Comparison

Visual Attention Therapy Lite vs RecoverBrain Language Therapy

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

Head to head
About

Visual Attention Therapy Lite

This app helps individuals with brain injuries, strokes, or attention deficits improve their scanning abilities and cognitive skills. It offers timed exercises and automated scoring to track progress in areas like reading, concentration, and processing speed.

Highlights
  • Improve scanning abilities
  • Assess for neglect
  • Practice left-to-right scanning
  • Timed exercises
  • Automated scoring and reports
  • Customizable layouts and difficulty
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Visual Attention Therapy helps brain injury and stroke survivors, as well as struggling students, to improve scanning abilities. It also helps rehab professionals to assess for neglect and provide more efficient and effective therapy for attention deficits. Visual Attention Therapy Lite gives you a free taste of the customization and utility of the full app: Visual Attention Therapy. This lite version lets you try Test and Practice modes with one level and layout, but is otherwise a fully functional app, allowing you to try 1 or 2 targets, all the signal and target colors and styles, and send e-mail reports. Practicing scanning from left to right across a page helps retrain the brain to move the eyes correctly. Strengthening this essential skill can improve reading, concentration, memory, attention to detail, and speed of processing. Using two targets at once can help users with working memory and alternating attention. 1) Use the Test mode to help determine if a scanning or attention deficit exists. 2) Use the Practice mode to train scanning to find targets in order. _______________________ CANCELLATION TASKS JUST GOT BETTER This professional cognitive training app takes traditional cancellation exercises, the evidence-based standard for testing and treating visuospatial neglect, and enhances them with benefits that are only available through technology: * Targets must be tapped from left to right, top to bottom in Practice mode, training users to slow down and scan the entire screen before they can move forward. * Sidebar signal can flash in a variety of colors to draw attention to the left or right. * Auditory and a variety of visual cues give instant feedback and keep users engaged. * Timed exercises increase motivation to work quickly and accurately. * No need to spend time counting errors. Automated scoring includes data for accuracy by quadrant, time for completion, and mistakes in professional e-mailed reports. * Adjustable layouts and 10 levels of difficulty allow you to customize the experience to meet changing needs or multiple users. * An endless variety of combinations eliminates the need to photocopy exercises and saves paper. Visual Attention Therapy was developed by a certified Speech-Language Pathologist and is used worldwide by SLPs, occupational therapists, vision specialists, and neuropsychologists to help adults and children with dyslexia, dementia, and attentional deficits. People of all ages enjoy racing against the clock to challenge themselves to improve on their scores while improving their cognitive and reading skills. Levels featuring letters can support literacy goals, while symbol-based levels challenge visual memory skills. _______________________ WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING “This app takes a simple, familiar format and turns it into a dynamic, interactive tool with the ability to be age appropriate for anyone from preschoolers to elderly adults.” —SLP “Visual Attention Therapy is guaranteed to be one of those beautiful apps that, when you see it and try it out, will make you exclaim 'Finally!' We were this close to hugging it, to be honest. Thanks for yet another amazing release, Tactus Therapy.” —SLP “I was not sure if children would be motivated to use this app, but the 'no nonsense' approach really seemed to help the children with their attention & task persistence. They especially enjoyed the immediate feedback they got regarding their speed & accuracy. I recommend this app for school-aged children having difficulty with visual scanning/tracking, reading, working memory, & copying skills.”—OT _______________________ This app contains no outside ads or in-app purchases, does not collect or transmit personal data, and links can be deactivated. Supporting evidence for the design of this app can be found at www.tactustherapy.com.

About

RecoverBrain Language Therapy

This app offers research-validated cognitive and language exercises for rehabilitation. It provides deficit-specific, adaptive training tailored to individual needs and cognitive levels, with a focus on language comprehension, memory, and attention. Seven training modules are available for free.

Highlights
  • Research-validated exercises
  • Adaptive and personalized training
  • Multiple cognitive domains covered
  • Suitable for all cognitive levels
  • Offline functionality
  • Multilingual support
Features
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• Cognitive and Language exercises validated by research: http://imagiration.com/research/ • Deficit-specific, adaptive and personalized • Effective and efficient • Designed for every cognitive level, from very easy to challenging • Very easy levels are really easy and can be operated by a toddler • Seven training modules are completely free – no subscription necessary • No ads • No setup or registration needed • No Wi-Fi necessary once installed During all rehabilitation phases persons need a specific and target-oriented cognitive training according to their personal needs. RecoverBrain offers individualized solutions for language comprehension and cognitive therapy. Various training modules are available for easy use in the following cognitive fields: Language comprehension, Comprehension of complex sentences, Understanding of grammar, Attention, Alertness, Responsiveness, Neglect, Memory, Executive function, Visual field, Attention to details, Auditory working memory, and more. Each training module inside RecoverBrain is adaptive and delivers exercises that are at the exact level of difficulty appropriate for you at any given point in time. RecoverBrain provides a structured approach to cognitive therapy, with a set number of training modules in each daily session. RecoverBrain has been developed by Dr. A. Vyshedskiy, a neuroscientist from Boston University; Harvard-educated, R. Dunn; MIT-educated, J. Elgart and a group of award-winning artists and developers working alongside experienced therapists. RecoverBrain is available in Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, Russian, German, Arabic, Farsi, Korean and Chinese. Access to some activities requires a tuition of $5.99/month. Your tuition pays for the development of new cognitive activities that are added each month. • Tuition will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. • Tuition of $5.99/month is automatically charged within 24-hours prior to the end of the current month unless auto-renewal is turned off. • You can turn off auto-renewal by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. • Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. Terms of service: http://imagiration.com/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: http://imagiration.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Visual Attention Therapy Lite4 screens
RecoverBrain Language Therapy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Visual Attention Therapy Lite at none against RecoverBrain Language Therapy's 1. Visual Attention Therapy Lite also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 62%) and ratings volume (721 vs 107). RecoverBrain Language Therapy's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 9 months). On price, rating, 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

Both are free to download. RecoverBrain Language Therapy sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month. Visual Attention Therapy Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Visual Attention Therapy Lite against 4.6 for RecoverBrain Language Therapy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Attention Therapy Lite has 721 ratings behind it against 107, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Visual Attention Therapy Lite's written reviews are positive against 62% of RecoverBrain Language Therapy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Attention Therapy Lite ships an update every 9 months, RecoverBrain Language Therapy every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Visual Attention Therapy Lite versus RecoverBrain Language Therapy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual Attention Therapy LiteRecoverBrain Language Therapy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (721 ratings) — better4.6 (107 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better61.5% of reviews
Number of ratings721 — better107
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB518 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.ImagiRation LLC

Customer experience

Visual Attention Therapy Lite

All ratings705 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral3.5%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

RecoverBrain Language Therapy

All ratings105 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral5.7%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral15.4%
Negative23.1%

Bugs and requests

Visual Attention Therapy Lite

Requested features

2 requests
  • Allow users to go to the next test without returning home
  • Larger font for geriatric patients

RecoverBrain Language Therapy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Visual Attention Therapy Lite

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

RecoverBrain Language Therapy

Subscriptions1
  • RecoverBrain Premium7 Days trial$7.991 Month

Questions

Is Visual Attention Therapy Lite free?
Visual Attention Therapy Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RecoverBrain Language Therapy free?
RecoverBrain Language Therapy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Visual Attention Therapy Lite or RecoverBrain Language Therapy?
Visual Attention Therapy Lite is rated higher. Visual Attention Therapy Lite averages 4.7 out of 5 from 721 ratings, while RecoverBrain Language Therapy averages 4.6 from 107 ratings.
Do Visual Attention Therapy Lite or RecoverBrain Language Therapy have ads?
Neither Visual Attention Therapy Lite nor RecoverBrain Language Therapy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Attention Therapy Lite or RecoverBrain Language Therapy?
Visual Attention Therapy Lite ships an update every 9 months, and RecoverBrain Language Therapy every 3 months. Most recently, Visual Attention Therapy Lite was updated on November 7, 2026 and RecoverBrain Language Therapy on November 6, 2026.

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