Comparison

Visual LightPad vs Sensory Spectre

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

Head to head
About

Visual LightPad

Features
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Visual LightPad creates a bright illuminated surface for developing visual perceptual and visual motor skills in people with visual impairment. It's a cheaper alternative to expensive, dedicated hardware visual impairment light boxes. Think of it as a digital light box! Adjust Visual LightPad's brightness and color, then place semi transparent toys, numbers or letters on the iPad's screen. Where colors become difficult, open the color picker and change the background color to something that accentuates the toys. Where hardware light boxes can be associated with work, iPads tend to be associated with play. Visual LightPad helps develop awareness to color and light, but using objects also helps in the development of visual perceptual skills, hand eye coordination, and both visual scanning and tracking. Visual LightPad can also be used for; - Reading content printed onto acetate - Providing a reading backlight when paper documents are placed on top of it - Photo negative illumination - Sensory / mood lighting Visual LightPad is purposefully easy to use and relatively low on features. It supports presets for easy saving and recall of preferred settings. It is designed to run on iPad, but also runs on iPhone - meaning you can keep a small light box in your pocket at all times.

About

Sensory Spectre

Features
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Sensory Spectre has a life of its own. Ghostly effects move around the screen, and can be changed with touch or switch input. Change the style and colors of the effects. This application may be useful for training of visual tracking for low vision users. No adverts, no in-app purchases, and no data collected.

Screenshots

Visual LightPad1 screens
Sensory Spectre3 screens

Verdict

The call

Visual LightPad and Sensory Spectre are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Visual LightPad versus Sensory Spectre: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual LightPadSensory Spectre
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.4 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAW GamesSensory App House Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Visual LightPad

No in-app purchases

None

Sensory Spectre

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual LightPad free?
Visual LightPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sensory Spectre free?
Sensory Spectre is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Visual LightPad or Sensory Spectre have ads?
Neither Visual LightPad nor Sensory Spectre shows ads.

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