Naming Therapy vs Number Therapy
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!
Number Therapy
Practice understanding, saying, and typing numbers to improve essential communication skills. This app helps stroke survivors and individuals with cognitive disorders build independence with number-related tasks like dates, money, and phone numbers.
- Practice understanding, saying, and typing numbers
- Covers dates, money, phone numbers, and more
- Thousands of unique exercises
- Customizable interface
- Progress tracking and recommendations
- Email progress reports for therapists
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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. ***Try for FREE with Number Therapy Lite*** “I really like it! The money and phone numbers – that’s what I need to practice.” – Sarah, stroke survivor with aphasia 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! 30 categories of numbers including: *Single Digits *Double Digits *Triple Digits *Four Digits *Time *Money *Phone Numbers (add your own!) *Ordinals *Fractions Thousands of unique exercises you can use anywhere. Work at your own pace to practice the skills that matter to you. Great for cognitive disorders such as impaired working memory or auditory memory, too! Listen to long numbers and type them in - it's harder than it sounds. Train the ear to listen with this app. 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 has a feature to give 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! "Number Therapy is a game changer for me. I love it." - Trish, stroke survivor with aphasia Speech-Language Pathologists: use this app 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! *Please note: this app does NOT address math skills or equations. It focuses on the communication of numbers, not calculations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Number Therapy at free with in-app purchases against Naming Therapy's paid. Number Therapy also leads on chart position (#183 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Naming Therapy costs $29.99 and Number Therapy $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Naming Therapy against 4.7 for Number Therapy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 370 and 266 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 84% and 83% positive.
Naming Therapy ships an update every 7 months, Number Therapy every 4 months. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Naming Therapy | Number Therapy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | $29.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (370 ratings) | 4.7 (266 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 370 — better | 266 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #183 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 312 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. |
Customer experience
Naming Therapy
Number Therapy
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
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Naming Therapy
No in-app purchases
Number Therapy
No in-app purchases
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