Comparison

Advanced Comprehension Therapy vs ATA®

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

Head to head
About

Advanced Comprehension Therapy

This app offers professional speech therapy to improve sentence-level understanding, following directions, and language processing. It features three engaging activities designed for adults and older children with communication impairments, helping to build comprehension skills beyond single words.

Highlights
  • Sentence identification with increasing complexity
  • Sentence building from word order
  • Following multi-step directions
  • Auditory, reading, and combined comprehension modes
  • Progress tracking and email reports
  • Hints and audio repeat options
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Train your brain to listen carefully with this professional speech therapy app. Three activities help you to understand sentences, follow directions, and improve language processing. If you’re looking for a speech therapy app for adults and older children with communication and cognitive impairments that takes understanding beyond single words, this app is for you. ** Try for FREE by downloading Advanced Language Therapy Lite ** Advanced Comprehension Therapy will help you find where comprehension breaks down, then help you build it back up with 3 classic speech therapy activities targeting sentence-level listening and reading comprehension. 1) IDENTIFY the picture that matches the sentence, increasing in syntactic complexity. Start by finding the picture that matches a sentence like “The baby sleeps.” Work up to finding “The grandparent is told a secret by the child” from closely related pictures. * 11 levels of difficulty for understanding sentences with nearly 700 unique trials * Listen, Read, & Both modes to focus on auditory, reading, or total comprehension * Includes up to 3 nouns, indirect objects, reversible sentences, & passives 2) BUILD a sentence by focusing on each word & how they all fit together. Arrange the words one-by-one to match the pictured sentence you hear. Start with 3 words and work up to 9. * 20 sentence types in nearly 1200 unique trials * Add up to 3 extra words for an added challenge * Tricky "little words" like articles, pronouns, and prepositions * Hear each word as you touch it 3) FOLLOW directions of increasing difficulty in 1-, 2-, & 3-step commands. Start with exercises like “Touch the pencil.” Work up to brain-bending challenges like “Before you touch the large yellow striped circle, touch the small blue solid star.” * 16 levels of difficulty for following directions * Listen, Read, & Both modes to focus on auditory, reading, or total comprehension * Includes basic, temporal, & conditional commands in a hierarchy of 1-, 2-, & 3-step directions In All Activities: * Enjoy 1000’s of unique stimuli with hundreds of photos * Use hints when you get stuck so you always finish successfully * Track progress with detailed e-mail reports * Record yourself on-screen and send it when you’re finished * Repeat audio at any time, or repeat slowly for easier understanding * Designed with adults in mind but easy enough for children to use * No subscriptions, no monthly bills, no Wi-Fi needed ------------------------------------------------- Who is Advanced Comprehension Therapy For? * Speech-Language Pathologists * Adults with Aphasia (mild-moderate) * Stroke & TBI Survivors * Children with Autism or Language Learning Difficulties * Anyone who has mastered the single words in Comprehension Therapy or Language 4-in-1 & wants to take their therapy to the next level! ------------------------------------------------- Which Skills Does This App Target? * Auditory Comprehension (listening) * Reading Comprehension * Attention to Detail * Working Memory (holding information) * Nouns & Pronouns (he/she/it/they) * Adjectives (colors, size, shading) * Syntactic Processing (understanding grammar) * Temporal Concepts (before/after) * Conditional Directions (if/then) * Problem Solving (using hint/repeat or fixing errors) ------------------------------------------------- Download now to get started – or try it for FREE with Advanced Language Therapy Lite! Looking for something different in a speech therapy app? We offer a wide range to choose from. Find the right one for you at tactustherapy.com/find

About

ATA®

Features
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ACPlus has developed a biofeedback therapy system to adjunct the ACPlus Respiratory Assessment (ARA). Using an FDA-cleared Bluetooth spirometer, ACPlus has converted Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) metrics in to gamified activities that patients can perform during therapy, or in the comfort of their own room/home. Using the following FDA-cleared metrics, ACPlus Respiratory Therapy (ART) converts those metrics to in-game units of measure so the patient can easily understand how they are performing: • FVC • FEV1 • FEV1/FVC ratio (%) • FEF2575 • PEF • FIVC Using proprietary algorithms and calculations, ACPlus converts a patients performance against the Global Lung Initiative (GLI) predictions based on the patients demographics, and displays in game results that are easy for the patient to understand, track, and share. Data and information collected in ACPlus Respiratory Therapy can easily be transmitted back to the ACPlus application for data analysis and documentation.

Screenshots

Advanced Comprehension Therapy4 screens
ATA®4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ATA® at Free against Advanced Comprehension Therapy's $29.99. ATA® also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). Advanced Comprehension Therapy's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.6). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

ATA® is free to download; Advanced Comprehension Therapy costs $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Advanced Comprehension Therapy ships an update every 4 months, ATA® monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Advanced Comprehension Therapy versus ATA®: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAdvanced Comprehension TherapyATA®
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (276 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings276 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size149 MB3.0 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.Accelerated Care Plus

In-app purchases

None

Advanced Comprehension Therapy

No in-app purchases

None

ATA®

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Advanced Comprehension Therapy free?
Advanced Comprehension Therapy costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ATA® free?
ATA® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Advanced Comprehension Therapy or ATA® have ads?
Neither Advanced Comprehension Therapy nor ATA® shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Advanced Comprehension Therapy or ATA®?
Advanced Comprehension Therapy ships an update every 4 months, and ATA® monthly. Most recently, Advanced Comprehension Therapy was updated on October 17, 2026 and ATA® on October 2, 2026.

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