Sounds Essentials vs Auditory Training
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sounds Essentials
This app helps children develop sound recognition and listening skills through engaging activities. It's designed for early learners to improve auditory discrimination and memory, making learning fun and interactive.
- Sound recognition activities
- Auditory discrimination training
- Auditory memory building
- Matching objects and sounds
- Categorized sound games
- Multiple user support
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Sounds Essentials is a speech therapy app designed and developed to increase sound recognition and listening skills in children. The app has 4 engaging and beautiful activities, each of which is used to develop Auditory Discrimination skills in children. Sounds essentials is a perfect blend of education with entertainment. This edutainment application can be used by SLPs and speech therapies during therapy sessions to enable children build auditory memory and recognition skills. The fun and engaging interface of the app makes it enjoyable for toddlers all the way from preschoolers to kindergarten. The App features exciting activities for children to explore thousands of objects by swiping left or right and listen to their sounds. Sounds Essentials enables young learners to differentiate between sounds of different objects. This function which is commonly known as “Auditory Discrimination” helps in building sound or “Auditory Memory” among students. The app has separate activities for both the functions enabling better sound recognition and listening skills. Children having problems in sequencing the sounds they hear during speech therapy sessions such as articulation & writing can benefit from the content based on Auditory Sequencing within the app. This app is designed in collaboration with speech therapists, parents and teachers who are looking to expand children’s listening & sound discrimination skills. This app is intended for children of ages 2-8 years old. With different Sound games children improve their skills by matching objects and their associated sounds. WHY PARENTS AND TEACHERS LOVE THIS APP • The app is fun, super easy to use for kids of all ages and all abilities • Explore different sounds through flash cards containing real life images of everyday items and learn their sounds and appearance • Different Sound games improve skills by matching objects and their associated sounds. • You can turn individual features in different activities, ON or OFF and introduce features differently. • Sounds are grouped into 6 selectable categories Animals, Machines, Nature, Actions, Transport and Instruments. • Wrong answers do not interfere with gameplay. The app has 4 engaging and beautiful activities: * Know the Sound * Match the Sound * Find the Sound * Sound Hunt Other features * Timer * Multiple Users * Leader board Please share your suggestions & feedback on feedback@soundsessentials.com Google+ : https://plus.google.com/u/0/107302410009075383713 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/articulationessentials Twitter: https://twitter.com/articulationess OR via Reviews Below
Auditory Training
This app helps individuals improve auditory processing skills by offering customizable activities and games. It's designed for those with auditory processing disorders, students needing better focus, and professionals working with auditory development.
- Customizable activity composition
- Multiple module types
- Over 8 stimulus types
- Variable difficulty levels
- Progress-tracking games
- Unlimited player support
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Auditory processing refers to the way in which the Central Auditory System analyzes and interprets the sounds we hear, therefore the information heard is understood by our brain. People with auditory processing disorders (APD) hear sounds, but the way the brain translates these sounds is disrupted, resulting in disorderly messages. This app is indicated for individuals with deviations in the Auditory Processing Assessment; professionals who need to stimulate their clients' auditory skills; students who have difficulty concentrating and paying attention to the teacher's explanation in the presence of other distracting stimuli in the classroom; among others. Application Advantages: - Compose activities that stimulate Auditory Processing Skills - They present different types of modules (signed separately according to the needs of each individual) - Contains more than 8 types of different stimuli within the modules - Countless possibilities for variation of difficulties - Games in all modules to level progress and the need to continue training - Unlimited number of players Include the following modules: - Alternated Dichotic - Dichotic Digits - Non-verbal Sounds - Sequential Memory - Speech Identification - Temporal Pattern - Temporal Resolution
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Auditory Training at 5.0 against Sounds Essentials's 1.0. Sounds Essentials's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Sounds Essentials sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Auditory Training sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Auditory Training holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Sounds Essentials ships an update every 2 days, Auditory Training every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sounds Essentials | Auditory Training |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 121 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nabeel Ahmed Khan | Thais Zemlickas Silva |
Customer experience
Sounds Essentials
Auditory Training
In-app purchases
Sounds Essentials
- Sounds Essentials Full Access$1.99
Auditory Training
- Temporal Pattern - 3 months$2.99
- Non-Verbal Sounds - 3 months$2.99
- Dichotic Digits - 3 months$2.99
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- Sequential Memory - 3 months$2.99
- Alternated Dichotic - 3 months$2.99
- Temporal Pattern - 1 year$9.99
- Non-Verbal Sounds - 1 year$9.99
- Dichotic Digits - 1 year$9.99
- Temporal Resolution - 1 year$9.99
- Sequential Memory - 1 year$9.99
- Alternated Dichotic - 1 year$9.99
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