Comparison

ChoiceBoard vs JoackyWriter

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

Head to head
About

ChoiceBoard

Create personalized choice boards with customizable rewards, including videos and sounds. This intuitive app helps individuals with communication challenges practice making choices and develop cognitive and literacy skills. It offers a simple platform for building engaging educational activities.

Highlights
  • Customizable choice boards
  • Video and audio rewards
  • Adjustable button sizes and contrast
  • User-uploaded images and text
  • Multiple choice options (1-6)
  • Distractor boxes
  • Multi-page activities
Features
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ChoiceBoard Creator is the perfect app for creating customizable choice boards for the unique needs of individuals with communication challenges. It reinforces correct choice by either playing a video reward or expanding the selected image and playing the customized auditory rewards. It is an excellent tool to train and prepare users for more sophisticated communication devices via an easy, simple-to-use choice-making platform. The possibilities are limited by your creativity. ChoiceBoard Creator features include: •Share activities via AirDrop or email •Backup activities to your iCloud account •Large buttons, and black/white contrast to facilitate visual attention •Box sizes are adjustable for those who just need to see a little more clearly •Clean board design to minimize visual distraction •Space between choice buttons to avoid inadvertent hits •Customizable to 1,2,3,4 or 6 choices •Users can download their own pictures •Users can create blank boxes as distractors to suit users of all levels •Users can preset multiple "correct answer" boxes, and download different sound files to each box – a feature that allows users to choose their favorite music with just a tap •Other than image files, users can type text into the choice box – use this feature to teach sight words, letter, number recognition •Versatile application that can be used to create curriculum content to promote cognitive and literacy skills •Ease to use, intuitive interface allows user to set up activities in minutes •Allows users to create multiple pages for each "game" or activity Examples of choice boards/activities: •Odd one out (find the image that is different) •Music player (touch the correct image to play the tune) •Present vocabulary, sight words, shapes, numbers, or alphabets in array of boxes and ask your child to find the right one. Privacy Policy: http://technochipmunk.com/p/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: http://technochipmunk.com/p/terms-of-use-agreement.html

About

JoackyWriter

Features
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This tracing app aims to help kids who are struggling with fine motor skills mainly kids on the spectrum. With the use of a Visual board (First Write /Then Reward)andToken Economy board this helps the kids to visualize what they are working on. You can also use either your fingers or a stylus pen. The User Interface of this app is very simple to make it user friendly. This app doesn't also allow you to exit the worksheet (not unless you press ipad or iphone's home button) until you finished your task/tracing. This app can also be used in school as a tool for writing. It also allows you to upload your own words and name.

Screenshots

ChoiceBoard4 screens
JoackyWriter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: JoackyWriter at Free against ChoiceBoard's $1.99. ChoiceBoard's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

JoackyWriter is free to download; ChoiceBoard costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ChoiceBoard ships an update every 2 months, JoackyWriter every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ChoiceBoard versus JoackyWriter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChoiceBoardJoackyWriter
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating2.5 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTechno Chipmunk Innovations IncJaclyn Sia

In-app purchases

None

ChoiceBoard

No in-app purchases

None

JoackyWriter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ChoiceBoard free?
ChoiceBoard costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is JoackyWriter free?
JoackyWriter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ChoiceBoard or JoackyWriter have ads?
Neither ChoiceBoard nor JoackyWriter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChoiceBoard or JoackyWriter?
ChoiceBoard ships an update every 2 months, and JoackyWriter every 6 weeks. Most recently, ChoiceBoard was updated on October 20, 2026 and JoackyWriter on October 27, 2026.

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