Comparison

First Grade Skills vs Verb Toolbox

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

Head to head
About

First Grade Skills

This app offers engaging multiple-choice activities designed to help first graders build essential academic skills. It covers topics like telling time, money, vocabulary, and reading comprehension, aiming to improve test scores. It's a fun and convenient tool for learning at home or while traveling.

Highlights
  • Multiple choice activities
  • Telling time practice
  • Money skills
  • Vocabulary building
  • Reading comprehension
  • Word problem solving
Features
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Give your first grader a head start as they have fun with these multiple choice activities. Excellent way to build basic skills and raise test scores. They will review telling time, money, word problem, vocabulary, and reading skills. Great for use at home or on the go.

About

Verb Toolbox

This app provides targeted exercises for individuals with comprehension and word-finding challenges. It offers activities focused on understanding verbs, retrieving and naming them, and producing them in sentences, with progress tracking features.

Highlights
  • Verb comprehension exercises
  • Verb retrieval and naming activities
  • Sentence production practice
  • Errorless learning approach
  • Semantic feature analysis
  • Response elaboration therapy
  • Customizable verb testing
  • Progress tracking and reporting
Features
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Verb Toolbox is a professional speech therapy app designed for older children and adults with comprehension and/or word-finding difficulties.  It targets listening and reading comprehension of verbs, verb retrieval and naming as well as verb production in sentences.  Verb Toolbox has 6 activities: Comprehension Listen: In the activity, the person is required to understand the spoken verb and match it to the corresponding picture. There is a choice of 2, 3, 4 or 6 pictures. Read: In this activity, the person is required to read and understand the written verb and match it to the corresponding picture. There is a choice of 2, 3, 4 or 6 pictures. Naming & Sentence Production Repeat: This activity uses an evidence-based treatment approach called Errorless Learning. The app repeats the name of the verb 3 times and asks the user to repeat it 3 times. Describe: This activity uses an evidence-based treatment approach called Semantic Feature Analysis. There are 6 questions designed to prompt the user to describe each feature of the action/verb and ultimately improve their naming/verb retrieval. Elaborate: This activity is based on a treatment approach called Response Elaboration Therapy. It uses 'Wh' questions (Who, What, Where, Why) to help the user to expand their answers when describing the picture. Assessment Verb Test: A fully customisable test which allows you to choose the verbs you wish to include. Keep track of client progress over time by emailing result summaries or by checking the in-built record of scores. The app includes: - Over 100 clear, large, high-quality colour pictures of people doing a range of activities such as eating a hamburger, driving a car, bowling, sight-seeing etc. - Adjustable difficulty levels in comprehension tasks - The option to add multiple users - Results summary that can be emailed - Results tracking and in-built storage - No subscriptions, no monthly bills, no Wi-fi needed All Aptus Speech & Language Therapy apps participate in the 50% off Volume Purchase Program, so talk to your school about buying in bulk!

Screenshots

Verb Toolbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Verb Toolbox at 100% against First Grade Skills's 50%. Verb Toolbox also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 39 months) and chart position (#181 vs unranked). First Grade Skills's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $11.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

First Grade Skills costs $0.99 and Verb Toolbox $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

First Grade Skills ships an update every 39 months, Verb Toolbox every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
First Grade Skills versus Verb Toolbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirst Grade SkillsVerb Toolbox
Price$0.99 — better$11.99
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 39 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#181 — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVisual Learning Aids, LLCAptus Speech and Language Therapy Limited

Customer experience

First Grade Skills

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

Verb Toolbox

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

First Grade Skills

No in-app purchases

None

Verb Toolbox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is First Grade Skills free?
First Grade Skills costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Verb Toolbox free?
Verb Toolbox costs $11.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do First Grade Skills or Verb Toolbox have ads?
Neither First Grade Skills nor Verb Toolbox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, First Grade Skills or Verb Toolbox?
First Grade Skills ships an update every 39 months, and Verb Toolbox every 5 months. Most recently, First Grade Skills was updated on June 4, 2026 and Verb Toolbox on August 21, 2026.

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