Making Sequences vs HearBuilder Sequencing
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.
HearBuilder Sequencing
This educational app helps children develop sequencing skills through interactive activities and games. It offers customizable levels and progress tracking for multiple students, progressing from simple 2-step sequences to more complex 6-step tasks.
- Illustrated sequencing activities
- Progressive difficulty levels (2-6 steps)
- Reward arcade games
- Progress monitoring and data tracking
- Customizable settings and reports
- Audio and text options
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The award-winning, research and evidence-based software program is now an iPad app! Hearbuilder Sequencing includes the Sequencing Funhouse. First, click the door of the Sequencing Funhouse to practice sequencing activities. Then play a reward game in the arcade. Finally become a Sequencing Superstar! HearBuilder Sequencing features 120 illustrated sequences for targeting comprehension and critical thinking. Start out with simple 2-step sequences and gradually progress to 6 steps! Take a FREE tour and choose your level of play. If you have an online subscription to HearBuilder and a student login, you can access the entire program. HearBuilder Sequencing includes multiple levels of difficulty and 14 different settings variations to target the individual needs of each student. To play, students place events of an everyday activity in a logical order. All you have to do is: 1.Choose a task—either Sequence Stories or Sequence Instructions. 2.Then choose to Show Pictures, Play Audio, and/or Show Text—Turn any of the options on or off to change your treatment goals. 3.Set the range of steps in a sequence (2–6 steps). 4.Click Play Game and ask each student to place the cards in the correct order. When students complete a level with 80% accuracy, they will get to choose 1 of 4 games to play in the arcade. HearBuilder Sequencing allows you to: •Monitor progress and track data for an unlimited number of students. •Individualize each student program. •Set levels of difficulty for each activity. •Add background noise at any level and adjust the volume for each student. •Customize and print reports. •Analyze all responses.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Making Sequences at 73% against HearBuilder Sequencing's 22%. Making Sequences also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). HearBuilder Sequencing's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and rating (2.9 vs 2.0). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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HearBuilder Sequencing is free to download; Making Sequences costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HearBuilder Sequencing holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HearBuilder Sequencing has 17 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Making Sequences's written reviews are positive against 22% of HearBuilder Sequencing'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, HearBuilder Sequencing every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Making Sequences | HearBuilder Sequencing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.0 (3 ratings) | 2.9 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 22.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 328 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zorten Software, LLC | Super Duper Publications |
Customer experience
Making Sequences
HearBuilder Sequencing
In-app purchases
Making Sequences
No in-app purchases
HearBuilder Sequencing
No in-app purchases
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