ThinkAutism vs PEERS®
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ThinkAutism
This tool helps parents, educators, and medical professionals screen children aged 8-13 for potential autism spectrum disorder symptoms. It provides immediate results from a validated questionnaire and offers informational videos and resources.
- 15-question screening questionnaire
- Immediate results
- Informational videos
- Resources for all 50 states
- Connect with experts
- Ages 8-13 focus
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Are you concerned about your child’s or student’s social skills or development? Think Autism® is a rapid screening tool that gets you the answers you need to take action. Complete our validated 15-question Social Challenges Screening Questionnaire for your child or student and receive immediate results that will indicate if a formal evaluation is needed for autism spectrum disorder. Developed for parents, educators and medical professionals, Think Autism® is designed for children ages 8-13 and offers resources in all 50 states. Our Social Challenges Screening Questionnaire can identify children who may have symptoms that were once characterized as Asperger’s syndrome, but now Asperger's is part of autism spectrum disorder. These children have significant social impairments that markedly affect their functioning and overall wellbeing, but language develops on time and there is no associated cognitive impairment. The app also features informational videos from the unique perspectives of professionals in the field, a parent, and a person with Asperger’s. If more individual support is needed, you will have the option to connect with an expert at Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center located in Phoenix, Arizona. Our team will guide you through your next steps and connect you to resources in your area. Get started by downloading our app for free. Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center (SARRC) is a non-profit, community-based organization dedicated to autism research, education, and resources for people with autism and their families. Learn more at autismcenter.org.
PEERS®
This app offers guidance and practice for improving social cognition and skills to build and maintain friendships. It includes educational text, video examples of social behaviors, and practical assignments for real-life application.
- Social cognition improvement
- Friendship skill development
- Educational textual information
- Video role-play examples
- Practice assignments
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The PEERS® app helps you with making and keeping friends. It provides you with information, video examples and assignments to stimulate your social cognition, skills, and experiences. Textual information is given to educate you about social situations. Video role-play examples are provided to illustrate a) behaviors that are less helpful to make and keep friends, and b) behaviors that are more helpful to make and keep friends. The assignments will help you practice and apply the learned social skills to your daily life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PEERS® at 50% against ThinkAutism's 0%. PEERS® also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (60 vs 8). ThinkAutism's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PEERS® holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PEERS® has 60 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of ThinkAutism's written reviews are positive against 50% of PEERS®'s.
ThinkAutism ships an update every 21 months, PEERS® every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ThinkAutism | PEERS® |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (60 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 60 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 11 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center | Elizabeth Laugeson |
Customer experience
ThinkAutism
PEERS®
In-app purchases
ThinkAutism
No in-app purchases
PEERS®
No in-app purchases
