Comparison

Pictello Visual Stories vs Difficult Situations Fun Deck

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

Head to head
About

Pictello Visual Stories

Create engaging visual stories and social schedules with photos, videos, and text. Supports literacy development through features like word-by-word highlighting and text-to-speech. Easily share your creations with others or export them for wider distribution.

Highlights
  • Create visual stories with photos and videos
  • Text-to-speech and voice recording
  • Word-by-word text highlighting
  • Built-in word prediction
  • Import books from Tar Heel Reader
  • Share stories via server or Dropbox
  • Export to PDF or print
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Everyone loves to tell fun, engaging, and imaginative stories. Go ahead and make a social story or visual schedule for a child with autism or a slide show of holiday pictures for your friends - Pictello makes it a breeze to create and share! Whether you use the included natural-sounding Text to Speech voices, or record your own voice, Pictello is the perfect tool for visual storytelling. Each page in a Pictello story consists of a photo or video and some text, which can be read aloud by a Text to Speech voice or your own recorded audio. Develop literacy skills - Support reading with word-by-word text highlighting - Develop writing and spelling with built-in word prediction and Speak as You Type - Create stories to teach academic and social skills - Import free early literacy and adapted academic books from Tar Heel Reader Create and playback with ease - Let students use the wizard to create stories - Play stories page by page or as a slideshow - Use Text to Speech voices to read the story - Turn on switch access for story playback Integrate multimedia - Add your own photos - Include short video clips - Record your own voice or sound Share your stories - Share with other Pictello users through our free sharing server - Use Dropbox to exchange stories - Export to PDF or print to share with non-Pictello users Speak your language - Pick English, Spanish, German, French, Italian or Dutch for the user interface - Select from over 110 free Text to Speech voices in 29 languages - Use genuine American, British, Australian, American-Spanish, Swedish, French, Italian, German, Norwegian and Swedish children's voices - Create interest with fun character and specialty voices Customize to fit your needs - Pick between Wizard or Expert creation modes - Swipe or automatically turn pages - Adjust speech rate and pronunciations Read more at www.assistiveware.com/products/pictello Additional Note: Educational institutions can get a 50% discount if they purchase 20 or more licenses through Apple’s Volume Licensing Program for Education.

About

Difficult Situations Fun Deck

This educational app uses illustrated flashcards to teach children how to react and solve problems in stressful situations. It includes audio prompts and allows for tracking student responses, with options to print or email results.

Highlights
  • 56 illustrated flashcards
  • Audio playback of prompts
  • Safety and emotion discussion prompts
  • Response tracking (correct/incorrect)
  • Unlimited player support
  • Printable and emailable results
  • Portrait/landscape orientation
Features
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This colorful educational App for the iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch® has all 56 illustrated picture flash cards (plus audio of each card’s text) from the Difficult Situations Fun Deck® by Super Duper® Publications. Select the cards you want to use in order to teach and discuss safety, and talk about feelings and emotions as students learn how to react and solve problems quickly in a variety of stressful situations. The prompts include situations like, “Someone at school is bullying you and won’t stop,” and “Someone calls your house when you are alone and asks to speak to your mom.” This App is simple to use — each student looks at an illustration and either reads the prompt or touches the screen to listen to the prompt. The student then gives a verbal response. After each answer, tap the green (correct) or red (incorrect) button to score the student’s verbal response. Move to the next card by sliding the card currently on the display screen to the side. To move to the next player, tap the bar at the top of the screen and select a name. You can also advance cards and players automatically by selecting the Auto-Advance option in the Game Options menu. You can leave a game temporarily and return to it later by selecting Pause Game from the menu. To return to the game, select Continue Game from the main menu. When you finish, view the results in a graph, and print or email your data. Difficult Situations Fun Deck® App lets you: • Use the app in portrait or landscape orientation. • Select all 56 cards or just the ones you want students to see. • Track correct and incorrect responses for an unlimited number of players. • Advance players and cards manually or automatically. • Discontinue game play and continue at any time. • View results in a graph and see which questions a player missed during a session. • Print, e-mail, and share your results.

Screenshots

Pictello Visual Stories4 screens
Difficult Situations Fun Deck4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pictello Visual Stories and Difficult Situations Fun Deck both sit at 4.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 71% of Pictello Visual Stories's written reviews are positive against 0% of Difficult Situations Fun Deck's. Pictello Visual Stories also leads on ratings volume (33 vs 1). Difficult Situations Fun Deck's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $19.99) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Pictello Visual Stories costs $19.99 and Difficult Situations Fun Deck $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Pictello Visual Stories against 4.0 for Difficult Situations Fun Deck. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pictello Visual Stories has 33 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Pictello Visual Stories's written reviews are positive against 0% of Difficult Situations Fun Deck's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pictello Visual Stories ships an update every 7 months, Difficult Situations Fun Deck every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Pictello Visual Stories versus Difficult Situations Fun Deck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPictello Visual StoriesDifficult Situations Fun Deck
Price$19.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.1 (33 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size660 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAssistiveWareSuper Duper Publications

Customer experience

Pictello Visual Stories

All ratings33 ratings
Positive78.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral6.3%
Negative22.2%

Difficult Situations Fun Deck

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pictello Visual Stories

No in-app purchases

None

Difficult Situations Fun Deck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pictello Visual Stories free?
Pictello Visual Stories costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Difficult Situations Fun Deck free?
Difficult Situations Fun Deck costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pictello Visual Stories or Difficult Situations Fun Deck?
Pictello Visual Stories is rated higher. Pictello Visual Stories averages 4.1 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while Difficult Situations Fun Deck averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pictello Visual Stories or Difficult Situations Fun Deck have ads?
Neither Pictello Visual Stories nor Difficult Situations Fun Deck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pictello Visual Stories or Difficult Situations Fun Deck?
Pictello Visual Stories ships an update every 7 months, and Difficult Situations Fun Deck every 2 months. Most recently, Pictello Visual Stories was updated on October 24, 2026 and Difficult Situations Fun Deck on October 16, 2026.

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