller using a negative option on the Internet must provide text that "clearly and conspicuously discloses all material terms" before collecting billing information, obtain "express informed consent" before charging, and offer "simple mechanisms" to stop recurring charges. BlossomUp’s own terms cite the act in sections 2.4, 6.2.1 and 6.3 and describe a consent checkbox, disclosure in advance and an easy online cancellation option as provided as the act requires. That is the terms’ own statement about the checkout, and we did not see the checkout. Whether a particular screen met the conditions is a question for the regulators and courts that enforce the law, and we offer no opinion on it.
Two peer reviewed studies explain why the conditions matter in practice. In two experiments with representative samples of American consumers, Luguri and Strahilevitz reported that people shown mild manipulative interface designs were more than twice as likely to sign up for a dubious service as a control group, and that those shown aggressive designs were almost four times as likely. They also reported that hidden information, trick questions and obstruction were among the strategies most likely to succeed. A separate automated analysis by Mathur and colleagues of about 53,000 product pages on about 11,000 shopping websites found 1,818 instances of what the authors classify as dark patterns, in 15 types, and judged 183 of the websites to be engaging in deceptive practices. Neither study was designed to examine BlossomUp or any IQ test seller, and we do not say that BlossomUp used any of these designs.
What the research supports is a buyer’s checklist for any trial offer, and it applies equally to ACIS. Confirm that the full price, the date of the first renewal and the renewal price are visible before you enter a card number. Confirm that the wording next to the pay button states the recurring charge in plain terms and not only in a linked document. Confirm that you can find the cancel route before you pay and not after. Photograph each of those screens. The page on online cognitive test data quality covers a different problem, the quality of self administered data, and it applies to the number as much as the billing applies to the card.
11 Is BlossomUp Legit, and Who Might Use It?
BlossomUp is an identifiable company with published terms and a large public review record, so it is not a phantom site, but its IQ quiz fits only a narrow case, a short purchase for curiosity made with a cancellation reminder set, and it does not fit any use that needs a documented IQ. The terms name an operator and a mailing address, give a cancellation route and a refund procedure, and carry a plain entertainment disclaimer. The complaints we read concern mostly what happened after the report fee, the plan charge and the difficulty of finding or using the cancellation route, and the company’s replies say the recurring terms are given at checkout. Both accounts can be partly true, because what a checkout screen shows and what a buyer notices on it are different things, and we did not see the screen. We cannot adjudicate between them. A reader who wants a verdict from us gets this one: the entity is real, the terms are public, the IQ documentation is absent, and the billing structure rewards a buyer who reads before paying.
The quiz fits a buyer who wants a short quiz and a number to talk about, who accepts the company’s own label of entertainment, who sets a reminder to cancel on the day of purchase and who uses a payment method whose recurring charges the card issuer lets them block. It does not fit when the score will be shown to anyone who sets requirements. BlossomUp’s terms say the service is not intended for business, educational, employment or recruitment purposes, and the page on IQ test certificates explains why institutions do not accept an unsupervised web score, which holds for ACIS too. It does not fit a buyer who wants to understand a profile, because a short quiz with undocumented items cannot show whether a result reflects reasoning, memory, speed or verbal knowledge. And it does not fit a buyer with a clinical or educational question, which a web quiz cannot answer.
For readers weighing alternatives, the page on the best online IQ tests ranks the main options by documentation, and the page on IQ tests for adults helps with choosing by purpose. Sibling pages cover other routes: the ArealMe IQ test review reads a free quiz, the page on the WASI-II covers a short clinician administered battery, the page on the Eysenck IQ test covers a well known name in IQ testing, and the page on taking an IQ test in Australia lists clinics, societies and prices. The reviews of Innerly and CogniProfile apply the same dated method to two other sellers whose offers begin with a low first charge.
12 Where ACIS Sits, and What a Buyer Should Do
We sell ACIS, a competing paid assessment, so this section states its limits as plainly as its strengths, and the main differences from BlossomUp are the billing model and the amount of documentation, not a promise of a better number. ACIS has 20 subtests in six cognitive domains and reports a Full Scale IQ and six primary indices: verbal comprehension, fluid reasoning, quantitative reasoning, visual spatial, working memory and processing speed. Indices and the Full Scale IQ are reported on the standard scale with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, scaled subtest scores run from 1 to 19, and the report gives percentiles and a 95 percent confidence interval. Adult norms cover ages 16 to 90. The technical manual is where the documentation lives, and we do not summarize it here because a summary would be our description of our own evidence.
The prices were read on the ACIS home page on October 20, 2026 and can change. The Quick form is 15 dollars for 6 subtests in 3 domains, about 45 minutes. The Optimized form is 30 dollars for 13 subtests in 5 domains, about 110 minutes. The Full Scale form is 50 dollars for all 20 subtests in six domains, about 175 minutes. Each is a one time payment with no subscription. Breaks are allowed, the free trial needs no card, a 5 day quality guarantee applies, and a buyer has 30 days to complete. A buyer comparing the two must weigh time as well as money, because 175 minutes is a real cost and a reason some readers will prefer something short.
ACIS has limits that match its category. It is online and unsupervised, so identity, environment and adherence to instructions are not controlled. It is not a clinical or diagnostic instrument. It is not for hiring, for school accommodations or for admission to high IQ societies. It is in English only. The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (AERA, APA and NCME, 2014) apply to ACIS exactly as to BlossomUp, and the test is the same: whether the documentation supports the interpretation a reader wants to place on the score. The standards named above, on explaining scores, describing norm groups and reporting precision, are the ones a buyer can hold either product against.
What a buyer should do is the same for any product. Read the renewal sentence before paying and photograph it. Note the date and the cancellation steps. If you want a short entry quiz and you cancel in time, the cost is small. If you want a number you will rely on, prefer a product that publishes what its items sample, a stated reference group, a reported margin of error and a price you can read before you start, and ask each seller the same questions. If you already have an unexpected charge, cancel first, request the refund in writing within the shortest window the terms state, and keep the dated messages. The page on paid IQ test billing and the page on accurate IQ tests give the longer versions of those checks.
Every figure above traces to one of the following, linked where it is first used. BlossomUp’s terms and IQ landing page were read in Internet Archive copies because the live pages returned a not found message to us on October 20, 2026, and the copies show the pages as they stood on the capture dates, not necessarily as they stand now. The Trustpilot and ProductReview figures and review summaries were read through a page summarizing tool on October 20, 2026, not as raw pages, and a count changes by the hour. The 12 month totals, the about 78 percent combined share of four and five star ratings and the one ninth length comparison are our arithmetic on figures read at those sources, and the review tallies are approximate. The ACIS prices and limits were read on the ACIS home page on October 20, 2026.
American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association and National Council on Measurement in Education (2014). Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. testingstandards.net. Standards 5.1, 5.8, 6.10 and 6.11 read in the open access PDF on October 20, 2026.
Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act, 15 U.S.C. section 8403, Negative option marketing on the Internet. law.cornell.edu. Read October 20, 2026.
Luguri, J., and Strahilevitz, L. J. (2021). Shining a Light on Dark Patterns. Journal of Legal Analysis, 13(1), 43 to 109. doi.org/10.1093/jla/laaa006.
Mathur, A., Acar, G., Friedman, M., Lucherini, E., Mayer, J., Chetty, M., and Narayanan, A. (2019). Dark Patterns at Scale. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3(CSCW), 1 to 32. doi.org/10.1145/3359183.
14 Frequently Asked Questions
Is the BlossomUp IQ test legit?
BlossomUp is an operating business, not a phantom site: its terms name Transcend Labs LLC, publish a cancellation route and carry a refund procedure. Whether the IQ score means anything is a separate question, because the pages we could read document no norms, reliability or item count, and the terms call the service entertainment.
Is BlossomUp a scam?
Nothing we read establishes that BlossomUp is a scam. It names its operator, publishes terms and a cancellation route, and some Trustpilot reviewers describe unexpected recurring charges, which the company says were disclosed at checkout. We cannot adjudicate between the two accounts, so read your own offer page and keep screenshots before you pay.
How much does the BlossomUp IQ test cost?
Its terms name 1.95 dollars as the one time report fee and 29.95 dollars a month as the plan that follows a 7 day trial, mostly with the label e.g. The terms say the real billing terms appear on the offer page before purchase, and reviewers quote other amounts in other currencies.
Is the BlossomUp IQ test free?
We could not confirm a free stage, because the test pages were not reachable to us. Company replies on Trustpilot say taking the assessment is free and the full results are premium, and the terms say a premium report needs a one time payment. Assume the result costs money until your own screen says otherwise.
Is the BlossomUp IQ test accurate?
Accuracy cannot be judged from public information. The pages we could read give no reliability figure, norm group or item count, and the terms say, for the service as a whole, that results should not be considered accurate or comprehensive assessments. Treat the number as an entertainment estimate and not as a measurement.
How do I cancel BlossomUp?
The terms list three routes: the My Account cancellation option, a help center request, or an email to support. Cancelling during a trial ends access immediately, and a paid plan runs to the end of its current period. Keep the confirmation or cancellation number, and check your statement a week later.
How do I get a refund from BlossomUp?
Under the terms, the report fee is non-refundable for all users except where law requires, and subscription refunds depend on local law or company discretion. Requests must be made within 7 days of purchase for most users and 14 days in the EEA and UK, through the help center or email, with evidence. Ask in writing at once.
Who runs BlossomUp?
The terms say the site is an Internet property of Transcend Labs LLC doing business as BlossomUp, and the legal block of the archived terms gives an address in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its Trustpilot profile lists no business address. Anyone tracing a charge should compare the receipt, the card statement and the terms.
What happens after the 7 day BlossomUp trial?
According to the terms, the paid plan starts on the 8th day unless you cancel, at a price given as 29.95 dollars a month, and it renews each billing period. The terms say no separate end of trial notice is sent unless a law requires one, so set your own reminder.
How long is the BlossomUp IQ test?
An Internet Archive capture of the IQ landing page from July 15, 2025 labeled it a 5 minute quiz. We could not open the live page, so we cannot confirm the current length. A one star reviewer says a BlossomUp quiz took 25 to 30 minutes and not the advertised five, without naming which quiz.
Why was I charged by BlossomUp after paying 1.95 dollars?
Per the terms, the report fee and the plan are separate charges. The fee delivers the result and starts a 7 day trial, and the plan begins on the 8th day unless canceled. If you did not intend the plan, cancel immediately, then request a refund in writing and keep the dates.
What does Trustpilot say about BlossomUp?
On October 20, 2026 the Trustpilot profile showed 20,263 reviews and a 4.0 TrustScore, with 73 percent five star and 20 percent one star. The one star reviews we read mostly concern unexpected recurring charges. ProductReview.com.au showed 1.1 across 579 reviews, so the two platforms disagree sharply.
Does BlossomUp publish norms or reliability for its IQ test?
Not in any page we could read. The terms, the archived landing page and the company’s Trustpilot replies give no norm group, sample size, reliability figure or validity study. That is an absence in the pages we could open, since we could not see the live IQ pages or a report.
Why do the BlossomUp test pages show a not found message?
On October 20, 2026 the IQ landing path, the quiz subdomain and the app address each returned a not found page to both an automated request and a browser pane. We do not know the cause. A regional gate, an ended campaign, a retired page or a bot filter would each produce it.
Can a BlossomUp score be used for Mensa, school or work?
Not on the strength of the terms. They say the service is not intended for business, educational, employment or recruitment purposes, and they do not mention high IQ societies. Organizations that need an IQ set their own requirements, which an unsupervised web quiz is unlikely to meet. The same limit applies to ACIS and to any self administered online test.
Should I pay for an IQ test that renews as a subscription?
Only if you want the result as a curiosity, will cancel within the trial and have confirmed the renewal price. The recurring plan is a separate purchase, and we could not see what it contains. If you want a score you can rely on, a one time paid test with a published manual is a safer structure.
Is a 5 minute IQ quiz reliable?
Reliability depends on how many items there are, how well they discriminate and how the score is built, none of which can be judged from a running time alone. A very short quiz samples little, so its result has wide uncertainty unless the publisher shows otherwise with a reported margin of error.
What should I check before paying for any online IQ test?
Check the full price and the renewal sentence before entering a card, how to cancel, the refund window, what the test measures, the norm group, the reliability or margin of error, and who the publisher is. If a seller documents none of these, treat the number as entertainment and not as a measurement.
How do I dispute a charge from an online IQ quiz?
Cancel the subscription first, then ask the seller for a refund in writing, citing the dates and keeping the reply. BlossomUp’s terms ask buyers to request a refund before a chargeback. If that fails, your card issuer can review the dispute, and a consumer protection agency can take complaints.
What is the difference between a one time IQ test and a subscription test?
A one time test charges once for a defined set of questions and a report, and ends. A subscription test often charges a small first fee and then authorizes recurring payments for a separate service. The difference is the ongoing authorization, which is why the renewal sentence matters more than the first price.
What does an IQ number from an online quiz tell me about myself?
Very little unless the quiz documents what it sampled, who it compares you with and how precise the number is. Without that, the figure is closer to a game result than a measurement. A score from a documented test is best read as a range with a confidence interval.
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