CreatureVision vs Koko Signs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CreatureVision
Experience your surroundings through the eyes of various animals or individuals with color vision deficiencies. This app offers twenty distinct visual filters, allowing you to explore the world from unique perspectives. Adjust each effect with an easily accessible control panel.
- Animal vision simulation
- Colorblindness simulation
- Twenty creature filters
- Adjustable visual effects
- Hide-able control panel
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CreatureVision allows you to see the world as other animals do. Explore your surroundings as a bumblebee, a frog or a cat might see. Even gain an understanding of what the world looks like to someone who's colorblind. A total of twenty different creatures to choose from. Fine tune each effect using the hide-able control panel.
Koko Signs
Explore the groundbreaking research into interspecies communication with gorillas. This app delves into a nearly 5-decade-long study, offering insights into the lives and communication abilities of these fascinating primates.
- Interspecies communication study
- Focus on gorillas
- Project Koko details
- Long-term research insights
- Educational content
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The Gorilla Foundation is best known for conducting the longest interspecies communication study in history (almost 5 decades) and the only one involving gorillas: Project Koko.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Koko Signs at Free against CreatureVision's $0.99. Koko Signs also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 57%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 15 months). CreatureVision's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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
Koko Signs is free to download; CreatureVision costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CreatureVision against 5.0 for Koko Signs. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Koko Signs has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of CreatureVision's written reviews are positive against 100% of Koko Signs's.
CreatureVision ships an update every 15 months, Koko Signs monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CreatureVision | Koko Signs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NiftyK | The Gorilla Foundation |
Customer experience
CreatureVision
Koko Signs
In-app purchases
CreatureVision
No in-app purchases
Koko Signs
No in-app purchases
