SD "What Are They Thinking?" vs Category Therapy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 60 photo flashcards
- Inferencing and reasoning practice
- Conversational skill development
- Track correct/incorrect responses
- Print or email data
- Auto-advance options
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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.
Category Therapy
This app helps individuals improve their mental organization and word-sorting skills through evidence-based exercises. It's designed for speech therapists and home users to aid in cognitive and language rehabilitation after stroke, brain injury, or for conditions like autism. Features include interactive activities, clear photos, and progress reporting.
- Evidence-based exercises
- Word-finding and sorting practice
- 4 engaging activities
- Clear photos and simple interface
- Customizable settings
- Progress reports
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Improve mental organization skills. Practice categories in a versatile speech therapy app. When you struggle with categories due to stroke, brain injury, or autism, simple tasks can be impossible. But there’s a way to heal the broken networks of meaning. GET CATEGORY THERAPY, an app designed for both speech therapists and home users to help restructure the brain and let the ideas flow. - Take control with evidence-based exercises designed by experts - Improve word-finding and sorting skills with 4 engaging activities and unlimited practice - Get an app that works in both home and clinical settings - Interact with clear photos and a simple interface that's easy for everyone to use - Adjust settings to target your goals and suit your needs - Use reports and customization to seamlessly fit the app into your therapy program ** Download Category Therapy Lite for FREE to see how it can help! ** When you lose the ability to group items and identify what they have in common, it gets in the way of your ability to understand, learn, and communicate. But with the right kind of practice, it’s possible to strengthen the connections between words and concepts and navigate your world more easily. “It will be a LONG time before you run out of content to use with one patient, and the app’s fantastic settings options will allow you to use it with a variety of individuals, regardless of cognitive abilities.” - Aubrey Klingensmith, MS, CCC-SLP, Speechie Apps GET THE RIGHT ACTIVITY - FOR EVERY BRAIN. No two people are the same. With 4 activities ranging from simple to complex, there's something in Category Therapy to match your needs. Work through them gradually or focus on the activity that best suits your needs. 1) FIND: Start with the basics. You'll hear and see a photo of a category (let's say "Fruit"). Tap the item that matches (for example, a banana). 2) CLASSIFY: Switch it up. Now you start with an item and choose the category that matches. This tests your ability to apply categories to what you see. 3) ADD ONE: Train yourself to recognize common features of items – to categorize them – and then choose one item that fits the category you’ve identified. 4) EXCLUDE: Challenge yourself. By choosing an item that doesn't belong, you learn how to independently identify categories. As things get harder, you can always tap Hint for some help. ALL DONE? Share your progress. The app makes it easy to quickly view, share, or e-mail detailed reports to a therapist or loved one. GET EVERY FEATURE YOU NEED IN ONE EASY APP. • 70 categories and nearly 700 words in one package • 3 difficulty levels ranging from simple objects to more abstract concepts • Great for aphasia, brain injury, autism, and other cognitive & language impairments • Switch to Pictures Only to practice naming or Words Only to practice reading • Customize the number of trials, choices, and more – it’s yours to control • Designed with adults in mind but easy enough for children to use • No subscriptions, no monthly bills, no Wi-Fi needed THERE’S HOPE. With Category Therapy in your corner, you can build stronger connections between words – and learn to speak and think more easily. ** DOWNLOAD NOW to get started – or try it for FREE with Category Therapy Lite! ** Looking for something different in a speech therapy app? We offer a wide range to choose from. Find the right one for you at https://tactustherapy.com/find
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Category Therapy at 100% against SD "What Are They Thinking?"'s 18%. Category Therapy also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.6) and ratings volume (500 vs 10). SD "What Are They Thinking?"'s advantage is price ($1.99 vs $29.99). On update cadence, 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
SD "What Are They Thinking?" costs $1.99 and Category Therapy $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Category Therapy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Category Therapy has 500 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of SD "What Are They Thinking?"'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Category Therapy's.
SD "What Are They Thinking?" ships an update every 9 months, Category Therapy every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SD "What Are They Thinking?" | Category Therapy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $29.99 |
| Rating | 1.6 (10 ratings) | 4.8 (500 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 500 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Super Duper Publications | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. |
Customer experience
SD "What Are They Thinking?"
Category Therapy
Bugs and requests
SD "What Are They Thinking?"
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Category Therapy
Requested features
3 requests- More category options
- A 'harder than hard' level
- More categories
In-app purchases
SD "What Are They Thinking?"
No in-app purchases
Category Therapy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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