Listen vs Hearing Hunt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Listen
This game trains your hearing by presenting sound cues that you must respond to correctly to navigate obstacles and absorb energy. It uses adaptive algorithms to adjust difficulty to your individual performance level, based on principles of perceptual learning and auditory neuroscience.
- Auditory training game
- Perceptual learning principles
- Reward-based framework
- Adaptive difficulty algorithms
- Sound cue response
- Brain fitness
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Listen is an auditory training game produced by the University of California Riverside (UCR) Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness and Well-being; A research unit focused on brain fitness methods and applications. Listen integrates principles of perceptual learning and auditory neuroscience in a reward-based game framework that reinforces program adherence and maintains training efficacy. In the game experience, players find themselves in control of a wisp that must navigate through perilous obstacles by responding appropriately to specific sound cues in order to absorb energy from objects in the environment. The sound cues are based upon language primitives and sound features that selectively drive neurons in the auditory cortex of the brain. While at first the sounds are easy to discriminate, the game’s adaptive algorithms measure each players’ ability to discern the sounds and trains players at their individual threshold of performance. Give it a listen and train your hearing.
Hearing Hunt
Engage your brain and hearing with this word search game. Listen to audio clues, find hidden words against the clock, and earn rewards. Designed for an enhanced auditory experience, it works best with hearing devices.
- Auditory word clues
- Timed word search challenges
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Brain and hearing exercise
- Collect stars and coins
- Bluetooth device pairing
- Randomized word searches
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Welcome to Hearing Hunt, a fun word search game for everyone. Listen to the word clues, play against time, and earn stars while enjoying themes related to the ocean, a movie theater, an airport, and more. This game offers three (3) difficulty levels while testing your ability to beat the clock. Designed to work with your hearing aid device, Hearing Hunt creates a unique auditory experience while combining the best of word searching. Main features: - Easy to play with a colorful, modern look - Exercise your brain and your hearing - Learn valuable insights with “Did you know?” hearing facts - Advance to new levels by collecting stars - Win coins with each word found, and use them for hints or advancing to a new level - Word searches are randomized every time you play - Pair with any Bluetooth® enabled device - Members who sign up can earn daily coin prizes to use within the game - More themes are coming soon How to play: - Choose your difficulty level—easy, medium, or hard - Listen to the word clues - Swipe your finger up, down, left, right, or diagonally to find each hidden word - Find the hidden words before time runs out to earn stars and move within themes Although the audible clues can be heard without the use of a hearing aid, Hearing Hunt works best when paired via Bluetooth to your hearing device. The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Listen at 44% against Hearing Hunt's 11%. Listen also leads on rating (3.1 vs 2.6). Hearing Hunt's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Listen holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Listen's written reviews are positive against 11% of Hearing Hunt's.
Listen ships an update every 6 weeks, Hearing Hunt every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Listen | Hearing Hunt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (12 ratings) — better | 2.6 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews — better | 11.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 126 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Northeastern University Information Services | NationsBenefits, LLC |
Customer experience
Listen
Hearing Hunt
In-app purchases
Listen
No in-app purchases
Hearing Hunt
No in-app purchases
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