Comparison

Reading Therapy vs Advanced Comprehension Therapy

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

Head to head
About

Reading Therapy

This app provides adults and older children with neurological impairments or special needs practice in reading comprehension. It offers over 1800 exercises across four modes, with customizable options and visual aids to support learning and track progress.

Highlights
  • 1800+ phrase and sentence exercises
  • Four distinct practice modes
  • Customizable exercise creation
  • Full-color photographs
  • Automated scoring and data tracking
  • Child-friendly mode
  • Report-ready progress emails
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1800+ phrase & sentence level reading comprehension tasks with the option of creating your own exercises! **Try for FREE as part of Language Therapy Lite or purchase in our 4-in-1 bundle: Language Therapy ** This app gives adults with neurological impairment (stroke, brain injury, aphasia) and older children with special needs the practice they need in between reading words and reading stories. It's a digital workbook of semantically organized reading comprehension tasks with the added ability for you to create your own exercises in each mode! Goal Areas: Reading Comprehension, Attention, Problem Solving, Visual Processing, Reasoning Can be used with: Aphasia, Alexia, Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Cognitive-Communication Impairment, Brain Injury, Early Language Learners, Language Learning Disability, Autism, English as a Second Language Learners Features: *4 modes with over 450 exercises each, for 1,800+ reading comprehension practice items 1)Phrase Matching 2)Sentence Matching 3)Phrase Completion 4)Sentence Completion *Hundreds of clear full-color photographs selected by a Speech-Language Pathologist used in both matching modes *Carefully-crafted foils on each exercise challenge users to read carefully *Clean interface with symbol support allows for independent use *Automated scoring allows for easy data-tracking *Wrong answers are grayed out once selected *Forward and back buttons allow users to skip items and go back to discuss completed items or retry skipped exercises *Child-friendly mode removes references to adult themes and disables links to outside sites *Users see their answers paired with the stimulus for reinforcement of the correct answer *Turn any picture/word on or off *Limit answer choices to 2, 3, or 4, or automatically adjust based on performance *Results can be e-mailed in a ​report-ready format so clients can keep their therapist informed of their progress and therapists can send results to themselves for charting later, using the copy-and-paste ready format to decrease documentation time

About

Advanced Comprehension Therapy

This app offers professional speech therapy to improve sentence-level understanding, following directions, and language processing. It features three engaging activities designed for adults and older children with communication impairments, helping to build comprehension skills beyond single words.

Highlights
  • Sentence identification with increasing complexity
  • Sentence building from word order
  • Following multi-step directions
  • Auditory, reading, and combined comprehension modes
  • Progress tracking and email reports
  • Hints and audio repeat options
Currently charting
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Train your brain to listen carefully with this professional speech therapy app. Three activities help you to understand sentences, follow directions, and improve language processing. If you’re looking for a speech therapy app for adults and older children with communication and cognitive impairments that takes understanding beyond single words, this app is for you. ** Try for FREE by downloading Advanced Language Therapy Lite ** Advanced Comprehension Therapy will help you find where comprehension breaks down, then help you build it back up with 3 classic speech therapy activities targeting sentence-level listening and reading comprehension. 1) IDENTIFY the picture that matches the sentence, increasing in syntactic complexity. Start by finding the picture that matches a sentence like “The baby sleeps.” Work up to finding “The grandparent is told a secret by the child” from closely related pictures. * 11 levels of difficulty for understanding sentences with nearly 700 unique trials * Listen, Read, & Both modes to focus on auditory, reading, or total comprehension * Includes up to 3 nouns, indirect objects, reversible sentences, & passives 2) BUILD a sentence by focusing on each word & how they all fit together. Arrange the words one-by-one to match the pictured sentence you hear. Start with 3 words and work up to 9. * 20 sentence types in nearly 1200 unique trials * Add up to 3 extra words for an added challenge * Tricky "little words" like articles, pronouns, and prepositions * Hear each word as you touch it 3) FOLLOW directions of increasing difficulty in 1-, 2-, & 3-step commands. Start with exercises like “Touch the pencil.” Work up to brain-bending challenges like “Before you touch the large yellow striped circle, touch the small blue solid star.” * 16 levels of difficulty for following directions * Listen, Read, & Both modes to focus on auditory, reading, or total comprehension * Includes basic, temporal, & conditional commands in a hierarchy of 1-, 2-, & 3-step directions In All Activities: * Enjoy 1000’s of unique stimuli with hundreds of photos * Use hints when you get stuck so you always finish successfully * Track progress with detailed e-mail reports * Record yourself on-screen and send it when you’re finished * Repeat audio at any time, or repeat slowly for easier understanding * Designed with adults in mind but easy enough for children to use * No subscriptions, no monthly bills, no Wi-Fi needed ------------------------------------------------- Who is Advanced Comprehension Therapy For? * Speech-Language Pathologists * Adults with Aphasia (mild-moderate) * Stroke & TBI Survivors * Children with Autism or Language Learning Difficulties * Anyone who has mastered the single words in Comprehension Therapy or Language 4-in-1 & wants to take their therapy to the next level! ------------------------------------------------- Which Skills Does This App Target? * Auditory Comprehension (listening) * Reading Comprehension * Attention to Detail * Working Memory (holding information) * Nouns & Pronouns (he/she/it/they) * Adjectives (colors, size, shading) * Syntactic Processing (understanding grammar) * Temporal Concepts (before/after) * Conditional Directions (if/then) * Problem Solving (using hint/repeat or fixing errors) ------------------------------------------------- Download now to get started – or try it for FREE with Advanced Language Therapy Lite! Looking for something different in a speech therapy app? We offer a wide range to choose from. Find the right one for you at tactustherapy.com/find

Screenshots

Reading Therapy4 screens
Advanced Comprehension Therapy4 screens

Verdict

The call

Reading Therapy and Advanced Comprehension Therapy both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Reading Therapy's written reviews are positive against 50% of Advanced Comprehension Therapy's. Advanced Comprehension Therapy's advantage is chart position (#188 vs unranked) and ratings volume (276 vs 79). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

Reading Therapy costs $29.99 and Advanced Comprehension Therapy $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Reading Therapy against 4.7 for Advanced Comprehension Therapy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 79 and 276 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Reading Therapy's written reviews are positive against 50% of Advanced Comprehension Therapy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Reading Therapy versus Advanced Comprehension Therapy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReading TherapyAdvanced Comprehension Therapy
Price$29.99$29.99
Rating4.8 (79 ratings) — better4.7 (276 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings79276 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#188 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.09.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB149 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.

Customer experience

Reading Therapy

All ratings79 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Advanced Comprehension Therapy

All ratings276 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Reading Therapy

No in-app purchases

None

Advanced Comprehension Therapy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reading Therapy free?
Reading Therapy costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Advanced Comprehension Therapy free?
Advanced Comprehension Therapy costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Reading Therapy or Advanced Comprehension Therapy?
Reading Therapy is rated higher. Reading Therapy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 79 ratings, while Advanced Comprehension Therapy averages 4.7 from 276 ratings.
Do Reading Therapy or Advanced Comprehension Therapy have ads?
Neither Reading Therapy nor Advanced Comprehension Therapy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reading Therapy or Advanced Comprehension Therapy?
Reading Therapy ships an update every 4 months, and Advanced Comprehension Therapy every 4 months. Most recently, Reading Therapy was updated on September 22, 2026 and Advanced Comprehension Therapy on September 23, 2026.

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