Catch The Cow vs SymbolSupport
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.
SymbolSupport
This iPad utility app enhances text by automatically adding symbols above typed or pasted content. It features text-to-speech with word-by-word highlighting and offers extensive symbol libraries. Documents can be easily shared as PDFs or in a proprietary format.
- Automatic symbol addition to text
- Text-to-speech with highlighting
- Pre-loaded and searchable symbol libraries
- Image import from camera roll and internet
- Customizable symbol assignment
- Document sharing via AirDrop, email, and cloud storage
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SymbolSupport is an iPad utility app that effortlessly adds symbols to text. As textis typed, symbols are automatically added above it. Text can also be copied from pre-existing written materials and pasted into SymbolSupport where symbols are instantly added. Documents are read with a high-quality text-to-speech voice and include word-by-word highlighting. This support helps students better understand class assignments.Symbols from Slater Literacy Support Pictures™ and Attainment’s Image Library are included. Plus, there is easy access to your camera roll and a built-in internet image search.Easy-to-use editing tools include changing auto-assigned symbols to other symbols or imported images and removing symbols from text to reduce the number of symbols on a page. SymbolSupport is designed to create symbolized text quickly and easily. Sharing these documents is equally important. Share documents via AirDrop, email, or send to any cloud storage setup on the iPad. Documents can be sent as a PDF for studentportfolios or shared with parents. Documents can also be sent as a SymbolSupport file which can be opened by SymbolSupport or SymbolSupport Lite apps. SymbolSupport Lite is a separate and free app. It can receive, read aloud, and print documents that have been created with the SymbolSupport app. SymbolSupport Lite cannot create or edit documents.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SymbolSupport at 50% against Catch The Cow's 0%. SymbolSupport also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 14 months) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Catch The Cow's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $59.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Catch The Cow costs $2.99 and SymbolSupport $59.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Catch The Cow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Catch The Cow's written reviews are positive against 50% of SymbolSupport'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, SymbolSupport every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Catch The Cow | SymbolSupport |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $59.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 293 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Computerade Products | Attainment Company |
Customer experience
Catch The Cow
SymbolSupport
In-app purchases
Catch The Cow
No in-app purchases
SymbolSupport
No in-app purchases
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