Comparison

Listen vs Hearing Hunt

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Auditory training game
  • Perceptual learning principles
  • Reward-based framework
  • Adaptive difficulty algorithms
  • Sound cue response
  • Brain fitness
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Auditory word clues
  • Timed word search challenges
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Brain and hearing exercise
  • Collect stars and coins
  • Bluetooth device pairing
  • Randomized word searches
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Listen4 screens
Hearing Hunt4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Listen ships an update every 6 weeks, Hearing Hunt every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Listen versus Hearing Hunt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterListenHearing Hunt
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.1 (12 ratings) — better2.6 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews44.4% of reviews — better11.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1216 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size129 MB126 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNortheastern University Information ServicesNationsBenefits, LLC

Customer experience

Listen

All ratings12 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative41.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative55.6%

Hearing Hunt

All ratings14 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive11.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative88.9%

In-app purchases

None

Listen

No in-app purchases

None

Hearing Hunt

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Listen free?
Listen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hearing Hunt free?
Hearing Hunt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Listen or Hearing Hunt?
Listen is rated higher. Listen averages 3.1 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Hearing Hunt averages 2.6 from 16 ratings.
Do Listen or Hearing Hunt have ads?
Neither Listen nor Hearing Hunt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Listen or Hearing Hunt?
Listen ships an update every 6 weeks, and Hearing Hunt every 9 days. Most recently, Listen was updated on October 24, 2026 and Hearing Hunt on October 24, 2026.

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