Comparison

SD "What Are They Thinking?" vs BITS Lab

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

Head to head
About

SD "What Are They Thinking?"

This educational app uses photo flashcards to help students improve inferencing, reasoning, and conversational skills. Users can hear thoughts from characters in the images and track student responses to assess understanding. It's designed to enhance storytelling, sentence length, and grammatical structures.

Highlights
  • 60 photo flashcards
  • Inferencing and reasoning practice
  • Conversational skill development
  • Track correct/incorrect responses
  • Print or email data
  • Auto-advance options
Features
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This engaging educational App for iPhone®, iPad®, or iPod touch® includes all 60 clever photo flash cards from the Webber® Photo Cards What Are They Thinking? card deck by Super Duper® Publications. Use the App to improve your students' inferencing, reasoning, and conversational skills. All the people and animals in these fun photos have thought bubbles above their heads. Touch the screen to hear all of the thoughts or touch one thought bubble to hear just that character's thought. Hit the refresh button to hear a new thought for each bubble.   This App is simple to use — each student looks at an illustration and answers the question, "What are they thinking?" The student then gives a verbal response. After each answer, tap the green (correct) or red (incorrect) button to score the student's verbal response. Move to the next card by sliding the card currently on the display screen to the side, and the next image appears. To move to the next player, tap the bar at the top of the screen and select a name. You can also advance cards and players automatically by selecting the Auto-Advance option in the Settings menu. You can leave a game by selecting End from the menu. To return to the game, select Resume from the main menu. When you finish, view the results in a graph, and print or email your data.   Webber® Photo Cards - What Are They Thinking? App lets you: •         Select all 60 cards or just the ones you want students to see. •         Track correct and incorrect responses for an unlimited number of players. •         Teach storytelling. •         Increase sentence length. •         Introduce new grammatical structures. •         Practice articulation and fluency skills.

About

BITS Lab

This app uses visual biofeedback to help users, particularly children and adolescents, correct speech errors related to the American English 'r' sound. It offers guided practice, adaptive challenges, and progress tracking for effective speech therapy.

Highlights
  • Visual biofeedback for speech correction
  • Tutorial for biofeedback interpretation
  • Free play mode for 'r' practice
  • Adaptive quest mode for increasing difficulty
  • Quiz mode for progress tracking
  • Visual rewards for improvement
  • Clinician dashboard for progress monitoring
Features
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Many children, adolescents, and adults struggle to eliminate speech errors affecting the American English 'r' sound. Research suggests that these errors can in some cases be eliminated through biofeedback, where learners view a dynamic visual image of their speech and attempt to match a target representing correct production. staRt ("Speech Therapist's App for /r/ Treatment") aims to make biofeedback treatment for /r/ widely accessible to practicing speech-language pathologists. Features: - Tutorial explaining how to interpret and use the biofeedback display - "Free play" mode where users match their real-time visual-acoustic display to a target representing correct production of ‘r’ - "Quest" mode presenting syllables/words for 'r' practice; complexity increases or decreases in an adaptive fashion based on recent performance - "Quiz" mode for use in measuring baseline performance and tracking progress - Visual rewards reinforcing improvements in performance - Clinician dashboard tracking progress over the course of treatment

Screenshots

SD "What Are They Thinking?"4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: BITS Lab at 67% against SD "What Are They Thinking?"'s 18%. BITS Lab also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (3.9 vs 1.6). SD "What Are They Thinking?"'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

BITS Lab is free to download; SD "What Are They Thinking?" costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BITS Lab holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of SD "What Are They Thinking?"'s written reviews are positive against 67% of BITS Lab's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SD "What Are They Thinking?" ships an update every 9 months, BITS Lab every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SD "What Are They Thinking?" versus BITS Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSD "What Are They Thinking?"BITS Lab
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating1.6 (10 ratings)3.9 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews17.6% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1016 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS9.09.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSuper Duper PublicationsTara McAllister

Customer experience

SD "What Are They Thinking?"

All ratings10 ratings
Positive10.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative90.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive17.6%
Neutral5.9%
Negative76.5%

BITS Lab

All ratings14 ratings
Positive78.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative21.4%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

SD "What Are They Thinking?"

No in-app purchases

None

BITS Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SD "What Are They Thinking?" free?
SD "What Are They Thinking?" costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BITS Lab free?
BITS Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SD "What Are They Thinking?" or BITS Lab?
BITS Lab is rated higher. SD "What Are They Thinking?" averages 1.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while BITS Lab averages 3.9 from 16 ratings.
Do SD "What Are They Thinking?" or BITS Lab have ads?
Neither SD "What Are They Thinking?" nor BITS Lab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SD "What Are They Thinking?" or BITS Lab?
SD "What Are They Thinking?" ships an update every 9 months, and BITS Lab every 2 months. Most recently, SD "What Are They Thinking?" was updated on October 31, 2026 and BITS Lab on October 26, 2026.

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