Comparison

TenseBuilder vs SCIP

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

Head to head
About

TenseBuilder

This app uses animated videos to teach students how to identify and use correct past, present, and future verb tenses. It includes interactive exercises and a recording feature to help improve language skills.

Highlights
  • Animated video lessons
  • Demonstrates past, present, future tense
  • Focus on irregular past tense verbs
  • Interactive sentence completion
  • Voice recording for practice
  • Drag and drop sentence building
Features
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Own as an individual app or as part of our MES Speech Therapy Bundle. Winner - 2012 2nd Best Educational App by Let's Talk SLP Winner - 2012 Best Teaching App by TeachHub.com Winner - 2012 Best Education App by TeachersWithApps.com TenseBuilder is designed to help students learn how to identify and use correct tense forms by playing movie quality animated videos to demonstrate past, present and future tense. 48 video lessons (will expand to 58) are in place to help give students a deeper understanding about the purpose of tense. Special attention is paid to the past tense of irregular verbs. Students will learn how to sequence events and how to differentiate between events that will happen, events that are happening now and events that have already happened. Students will also identify correct written verb forms and drag them to complete sentences. Students have the opportunity to record their sentences in their own voice to improve their receptive and expressive language skills and promote carryover of these target verb forms to their conversational speech. Tense Builder offers a unique environment for improving a student's ability to understand tenses and use verb forms properly. FEATURES -48 target verbs with matching animated movies -Movies employ humor to engage student -Video modeling for each verb and tense form used -Each verb has separate animated lesson to show past, present and future tense -Option to focus on a particular tense -Ability to address past tense developmentally, by first teaching regular past -ed forms and then moving to irregular past. -Includes receptive task, where student taps the correct image to match a sentence, and an expressive task where student drags the correct verb form to complete the sentence -Intuitive drag and drop to create sentences -Words are spoken as they are being dragged for emerging readers -Record feature allows students to record sentences in their own voice -Save and email recorded sentences LANGUAGES - English REQUIREMENTS - Compatible with iPad - Requires iPad 5.0 software update TenseBuilder 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 Tools 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, Education

About

SCIP

This therapeutic tool aids speech therapy by implementing evidence-based contrastive phonology approaches. It offers a vast library of words and allows for individualized or group sessions with detailed progress tracking and reporting.

Highlights
  • Five contrastive therapy approaches
  • 2,400+ real words and 6,000+ nonsense words
  • Individual or group sessions (up to 4 students)
  • Individualized treatment targets and data collection
  • Printable progress graphs and session notes
  • Printable illustrations for practice
Features
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Turbocharge your speech therapy! SCIP (Sound Contrasts In Phonology) is an evidence-based, therapeutic tool developed through a one million dollar NIH grant by ASHA Fellow Dr. A. Lynn Williams. Dr. Williams partnered with EBS Learning to create this revolutionary app to maximize therapy by increasing intelligibility in less time. SCIP allows you to both create and implement treatment approaches using five different contrastive therapy approaches: Multiple Oppositions Minimal Pairs Maximal Oppositions Treatment of the Empty Set Vowel Contrasts SCIP includes more than 2,400 real words and 6,000 nonsense words to provide the widest variety of treatment stimuli and support rapid progress. The app allows individual or group sessions with up to 4 students. In group sessions, each student has individualized treatment targets and data collection. Print or email graphs of treatment progress and individual session notes! Choose the option to treat word-initial or word-final sounds using pictures or illustrations. You can also print illustrations to prepare practice sets to be used away from the iPad or sent home for reinforcement. Amazing features of this app allow you to: Easily create treatment programs with five contrastive approaches. Provide therapy sessions using illustrations or pictures. Collect data and enter therapy notes for each session. Graph treatment data and produce therapy reports. Print illustrations for use away from the iPad. Create and save groups of up to four students each with their own targets and treatment approach. Previously created for use with a computer, this improved and even easier-to-use program is now available as an app on your iPad! "SCIP" the prep time and jump right into treatment!

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TenseBuilder at $9.99 against SCIP's $59.99. TenseBuilder also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). SCIP's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). On ratings volume, 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

TenseBuilder costs $9.99 and SCIP $59.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SCIP holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of TenseBuilder's written reviews are positive against 67% of SCIP's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TenseBuilder ships an update every 6 months, SCIP every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
TenseBuilder versus SCIP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTenseBuilderSCIP
Price$9.99 — better$59.99
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size466 MB355 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMobile Education Store LLCEBS LEARNING INC

Customer experience

TenseBuilder

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive85.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative5.0%

SCIP

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TenseBuilder

No in-app purchases

None

SCIP

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TenseBuilder free?
TenseBuilder costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SCIP free?
SCIP costs $59.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TenseBuilder or SCIP?
SCIP is rated higher. TenseBuilder averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while SCIP averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do TenseBuilder or SCIP have ads?
Neither TenseBuilder nor SCIP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TenseBuilder or SCIP?
TenseBuilder ships an update every 6 months, and SCIP every 2 months. Most recently, TenseBuilder was updated on June 5, 2026 and SCIP on September 9, 2026.

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