Comparison

Braille Bubbles vs GoTap Braille

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

Head to head
About

Braille Bubbles

Features
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What a great fun way to learn Braille characters - with bubbles! The goal is simple - a Roman letter is randomly selected and random bubbles with Braille characters rise across the screen. When you find a Braille bubble that matches the goal Roman character touch it, pop it, and get a point. If you pop a bubble that doesn't match you lose a life (heart). If you miss a matching bubble and it reaches the top you lose a life. Not to fear, you can set how fast bubbles appear and how fast they rise to the top. You can also turn on hints that flash the Braille letter over the Roman letter AND will flash a circle around the bubble on the screen. Track your success for every letter. If you wish you can reset all the points saved and restore the game to the initial settings. It's maximum fun and flexibility!

About

GoTap Braille

This interactive application teaches braille to visually impaired and sighted children through over 80 pages of engaging lessons. It reinforces learning with auditory feedback, tactile activities, and the incorporation of common sight words. Designed for inclusive classrooms and remote learning, it helps students master braille contractions and reading.

Highlights
  • Interactive braille lessons
  • Auditory feedback
  • Tactile discrimination activities
  • Braille contraction formation
  • Sight word integration
  • Sentence and paragraph reading
Features
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Are you looking for the perfect solution to teach braille to students who attend inclusive classrooms or a solution to teach students to read braille during remote/distance learning? GoTap Braille contains over 80 pages of interactive lessons that teach and reinforce braille. Designed to be used by both children with significant visual impairments and by sighted children, GoTap Braille was designed to teach braille contractions in the manner that typically developing sighted peers learn to read. Sighted students can use the app to learn to read print while sitting alongside the student who is learning the same information in braille. Developed by Dr. Betsy Flener, winner of the National Braille Press Louis Braille Touch of Genius Competition in 2015, GoTap Braille was designed by thorough examination of the features in the most popular literacy apps that actively engage sighted students. Features include the opportunity to match braille words and contractions on the accompanying overlays with auditory feedback, create and form words with various contractions, make sentences with various short words, read sentences and paragraphs on the overlays, and read a short story, all with auditory reinforcement. The app includes: • Over 80 pages of interactive activities that teach all 190 Literary and basic punctuation contractions • Includes tactile discrimination activities early in the app • Incorporates the Dolch Sight Words and Fry Sight Words • Includes close to 500 braille 3-D Tiles that are sight words or braille contractions • Includes 36 vinyl braille overlays produced by the National Braille Press along with various vinyl template overlays to introduce and match contractions • Designed to be used by teachers of the visually impaired (TVI) and also paraprofessionals and parents working under the direction of the TVI

Screenshots

Braille Bubbles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: GoTap Braille at Free against Braille Bubbles's $1.99. GoTap Braille also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 36 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 11.0). Braille Bubbles's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

GoTap Braille is free to download; Braille Bubbles costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Braille Bubbles ships an update every 36 months, GoTap Braille every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Braille Bubbles versus GoTap Braille: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBraille BubblesGoTap Braille
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating—3.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 36 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS11.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB202 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid LovisonAttainment Company

In-app purchases

None

Braille Bubbles

No in-app purchases

None

GoTap Braille

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Braille Bubbles free?
Braille Bubbles costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is GoTap Braille free?
GoTap Braille is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Braille Bubbles or GoTap Braille have ads?
Neither Braille Bubbles nor GoTap Braille shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Braille Bubbles or GoTap Braille?
Braille Bubbles ships an update every 36 months, and GoTap Braille every 2 months. Most recently, Braille Bubbles was updated on October 26, 2026 and GoTap Braille on October 10, 2026.

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