Comparison

Positive Looking To Go vs Visual LightPad

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

Head to head
About

Positive Looking To Go

This app offers a wide range of skills, activities, and resources designed for educators and parents. It supports the development of children and young learners with special educational needs and visual impairments.

Highlights
  • Skills and activities collection
  • Resources for teachers
  • Resources for parents
  • Supports children with SEND
  • Supports children with VI
  • On-the-go access
Features
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A comprehensive collection of skills, activities and resources for teachers, teaching assistants and parents to educate and develop children and young learners with SEND and VI.

About

Visual LightPad

Features
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Visual LightPad creates a bright illuminated surface for developing visual perceptual and visual motor skills in people with visual impairment. It's a cheaper alternative to expensive, dedicated hardware visual impairment light boxes. Think of it as a digital light box! Adjust Visual LightPad's brightness and color, then place semi transparent toys, numbers or letters on the iPad's screen. Where colors become difficult, open the color picker and change the background color to something that accentuates the toys. Where hardware light boxes can be associated with work, iPads tend to be associated with play. Visual LightPad helps develop awareness to color and light, but using objects also helps in the development of visual perceptual skills, hand eye coordination, and both visual scanning and tracking. Visual LightPad can also be used for; - Reading content printed onto acetate - Providing a reading backlight when paper documents are placed on top of it - Photo negative illumination - Sensory / mood lighting Visual LightPad is purposefully easy to use and relatively low on features. It supports presets for easy saving and recall of preferred settings. It is designed to run on iPad, but also runs on iPhone - meaning you can keep a small light box in your pocket at all times.

Screenshots

Positive Looking To Go4 screens
Visual LightPad1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Visual LightPad at weekly against Positive Looking To Go's every 3 months. Positive Looking To Go's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Positive Looking To Go ships an update every 3 months, Visual LightPad weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Positive Looking To Go versus Visual LightPad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPositive Looking To GoVisual LightPad
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLisa ThomasonAW Games

In-app purchases

None

Positive Looking To Go

No in-app purchases

None

Visual LightPad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Positive Looking To Go free?
Positive Looking To Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Visual LightPad free?
Visual LightPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Positive Looking To Go or Visual LightPad have ads?
Neither Positive Looking To Go nor Visual LightPad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Positive Looking To Go or Visual LightPad?
Positive Looking To Go ships an update every 3 months, and Visual LightPad weekly. Most recently, Positive Looking To Go was updated on October 7, 2026 and Visual LightPad on October 4, 2026.

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