Naming Therapy vs iReadMore
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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!
iReadMore
This app offers a science-driven reading therapy designed to improve single word reading ability for individuals with acquired reading disorders like alexia or aphasia. It features an adaptive algorithm and integrated feedback to track progress, with a 7-day free trial available.
- Adaptive algorithm adjusts to user abilities
- Self-led therapy with unlimited access
- Clinically-proven results from research
- Integrated feedback and progress tracking
- Class I CE marked medical device
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iReadMore is a new reading therapy for improving single word reading ability. It is for people with an acquired reading disorder (alexia) or aphasia due to a stroke, brain injury or dementia. Start your 7 day free trial now! iReadMore Features: Adaptive Algorithm - iReadMore adapts to your abilities, keeping the therapy relevant and challenging. Self-led Therapy - iReadMore allows you to be in control of your own therapy with unlimited access. Science-Driven and Clinically-Proven Results - All of our therapies are developed through years of dedicated research at University College London by a team of scientists and clinicians. Integrated Feedback - Complete reading tests and see your own progress. iReadMore Research Summary: - iReadMore therapy has been tested in two clinical trials. It was shown to improve reading ability in people with pure alexia (Woodhead et al., 2013) and central alexia (Woodhead et al., 2018) - In the clinical trial of iReadMore for central alexia (the most common form of acquired reading disorder), the average improvement in reading accuracy was 8.7% for trained words. Three months after finishing the therapy, users still had significantly better reading ability than before they started. - Anonymised results from the app will be collected to test how effective the app is and to improve our understanding of reading rehabilitation. For more information and help getting started with iReadMore, please visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/icn/research/research-groups/neurotherapeutics/therapy-apps/ireadmore-app If you have any other questions, please email us at ireadmore@ucl.ac.uk iReadMore is a Class I CE marked medical device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Naming Therapy at 84% against iReadMore's 0%. Naming Therapy also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). iReadMore's advantage is price (Free vs $29.99). On update cadence, ads 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
iReadMore is free to download; Naming Therapy costs $29.99 up front. iReadMore sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Naming Therapy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Naming Therapy holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. 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. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Naming Therapy's written reviews are positive against 0% of iReadMore's.
Naming Therapy ships an update every 7 months, iReadMore every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Naming Therapy | iReadMore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (370 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 370 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 312 MB | 995 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Alex Leff |
Customer experience
Naming Therapy
iReadMore
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
iReadMore
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Naming Therapy
No in-app purchases
iReadMore
- iReadMore Access - 1 Month$4.99
- iReadMore Access - 3 Months$14.99
- iReadMore Access - 6 Months$25.99
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