Comparison

Inference Pics vs Mood Toolbox

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

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About

Inference Pics

This app helps children and adults improve social inferencing skills through real-life photos and scenarios. It offers various activities to recognize facial expressions, body language, and contextual clues for better social communication.

Highlights
  • Social inferencing activities
  • Recognize facial expressions
  • Understand body language
  • Improve expressive language
  • Tailor activities to client level
  • Includes 7 distinct activities
Features
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Work more effectively on social inferencing goals in speech and language therapy. Help children and adults with social communication difficulties improve their ability to make social inferences. Social inferencing skills are best developed using real-life photos and scenarios. - Get a speech therapy tool that helps older children, teens and adults recognise facial expressions, interpret body language, and use contextual clues to make social inferences. - Improve expressive language, social skills, thinking and reasoning by using this speech therapy app. - Create the right experience for each client by choosing a social inferencing activity that matches their level. *** “When working with older students or adults, Inference Pics is a fantastic solution that offers flexibility and ease of use... this stands out to help clients with important inferencing skills.” — Dan Fitch, CCC-SLP “My clients love this app, and I love using it with them. It's my go-to when working on social inferencing, understanding emotions and working on expressive language.” — Hannah O'Driscoll, CCC-SLP *** TRY INFERENCE PICS FOR FREE Download the Lite version to try a free sample of the full version. Finding interesting and engaging social inferencing photos and scenarios is surprisingly hard even for speech-language pathologists and speech and language therapists. Think of this app as your helper, taking the pressure out of finding suitable social inferencing photos and scenarios for use in speech therapy sessions. 7 READY-TO-USE SOCIAL INFERENCING ACTIVITIES Inference Pics includes 7 activities: - What Has Happened? - Jobs - Places - Seasons - Feelings - Conversations - Thoughts HOW IT WORKS STEP 1: CHOOSE A SOCIAL INFERENCING ACTIVITY Tailor your client’s experience by choosing an activity that matches their level. Jobs, Places and Seasons are easier activities, while What Has Happened?, Thoughts and Conversations are more complex. STEP 2: MAKE AN INFERENCE Users are presented with a real-life photo and asked a question such as: - What has happened? - How is the person feeling? - What are they saying? - What are they thinking? The first question varies depending on the chosen social inferencing activity. STEP 3: EXPLAIN THE REASONING Users then answer: "How can you tell?" This encourages them to identify facial expressions, body language, and contextual clues that support their answer. An annotation tool allows users to draw directly on the image to highlight facial expressions, body language, and contextual clues, and explain their reasoning. WHO IS INFERENCE PICS FOR? - Parents - Teachers - Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) / speech and language therapists (SLTs) - Children and teenagers with language delay, social communication difficulties, or autism - Adults with cognitive-communication difficulties due to stroke or traumatic brain injury - Adults with social communication difficulties and/or autism The app is intended to be used interactively with a parent, teacher, therapist, child, or adult user. SKILLS TARGETED - Expressive language - Social skills, thinking and reasoning - Social inferencing - Recognising facial expressions and body language - Understanding emotions - Reading comprehension FEATURES - Over 350 high-quality real-life social inferencing photos - Two questions per photo - An annotation tool for highlighting clues - User profiles - Questions that prompt inferential reasoning - Option to show or hide possible answers - Results summary that can be emailed - Results tracking and built-in storage - No subscriptions - No monthly bills - No Wi-Fi required Inference Pics is designed to help speech-language pathologists, teachers, parents and caregivers work on higher-level expressive language, cognitive-communication, pragmatic language, and social communication skills.

About

Mood Toolbox

This app offers games and tips to help children understand and manage their emotions. It features interactive characters, social stories, and mood tracking to support emotional intelligence development, particularly for children with ASD and special needs.

Highlights
  • Interactive Moodzies for mood recognition
  • Strategies for mood management
  • Social stories for emotional regulation
  • Focusing games for calming
  • Achievement system for motivation
  • Daily mood tracking
Features
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Do you know a child that is moody and needs help with regulating their emotions? Mood Tool Box provides games and tips for emotional intelligence. Created by a mom of son with ASD and Special Education teacher with over 30 years experience, this app particularly helps parents, teachers and practitioners to manage moods in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Aspergers and Special Needs. MOOD TOOLBOX has the following features: *FUN CHARACTER affectionately called Moodzies in this mood app helps to encourage children to recognize their own moods. Each Moodzie has a color that represents different moods, such as anger, sadness etc. *LEARN ABOUT STRATEGIES FOR MOOD MANAGEMENT- Moodzie can change moods and in this mood app, children can learn techniques to help understand and balance their moods in a healthy way to find happiness again. BASED on strategies that were utilised by the designer to help her son Ben with emotional regulation and students taught in Elementary, Middle schools and Special Schools. There is also the opportunity to unlock the Mood Tool Box program with a printable posters. *SOCIAL STORIES that show children visually how Moodzie can emotionally regulate. There are three Moodzie Adventure Stories included: Moodzie Chooses Happy, Moodzie Gets Agro and Moodzie Blues. *INCLUDES GAMES that help focus the mind on something different, allowing the child to become calm enough to think about his or her moods through the various strategies included. *ACHIEVEMENTS LIST encourages children to succeed by rewarding them with the unlocking the opportunity for additional games and other features once they have achieved their goals by working with the mood app. *MOOD TRACKING- Unlike most apps for emotional intelligence, this app allows you to track - the different moods your child or student may be feeling on a daily basis so you can take note of what strategies worked. It’s also an excellent choice of ADHD tools for children with ADHD and similar challenges. This App can be used at home, at school or during services such as speech therapy to help children learn to communicate their emotions. Download Mood Toolbox, the free app with in-app purchases and introduce your child or your student to emotional intelligence today! Additional App Features: * Mood themed App with vivid, beautiful graphics and posters available * Customise your Moodzie, balls, sky and path with one simple in-app purchase * Simple tap-to-play interface allows children to begin calming right away * Add music to the game by choosing from a selection of tracks that aim at calming the child * Compatible with Facebook, Twitter and World Leaderboards to post scores * Teaches tips about emotional regulation and intelligence in a fun, engaging way * Developed by a mom of a child with ASD and a Special Education Teacher with over 30 years experience.

Screenshots

Inference Pics4 screens
Mood Toolbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Mood Toolbox at Free against Inference Pics's $19.99. Mood Toolbox also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Inference Pics's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 3.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On review sentiment, ads 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

Mood Toolbox is free to download; Inference Pics costs $19.99 up front. Mood Toolbox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Inference Pics asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Inference Pics holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inference Pics has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Inference Pics ships an update every 3 months, Mood Toolbox fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Inference Pics versus Mood Toolbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInference PicsMood Toolbox
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (17 ratings) — better3.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size158 MB113 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAptus Speech and Language Therapy LimitedNatalie Clarke

Customer experience

Inference Pics

All ratings17 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Mood Toolbox

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Inference Pics

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Mood Toolbox

One-time1
  • Mood Toolbox$2.99

Questions

Is Inference Pics free?
Inference Pics costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mood Toolbox free?
Mood Toolbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Inference Pics or Mood Toolbox?
Inference Pics is rated higher. Inference Pics averages 4.9 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while Mood Toolbox averages 3.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Inference Pics or Mood Toolbox have ads?
Neither Inference Pics nor Mood Toolbox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Inference Pics or Mood Toolbox?
Inference Pics ships an update every 3 months, and Mood Toolbox fortnightly. Most recently, Inference Pics was updated on October 8, 2026 and Mood Toolbox on October 4, 2026.

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