Comparison

Fasteroid vs Categories Toonware

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

Head to head
About

Fasteroid

Features
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Your mission is to use your voice pitch to guide our alien friend through space back home. Game contains practice level to perfect your voice control before entering deep space with deadly asteroids hurling towards you. Collect crystals and try to find the golden comet in each level. A shield power up helps you in difficult situations if you were lucky enough to find one. Automatic voice analysis calibrates game controls to each player's distinct pitch level.

About

Categories Toonware

This educational app helps children aged 3-7 develop communication and literacy skills through interactive categorization games. It features over 230 high-quality images across 20 categories, with three difficulty levels to keep learning engaging and fun.

Highlights
  • 20+ categories with 230+ images
  • Voice prompts for easy selection
  • Offline play capability
  • Three progressive difficulty levels
  • Designed by a certified Speech Language Pathologist
  • Aids literacy development
Features
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*** There are 20 categories with 230+ high quality pictures (supporting retina display) with matching voice prompts to facilitate selection. *** This app does not require internet connection, your kids can play anytime anywhere !!! Research shows that children learn to categorize objects in their environment in order to extend their knowledge and make sense of their experiences (Gelman 1999). Categorization skills also guide children in their rapid acquisition of conceptual and linguistic knowledge (Waxman & Kosowski 1990). ToonWare Categories for Speech and Language Therapy app is designed and developed by a certified Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist to assist children ages 3 to 7 years increase their communication skills. It helps children in the six areas crucial to literacy development – categorization of everyday objects/animals, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension and expression. The Categories app has three levels, making it challenging and fun at the same time. Throughout the three different levels the child has to be able to understand the relationship between the pictures shown and find the category to which they belong. - Level One (Easy), A picture of an item is shown and the child has to identify the category that it belongs to among 5 selections. - Level Two (Medium), Three pictures are shown and the child has to be able to understand the relationship between the objects and identify the category to which they belong. - Level Three (Hard), The child has to find the pictures that belong to the given category. Parents, speech language pathologist, special educators, and preschool teachers can use the Category app. Please send your comments, recommendations and bug reports to info@toonware.com. Our mission is to create fun, engaging, and stimulating education apps and make speech therapy a fun learning experience for children. Our apps are designed and developed by a certified Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist and educator with over 12 years of experience in various settings. For more information visit http://www.toonware.com.

Screenshots

Fasteroid3 screens
Categories Toonware4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Fasteroid at $2.99 against Categories Toonware's $4.99. Fasteroid also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On update cadence, 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

Fasteroid costs $2.99 and Categories Toonware $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fasteroid ships an update every 45 months, Categories Toonware every 68 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Fasteroid versus Categories Toonware: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFasteroidCategories Toonware
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 45 months — betterEvery 68 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOutloudCenker Ozkurt

In-app purchases

None

Fasteroid

No in-app purchases

None

Categories Toonware

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fasteroid free?
Fasteroid costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Categories Toonware free?
Categories Toonware costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fasteroid or Categories Toonware have ads?
Neither Fasteroid nor Categories Toonware shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fasteroid or Categories Toonware?
Fasteroid ships an update every 45 months, and Categories Toonware every 68 months. Most recently, Fasteroid was updated on September 24, 2026 and Categories Toonware on September 14, 2026.

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