Comparison

Verbal Reasoning vs Residue Disorders

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

Head to head
About

Verbal Reasoning

This educational app helps adults and children aged 12+ develop reasoning and critical thinking skills. It offers over 1000 engaging activities designed by a certified speech and language pathologist, with a customizable reward system for younger users.

Highlights
  • Over 1000 stimuli for practice
  • Reward system with puzzle pieces
  • Activities for identifying problems and solutions
  • Predicting outcomes and consequences
  • Answering 'why' and 'what if' questions
  • Suitable for various cognitive and language disorders
Features
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Verbal Reasoning is an iPad app created by a certified speech and language pathologist for adults and children ages 12 and up. Verbal Reasoning targets reasoning and critical thinking skills, challenging users with over 1000 stimuli. This colorful and engaging app allows speech and language pathologists and educators to set a reward system when working with children to make therapy more fun and motivating. The children are rewarded with puzzle pieces, and when they accumulate enough pieces they can do various puzzles. This feature can be turned off when working with adults. Verbal Reasoning includes the following activities: - Identifying problems, possible causes, and solutions - Stating problems, possible causes, and solutions - Identifying what will happen next - Predicting what will happen next - What would you do if…? - What would happen if…? - Stating pros and cons - Stating similarities and differences between items - Answering why-questions - Answering negative wh-questions The Verbal Reasoning app can be used with the following audiences and disorders: - Adults with cognitive deficits caused by TBI, stroke, or other brain injuries - Aphasia - Children with language disorders - Autism

About

Residue Disorders

Features
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The Residue Disorders app helps students and patients learn and professionals teach residue swallowing disorders. The app features normal, vallecular, pyriform, pharyngeal and delay views. Animated anatomical illustrations, key disorder highlight and a video for each view help patients and students learn. Key disorder highlight, animation and video for each vallecular, pyriform, pharyngeal and delay views. - Structure ID, animation, MBS and FEES video for normal view. - MBS and FEES video for each disorder. - Zoom and pan all animations and highlights. - All zoom and pan views include an easy reset button. - Drawing Whiteboard features freeform lines in red, blue, green or black, screenshot whiteboard direct to Photos App for easy email and printing. - Disclaimer: seek a doctor’s advice in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions. The Residue Disorders app makes learning swallowing disorders easy. See example screen shots below. Get the app today!

Screenshots

Residue Disorders4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Residue Disorders at $4.99 against Verbal Reasoning's $12.99. Residue Disorders also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Verbal Reasoning's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 42 months) and iOS requirement (5.1.1 vs 11.0). On 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

Verbal Reasoning costs $12.99 and Residue Disorders $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Verbal Reasoning ships an update every 5 months, Residue Disorders every 42 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Verbal Reasoning versus Residue Disorders: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVerbal ReasoningResidue Disorders
Price$12.99$4.99 — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 42 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS5.1.1 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size113 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVirtual Speech Center Inc.Blue Tree Publishing, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Verbal Reasoning

No in-app purchases

None

Residue Disorders

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Verbal Reasoning free?
Verbal Reasoning costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Residue Disorders free?
Residue Disorders costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Verbal Reasoning or Residue Disorders have ads?
Neither Verbal Reasoning nor Residue Disorders shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Verbal Reasoning or Residue Disorders?
Verbal Reasoning ships an update every 5 months, and Residue Disorders every 42 months. Most recently, Verbal Reasoning was updated on November 1, 2026 and Residue Disorders on October 29, 2026.

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