Comparison

Magical Concepts vs Listening Power Intermediate

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

Head to head
About

Magical Concepts

This app uses engaging activities and real-life photos to help children learn over 60 essential early-learning concepts. It supports comprehension across various categories and provides motivational rewards for progress.

Highlights
  • 60+ early learning concepts
  • 2,000+ real-life photos
  • Audio prompts and instructions
  • Motivational rewards (Magic Show)
  • Progress tracking and reports
  • Supports multiple students
Features
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Magical Concepts helps children master over 60 essential early-learning concepts through engaging, child-friendly activities. With 2,000+ real-life photos, audio prompts, and motivational rewards, kids learn concepts like big/small, above/below, hot/cold, more/less, inside/outside, and many more. Perfect for speech-language pathologists, educators, and parents, the app supports concept comprehension across spatial, temporal, quantitative, qualitative, and social-emotional categories. Students earn stars for correct answers and unlock a magical show as positive reinforcement. Magical Concepts includes: • Over 2,000 vivid photo stimuli • 60+ core concepts across 5 learning categories • Audio instructions for emerging readers • Magic Show rewards for motivation • Randomized or ordered presentation • Track progress and manage multiple students • Emailable session reports Designed to support early learners, children with language delays, autism, or concept-comprehension difficulties.

About

Listening Power Intermediate

This app offers over 1000 listening practice questions for children aged 5-10, focusing on auditory processing and language comprehension. It includes various activities like listening for descriptions, meaning, grammar, and stories, with adjustable difficulty levels.

Highlights
  • Over 1000 listening practice questions
  • Five distinct learning activities
  • Adjustable difficulty levels (Easy, Intermediate, Advanced)
  • Data collection and progress tracking
  • Reward animations and fun breaks
  • Optional text display for reading comprehension
Features
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Listening Power Intermediate provides over 1000 listening practice questions on a variety of Apple devices (iPhone, iPad and Macbook). Designed by Patti Hamaguchi, MA, CCC-SLP, a licensed speech-language pathologist and developer of the popular Fun with Directions app, it is perfect for children at a language age of 5 through 12 or any child learning English. Does your child need practice listening or working on receptive language concepts? Is auditory processing of language concepts difficult? Listening Power Intermediate was designed for children with delayed language comprehension, AD/HD, weak listening or auditory processing, autism, and English language learners but ANY child can enjoy these fun activities to strengthen listening!  Children with CAPD (central auditory processing disorder) can practice listening to stories with simulated background noise as an option to build their ability to "tune out" noise distractions and improve their auditory figure-ground skills. By turning on the “text on” feature, it can also be used for reading decoding/comprehension as well! This app should ideally be played with an adult who can teach and cue the child when appropriate during the activities and make the proper settings selections. As with all screen time, app play should be limited. A perfect app for speech-language therapy and reinforcing auditory skills! Data collection results can be emailed, saved or printed. Stories and questions also available for printing out for further practice. There are 5 activities in the app: Listening for Descriptions: Adjectives such as longest/shortest, empty/full, curly/straight, between, etc. Intermediate: Find the blue bird with an orange beak that is sitting on a nest. 50 questions for each level. Total 150 Listening for Meaning: Vocabulary terms are introduced in context with a follow-up question. Intermediate: The infant was sitting in the chair. Who was sitting in the chair? A baby/teenage boy/woman/very old man 50 questions for each level. Total 150 Listening for Grammar: plurals, verb tenses, pronouns, preposition concepts, and negation! Find the sentence with a mistake: She falled off the bed/He ate four grapes/The dog bit him. 50 questions for each level. Total 150 Listening for Word Memory: 9 pictures are shown. The child is asked to listen and remember the words in order. 2-6 word series are provided. There are unlimited combinations for this activity! Listening for Stories (Narrative language!): Easy level: A story is read with accompanying pictures and sound effects, followed by questions about the story such as who, what, and where questions. Intermediate has pictures at beginning/end only and more challenging questions. Advanced: Only pictures for non-fiction narratives, science fiction stories. 25 Stories for each level, with 5 questions each. Total 375 Use "custom select" to find stories that interest your child. Features include: Easy, Intermediate and Advanced levels within each activity. Auto Advance/Drop makes the questions easier or more challenging, depending on your child’s choices; Door or basketball game included for a fun break; data collection, pop-up reward animations, individual and group play for up to 75 users; text on/off feature available to work on reading decoding and comprehension, options for 2, 3 or 4 choices to be shown. Tech support: info@hamaguchiapps.com We do not collect any personal information or data from this app. Apps do not require WiFi connection once downloaded as it is a self-contained app.

Screenshots

Magical Concepts4 screens
Listening Power Intermediate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Magical Concepts at $9.99 against Listening Power Intermediate's $19.99. Magical Concepts also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 25 months) and review sentiment (38% vs 25%). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Magical Concepts costs $9.99 and Listening Power Intermediate $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Magical Concepts ships an update every 6 months, Listening Power Intermediate every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Magical Concepts versus Listening Power Intermediate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagical ConceptsListening Power Intermediate
Price$9.99 — better$19.99
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 25 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size213 MB1016 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVirtual Speech Center Inc.Hamaguchi Learning & Development, LLC

Customer experience

Magical Concepts

Written reviews8 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral62.5%
Negative0.0%

Listening Power Intermediate

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

In-app purchases

None

Magical Concepts

No in-app purchases

None

Listening Power Intermediate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Magical Concepts free?
Magical Concepts costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Listening Power Intermediate free?
Listening Power Intermediate costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Magical Concepts or Listening Power Intermediate have ads?
Neither Magical Concepts nor Listening Power Intermediate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Magical Concepts or Listening Power Intermediate?
Magical Concepts ships an update every 6 months, and Listening Power Intermediate every 25 months. Most recently, Magical Concepts was updated on October 24, 2026 and Listening Power Intermediate on October 20, 2026.

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