ASDetect vs Q interactive Assess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ASDetect
This app helps parents and caregivers identify potential early signs of autism in children under 2.5 years old using clinical videos and focusing on social communication behaviors. It's based on rigorous research and offers three assessments for different age milestones.
- Early autism sign identification
- Clinical video examples
- Focus on social communication behaviors
- Research-based accuracy (81%-83%)
- Assessments for 12, 18, and 24 months
- 20-30 minute assessment time
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ASDetect enables parents and caregivers to review possible early signs of autism in their children aged younger than 2 ½ years. With actual clinical videos of children with and without autism, each question focuses on a specific ‘social communication’ behaviour, for example, pointing, social smiling. This award-winning app is based on comprehensive, rigorous, world-class research conducted at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre at La Trobe University, Australia. The research underlying this app has proven 81% - 83% accurate in the early detection of autism. Assessments take only 20-30 minutes, and parents can review their answers before submitting. As autism and related conditions can develop over time, the app contains 3 assessments: for children aged 12, 18 and 24 months. Our early autism detection method is the most effective technique available to professionals to monitor early signs of autism and since ASDetect launched in 2015, this method has also helped thousands of families. About the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC) OTARC is Australia's first centre dedicated to autism research. It was established in 2008 at La Trobe University and its mission is to expand knowledge to enrich the lives of autistic people and their families.
Q interactive Assess
This digital platform streamlines clinical assessments for individuals. It offers real-time scoring through simple taps and swipes, significantly reducing administration and scoring time. The app eliminates the need for physical kits, allowing clinicians to focus on observation and interpretation.
- Digital assessment preparation
- Instrument and subtest level preparation
- Real-time scoring
- Reduced administration time
- Focus on observation and interpretation
- Eliminates physical kits
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Q-interactive Assess is a comprehensive digital platform that lets you quickly prepare your clinical assessment for a given individual at both the instrument and subtest levels. It helps you be more efficient: • Early indicators suggests saving 20% of administration and scoring time. • Real-time scoring, all with a few simple taps, swipes and scribes. • No more kits to haul around or share or go looking for when you need it. Q-interactive Assess scores on the fly and let’s you focus on observing and interpreting. It’s a more effective way to do your job, serve your clients, and evolve your practice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ASDetect at 3.4 against Q interactive Assess's 1.9. ASDetect also leads on review sentiment (27% vs 9%) and device support (3 vs 1). Q interactive Assess's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (82 vs 10). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ASDetect holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Q interactive Assess has 82 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of ASDetect's written reviews are positive against 9% of Q interactive Assess's.
ASDetect ships an update every 6 months, Q interactive Assess every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ASDetect | Q interactive Assess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (10 ratings) — better | 1.9 (82 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews — better | 9.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 82 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 301 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | La Trobe University | Pearson Education, Inc. |
Customer experience
ASDetect
Q interactive Assess
Bugs and requests
ASDetect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Q interactive Assess
Reported bugs
103 issues- Login process requires multiple sign-ins
- One-time passcodes required frequently
- Login issues taking significant time to resolve
- Locked out due to too many login attempts
- App takes 15+ minutes to sign in
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- Mobile hotspot issues
- Web page doesn't work for adding new clients
- Sign-in process is unpredictable
- Verification needed every time screen turns off
- Client device won't open after update
- Assessment interrupted by upgrade
- Tech support has long wait times and varying skill sets
- Older versions not removed from the internet
- Redirected to another platform with two-prong sign-in
- Login requires stages
- Repeatedly logged out
- Sign in repeatedly throughout the day (12+ times)
- App won't open since update
- Repetitive logins
- Test loading failures
- Client device disconnections
- App makes users feel unprofessional
- App is buggy
- Impossible to log in
- Pearson support provides irrelevant suggestions
- One iPad stops communicating with the other
- Won't upload to desktop for report writing
- App is buggy and almost unusable
- App is a total disaster and unreliable
- Constantly disconnecting from client's device
- Assessment session ruined by disconnections
- App sometimes works, sometimes can't sign in
- Cancelled testing days because app won't start
- Cancelled subtests because app goes blank
- Several attempts to sign in
- Breakdowns in communication between iPads
- Inexplicable blank screens
- Freezes during timed subtests
- Wonky editing glitches
- Poorly tested, buggy mess
- Cannot back out of a test to change it
- Pay for tests not administered
- Numerous problems with signing in
- Delete and start over, losing old assessments
- Crashes
- Fails to log in
- Customer service is the worst
- Frequently have issues during assessment
- Unreliable
- Doesn't cope well with changes in internet access
- Pay for subtest usage when abandoned due to errors
- Multiple problems Pearson cannot resolve
- iPads stuck on Pearson logo
- App freezes periodically
- Threatens standardization
- Delayed recall CVLT scaled scores not shown
- Menu hiding text
- Recordings of sessions cut out unexpectedly
- More difficult to edit test scores
- Poorer product than previous version
- App worked (kind of) but challenging to navigate
- Client's iPad stuck on pulsing Pearson logo
- Unable to administer anything other than paper tasks
- iPads would not connect successfully
- Skipping subtests is almost impossible
- App will not load on iPad 10th gen
- Scores input after completion of battery are not saving
- Prompted to discontinue testing when rules not met
- iPads cannot connect to each other
- App freezes after most recent update
- Grayed out items preventing answer recording
- Connectivity issues
- Student iPad suddenly goes to a blank screen
- iPads connected and disconnected frequently
- Scores may not be best representation due to technical issues
- Connectivity issues despite updating everything
- Audio files disappear
- Verbal response box pops up on every item
- Bug prevents data from being fully offloaded
- App continues to be a data hog
- iPads will not connect
- App doesn't have approvals for Bluetooth
- Reading passages are a blank page
- Constantly having issues getting iPads to connect and stay connected
- App freezes moving between subtests
- Glitches in notes section
- Notes section doesn't record everything
- Lag time between subtests
- Home button doesn't go to main screen
- Sorting on main screen unsorts when clicking anything
- Doesn't record student's response
- Apps wouldn't connect after being connected
- Major bug issues not corrected by updates
- Assessments will not fully download
- Directions often do not load properly
- Cumbersome to navigate
- Cannot edit things after a subtest is complete
- Audio recording feature is useless
- Show stimulus doesn't always show
- Lags between sub tests
- KTEA Fluency tests wouldn't let timers start
- Download failure, content never finishes
- New redesigned app has issues
Requested features
11 requests- Add palm detection for stylus use
- Improve French translations of tests
- Add Touch/Face ID for faster login
- Allow removal of unused test data to save space
- Make it easier to skip subtests without paying
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- Improve user interface and menu navigation
- Remember sorting preferences on the main screen
- Add an option to refresh content
- Allow editing of scores after a subtest is complete
- Improve stimulus display reliability
- Add an option to go back to the old app version
In-app purchases
ASDetect
No in-app purchases
Q interactive Assess
No in-app purchases
Questions
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