TenseBuilder vs Following Directions by TSApps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Following Directions by TSApps
This app helps develop memory, motor, and auditory processing skills through interactive exercises for following directions. It offers various activities like one-step, two-step, and conditional commands, suitable for all ages and learning levels.
- One-step directions with drag and drop
- Two-step directions with picture choices
- Inclusion/exclusion activities
- Motor-skill and conditional directions
- Multi-sensory learning
- Customizable settings
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Following Directions by Teach Speech Apps helps develop the skills needed to help boost memory, motor, and auditory processing skills with simple one step directions, two step complex commands including (first / then, before / after), inclusion / exclusion, conditional and motor-skill based directions. This app is great for working on language, auditory processing, vocabulary, memory, receptive language, attention and focus. This interactive app helps individuals learn following directions in a fun and engaging way. Four activities include: - One step directions - drag and drop - Two step directions - choose from 4 pictures - Inclusion / Exclusion - choose from 6 pictures - Motor-skill based and conditional directions Teach Speech Apps encourages learning side-by-side with an engaged adult. Benefits: - Develops reading, spelling, listening and language skills - Enriches vocabulary - Professional photos for individuals of all ages and learning levels - Multi-sensory learning - combining seeing and hearing feedback - Reinforcement sounds that can be turned on/off in settings - Options found in settings to customize user experience - Voice rate option - Aligned with the Common Core Standards - No ads - No in-app purchases Privacy Policy: Teach Speech Apps does not collect personal information. To learn more, visit : http://www.teachspeechapps.com/privacy-policy.html Email Teach Speech Apps with questions or feedback: contact@teachspeechapps.com Find us on Facebook: Teach Speech Apps, LLC Twitter: @teachspeechapps
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Following Directions by TSApps at 5.0 against TenseBuilder's 4.0. Following Directions by TSApps also leads on price ($2.99 vs $9.99) and device support (3 vs 1). TenseBuilder's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
TenseBuilder costs $9.99 and Following Directions by TSApps $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Following Directions by TSApps holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 85% and 86% positive.
TenseBuilder ships an update every 6 months, Following Directions by TSApps every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TenseBuilder | Following Directions by TSApps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.0% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 466 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mobile Education Store LLC | Red Five LLC |
Customer experience
TenseBuilder
Following Directions by TSApps
In-app purchases
TenseBuilder
No in-app purchases
Following Directions by TSApps
No in-app purchases
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