Comparison

Social Quest vs Turtle Time

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

Head to head
About

Social Quest

This app uses gamified scenarios to help tweens and teens develop essential social-emotional and problem-solving skills. It offers over 800 narratives with real-life images to facilitate therapeutic discussions and skill generalization. Features include automated data collection and IEP-ready reporting for progress tracking.

Highlights
  • Evidence-based social-pragmatic intervention
  • Over 800 real-life scenarios with images
  • Gamified learning with quest theme
  • Personalized student profiles and rewards
  • Automated data collection and reporting
  • Focus on generalization of skills
Features
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The Definitive Social-Pragmatic Intervention for Teens & Tweens Winner: Best Educational App by Teachers with Apps Social Quest is the premier, evidence-based gamified intervention tool developed by a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) to help tweens and teens (Ages 8-17) master crucial pragmatic language, social-emotional, and problem-solving skills. Stop searching for relevant, age-appropriate materials. Social Quest provides over 800 high-interest narratives paired with real-life contextual images set in everyday locations like home, school, and the community. This app transforms abstract social concepts into a motivating, customizable quest, providing the vital "jumping-off" points for deep therapeutic discussion. Why Professionals and Families Choose Social Quest: 1. Evidence-Based & Curriculum-Ready Story-Based Intervention: Aligned with evidence-based practices found effective for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and social communication disorders. Targeted Pragmatic Skills: Explicitly addresses perspective-taking, conversational maintenance, gauging reactions, problem-solving, and developing self-talk for anxiety reduction. Focus on Generalization: Features separate Receptive (multiple choice) and Expressive (open-ended) activities to promote the generalization of skills beyond the therapy room and into real-world settings. 2. Motivating Quest Theme & Personalized Profiles Gamified Learning: Students navigate a "Tele-Transporter Machine" to visit different locations and solve social challenges. Hall of Heroes: Easily manage multiple student profiles with customizable avatars or real photos to build ownership of progress. The Hall of Rewards: Reinforce growth with skill-linked tokens—such as a "Saddle" for asserting control or a "Prism" for perspective—providing tangible anchors for discussing social success. 3. Critical Data Tracking & IEP-Ready Reporting Automated Data Collection: Effortlessly track student accuracy across activities, specific locations, and individual sessions. Detailed Report Cards: Generate comprehensive session reports highlighting accuracy, items presented, and most/least successful locations. Seamless Sharing: Print or email reports directly to parents and case managers, simplifying record-keeping and enhancing parent-professional communication. The Social Quest Advantage Real-World Contexts: Scenarios are set in the kitchen, library, supermarket, mall, doctor’s office, and more to ensure high ecological validity. Flexible Social Scripts: Customize Receptive activities to require one or two correct answers, reflecting the nuanced and flexible nature of social rules. Multi-Sensory Support: Every question includes high-quality contextual images, text, and accompanying audio to support diverse learning needs and literacy levels. Bring the quest for social competence into your practice or home today!

About

Turtle Time

Features
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Features of Turtle Time • Three educational games that help students (ages 6-8) train memory and attention • Difficulty level is automatically adjusted • Two-Player Option is available • Scores are automatically saved to show progress • Scores can also be emailed to keep a record of a child's progress. • Colorful graphics and lively music make this game fun to play • Kid-safe: No third party ads or tracking This game helps children learn to pay attention and use their memory skills by practicing matching pictures. Children, ages 6 to 8, will travel under the seas as they have fun playing and learning. All of our games are specially created to help children practice the cognitive abilities important in school and life. The games automatically adjust to allow children to learn at a level of difficulty personalized for them. As they succeed, new challenges at harder levels will be presented. Children will be challenged to develop their thinking speed as they are required to respond faster and faster in order to win. While a child's difficulty level is automatically adjusted based on his or her performance, it can be easily modified by parents or teachers when necessary. Distraction stimuli can also be added to reinforce increased focus and the ability to stay on task. In addition, a two player option is available which helps children learn how to take turns and be both a good winner and a good loser. A training round must be completed for grades to be saved in single player mode. Please note that no grades are saved in two player mode. Two player mode only records which Player (1 or 2) won after the match is completed. A training session is completed only when the program is stopped and then removed from memory. If the program is left open in the background and it is selected, then the last session started will be continued. The app will start off with a 60 minute trial version. You can modify the options and run the games during this trial period. Once the trial has ended, you will need to make a one-time in-app purchase to unlock the games for unlimited use.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Turtle Time at Free against Social Quest's $29.99. Turtle Time also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Social Quest's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 14 months vs every 39 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

Turtle Time is free to download; Social Quest costs $29.99 up front. Turtle Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Social Quest asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Social Quest ships an update every 14 months, Turtle Time every 39 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Social Quest versus Turtle Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSocial QuestTurtle Time
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 14 months — betterEvery 39 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size215 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmarty EarsBrainTrain Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Social Quest

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Turtle Time

One-time1
  • Full Version$2.99

Questions

Is Social Quest free?
Social Quest costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Turtle Time free?
Turtle Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Social Quest or Turtle Time have ads?
Neither Social Quest nor Turtle Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Social Quest or Turtle Time?
Social Quest ships an update every 14 months, and Turtle Time every 39 months. Most recently, Social Quest was updated on October 20, 2026 and Turtle Time on October 5, 2026.

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