Expressive Builder vs iSEQUENCES
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Expressive Builder
This app helps children improve sentence ideation, formation, and language skills through interactive exercises. It utilizes audio clips and voice recording to enhance auditory processing and reinforce language development, making it ideal for special needs children.
- Sentence ideation and formation practice
- Auditory processing enhancement with audio clips
- Voice recording and playback
- Multiple hint levels
- 250+ images for sentence creation
- Import custom images
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Voted 3rd best educational app of 2011 by AppsForHomeschooling.com Voted 9th best education app of 2011 by SmartAppsForKids.com Own as an individual app or as part of our MES Speech Therapy Bundle. Expressive Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve sentence ideation ; 2) Improve sentence formation; and 3) Improve receptive and expressive language. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders. Auditory playback of child's voice offers reinforcement for language development. Expressive Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to create grammatically correct sentences. FEATURES -Record feature allows students to record sentences in their own voice -3 levels of hints -Simple and intuitive interface to record sentence -Save and email recorded sentences -250 distinct images to create sentences from -Import your own images -Optional hint button LANGUAGES - English REQUIREMENTS - Compatible with iPad - Requires Iphone 5.1 software update ExpressiveBuilder is part of "The Builder Series" of award winning education apps. Mobile Education Store has won over 40 app awards and has been named educational developer of the year in 2011 and 2012. Mobile Education Store is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families. Recommended Ages: 3-6, 6-10 Categories: Special Needs
iSEQUENCES
This educational app helps children with Autism and Asperger’s practice understanding everyday situations and emotions through interactive sequences. It features 100 exercises on daily routines and social scenarios, taught by engaging characters. The app is highly configurable and free of ads.
- 100 sequence exercises
- 60 social situation exercises
- Configurable options
- Manual or automatic exercise selection
- No ads
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iSEQUENCES is an educational app for children with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome that enables them to practice 100 different sequences about everyday situations, such as: - Autonomous habits like brushing their teeth, washing their hands, getting dressed or going to bed - Fun activities like going to the beach, to the movies or do sports - Every day situations like falling down, taking the bus, going the doctor, buying bread or getting wet in the rain - Emotions like happiness, sadness, surprise or fear All this is taught by the character Tatus and his friends. ***** WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ***** - Overall, I think this app is great for making sequencing cards fun and motivating – Speech Time Fun - The concept of the app is simple enough but the six cheerful cartoon characters used in the sequencing pictures make the presentation fun and engaging for children – The iPhone Mum ***** FEATURES ***** - 100 exercises that introduce a situation to children and they are asked to guess what will happen next - 60 exercises that display social situations and the children are asked to say how they think the characters in the situation feel - New options that are highly configurable to better adapt the app to each child - Selection of the exercises either manual or automatic by level of difficulty and type of exercises - No ads inside of the app ***** WHO IS IT FOR***** iSEQUENCES can be used both as a support tool for therapy and at home as an entertainment. ***** WHO WE ARE ***** Fundación Lovaas is an early intervention centre for children and teenagers with Autism/ASD that operates throughout Spain and in some other European cities. Contact: info@isequencies.cat Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FundacionLovaas.Apps/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Apps_FLovaas
Verdict
Expressive Builder and iSEQUENCES both sit at 2.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 95% of Expressive Builder's written reviews are positive against 54% of iSEQUENCES's. Expressive Builder also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 13 months). iSEQUENCES's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and price ($2.99 vs $9.99). On rating, ratings volume, ads 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
Expressive Builder costs $9.99 and iSEQUENCES $2.99 up front. Expressive Builder sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. iSEQUENCES asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.8 for Expressive Builder against 2.7 for iSEQUENCES. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Expressive Builder's written reviews are positive against 54% of iSEQUENCES's.
Expressive Builder ships an update every 4 months, iSEQUENCES every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Expressive Builder | iSEQUENCES |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 2.8 (4 ratings) — better | 2.7 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.4% of reviews — better | 53.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 237 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mobile Education Store LLC | Lovaas Foundation Fundacion |
Customer experience
Expressive Builder
iSEQUENCES
Bugs and requests
Expressive Builder
Reported bugs
2 issues- Cannot choose picture set
- Skip image button not present after update
Requested features
14 requests- Bring back the skip image button
- Wider variety of ethnicities represented
- Ability to have words read aloud
- Ability to have hints read aloud
- Highlighting word as it is read
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- Add a 'gaming' picture pack
- Ability to upload personal photographs
- More sets without in-app purchases
- Ability to archive more students
- Add older children (teens) to original pack
- Ability to go to next/previous image at any time
- Text to speech for non-readers
- Play button on the first page
- Tap on words to have them read aloud
iSEQUENCES
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Expressive Builder
- School Game Pack$1.99
- Sports Game Pack$1.99
- Hobbies Game Pack$1.99
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- Inside Playtime Game Pack$1.99
- Medical Game Pack$1.99
- Pets Game Pack$1.99
- Places Game Pack$1.99
- Playground Game Pack$1.99
- Winter Game Pack$1.99
- All Game Packs$19.99
iSEQUENCES
No in-app purchases
Questions
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