Mood Toolbox vs Verbal AUTISM Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Verbal AUTISM Plus
This communication app offers extensive customization for users with autism. It supports text-to-speech for phrases and sentences, allowing for personalized icon, photo, and text options. Families can easily connect with non-speaking loved ones on the autism spectrum.
- Text-to-speech for phrases and sentences
- Up to 4 custom sections
- Customizable icons, photos, and text
- Subscription profiles for cross-device access
- Facilitates connection with non-speaking loved ones
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Global Education Development is excited to introduce Verbal A.U.T.I.S.M. Plus! Taking communication to the next level, Verbal A.U.T.I.S.M. Plus is designed to allow complete customization to fit all of our users needs. With Plus version users can use text to speech for phrases and sentences. Customize up to 4 custom sections. Icons, photos, and text are all customizable. Verbal A.U.T.I.S.M. “A Unique Trait In Special Minds” makes it easy for families to connect with their nonspeaking loved ones on the Autism Spectrum. Terms of use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Verbal AUTISM Plus at 100% against Mood Toolbox's 0%. Verbal AUTISM Plus also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.7). Mood Toolbox's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Mood Toolbox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Verbal AUTISM Plus sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Verbal AUTISM Plus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Mood Toolbox's written reviews are positive against 100% of Verbal AUTISM Plus's.
Mood Toolbox ships an update fortnightly, Verbal AUTISM Plus monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mood Toolbox | Verbal AUTISM Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Natalie Clarke | Global Education Development LLC |
Customer experience
Mood Toolbox
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In-app purchases
Mood Toolbox
- Mood Toolbox$2.99
Verbal AUTISM Plus
- Plus Full Access$5.991 Month
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