Catch The Cow vs CoughDrop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Catch The Cow
This app assists individuals with physical disabilities in developing picture selection skills using scanning or direct touch methods. It's designed for educational settings to assess and build foundational choice-making abilities, with adjustable difficulty levels.
- Picture selection training
- Scanning device compatibility
- Direct touch input
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- External switch support
- Comparison of scanning vs. direct touch accuracy
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Catch the Cow helps children and adults with physical disabilities, to learn to select pictures using a scanning device. It allows teachers, clinicians or parents to assess whether a user can learn beginning skills for choice making through auto scanning. Direct touch can also be used and accuracy of the two modes can be compared. Initially the user selects one of two squares. Then the level of difficulty gradually increases to select a picture from multiple rows and columns. Catch the Cow provides a large on-screen button for selection as shown. An option is provided to use it with an external switch that is compatible with the Apple Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard. The space, enter, ~, 1, 2, 3 or 4 key equivalents can be used to select. Compatible Bluetooth controllers and switches are available from RJ Cooper & Asoociates Inc. and Ablenet Inc.
CoughDrop
This app provides a modern communication and support tool for individuals with complex communication needs. It offers customizable boards with symbols, images, and audio, along with reporting features for support teams.
- Customizable communication boards
- Rich symbol set and image personalization
- User-recorded audio and speech synthesis
- Cross-device synchronization
- Support team access and collaboration
- Built-in reporting and messaging
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CoughDrop is a simple, modern AAC communication and support tool that empowers individuals and the teams around them. It is a full-featured communication app built for individuals with autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Angelman syndrome, Rett syndrome, or other complex communication needs. CoughDrop is flexible and configurable enough to accommodate the access and comprehension needs of many communicators. CoughDrop users can install this app to access CoughDrop's communication and reporting features on their mobile device. The app includes starter boards for different levels of communication, and boards with large or small buttons can be personalized using the rich symbol set, user-provided images or camera photos, user-recorded audio, speech synthesis, etc. CoughDrop runs on multiple devices, so you can log in on your tablet, phone and computer and have access to the same communication tools and interface. In addition, users can be linked so parents, therapists and supervisors can access a communicator's boards from their own devices to better facilitate modeling, and to make it easier to modify boards without taking away the communicator's device. The built-in reporting and messaging tools also help the support team have a consistent strategy and know what's working across locations and times.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CoughDrop at 52% against Catch The Cow's 0%. CoughDrop also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and update cadence (monthly vs every 14 months). Catch The Cow's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads 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
CoughDrop is free to download; Catch The Cow costs $2.99 up front. CoughDrop sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Catch The Cow asks for nothing beyond the download.
Catch The Cow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CoughDrop has 57 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Catch The Cow's written reviews are positive against 52% of CoughDrop's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Catch The Cow ships an update every 14 months, CoughDrop monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and August 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Catch The Cow | CoughDrop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.7 (57 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 52.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 57 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Computerade Products | CoughDrop, Inc. |
Customer experience
Catch The Cow
CoughDrop
In-app purchases
Catch The Cow
No in-app purchases
CoughDrop
- Evaluator Access$29.99
- Supporter Access$44.99
- Communicator Access$294.99
