Comparison

ASL Study vs Bright Signs Learning with Fun

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

Head to head
About

ASL Study

Learn American Sign Language with a comprehensive app designed for easy interaction and connection. It offers a vast vocabulary and sentence library, covering daily life, emotions, and specific topics like sports and travel. Test your knowledge with quizzes and bookmark favorite signs for quick reference.

Highlights
  • Extensive vocabulary and sentence library
  • Bookmark favorite signs
  • Covers daily life topics
  • Includes emotions and expressions
  • Test your knowledge quizzes
  • Topic-specific learning modules
Features
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This ASL app is specially designed to learn American sign language and help individuals to interact with auditory impairment, and connect with a whole new world. This ASL app will help you to converse with friends and family with auditory impairment. With the years of sign language teaching experience, demographics and experimentation we have put together an app with the complete set of words and sentences needed by you to connect the in auditory word to the auditory world. This app comes with an array of features that help make ASL learning fun and easy. ASL Study app is packed with basics to advanced asl content. ASL Learning was never easier to learn as they are now with the all-new American sign language app. This is the app to rely on with 450 common sentences and over 8500 words to connect you with the special world around you. This app covers all the basics of daily life conversations, the homepage has the following features: • Bookmark With the ASL study App, you can bookmark and save your favorite signs for later referencing. • Date Time and Weather It is the basis of every conversation starter; days of the week, the months and seasons, signing time and types of weather. • Expression This part covers, common to daily life expressions, customary questions, and idioms. • Emotions. This app helps ASL learners to express daily life feelings such as; positive, neutral and negative emotions. • Lifestyle Whether you are a fashionista, a social media fanatic, a party guru or like other forms of entertainment. It doesn't matter this app will help you Express your lifestyle choice. • Sports This app will help you explore the world of sports in a way, you didn't think was possible. • Food and Cooking Do you love cooking, are you a food junkie? Well, what are you looking for let's dive right into it then? • Holidays Doesn't matter from what religion or ethnicity you are from, Do you love holidays? Let's start celebrating then! • Transportation and Travel Just pack your suitcase and get going, the whole world awaits you. • Emergency and Disaster Our ASL Study app will help you convey your situation to the authorities in the most effective way possible, with our ASL dictionary you are in safe hands. • People and Family Let us help you recognize relationships like you never did before with the world of ASL. Connect with every relation with the unique individual way it deserves. • Education The early bird years will not be a problem now with our set off words and phrases perfect for the young mind. •Test Your Knowledge Test Your Knowledge section designed to keep track of your learning. You can attempt a quiz to see where you stand. This app has been signed by individuals with auditory impairment, to help us bring the ASL world to you in it’s truest sense. This is by far the best ASL learning app available in the market with a complete array of words and sentences. It’s just not an app it’s a vision, to help bring both worlds together. Please contact us at aslstudyapp@gmail.com for your precious advice and suggestions, we look forward to improving what we have created to ensure customer satisfaction! Let's ROCK!

About

Bright Signs Learning with Fun

This educational app uses sign language and a multi-sensory approach to teach early reading concepts, communication, and speech skills to young children. It features interactive flashcards, games, and videos to make learning fun and engaging.

Highlights
  • Baby sign language instruction
  • Interactive flashcards for learning and quizzing
  • Memory card game for letter identification
  • Phonics and early reading concepts
  • Multi-sensory learning experience
  • Videos and interactive fun
Features
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Bright Signs Learning is an award winning learning program that introduces early reading concepts through sign language and a multi-sensory experience that includes videos, interactive sign language flashcards for learning and quizzing, memory card game for letter identification and phonics, and lots of interactive fun! This fun, natural and educational learning app puts young children on the path to joyful learning. Benefits of the Bright Signs Learning Videos: - Early Communication - Child/Parent Bonding - Cuts Down on Tantrums - Enhances Speech and Language - Aids in the Acquisition of Reading Skills - Boosts Confidence Reading: Children learn early reading concepts through sign language, letter identification and phonics. This teaching approach uses sign language to enhance word recognition, language and reading skills in children. Sign Language: Many studies support sign language as an effective tool for teaching hearing kids to read. By using baby sign language while learning to read, both sides of the brain are activated simultaneously which is an extremely powerful learning tool. Speech: Bright Signs Learning introduces baby sign language basics which aids in early communication. Phonetic building blocks aid in speech acquisition and clarity and early reading concepts are explored using multiple senses. This preschool learning app goes well beyond just learning the ABC’s phonics song; children learn baby sign language alongside phonetic building blocks. Sign language for Babies: Ms. Shelby and her puppet Paulie teach baby sign language in a fun, captivating way that stimulates the attention of babies, toddlers and young children. The baby sign language flashcards section of this app give parents and children a chance to practice and test what they’ve learned. This baby learn and sign program readily offers the tools and benefits of parenting with sign language. Learning Kit Awards: •Tillywig Brain Child award 2015 •Moms Best 2016 •Family Choice 2017 •The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval 2017 Our Mission Our mission is to put children on the path to joyful learning. We believe that effective learning happens when children are having fun! This builds confidence which we believe is an essential building block in creating joyful learners. Bright Signs Learning explores reading concepts aurally, visually and kinesthetically, while also exploring basic building blocks of learning such as colors, shapes, spelling, alphabet tracing and much much more! Both the left and right side of the brain are activated simultaneously creating more neural pathways to retrieve information.

Screenshots

ASL Study4 screens
Bright Signs Learning with Fun4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bright Signs Learning with Fun at 4.6 against ASL Study's 3.6. Bright Signs Learning with Fun also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 43%) and ads (none vs shown). ASL Study's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (198 vs 25). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Both are free to download. ASL Study sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Bright Signs Learning with Fun sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bright Signs Learning with Fun holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ASL Study has 198 ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of ASL Study's written reviews are positive against 80% of Bright Signs Learning with Fun's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ASL Study ships an update fortnightly, Bright Signs Learning with Fun every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ASL Study versus Bright Signs Learning with Fun: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterASL StudyBright Signs Learning with Fun
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (198 ratings)4.6 (25 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.6% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings198 — better25
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB2.9 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSaeed BashirBright Signs learning LLC

Customer experience

ASL Study

All ratings198 ratings
Positive61.1%
Neutral11.6%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive42.6%
Neutral14.7%
Negative42.6%

Bright Signs Learning with Fun

All ratings25 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

ASL Study

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Server error preventing premium unlock processing
  • Restore purchases feature not recognizing paid content
  • Test Your Knowledge section unresponsive to selections
  • Full-screen ads with uncloseable X button
  • Lesson notification appears but no lessons available
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  • Search functionality not returning expected results
  • App crashes when closing intrusive ads
  • Inconsistent pricing displayed (lifetime vs. annual subscription)

Requested features

11 requests
  • Structured lesson plans instead of à la carte words
  • Slower video playback with better clarity
  • Better video framing to show full hand positions
  • Colorblind-friendly indicators for Test Your Knowledge
  • Static images/diagrams alongside videos
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  • Audio instructions for additional learning dimension
  • Auto-play feature for sequential sign learning
  • More complete categories (e.g., school subjects, emergency phrases)
  • Missing months (October, November) and seasons (Spring, Fall)
  • Improved facial expression demonstrations
  • Reduced or ad-free experience for paid users

Bright Signs Learning with Fun

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

ASL Study

One-time11
  • Sports$0.99
  • Food & Cooking$0.99
  • Holidays$0.99
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  • Transportation & Travel$0.99
  • People & Family$0.99
  • Emergency & Disaster$0.99
  • Education$0.99
  • Upgrade to Study Pack$2.99
  • ASL Categories$3.99
  • Support Us with a Coffee$3.99
  • ASL Study Pack$5.99
1 purchases

Bright Signs Learning with Fun

One-time1
  • Unlock Content$4.99

Questions

Is ASL Study free?
ASL Study is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bright Signs Learning with Fun free?
Bright Signs Learning with Fun is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ASL Study or Bright Signs Learning with Fun?
Bright Signs Learning with Fun is rated higher. ASL Study averages 3.6 out of 5 from 198 ratings, while Bright Signs Learning with Fun averages 4.6 from 25 ratings.
Do ASL Study or Bright Signs Learning with Fun have ads?
ASL Study shows ads; Bright Signs Learning with Fun does not.
Which is updated more often, ASL Study or Bright Signs Learning with Fun?
ASL Study ships an update fortnightly, and Bright Signs Learning with Fun every 5 weeks. Most recently, ASL Study was updated on September 20, 2026 and Bright Signs Learning with Fun on September 16, 2026.

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