Comparison

Naming Therapy vs VDLI

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
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"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

VDLI

This application facilitates discussions about the sounds and words a child is currently producing. It serves as a tool to help understand and document a child's vocal development.

Highlights
  • Vocal development tracking
  • Speech sound analysis
  • Word production documentation
  • Child communication aid
Features
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The purpose of this app is to aid in engaging in a discussion about the types of sounds and/or words a particular child is currently producing.

Screenshots

Naming Therapy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: VDLI at Free against Naming Therapy's $29.99. VDLI also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Naming Therapy's advantage is ratings volume (370 vs 1) and update cadence (every 7 months vs every 20 months). On ads and in-app purchases 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

VDLI 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

VDLI holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Naming Therapy has 370 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Naming Therapy ships an update every 7 months, VDLI every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Naming Therapy versus VDLI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNaming TherapyVDLI
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (370 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings370 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 months — betterEvery 20 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#197 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.Raj Persaud

Customer experience

Naming Therapy

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

VDLI

All ratings1 ratings
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

VDLI

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Naming Therapy

No in-app purchases

None

VDLI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Naming Therapy free?
Naming Therapy costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is VDLI free?
VDLI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Naming Therapy or VDLI?
VDLI is rated higher. Naming Therapy averages 4.7 out of 5 from 370 ratings, while VDLI averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Naming Therapy or VDLI have ads?
Neither Naming Therapy nor VDLI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Naming Therapy or VDLI?
Naming Therapy ships an update every 7 months, and VDLI every 20 months. Most recently, Naming Therapy was updated on October 17, 2026 and VDLI on October 1, 2026.

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