Comparison

Name That Category Fun Deck vs Inference Pics

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

Head to head
About

Name That Category Fun Deck

This educational app uses illustrated flashcards to help students practice describing, categorizing, and organizing skills. Students respond verbally to prompts, and educators can track progress, view results in a graph, and share data.

Highlights
  • Illustrated picture flashcards
  • Audio pronunciation of card text
  • Fill-in-the-blank prompts
  • Track correct/incorrect responses
  • Unlimited player tracking
  • Graph results and share data
  • Portrait/landscape orientation
Features
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This colorful, educational vocabulary App for the iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch® has all 56 illustrated picture flash cards (plus audio of each card text) from the Name That Category! Fun Deck® by Super Duper® Publications. Select the cards you want students to see, and have them fill in the blank to practice describing, categorizing, and organizational skills. The prompts include fill-in-the-blank statements like, “A car, bike, and train are ___.” and “A sandwich, pizza, and French fries are ___.” This App is simple to use — each student looks at an illustration, and either reads the prompt or touches the screen to listen to the prompt. 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. 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 Game Options menu. You can leave a game temporarily and return to it later by selecting Pause Game from the menu. To return to the game, select Continue Game from the main menu. When you finish, view the results in a graph, and print or email your data. Name That Category! Fun Deck® App lets you: • Use the app in portrait or landscape orientation. • Select all 56 cards or just the ones you want students to see. • Track correct and incorrect responses for an unlimited number of players. • Advance players and cards manually or automatically. • Receive feedback for incorrect and/or correct responses • Discontinue game play and continue at any time. • View results in a graph and see which questions a player missed during a session. • Print, E-mail and share your results.

About

Inference Pics

This app helps children and adults improve social inferencing skills through real-life photos and scenarios. It offers various activities to recognize facial expressions, body language, and contextual clues for better social communication.

Highlights
  • Social inferencing activities
  • Recognize facial expressions
  • Understand body language
  • Improve expressive language
  • Tailor activities to client level
  • Includes 7 distinct activities
Features
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Work more effectively on social inferencing goals in speech and language therapy. Help children and adults with social communication difficulties improve their ability to make social inferences. Social inferencing skills are best developed using real-life photos and scenarios. - Get a speech therapy tool that helps older children, teens and adults recognise facial expressions, interpret body language, and use contextual clues to make social inferences. - Improve expressive language, social skills, thinking and reasoning by using this speech therapy app. - Create the right experience for each client by choosing a social inferencing activity that matches their level. *** “When working with older students or adults, Inference Pics is a fantastic solution that offers flexibility and ease of use... this stands out to help clients with important inferencing skills.” — Dan Fitch, CCC-SLP “My clients love this app, and I love using it with them. It's my go-to when working on social inferencing, understanding emotions and working on expressive language.” — Hannah O'Driscoll, CCC-SLP *** TRY INFERENCE PICS FOR FREE Download the Lite version to try a free sample of the full version. Finding interesting and engaging social inferencing photos and scenarios is surprisingly hard even for speech-language pathologists and speech and language therapists. Think of this app as your helper, taking the pressure out of finding suitable social inferencing photos and scenarios for use in speech therapy sessions. 7 READY-TO-USE SOCIAL INFERENCING ACTIVITIES Inference Pics includes 7 activities: - What Has Happened? - Jobs - Places - Seasons - Feelings - Conversations - Thoughts HOW IT WORKS STEP 1: CHOOSE A SOCIAL INFERENCING ACTIVITY Tailor your client’s experience by choosing an activity that matches their level. Jobs, Places and Seasons are easier activities, while What Has Happened?, Thoughts and Conversations are more complex. STEP 2: MAKE AN INFERENCE Users are presented with a real-life photo and asked a question such as: - What has happened? - How is the person feeling? - What are they saying? - What are they thinking? The first question varies depending on the chosen social inferencing activity. STEP 3: EXPLAIN THE REASONING Users then answer: "How can you tell?" This encourages them to identify facial expressions, body language, and contextual clues that support their answer. An annotation tool allows users to draw directly on the image to highlight facial expressions, body language, and contextual clues, and explain their reasoning. WHO IS INFERENCE PICS FOR? - Parents - Teachers - Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) / speech and language therapists (SLTs) - Children and teenagers with language delay, social communication difficulties, or autism - Adults with cognitive-communication difficulties due to stroke or traumatic brain injury - Adults with social communication difficulties and/or autism The app is intended to be used interactively with a parent, teacher, therapist, child, or adult user. SKILLS TARGETED - Expressive language - Social skills, thinking and reasoning - Social inferencing - Recognising facial expressions and body language - Understanding emotions - Reading comprehension FEATURES - Over 350 high-quality real-life social inferencing photos - Two questions per photo - An annotation tool for highlighting clues - User profiles - Questions that prompt inferential reasoning - Option to show or hide possible answers - Results summary that can be emailed - Results tracking and built-in storage - No subscriptions - No monthly bills - No Wi-Fi required Inference Pics is designed to help speech-language pathologists, teachers, parents and caregivers work on higher-level expressive language, cognitive-communication, pragmatic language, and social communication skills.

Screenshots

Name That Category Fun Deck4 screens
Inference Pics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Name That Category Fun Deck at 53% against Inference Pics's 0%. Name That Category Fun Deck also leads on price ($3.99 vs $19.99) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Inference Pics's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (17 vs 5). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Name That Category Fun Deck costs $3.99 and Inference Pics $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Inference Pics holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 17 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of Name That Category Fun Deck's written reviews are positive against 0% of Inference Pics's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Name That Category Fun Deck ships an update every 2 months, Inference Pics every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Name That Category Fun Deck versus Inference Pics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterName That Category Fun DeckInference Pics
Price$3.99 — better$19.99
Rating3.0 (5 ratings)4.9 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings517 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB158 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSuper Duper PublicationsAptus Speech and Language Therapy Limited

Customer experience

Name That Category Fun Deck

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive53.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative40.0%

Inference Pics

All ratings17 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Name That Category Fun Deck

No in-app purchases

None

Inference Pics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Name That Category Fun Deck free?
Name That Category Fun Deck costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Inference Pics free?
Inference Pics costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Name That Category Fun Deck or Inference Pics?
Inference Pics is rated higher. Name That Category Fun Deck averages 3.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Inference Pics averages 4.9 from 17 ratings.
Do Name That Category Fun Deck or Inference Pics have ads?
Neither Name That Category Fun Deck nor Inference Pics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Name That Category Fun Deck or Inference Pics?
Name That Category Fun Deck ships an update every 2 months, and Inference Pics every 3 months. Most recently, Name That Category Fun Deck was updated on October 16, 2026 and Inference Pics on October 8, 2026.

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