Comparison

Naming Therapy vs Number Therapy Lite

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

Head to head
About

Naming Therapy

This app helps individuals with aphasia and special needs practice naming and description skills. It offers a variety of exercises with photos, real voice, and customizable options to improve language abilities.

Highlights
  • Naming practice with cueing hierarchy
  • Description prompts for semantic analysis
  • Naming test for screening
  • Flashcards with verbs and adjectives
  • Customizable word lists and photos
  • Syllable length word filtering
  • Child-friendly mode
Read full description

"Great!!! This is a fantastic and very practical application! This app is well worth it! 5 stars!" "This app has proven to be very helpful for multiple children on my caseload who have difficulty using expanded descriptive language. 5 stars!" Naming Therapy is the best-selling word-finding app to help people with aphasia and children with special needs practice important naming and description skills. Designed by a Speech-Language Pathologist for use in the home and clinic, this app features beautiful photos, real voice, and full customization with over 700 words included! ***Try it for FREE as part of Language Therapy Lite*** ***One of four full apps included in Language Therapy*** This app has 4 parts: 1) Naming Practice: 400+ pictured nouns with an evidence-based cueing hierarchy and optional self-scoring, with the option to add your own photos and cues. The app records which cue was used to get the correct answer and produces a score report for email. Use different cues within Naming Practice to target confrontation naming, responsive naming, phrase completion, repetition, and oral reading. 2) Describe: 580+ pictures with 4-6 semantic & 4 phonemic question prompts for semantic feature analysis, phonological components analysis, and expanding expression skills. You can add your own words and select from 25 prompts to go with them. Icons representing questions prompting for information about the appearance, category, function, shape, size, color, taste, location and more surround each picture. Target sound knowledge by hearing prompts for first and last sound, rhyming words, and syllables. 3) Naming Test: a set presentation of 30 pictures with scoring and a report. This is a non-standardized test intended for screening a person's ability to name common items. It contains common and less common items of the categories contained in this app. A perfect screener! 4) Flashcards: 700+ clear, full-color pictures including verbs and adjectives; touch to hear the spoken word or see the printed word with the ability to add your own pictures. Use the verb pictures to create sentences or implement response elaboration training. Features: *Limit words by syllable length to just practice the short ones or target the longer ones - perfect for apraxia *Real recorded male voice provides a neutral accent in 5 languages with slow, natural speech for easy comprehension *Child-friendly mode turns off references to alcohol and violence and deactivates links to outside sites on the home screen *Database controls let you turn each word on or off within the app, so you can customize even further *Tap is the only motion required - no dragging, swiping or pinching needed for new users and those with motor impairment NO in-app purchase and NO collection or sharing of private information. 50% discount for Education Volume Purchase Program - put this app in every classroom!

About

Number Therapy Lite

Practice understanding, saying, and typing numbers to improve essential communication skills. This app helps stroke survivors and others gain independence by strengthening their ability to communicate numbers in various contexts.

Highlights
  • Number comprehension practice
  • Speech and pronunciation exercises
  • Typing numbers
  • Customizable interface
  • Progress tracking
  • Evidence-based approach
Read full description

Numbers communicate so much, yet they are often left out of communication therapy. Now stroke survivors can practice understanding, saying, and typing numbers at home to improve these essential life skills. Age, dates, phone numbers, addresses, money, time, measurements, fractions, weight, years – numbers are everywhere and so important. Be more independent with communication with stronger number communication skills. Would you be able to understand, write down, and tell someone this phone message? “Your appointment is at 3:15 p.m. on August 3rd, 2015 at 1650 18th Avenue. Bring $5. Please call back to confirm at 785-5662.” Work on all these number skills and more with the evidence-based Number Therapy app! Number Therapy Lite gives you a free way to test-drive the full functionality of the app with a sample from the 30 categories of numbers including: *Single Digits *Double Digits *Triple Digits *Four Digits *Time *Money *Phone Numbers (add your own in the full version) *Ordinals *Fractions Number Therapy offers thousands of unique exercises you can use anywhere. Number Therapy Lite gives you a taste so you'll know the app is worth using. Work at your own pace to practice the skills that matter to you. This app has the same highly customizable, clean, intuitive interface you’ve come to love in Tactus Therapy apps. Developed in conjunction with people with aphasia, this app is designed to help you get the intensity of practice you need in a way that is easy to use. Number Therapy also gives you recommendations for which level and settings you should use based on your score. See how easy it is to make progress when you're working at the right level for you! Speech-Language Pathologists: use Number Therapy to make the communication of numbers a part of your therapy plan for people with aphasia or other disorders. Three unique activities address auditory and reading comprehension, verbal expression, and written expression. Your clients can use the built-in hints, cues, and audio recording to be successful, then e-mail you their results in a professional report so you can track their progress over time. Ideal for use in the clinic and at home, add Number Therapy to your therapy app collection! Number Therapy Lite is a FREE trial version of Number Therapy. What's the difference? Lite = 4 categories with 7 items in each; Full = 30 categories with thousands of items Lite = categories contain a mix of items from subcategories; Full = focus on just one subcategory at a time or mix & match Lite = no custom phone numbers; Full = unlimited custom phone numbers Lite = 7 exercises at a time; Full = 10, 25, 50, or 100 in a session Once you've given it a try, you'll want to get the full version so you can truly master the communication of numbers and be more independent. *Please note: this app does NOT address math skills or equations. It focuses on the communication of numbers, not calculations.

Screenshots

Naming Therapy4 screens
Number Therapy Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Number Therapy Lite at Free against Naming Therapy's $29.99. Number Therapy Lite also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 84%). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Number Therapy Lite is free to download; Naming Therapy costs $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Naming Therapy against 4.8 for Number Therapy Lite. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 370 and 129 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Naming Therapy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Number Therapy Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Naming Therapy ships an update every 7 months, Number Therapy Lite every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Naming Therapy versus Number Therapy Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNaming TherapyNumber Therapy Lite
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (370 ratings)4.8 (129 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings370 — better129
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.09.0
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.

Customer experience

Naming Therapy

All ratings370 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive84.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.0%

Number Therapy Lite

All ratings129 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral3.9%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Naming Therapy

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Microphone is bad
  • Word playback too quiet
  • Customizable stimulus pictures not presented as entered
  • Customizable stimulus pictures presented in random order
  • Sentence completion cue required for custom pictures

Requested features

2 requests
  • Translate more apps to French
  • More diverse models in images

Number Therapy Lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Naming Therapy

No in-app purchases

None

Number Therapy Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Naming Therapy free?
Naming Therapy costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Number Therapy Lite free?
Number Therapy Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Naming Therapy or Number Therapy Lite?
Number Therapy Lite is rated higher. Naming Therapy averages 4.7 out of 5 from 370 ratings, while Number Therapy Lite averages 4.8 from 129 ratings.
Do Naming Therapy or Number Therapy Lite have ads?
Neither Naming Therapy nor Number Therapy Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Naming Therapy or Number Therapy Lite?
Naming Therapy ships an update every 7 months, and Number Therapy Lite every 5 months. Most recently, Naming Therapy was updated on September 24, 2026 and Number Therapy Lite on September 21, 2026.

Other comparisons