Making Sequences vs BITS Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Making Sequences
This app helps users teach story order and task completion through visual sequencing. It includes pre-made sequences with narration or allows users to create custom ones with their own images and voice recordings. The app is ideal for teaching daily living skills and storytelling.
- Teaches story order
- Teaches task completion steps
- Includes 15 photo sequences with narration
- Create custom sequences with own images
- Add voice recordings to sequences
- Share sequences via Dropbox
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The first of our popular sequencing apps, Making Sequences is designed to help teach story order or to master the steps for completing a task. Teach personalized daily living skills or have fun teaching kids to sequence stories starring themselves. Includes 15 photo sequences along with narration. Use these or make your own by uploading images, adding voice recordings and then share them using Dropbox. For a more updated version with additional options check out Advanced Making Sequences and Advanced Video Making Sequences.
BITS Lab
This app uses visual biofeedback to help users, particularly children and adolescents, correct speech errors related to the American English 'r' sound. It offers guided practice, adaptive challenges, and progress tracking for effective speech therapy.
- Visual biofeedback for speech correction
- Tutorial for biofeedback interpretation
- Free play mode for 'r' practice
- Adaptive quest mode for increasing difficulty
- Quiz mode for progress tracking
- Visual rewards for improvement
- Clinician dashboard for progress monitoring
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Many children, adolescents, and adults struggle to eliminate speech errors affecting the American English 'r' sound. Research suggests that these errors can in some cases be eliminated through biofeedback, where learners view a dynamic visual image of their speech and attempt to match a target representing correct production. staRt ("Speech Therapist's App for /r/ Treatment") aims to make biofeedback treatment for /r/ widely accessible to practicing speech-language pathologists. Features: - Tutorial explaining how to interpret and use the biofeedback display - "Free play" mode where users match their real-time visual-acoustic display to a target representing correct production of ‘r’ - "Quest" mode presenting syllables/words for 'r' practice; complexity increases or decreases in an adaptive fashion based on recent performance - "Quiz" mode for use in measuring baseline performance and tracking progress - Visual rewards reinforcing improvements in performance - Clinician dashboard tracking progress over the course of treatment
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BITS Lab at Free against Making Sequences's $4.99. BITS Lab also leads on rating (4.2 vs 2.0) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 15 months). On review sentiment, 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
BITS Lab is free to download; Making Sequences costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BITS Lab holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 14 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Making Sequences's written reviews are positive against 67% of BITS Lab's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Making Sequences ships an update every 15 months, BITS Lab every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Making Sequences | BITS Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.0 (3 ratings) | 4.2 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zorten Software, LLC | Tara McAllister |
Customer experience
Making Sequences
BITS Lab
In-app purchases
Making Sequences
No in-app purchases
BITS Lab
No in-app purchases
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