Autism iHelp vs Inference Ace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Autism iHelp
This educational app helps children with Autism Spectrum Disorder build fundamental vocabulary skills. It uses real-life photos and interactive games to teach concepts like matching and identifying differences. Progress reports track learning gains.
- Vocabulary building with real-life photos
- Matching and discrimination skills
- Identifying differences
- Progress tracking reports
- Three interactive games
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Autism iHelp is a vocabulary teaching aid developed by parents of a child with Autism and a speech-language pathologist. Autism iHelp was inspired by the need for specific language intervention tools for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder focusing on their unique strengths and difficulty with expressive vocabulary. Autism iHelp SAME and DIFFERENT targets fundamental vocabulary building concepts in a variety of formats. While utilizing real-life photographs, this app requires the learner to demonstrate discrimination skills in addition to direct and indirect matching. These skills are crucial for receptive and expressive language as it relates to comparing and contrasting concepts, as well as aiding in just noticing environmental changes. The three games that are included in this app are: finding a matching picture, finding a shadow that matches the picture, and finding the one that is different in a field of 4. Additionally, you are able to track your child's gains through progress reports that average the last 3 performances of each learning enhancement activity. “with Autism iHelp…..it gets better.”
Inference Ace
This app helps children in grades 2-5 improve their reading comprehension by teaching inference skills step-by-step. It uses a game-like environment with over 450 examples and a reward center to keep kids engaged. Detailed reporting is available for up to 10 students.
- Step-by-step inference skill building
- Game-like environment with reward center
- Over 450 examples designed by teachers
- Detailed reporting for multiple students
- Incremental learning with unlocked levels
- Guided learning for reduced frustration
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** Winner of prestigious Mom's Choice Award! Featured on Appolicious.com, iHeartThisApp.com ** Inference Ace helps kids who have trouble with reading comprehension. The app builds inference skills step-by-step until mastery in a fun, game-like environment. ***** 5 Stars - Nice app for practicing inference. Tons of examples. ***** 5 Stars - My son struggles with comprehension and doesn't like reading long passages. This app teaches a high level of skill in a format he enjoys. Thanks! Inference Ace is targeted to children in Grades 2-5 who can read the words (decode), but don't understand what they read. With over 450 examples, a fun and engaging reward center to increase motivation, and content designed by professional teachers and researchers, this app is bound to capture the attention of your kids. Best of all, there is detailed reporting for up to 10 students to meet the needs of teachers, therapists and parents. Key Features: - Incremental learning. New levels are unlocked only when your child is ready. - Guided learning for less frustration. Your child will always be guided to the correct answer. - Fun and engaging Reward Center to increase motivation. - Contains over 450 examples, with content designed by professional teachers and researchers. - Inferences are taught from multiple perspectives: what inferences are possible, which are not possible, multiple inferences per sentence, etc. - Our own Smart Sentence technology is used to infinitely vary the examples to prevent learning by rote. - Advanced levels include timers to ensure fluency. Research shows fluency in the foundation skills is critical to reading comprehension. Our apps are designed for and tested by typical and special needs children. Testers include children with Autism and other special needs. Our apps work for them! The free version of this app has 4 free levels for a single player. Remaining levels are unlocked by a single in-app purchase. Additional players can be purchased separately through an in-app purchase. Check out 'Inference Ace School Edition' if you prefer no in-app purchases. We are a member of the Moms with Apps program. We collect NO private information in our app, and our apps do not allow unrestricted web access. Inferencing is a key component of reading comprehension. If you can't infer fluently, you can't understand the story. Help your child now by getting started with our Inference Ace app. While you're at it, check out our other apps that target WH questions, identifying inference clues and identifying the main idea of a sentence or paragraph. We take customer service very seriously! If you ever have a problem or find that we've missed something, contact us at our website and we will do our best to fix the problem. ** Note: Inference Ace and Inference Clues intentionally use similar data sets. However, different skills are targeted. Also, when working through this app, you will encounter different variants of the same examples many times as we teach our players to derive multiple inferences from a single sentence -- just like expert readers do. This is an intentional feature, not a bug :-)
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Verdict
Autism iHelp and Inference Ace both sit at 3.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of Inference Ace's written reviews are positive against 0% of Autism iHelp's. Autism iHelp's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (8.2 vs 12.2). On price, rating, ratings volume and 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
Both are free to download. Autism iHelp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Inference Ace sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.5 for Autism iHelp against 3.5 for Inference Ace. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 22 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Autism iHelp's written reviews are positive against 89% of Inference Ace's.
Autism iHelp ships an update every 3 weeks, Inference Ace every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Autism iHelp | Inference Ace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (15 ratings) | 3.5 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 88.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.2 — better | 12.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Talavera | Janine Toole |
Customer experience
Autism iHelp
Inference Ace
In-app purchases
Autism iHelp
- ALL SAME and DIFFERENT SETS$4.99
Inference Ace
- Upgrade to 2 Players$1.99
- Inference Ace: Buy All Levels$2.99
- Upgrade to 10 Players$2.99
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