Comparison

ELS Autism | ABA Therapy vs Skillberry Visuals

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

Head to head
About

ELS Autism | ABA Therapy

This app uses social narratives, picture schedules, and a token board to help neurodivergent children learn daily living skills and improve social interactions. It offers customizable tools like visual timers and first/then charts to support independence and manage transitions.

Highlights
  • Social narratives
  • Interactive picture schedules
  • Customizable schedules
  • First/Then chart
  • Token board with camera
  • Visual timer
Features
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Make routines, transitions, and daily tasks easier to understand with familiar visual supports to improve your children's social and life skills ELS Autism: ABA Therapy brings picture schedules, social narratives, a First/Then board, token rewards, and a visual timer together in one child-friendly app. Parents, caregivers, educators, and support professionals can use built-in activities or camera photos to create visual supports for home and school, to help neurodivergent children understand the steps for completing daily living skills with independence, and support children's social and life skills. VISUAL SUPPORTS IN ONE PLACE • Follow character-led social narratives featuring Kevin, Harper and Mateo to help learners practice and build everyday social skills. • Break everyday tasks into clear steps with picture schedules to gain independence in learning daily living skills. • Show what happens first and what comes next with a First/Then board to make expectations and transitions easier to understand. • Encourage task completion with a token board and chosen reward, helping you track progress over time. • Make waiting and transitions easier to follow with a visual timer, while supporting emotional regulation. • Add familiar task and reward photos with the device camera to personalize the token board and picture schedule according to your child’s needs. USE ELS FOR EVERYDAY ROUTINES Create visual supports for getting ready for school, brushing teeth, washing hands, bedtime, classroom tasks, waiting, homework, play, and moving between activities. FOR FAMILIES, EDUCATORS AND SUPPORT TEAMS ELS is designed to help families, teachers, special education teams and therapy professionals, as it's built on evidence-based ABA therapy, which comes with consistent visual support across home, school and community settings. MEET THE EXCEPTIONAL LEARNING SQUAD Kevin, Harper and Mateo guide learners through approachable stories about daily living skills, social situations and life skills. ELS is an easy-to-use educational visual-support tool. It does not diagnose autism or replace individualized guidance, therapy, or medical advice from a qualified professional. Instead, it can complement individualized supports by helping families and caregivers extend visual strategies into everyday routines and ELS is an easy-to-use educational visual-support tool. It does not diagnose autism or replace individualized guidance, therapy, or medical advice from a qualified professional. Instead, it complements individualized support by helping families and professionals extend visual strategies into everyday routines. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Skillberry Visuals

Create personalized visual token boards to encourage positive behavior and achieve goals. This tool supports routines, transitions, and daily tasks with custom images and rewards, making reinforcement simple for parents, educators, and therapists.

Highlights
  • Customizable token boards
  • Personalized photos and tokens
  • Flexible token counts
  • Built-in and custom rewards
  • Account synchronization
  • Ready-made board templates
Features
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Help make the next step clear and celebrate progress along the way. Skillberry Visuals gives parents, teachers, and therapists practical visual tools to support daily routines, transitions, and learning. From getting dressed to following classroom activities, create visual supports that fit the person you’re helping. MAKE ROUTINES EASIER TO FOLLOW Turn everyday tasks into clear, manageable steps. Use visual schedules, First Then boards, and step by step routines to show what’s happening now and what comes next. CELEBRATE EVERYDAY PROGRESS Use token boards and personalized rewards to recognize effort and keep goals visible. Small accomplishments deserve to be noticed. MAKE IT PERSONAL Choose images from your library, add your own pictures, and customize labels to make activities familiar and meaningful. SUPPORT DIFFERENT NEEDS Bring together visual timers, choice boards, visual cues, and other tools to support communication and participation. Build routines around each learner’s preferences and pace. KEEP SUPPORTS ORGANIZED Use profiles and folders to organize visuals for different children, students, clients, or activities. Print visual boards to keep familiar supports within reach beyond the screen. BUILT FOR EVERYDAY MOMENTS Support morning routines, classroom transitions, therapy activities, chores, and bedtime with visuals you can return to again and again. Whether you’re introducing a new routine or encouraging greater independence, Skillberry Visuals helps you make each next step easier to understand. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ELS Autism | ABA Therapy4 screens
Skillberry Visuals4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Skillberry Visuals at 100% against ELS Autism | ABA Therapy's 50%. Skillberry Visuals also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (20 vs 2). ELS Autism | ABA Therapy's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. ELS Autism | ABA Therapy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Skillberry Visuals sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Skillberry Visuals holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skillberry Visuals has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of ELS Autism | ABA Therapy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Skillberry Visuals's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ELS Autism | ABA Therapy ships an update fortnightly, Skillberry Visuals every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ELS Autism | ABA Therapy versus Skillberry Visuals: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterELS Autism | ABA TherapySkillberry Visuals
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.8 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings220 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB129 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUnique Blue Heart ProductionsRenee Gomez Alvarez

Customer experience

ELS Autism | ABA Therapy

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Skillberry Visuals

All ratings20 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

ELS Autism | ABA Therapy

Subscriptions3
  • Family$1.991 Month
  • Therapy$5.991 Month
  • School$10.991 Month
3 purchases

Skillberry Visuals

Subscriptions2
  • Token Board Clubhouse1 Month trial$5.991 Month
  • Token Board Clubhouse1 Year trial$44.991 Year
One-time1
  • Clubhouse Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is ELS Autism | ABA Therapy free?
ELS Autism | ABA Therapy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Skillberry Visuals free?
Skillberry Visuals is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ELS Autism | ABA Therapy or Skillberry Visuals?
Skillberry Visuals is rated higher. ELS Autism | ABA Therapy averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Skillberry Visuals averages 4.8 from 20 ratings.
Do ELS Autism | ABA Therapy or Skillberry Visuals have ads?
Neither ELS Autism | ABA Therapy nor Skillberry Visuals shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ELS Autism | ABA Therapy or Skillberry Visuals?
ELS Autism | ABA Therapy ships an update fortnightly, and Skillberry Visuals every 8 days. Most recently, ELS Autism | ABA Therapy was updated on October 9, 2026 and Skillberry Visuals on October 25, 2026.

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