Comparison

Language Therapy Lite vs Advanced Reading Therapy

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

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About

Language Therapy Lite

This app offers scientifically proven speech therapy exercises to improve reading, writing, speaking, and listening for individuals with aphasia. It provides a free sample of activities designed by experts to aid recovery from stroke or brain injury.

Highlights
  • Reading comprehension exercises
  • Word-finding practice
  • Phrase and sentence reading
  • Spelling and writing practice
  • Adjustable difficulty
  • Customizable activities
  • Score reports
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Harness the power of a scientifically proven 4-in-1 speech therapy app that boosts reading, writing, speaking, and listening in people with aphasia. Whether you’re recovering from a stroke or brain injury, Language Therapy can help. TRY THIS APP FOR FREE! Language Therapy Lite is a free sample of the activities found in the full version of Language Therapy. You’ll get 5-7 exercises in each activity to see if this is the right app for you. STUDIES SHOW… IT WORKS! Struggling with language can feel like being trapped in your own mind. But there’s an answer. Research at the University of Cambridge showed improvement in every single participant with chronic aphasia who used this app for 20 minutes a day over 4 weeks. Get real results that last.* - Overcome aphasia and boost language skills with a proven app designed by experts - Enhance speech therapy with countless activities that are perfect for clinical and home use - Learn in 5 languages: US or UK English, Spanish, German, French - Get a toolkit that’s faster and more adaptable than photo cards, letter tiles, and other therapy aids - Use score reports and adjustable options to seamlessly fit the app into your therapy program - Fully customize your activities by adding your own words, pictures, prompts, or sounds - No subscriptions, ever – our best-selling app will always be there when you need it ** THERE’S NO BETTER TIME TO START. Try it now for FREE with Language Therapy Lite! ** HERE’S WHAT YOU GET IN ONE EASY PACKAGE: COMPREHENSION THERAPY – IMPROVE YOUR UNDERSTANDING Build listening and reading comprehension skills for nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Take the first step in your aphasia recovery with an app that automatically adjusts difficulty based on performance. 3 ACTIVITIES: Listen | Read | Listen & Read NAMING THERAPY – FIND THE RIGHT WORDS Practice naming and improve word-finding skills. In 4 activities, you do everything from naming the things you see to describing their features, all with cues and hints to guide you. Build independence by learning strategies to communicate your thoughts and needs. 4 ACTIVITIES: Naming Practice | Describe | Naming Test | Flashcards READING THERAPY – TAKE YOUR READING TO THE NEXT LEVEL Strengthen literacy with phrase and sentence exercises in an app that’s perfect for independent practice. Improve attention to detail, practice oral reading, and build on the single words of Comprehension Therapy as you move toward the more advanced reading skills needed for independent living. 4 ACTIVITIES: Phrase Matching | Phrase Completion | Sentence Matching | Sentence Completion WRITING THERAPY – BOOST YOUR SPELLING SKILLS Improve spelling ability by practicing completing and building the words you hear and see. Pick letters from a limited choice or full alphabet, then place and rearrange them at will for an intuitive and challenging experience. The perfect spelling practice is waiting. 4 ACTIVITIES: Fill in the Blank | Copy | Spell What You See | Spell What You Hear IN ALL 4 OF LANGUAGE THERAPY’S APPS, YOU GET: - 700+ core nouns, verbs, and adjectives that run throughout all 4 apps - Thousands of exercises for countless hours of practice - Recommendations on what to do next based on your score - Activities for people struggling with aphasia after stroke or brain injury, autism, or just learning a new language - Simple, distraction-free interfaces that are easy to use for all ages and abilities - No subscriptions, no monthly bills, no Wi-Fi needed WHY WASTE YOUR TIME ON APPS THAT DON’T WORK? Download Language Therapy and watch the improvement begin. Looking for something different in a speech therapy app? Find the right apps for you at tactustherapy.com/find *Every person and every brain is different. Your results may vary.

About

Advanced Reading Therapy

This app helps adults improve reading comprehension after a stroke or brain injury. It offers engaging exercises with text and audio support, comprehension questions, and progress tracking across three graded levels. Designed for adult learners and speech-language pathologists.

Highlights
  • Paragraph-level reading exercises
  • Text and audio support
  • Comprehension questions
  • Self-rating for metacognition
  • Progress score reports
  • Adjustable font and spacing
  • Audio recording for self-practice
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If your reading skills have been impacted by a stroke or brain injury, this app can help you improve. Practice reading with engaging exercises that include text and audio support. ** Try for FREE by downloading Advanced Language Therapy Lite ** Advanced Reading Therapy uses technology to assist struggling adult readers to make sense of paragraph- and multi-paragraph-level passages. Self-ratings encourage metacognitive awareness, comprehension questions test accuracy, and hints enable greater success and independence. Score reports make it easy to see progress (and write progress notes) along the three graded levels: * Level 1: Shorter passages of 50 words or less, written around a Grade 0 – 1 reading level. Three questions after each passage test comprehension. ** Level 2: Medium passages of 50-150 words, written around Grade 2 – 3 reading level. Four questions appear to see how well you understood. *** Level 3: Harder passages get you ready for the texts you want to read. 150 – 600 words and Grade 3 – 6 reading level with five questions each. Adult readers will enjoy these functional and entertaining passages as they get back to reading the pages and screens in their own lives. Speech-language pathologists will love having so many modern reading passages with carefully-crafted questions at hand to teach strategies. Built-in audio controls let you listen to a single word, go sentence-by-sentence, or hear the whole article – whatever you need. You’ll get over 200 reading rehabilitation exercises in 15 categories! Features: • Text-to-speech available on touch • Adjust font size, spacing, and rate at any time • On-screen audio recording to listen to yourself reading aloud • Self-rating of comprehension encourages metacognitive awareness • Inference and prediction question encourage thinking outside the text • Huge variety of topics to appeal to mature readers • E-mail reports for easy data tracking • Unique categories such as Jokes, Inferences, First Chapters, Text Messages, and Functional Passages • Look back at the passage any time, or have the relevant text highlighted with a Hint Tactus Therapy offers a wide variety of apps to help with reading comprehension. Advanced Reading Therapy is the next step in your rehab after mastering the single words in Comprehension Therapy, the phrases & sentences of Reading Therapy, and the complex sentences of Advanced Comprehension Therapy. All of our apps work together to help you reach your reading goals. Find the right apps for you with our App Finder at tactustherapy.com/find

Screenshots

Language Therapy Lite4 screens
Advanced Reading Therapy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Language Therapy Lite at Free against Advanced Reading Therapy's $29.99. Language Therapy Lite also leads on ratings volume (1.3K vs 64). Advanced Reading Therapy's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Language Therapy Lite is free to download; Advanced Reading Therapy costs $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 — 4.7 for Language Therapy Lite against 4.8 for Advanced Reading Therapy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Language Therapy Lite has 1.3K ratings behind it against 64, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Language Therapy Lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of Advanced Reading Therapy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Language Therapy Lite versus Advanced Reading Therapy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLanguage Therapy LiteAdvanced Reading Therapy
PriceFree — better$29.99
Rating4.7 (1.3K ratings)4.8 (64 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.3K — better64
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.09.0
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.

Customer experience

Language Therapy Lite

All ratings1,293 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral3.7%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews86 reviews
Positive89.5%
Neutral2.3%
Negative8.1%

Advanced Reading Therapy

All ratings64 ratings
Positive98.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Language Therapy Lite

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices
  • Icon is blank after last update

Requested features

2 requests
  • Add audio support for all features
  • Improve navigation and home screen functionality

Advanced Reading Therapy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Language Therapy Lite

No in-app purchases

None

Advanced Reading Therapy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Language Therapy Lite free?
Language Therapy Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Advanced Reading Therapy free?
Advanced Reading Therapy costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Language Therapy Lite or Advanced Reading Therapy?
Advanced Reading Therapy is rated higher. Language Therapy Lite averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Advanced Reading Therapy averages 4.8 from 64 ratings.
Do Language Therapy Lite or Advanced Reading Therapy have ads?
Neither Language Therapy Lite nor Advanced Reading Therapy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Language Therapy Lite or Advanced Reading Therapy?
Language Therapy Lite ships an update every 4 months, and Advanced Reading Therapy every 4 months. Most recently, Language Therapy Lite was updated on September 26, 2026 and Advanced Reading Therapy on September 28, 2026.

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