SoundingBoard vs Catch The Cow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SoundingBoard
Create custom communication boards quickly using pre-made symbols or your own words. This app provides a powerful tool for individuals needing alternative communication methods. It supports switch access for enhanced usability.
- Customizable communication boards
- AbleNet symbol integration
- User-added words
- Switch access support
- Compatible with AbleNet Blue2 Switch
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SoundingBoard transforms your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad into the latest in communication technology. In just minutes, you can create custom boards using AbleNet symbols or your own words. Perfect for children in special education, persons on the autism spectrum, and adults with disabilities. SoundingBoard includes switch access and is compatible with the AbleNet Blue2 Switch.
Catch The Cow
This app assists individuals with physical disabilities in developing picture selection skills using scanning or direct touch methods. It's designed for educational settings to assess and build foundational choice-making abilities, with adjustable difficulty levels.
- Picture selection training
- Scanning device compatibility
- Direct touch input
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- External switch support
- Comparison of scanning vs. direct touch accuracy
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Catch the Cow helps children and adults with physical disabilities, to learn to select pictures using a scanning device. It allows teachers, clinicians or parents to assess whether a user can learn beginning skills for choice making through auto scanning. Direct touch can also be used and accuracy of the two modes can be compared. Initially the user selects one of two squares. Then the level of difficulty gradually increases to select a picture from multiple rows and columns. Catch the Cow provides a large on-screen button for selection as shown. An option is provided to use it with an external switch that is compatible with the Apple Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard. The space, enter, ~, 1, 2, 3 or 4 key equivalents can be used to select. Compatible Bluetooth controllers and switches are available from RJ Cooper & Asoociates Inc. and Ablenet Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SoundingBoard at 48% against Catch The Cow's 0%. SoundingBoard also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 14 months). Catch The Cow's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
SoundingBoard is free to download; Catch The Cow costs $2.99 up front. SoundingBoard sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Catch The Cow asks for nothing beyond the download.
Catch The Cow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SoundingBoard has 34 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of SoundingBoard's written reviews are positive against 0% of Catch The Cow's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SoundingBoard ships an update every 3 months, Catch The Cow every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SoundingBoard | Catch The Cow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AbleNet | Computerade Products |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
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Catch The Cow
No in-app purchases
