Comparison

Difficult Situations Fun Deck vs Inference Ace

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

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About

Difficult Situations Fun Deck

This educational app uses illustrated flashcards to teach children how to react and solve problems in stressful situations. It includes audio prompts and allows for tracking student responses, with options to print or email results.

Highlights
  • 56 illustrated flashcards
  • Audio playback of prompts
  • Safety and emotion discussion prompts
  • Response tracking (correct/incorrect)
  • Unlimited player support
  • Printable and emailable results
  • Portrait/landscape orientation
Features
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This colorful educational App for the iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch® has all 56 illustrated picture flash cards (plus audio of each card’s text) from the Difficult Situations Fun Deck® by Super Duper® Publications. Select the cards you want to use in order to teach and discuss safety, and talk about feelings and emotions as students learn how to react and solve problems quickly in a variety of stressful situations. The prompts include situations like, “Someone at school is bullying you and won’t stop,” and “Someone calls your house when you are alone and asks to speak to your mom.” This App is simple to use — each student looks at an illustration and either reads the prompt or touches the screen to listen to the prompt. The student then gives a verbal response. After each answer, tap the green (correct) or red (incorrect) button to score the student’s verbal response. Move to the next card by sliding the card currently on the display screen to the side. To move to the next player, tap the bar at the top of the screen and select a name. You can also advance cards and players automatically by selecting the Auto-Advance option in the Game Options menu. You can leave a game temporarily and return to it later by selecting Pause Game from the menu. To return to the game, select Continue Game from the main menu. When you finish, view the results in a graph, and print or email your data. Difficult Situations Fun Deck® App lets you: • Use the app in portrait or landscape orientation. • Select all 56 cards or just the ones you want students to see. • Track correct and incorrect responses for an unlimited number of players. • Advance players and cards manually or automatically. • Discontinue game play and continue at any time. • View results in a graph and see which questions a player missed during a session. • Print, e-mail, and share your results.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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 :-)

Screenshots

Difficult Situations Fun Deck4 screens
Inference Ace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Inference Ace at 89% against Difficult Situations Fun Deck's 0%. Inference Ace also leads on price (Free vs $3.99) and ratings volume (21 vs 1). Difficult Situations Fun Deck's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (4.0 vs 3.6). On ads and device support 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

Inference Ace is free to download; Difficult Situations Fun Deck costs $3.99 up front. Inference Ace sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Difficult Situations Fun Deck asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Difficult Situations Fun Deck holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inference Ace has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Difficult Situations Fun Deck's written reviews are positive against 89% of Inference Ace's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Difficult Situations Fun Deck ships an update every 2 months, Inference Ace every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Difficult Situations Fun Deck versus Inference Ace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDifficult Situations Fun DeckInference Ace
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better3.6 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews88.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings121 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better12.2
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSuper Duper PublicationsJanine Toole

Customer experience

Difficult Situations Fun Deck

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Inference Ace

All ratings21 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral4.8%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive88.6%
Neutral5.7%
Negative5.7%

In-app purchases

None

Difficult Situations Fun Deck

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Inference Ace

One-time3
  • Upgrade to 2 Players$1.99
  • Inference Ace: Buy All Levels$2.99
  • Upgrade to 10 Players$2.99

Questions

Is Difficult Situations Fun Deck free?
Difficult Situations Fun Deck costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Inference Ace free?
Inference Ace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Difficult Situations Fun Deck or Inference Ace?
Difficult Situations Fun Deck is rated higher. Difficult Situations Fun Deck averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Inference Ace averages 3.6 from 21 ratings.
Do Difficult Situations Fun Deck or Inference Ace have ads?
Neither Difficult Situations Fun Deck nor Inference Ace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Difficult Situations Fun Deck or Inference Ace?
Difficult Situations Fun Deck ships an update every 2 months, and Inference Ace every 7 months. Most recently, Difficult Situations Fun Deck was updated on September 27, 2026 and Inference Ace on September 28, 2026.

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