Comparison

Magical Concepts vs Making Change AUD

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

Making Change AUD

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Click on “Making Change" and then click the “Enter" button to open this program. This program teaches the student about changing (converting) larger denominations of currency into smaller ones, such as breaking a dollar note into five twenty-cent or ten ten-cent or any other collections of coins that add up to the dollar. The screen has a top box showing the coin or note for which change is needed. To the right of the top box is a counter giving the value of the currency in the top box. Under the top box are more boxes in the middle of the screen with spaces for the coins or notes that the student is using to make change for the money in the top box. To the right of the middle boxes is a counter giving the value of the change in the middle boxes. At the bottom is another set of boxes with a coin or note in each box. The student clicks on these coins or notes to make change for the coin or note in the top box. Change Made The student clicks this button when he/she thinks the correct change has been placed in the boxes in the middle. Settings Training The Training mode is selected by default Test Here, the student can test him/herself. Both counters are disabled. The test results are recorded and “Report" becomes enabled. Report This displays results of the “Test". The report features are similar to those of reports used in other programs. Display the Value of the Coins or Notes is on This is the default setting. The value of the coin or note (such as “10¢" under ten-cent coin) appears under the coin or note. Display the Value of the Coins or Notes is off The value of the coin or note (such as “10¢" under ten-cent coin) will not appear under the coin or note. Command Text This option is selected by default. When this is checked, text appears at the bottom of the screen instructing the student to (for instance) “Here is five dollars. Please make change with 4 one-dollar notes and the rest in twenty-cent pieces." If not checked, the command text does not appear. Congratulatory Animation This is selected by default. When the student makes the correct change and clicks on the “Change Made" button, there will be a congratulatory animation. Click anywhere on the screen or press the space bar to stop the congratulatory animation. When not checked, the animation will not appear. Selection Here the teacher/therapist can select the coins and/or notes that the student can use to make change. By default “Select All" is checked. Select All This selects all coins and notes.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Making Change AUD at Free against Magical Concepts's $9.99. Making Change AUD also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). Magical Concepts's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 months vs every 41 months). On 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

Making Change AUD is free to download; Magical Concepts costs $9.99 up front. Making Change AUD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Magical Concepts asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Magical Concepts ships an update every 6 months, Making Change AUD every 41 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 3 level
Magical Concepts versus Making Change AUD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagical ConceptsMaking Change AUD
Price$9.99Free — better
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 41 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size213 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVirtual Speech Center Inc.Blooming Kids Software LLC

In-app purchases

None

Magical Concepts

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Making Change AUD

One-time1
  • Making Change AUD$3.99

Questions

Is Magical Concepts free?
Magical Concepts costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Making Change AUD free?
Making Change AUD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Magical Concepts or Making Change AUD have ads?
Neither Magical Concepts nor Making Change AUD shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Magical Concepts or Making Change AUD?
Magical Concepts ships an update every 6 months, and Making Change AUD every 41 months. Most recently, Magical Concepts was updated on June 5, 2026 and Making Change AUD on September 9, 2026.

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