Comparison

Visual Attention Therapy Lite vs AB Listening Adventures

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

AB Listening Adventures

This app offers interactive story-based games designed to help children with hearing loss improve their listening skills. It focuses on practicing words within sentences using various categories and is intended for use by an adult and child together.

Highlights
  • 6 story-based listening games
  • Practice words in sentences
  • Multiple Elements, Plurals, Pronouns, Minimal Pairs categories
  • Designed for adult-child interaction
  • Kid-safe, no in-app purchases or external links
  • Fun sound effects and character voices
Features
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AB Listening Adventures is an app that helps children with hearing loss practice listening for words in sentences. Play 6 different story based games that work with whatever listening targets you want from Multiple Elements, Plurals, Pronouns, or Minimal Pairs. The app is designed to be used with an adult and a child…together! The child listens to the adult name two pictures in a sentence. The child should then tap each of those pictures to progress in the game. •Just over 100 sets of words from four categories: Multiple Elements, Plurals, Pronouns, or Minimal Pairs (organized by difficulty for listening). •Stars a child with bilateral listening technology. •6 games to choose from: Two games are competitive and four more are cooperative (the players work together to win together) •Fun sound effects and character voices respond to the cards you drop in the game. •You have the option to toggle off music while explaining the beginning slides to a child. •Lots of opportunities for teaching both sentence structure and vocabulary. •We are kid safe! No in-app purchases offered or links that take you out of the app. Requires iPad 2 or higher

Screenshots

Visual Attention Therapy Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Visual Attention Therapy Lite at 75% against AB Listening Adventures's 20%. Visual Attention Therapy Lite also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.5) and ratings volume (721 vs 11). AB Listening Adventures's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 9.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Visual Attention Therapy Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Attention Therapy Lite has 721 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Visual Attention Therapy Lite's written reviews are positive against 20% of AB Listening Adventures's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Attention Therapy Lite ships an update every 9 months, AB Listening Adventures every 23 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Visual Attention Therapy Lite versus AB Listening Adventures: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual Attention Therapy LiteAB Listening Adventures
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (721 ratings) — better2.5 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings721 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 9 months — betterEvery 23 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS9.07.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.Advanced Bionics, 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%

AB Listening Adventures

All ratings11 ratings
Positive36.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative63.6%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

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

AB Listening Adventures

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Visual Attention Therapy Lite

No in-app purchases

None

AB Listening Adventures

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Attention Therapy Lite free?
Visual Attention Therapy Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AB Listening Adventures free?
AB Listening Adventures is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Visual Attention Therapy Lite or AB Listening Adventures?
Visual Attention Therapy Lite is rated higher. Visual Attention Therapy Lite averages 4.7 out of 5 from 721 ratings, while AB Listening Adventures averages 2.5 from 11 ratings.
Do Visual Attention Therapy Lite or AB Listening Adventures have ads?
Neither Visual Attention Therapy Lite nor AB Listening Adventures shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Attention Therapy Lite or AB Listening Adventures?
Visual Attention Therapy Lite ships an update every 9 months, and AB Listening Adventures every 23 months. Most recently, Visual Attention Therapy Lite was updated on November 7, 2026 and AB Listening Adventures on November 1, 2026.

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