Comparison

Choiceworks vs my visual schedule lite

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
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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

my visual schedule lite

This app helps children with special needs by providing auditory and visual support for their daily schedules and routines. It allows for the creation of personalized schedules with photos, symbols, and spoken prompts for multiple users.

Highlights
  • Auditory and visual support
  • Daily schedule creation
  • Photo and symbol integration
  • Auditory output for schedule items
  • Multi-user support
Features
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important ------- To enter the application settings, press and hold the Settings button The application "my schedule" was developed to meet the needs of different children with special needs for auditory and visual support to their daily schedule and routine. The current application is for both educational frameworks which hold the iPad as a tool for everyday use, and for children using personal iPad for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. The application allows creating daily scheduales for several users, by adding photos or symbols and by adding an auditory output for each of them.

Screenshots

Choiceworks4 screens
my visual schedule lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Choiceworks at 81% against my visual schedule lite's 0%. Choiceworks also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). my visual schedule lite's advantage is price (Free vs $39.99) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

my visual schedule lite is free to download; Choiceworks costs $39.99 up front. my visual schedule lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Choiceworks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Choiceworks holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Choiceworks has 297 ratings behind it against 8, 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 0% of my visual schedule lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Choiceworks ships an update every 2 days, my visual schedule lite every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Choiceworks versus my visual schedule lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChoiceworksmy visual schedule lite
Price$39.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (297 ratings) — better1.5 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews81.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings297 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size394 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBee Visual, LLCrana nir

Customer experience

Choiceworks

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

my visual schedule lite

All ratings8 ratings
Positive12.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative87.5%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

my visual schedule lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Choiceworks

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

my visual schedule lite

One-time1
  • full version$4.99

Questions

Is Choiceworks free?
Choiceworks costs $39.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is my visual schedule lite free?
my visual schedule lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Choiceworks or my visual schedule lite?
Choiceworks is rated higher. Choiceworks averages 4.6 out of 5 from 297 ratings, while my visual schedule lite averages 1.5 from 8 ratings.
Do Choiceworks or my visual schedule lite have ads?
Neither Choiceworks nor my visual schedule lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Choiceworks or my visual schedule lite?
Choiceworks ships an update every 2 days, and my visual schedule lite every 8 months. Most recently, Choiceworks was updated on October 3, 2026 and my visual schedule lite on September 22, 2026.

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