Play With ASL vs MemoryLab App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Play With ASL
Learn American Sign Language through engaging mini-games. This app uses a gamified approach to help you memorize signs while having fun. Earn points and progress through interactive challenges.
- Gamified learning approach
- Memory match mini-game
- Memorize signs
- Earn banana points
- Interactive challenges
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Play With ASL is a gamified approach to American Sign Language for kids, families, classrooms, and ASL learners of all backgrounds. Real ASL signing — filmed by deaf educators — meets fun mini-games designed to make vocabulary stick. == Memory Match == Flip cards to match ASL signs with their English meanings across 12 themed packs: Animals, Camping, Colors, Food, Nature, Vehicles, Crafts, Emotions, Jobs, Space, Travel, and Weather. Earn stars and help Apollo the monkey collect bananas as you build your vocabulary. == TILT! == A brand-new motion-based mini-game. Tilt your device to guide signs through the screen — an active, hands-on way to reinforce the vocabulary you learn. == Free + Subscription == Two packs (Animals + Colors) are free for everyone — try the games before you commit. Unlock the full library of 12 packs across every game with a Monthly or Yearly subscription, or buy individual packs as one-time purchases. == What Makes Us Different == - Every sign filmed by deaf ASL educators - No third-party advertising - No data sold or shared with brokers - Designed with families and classroom use in mind - Account sync across iPhone and iPad - Cancel subscription anytime in Apple Settings == Always Growing == Memory Match and TILT! are just the start. We're actively building more mini-games, story modes, and content packs. Your subscription includes every future addition we ship. Questions, feedback, or ideas? Visit www.playwithasl.com or write to us at jon@playwithasl.com. Made by the Play With ASL team — small studio, big goals. Terms of Use: https://www.playwithasl.com/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://www.playwithasl.com/privacy-policy
MemoryLab App
This app helps you memorize text-based content through interactive exercises. It offers multiple learning levels, including typing and fading word challenges, and supports various content types like scripts, poems, and math problems. All data is processed locally on your device for privacy.
- Multi-level memorization exercises
- Voice recording and playback
- Flashcard creation and study
- Spelling and math drills
- Offline functionality
- Text import via typing, dictation, or camera
- Local data processing for privacy
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Memorize anything made of words. Scripts, monologues, speeches, wedding vows, toasts, lyrics, poems, prayers, recipes, interview answers. If it is written down, MemoryLab will get it into your head, and it will tell you honestly how much of it is in there. THREE LEVELS, ONE PIECE AT A TIME Level 1, Read and Listen. The text is performed aloud to you, voice by voice, so a script sounds like a scene instead of a page. The words light as they are spoken and the page follows along. Frame any passage with your finger and loop it until it sticks. Level 2, Type Over. The whole text in front of you. Read it, hear it, type over it. See it, say it, write it. Level 3, Fading Blanks. Words start disappearing by type. Take out the nouns, then the verbs, then the adjectives, and fill the gaps by typing or out loud. Hide every word and you are reciting the whole thing from memory on an empty page. Every word you get right draws itself in green, every miss turns red and shows you what you missed, and at the end you get your score with a map of what to review. Then you chase 100 percent. IN YOUR OWN VOICE Read a document into the app and play it back at any pace, looped, with the words lighting as you say them. Level 3 can ask each question in your voice. FLASHCARD DECKS Terms, dates, names, anything that comes in pairs. Study a shuffled batch, sort each card into Got It or Needs Work, then rematch the misses. Record your voice on either side. Multiple choice too. SPELLING TESTS See the word or hear it only, then type it or say it back letter by letter. The real thing, without the parent having to read the list out loud. MATH DECKS Multiplication, division, addition and subtraction, with a number keypad instead of a keyboard, worked steps on the page, the problem read aloud, and Mad Minute when it is time to go fast. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE There is no server. There is no account to make. There is no AI. The practice, the scoring, the speech recognition, and the camera import all run on your device, so MemoryLab works with no signal at all: on a plane, or in a basement. Your documents are yours. Nothing is uploaded and no one else can see them, which matters if what you are learning is not yours to share yet. GET YOUR TEXT IN Type it, paste it, dictate it, or photograph it. Camera and PDF import turn a page into editable text on the device. Hand a document to another MemoryLab. YOUR LAB Shelves of documents on twenty one scenes, reordered by hand and searchable, with a Home Screen widget. Full iPad layouts. THREE DAYS FREE, THEN READ FOR FREE The complete Hamlet act by act, twenty seven Shakespeare monologues, speeches from Lincoln and Kennedy and Douglass, verses and prayers, poems and rhymes, and study decks all ship with the app and stay readable for nothing, always. For your first three days everything works, no card needed. After that the practice itself, the recording, the reading aloud and the tests, opens with Full Access: yearly at $34.99 or weekly at $6.99, each starting with a 3-day free trial, or one lifetime purchase of $99.99. THE STORE Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese: each one 20 areas of life, more than ten thousand cards. Kindergarten is free in full in every language, and you can try 20 cards a day from every other deck. One purchase unlocks a module permanently. BUILT FOR Law Students, Actors, students, parents and teachers, public speakers, musicians, brides and grooms and best men, language learners, and anyone keeping their mind sharp. A NOTE ON SCORES Your phone's speech recognition does the listening, and accents, background noise and old fashioned words can all stop it hearing you correctly. A score is practice feedback, never a measure of how well you know your piece. When it mishears a word you know you said, you can overrule it. Terms of Use: https://arteest.co/memorylab/terms Privacy Policy: https://arteest.co/memorylab/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MemoryLab App at 100% against Play With ASL's 70%. MemoryLab App also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). Play With ASL's advantage is ratings volume (408 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). 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
Both are free to download. Play With ASL sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and MemoryLab App sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $34.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MemoryLab App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Play With ASL has 408 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Play With ASL's written reviews are positive against 100% of MemoryLab App's.
Play With ASL ships an update every 6 weeks, MemoryLab App fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Play With ASL | MemoryLab App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (408 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 408 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Play With ASL LLC | James Jorel O'Dell |
Customer experience
Play With ASL
MemoryLab App
In-app purchases
Play With ASL
- PWA Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- PWA Yearly Subscription$49.991 Year
- Memory Match Category Pack 1$0.99
- PWA Card Pack$1.99
MemoryLab App
- Yearly Access$34.991 Year
- Single Document$9.99
- Lifetime Access$99.99
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