Inference Pics vs Basic Concepts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Social inferencing activities
- Recognize facial expressions
- Understand body language
- Improve expressive language
- Tailor activities to client level
- Includes 7 distinct activities
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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.
Basic Concepts
This is a learning game designed for children. It aims to introduce fundamental concepts through engaging gameplay. The app is free to download and play, making educational content accessible.
- Educational game for kids
- Introduces basic concepts
- Free to download and play
- Designed for young learners
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Basic Concepts for kids a learning game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Basic Concepts at Free against Inference Pics's $19.99. Basic Concepts also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Inference Pics's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (17 vs 1). On review sentiment, 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
Basic Concepts is free to download; Inference Pics costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Inference Pics holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inference Pics has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
Inference Pics ships an update every 3 months, Basic Concepts fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inference Pics | Basic Concepts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (17 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 158 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aptus Speech and Language Therapy Limited | Zavier Williams |
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Inference Pics
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In-app purchases
Inference Pics
No in-app purchases
Basic Concepts
No in-app purchases
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