Comparison

Choiceworks vs Ready Set Dial

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

Head to head
About

Choiceworks

This app helps children develop independence and manage emotions through visual schedules, waiting skill practice, and feeling identification tools. It supports caregivers and educators in fostering positive behavior and emotional regulation at home and in school.

Highlights
  • Visual schedules for daily routines
  • Tools for understanding and managing feelings
  • Improve waiting and turn-taking skills
  • Customizable with own images and audio
  • Supports multiple user profiles
  • Printable boards and PDF export
Features
Currently charting
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Choiceworks is a visual support app that helps make the day easier to understand. It is designed for children, teens, adults, and families who benefit from visual structure, clear routines, and support with transitions, waiting, choices, and feelings. Families, caregivers, educators, and therapists can create customized visual boards using pictures, text, video, and recorded audio. Boards can be used at home, in therapy, during appointments, while traveling, or anywhere a visual plan helps. Choiceworks includes four board types: • Schedule boards show what is happening now and what comes next • Waiting boards make waiting more concrete with a visual timer and activity choices • Feelings boards support communication about emotions, choices, and next steps • Feelings Scale boards help show how big a feeling is and what can help at each level Features include: • Visual schedule, waiting, feelings, and Feelings Scale boards • Visual timers for schedules and waiting • Custom pictures, video, text, and recorded audio • Multiple profiles • Import and export of Choiceworks board files • Send a copy of a board by AirDrop, Files, or email • Optional iCloud Sync & Backup across your own devices signed into the same Apple ID • App menus, included board labels, included card text, and spoken card words in English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, French, and Portuguese • VoiceOver support Choiceworks has no ads, no tracking, and no accounts to create. Your boards, photos, videos, and recordings stay on your device and in your own iCloud. One purchase includes everything. No subscriptions.

About

Ready Set Dial

This educational app teaches essential phone usage and safety skills through interactive lessons and practice scenarios. Users can learn to dial emergency numbers, identify strangers, and practice calling custom numbers with personalized audio.

Highlights
  • Interactive phone lessons
  • 911 dialing practice
  • Stranger identification
  • Custom number directory with audio
  • Memory game for number recall
  • Multiple phone styles
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Ready Set Dial is an educational app that provides a comprehensive learning experience in phone usage and safety through interactive phone lessons. Learn • Basics: Master the fundamental operations of using a phone. • 911: Understand the protocol and when it's crucial to dial 911. • Strangers: Identify strangers and whom to alert in various situations. Practice • Practice the entire process of dialing 911. • Supports custom numbers and audio. Memory • Engage in an iterative memory game to learn and recall custom numbers effectively. Try • Dial various numbers such as 0, 411, 911, and incorrect or invalid numbers. • Add personalized numbers with audio using the directory feature. • Experience realistic audio for all supported numbers. • Includes standard and mobile phone styles. Directory • Add an unlimited number of custom entries with recorded audio. • Disable or replace existing numbers to support personal custom entries. For instance, live in Australia? Disable 911 and add your unique 000 entries. Settings • Choose between standard or mobile phone styles. • Adjust the delay between audio dialogues from 1 to 10 seconds. • Enable and configure user profiles for a personalized learning experience. We want and appreciate your feedback! Email: support@littlebitstudio.com Instagram: @littlebitstudio Facebook: @littlebitstudio Twitter: @lilbitstudio

Screenshots

Choiceworks4 screens
Ready Set Dial4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ready Set Dial at Free against Choiceworks's $29.99. Ready Set Dial also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Choiceworks's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.9) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 7 months). On 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

Ready Set Dial is free to download; Choiceworks costs $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Choiceworks holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Choiceworks has 297 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Choiceworks's written reviews are positive against 56% of Ready Set Dial's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Choiceworks ships an update every 2 days, Ready Set Dial every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Choiceworks versus Ready Set Dial: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChoiceworksReady Set Dial
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (297 ratings) — better3.9 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews81.4% of reviews — better55.6% of reviews
Number of ratings297 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#166 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size394 MB116 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBee Visual, LLCLittle Bit Studio, LLC

Customer experience

Choiceworks

All ratings297 ratings
Positive91.6%
Neutral2.7%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews140 reviews
Positive81.4%
Neutral10.7%
Negative7.9%

Ready Set Dial

All ratings16 ratings
Positive68.8%
Neutral6.3%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Choiceworks

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Library won't load, preventing app usage
  • Schedules reset when switching profiles
  • Crashes after recent update

Requested features

5 requests
  • Sync schedules across devices
  • Ability to add more than 7-8 steps in a schedule
  • More diverse set of icons and images
  • Customizable timer sounds
  • Option to use recorded voice for schedule titles

Ready Set Dial

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Choiceworks

No in-app purchases

None

Ready Set Dial

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Choiceworks free?
Choiceworks costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ready Set Dial free?
Ready Set Dial is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Choiceworks or Ready Set Dial?
Choiceworks is rated higher. Choiceworks averages 4.6 out of 5 from 297 ratings, while Ready Set Dial averages 3.9 from 16 ratings.
Do Choiceworks or Ready Set Dial have ads?
Neither Choiceworks nor Ready Set Dial shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Choiceworks or Ready Set Dial?
Choiceworks ships an update every 2 days, and Ready Set Dial every 7 months. Most recently, Choiceworks was updated on October 11, 2026 and Ready Set Dial on October 4, 2026.

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