Comparison

TenseBuilder vs Adjectives by Teach Speech

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

Adjectives by Teach Speech

This interactive application helps users develop skills in understanding and using adjectives to describe nouns. It offers four engaging activities designed to enrich vocabulary and practice the relationship between nouns and adjectives, aligning with educational standards.

Highlights
  • Develops listening and language skills
  • Enriches vocabulary
  • Practices noun-adjective relationships
  • Interactive learning activities
  • Multi-sensory learning
  • Aligned with Common Core Standards
Features
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Adjectives by Teach Speech Apps helps develop the skills needed to understand using adjectives which provide more information about a person or a thing in a sentence. Create grammatically correct sentences by describing the noun by giving its size, composition, color, age, weight, etc. This interactive app helps individuals learn adjectives in a fun and engaging way. Four activities include: - Identify the picture that demonstrates the sentence - Identify the adjective for the sentence - Identify the picture - comparative adjectives - Drag and drop the picture to the matching adjective Teach Speech Apps encourages learning side-by-side with an engaged adult. Benefits: - Develops listening and language skills - Enriches vocabulary - Practices relationships between nouns and adjectives - 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 - 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

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Adjectives by Teach Speech at $2.99 against TenseBuilder's $9.99. Adjectives by Teach Speech also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 85%). TenseBuilder's advantage is update cadence (every 6 months vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

TenseBuilder costs $9.99 and Adjectives by Teach Speech $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TenseBuilder ships an update every 6 months, Adjectives by Teach Speech every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TenseBuilder versus Adjectives by Teach Speech: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTenseBuilderAdjectives by Teach Speech
Price$9.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better15
Further details — not scored
Size466 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMobile Education Store LLCRed Five LLC

Customer experience

TenseBuilder

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

Adjectives by Teach Speech

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TenseBuilder

No in-app purchases

None

Adjectives by Teach Speech

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TenseBuilder free?
TenseBuilder costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Adjectives by Teach Speech free?
Adjectives by Teach Speech costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do TenseBuilder or Adjectives by Teach Speech have ads?
Neither TenseBuilder nor Adjectives by Teach Speech shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TenseBuilder or Adjectives by Teach Speech?
TenseBuilder ships an update every 6 months, and Adjectives by Teach Speech every 12 months. Most recently, TenseBuilder was updated on June 5, 2026 and Adjectives by Teach Speech on September 7, 2026.

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