Functional Listening vs Name That Rule
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Functional Listening
This app offers structured activities to improve auditory comprehension and real-life listening skills for children and adults. It features varied scenarios, visual aids, and progress tracking, making it suitable for therapy, education, or home practice.
- Functional listening tasks
- Real-life scenarios
- Visual supports
- Adjustable difficulty
- Progress tracking
- Therapy, classroom, and home use
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Functional Listening helps children and adults strengthen their real-life listening and auditory comprehension skills. Through structured, engaging activities, users practice listening in a variety of everyday contexts such as conversations, questions, directions, and environmental sounds. Ideal for speech-language pathologists, educators, and parents, the app provides leveled listening tasks, clear audio prompts, visual supports, and built-in progress tracking. Functional Listening is designed to support individuals with auditory processing challenges, language delays, hearing impairments, autism, or anyone who needs to improve real-life listening performance. Features include: • Functional listening tasks across multiple levels • Real-life scenarios and auditory prompts • Visual supports to help comprehension • Adjustable difficulty levels • Progress tracking and reporting • Designed for therapy, classroom use, and home practice • User-friendly interface for all ages This app helps users build practical listening skills that transfer to everyday communication, improving participation and confidence in real-world situations.
Name That Rule
This app helps students master spelling by teaching them how to correctly form word derivatives when adding suffixes. It guides users through processes like doubling, dropping, or changing letters from base words, and emphasizes the importance of accent detection for accurate spelling.
- Spelling derivatives instruction
- Suffix addition rules
- Doubling, dropping, and changing letters
- Accent detection for spelling
- Word formation guidance
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Spelling derivatives can be challenging for students. When adding a suffix to a base word, you either double, drop or change from the base word or just stick on the suffix. Also, detecting the accent is equally important for spelling. This app will take you through the process of looking at words and deciding what to do in order to spell derivatives.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Name That Rule at $0.99 against Functional Listening's $14.99. Name That Rule also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 46 months). Functional Listening's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On 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
Functional Listening costs $14.99 and Name That Rule $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Name That Rule holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Functional Listening ships an update every 46 months, Name That Rule every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Functional Listening | Name That Rule |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 46 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Virtual Speech Center Inc. | Edwards Insight, LLC |
Customer experience
Functional Listening
Name That Rule
In-app purchases
Functional Listening
No in-app purchases
Name That Rule
No in-app purchases
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