Comparison

WhQuestions vs Inference Pics

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

Head to head
About

WhQuestions

This app helps children improve their question-asking and answering skills. It offers over 400 picture-based scenarios for focused practice on Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How questions. Designed by a Speech-Language Pathologist, it includes data tracking and customizable learning options.

Highlights
  • Practice all six WH question types
  • 400+ real-world picture scenarios
  • Multiplayer mode for up to 6 players
  • Automatic data tracking and progress reports
  • Customizable learning goals
  • Record & playback for self-monitoring
Features
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WH Questions: The Essential Tool for Mastering Question Skills in Children Designed by a certified Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP), WH Questions is the engaging, multiplayer game essential for improving question-answer and question-asking skills. If your child or student struggles to understand or form grammatically correct questions (Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How), this powerful app provides the focused practice they need. With over 400 real-world, picture-based opportunities, WH Questions makes therapy and home practice effective, measurable, and fun. Stop guessing—start tracking real progress today! Key Features for SLPs, Educators, and Families Target All Six Question Types: Comprehensive practice for Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How. 400+ Real-World Stimuli: A large library of high-quality picture scenarios ensures children get high-volume practice for better generalization and carryover of skills. Multiplayer Fun: Play with up to 6 students or children in a single session. Easily select different question targets for each player. Automatic Data Tracking: Collect session-specific data with a single tap. The app does the math for you, tracking accuracy and performance across all question types. Visual Progress Reports: Instantly view color-coded reports that show accuracy and targeted questions for every session, making it easy for anyone to monitor growth. Fully Customizable Learning The app is built to adapt to the student's specific goals, whether in a clinic, classroom, or home setting: Goal Flexibility: Easily switch the target from answering questions to asking questions. Simply turn off the written question prompt to work on spontaneous expressive language skills. Develop Self-Monitoring: The built-in Record & Playback function allows children to record their verbal responses and listen back, fostering critical self-monitoring abilities. Control the Challenge: Adjust settings to focus on one WH question type at a time or randomize questions for a greater challenge. Auditory Focus: Option to hide written text to ensure the child is attending to and processing the auditory stimuli. Download WH Questions now to bring expert-designed language intervention right to your fingertips!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Social inferencing activities
  • Recognize facial expressions
  • Understand body language
  • Improve expressive language
  • Tailor activities to client level
  • Includes 7 distinct activities
Features
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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.

Screenshots

WhQuestions4 screens
Inference Pics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: WhQuestions at 64% against Inference Pics's 0%. Inference Pics's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

WhQuestions costs $19.99 and Inference Pics $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Inference Pics holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 16 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of WhQuestions's written reviews are positive against 0% of Inference Pics's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WhQuestions ships an update every 4 months, Inference Pics every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on August 26, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
WhQuestions versus Inference Pics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhQuestionsInference Pics
Price$19.99$19.99
Rating4.5 (12 ratings)4.9 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1216 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size265 MB158 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmarty EarsAptus Speech and Language Therapy Limited

Customer experience

WhQuestions

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive63.9%
Neutral11.5%
Negative24.6%

Inference Pics

All ratings16 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

WhQuestions

No in-app purchases

None

Inference Pics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WhQuestions free?
WhQuestions costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Inference Pics free?
Inference Pics costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WhQuestions or Inference Pics?
Inference Pics is rated higher. WhQuestions averages 4.5 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Inference Pics averages 4.9 from 16 ratings.
Do WhQuestions or Inference Pics have ads?
Neither WhQuestions nor Inference Pics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WhQuestions or Inference Pics?
WhQuestions ships an update every 4 months, and Inference Pics every 3 months. Most recently, WhQuestions was updated on August 26, 2026 and Inference Pics on September 17, 2026.

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