Comparison

Token Board vs Ref Marty

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

Head to head
About

Token Board

This app helps parents, teachers, and therapists encourage positive behavior in children. It uses visual tokens, fun icons, and animations to make goals easy to understand and rewarding to reach, supporting learning, routines, and therapy.

Highlights
  • Personalized token boards
  • Visual reward system
  • Progress tracking
  • Kid-friendly icons
  • Customizable board settings
  • Celebratory animations
Features
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This is a simple token board that can be used on by parents and on the ABA therapy. Struggling with motivating your kid to stay on track? Are you dealing with constant resistance during therapy, classroom tasks, or daily routines? Finding it hard to reinforce positive behavior without lengthy explanations? Token Board helps parents, teachers, and therapists encourage positive behavior using visual tokens, fun icons, and celebratory animations — making goals easy to understand and rewarding to reach. THIS APP WILL HELP YOU: ● Encourage positive behavior with a fun visual reward system ● Keep kids motivated to reach their goals — even during tough tasks ● Support learning, routines, and therapy with clear progress tracking ● Reduce the need for verbal reminders by letting the board do the work FEATURES: ● Create personalized token boards for different kids or activities ● Tap to add or remove tokens with fun animations ● Choose from over 40 kid-friendly token icons ● Pick from a wide selection of visual rewards kids love ● Customize board color, title, and number of tokens needed ● Set background colors, photos, or themes for each board ● Celebrate achievements with confetti animations when goals are met — — — How does a token board help with behavior? Kids earn tokens for positive actions. Seeing tokens fill up gives them a clear visual of their progress, making goals feel achievable and motivating. Is this useful for ABA therapy? Yes. Token boards are a widely used tool in Applied Behavior Analysis. The app makes it easy to set up, customize, and track token goals during therapy sessions. Can I personalize it for different kids or activities? Yes. You can create multiple boards, each with its own title, token icon, reward, color scheme, and goal — perfect for managing different children or tasks. Does it use pictures and icons instead of text? Yes. Tokens and rewards are represented with fun, kid-friendly icons, minimizing the need for reading and keeping the focus visual. How does the celebration feature motivate kids? When all tokens are earned, the app displays a colorful confetti animation and the chosen reward, giving kids an exciting sense of accomplishment. Is Token Board free? The app is free to download and use, with optional premium features available through in-app purchases. — — — If you enjoy the app, please leave a review on the App Store. Your feedback really helps. Questions or suggestions? We'd love to hear from you. Support Email: AppsForParents@gmail.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/site/appsforparentsprivacy/

About

Ref Marty

This tool helps parents and educators communicate behavior expectations to children using a visual card system. It offers positive reinforcement, gentle warnings, and customizable consequences with a simple, distraction-free interface. The app works offline and requires no accounts, ads, or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Color-coded behavior cards
  • Positive reinforcement
  • Gentle warnings
  • Customizable consequences
  • Visual countdown timer
  • Offline functionality
  • Distraction-free interface
Features
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Ref Marty helps parents, teachers, coaches, and caregivers communicate behavior expectations using a familiar color card system. Inspired by the cards used in sports, Ref Marty provides a calm, consistent visual way to guide children through expectations and consequences. Features • Green Card – Positive reinforcement and encouragement • Yellow Card – Gentle warning and reminder • Blue Card – Customizable reset timer with visual countdown • Red Card – Personalized consequence message • Adjustable hold duration to prevent accidental activation • Custom timeout lengths • Haptic feedback support • Simple, distraction-free interface • Works completely offline Ref Marty is intentionally simple. No accounts. No ads. No subscriptions. Just a straightforward tool to help make communication clear and consistent.

Screenshots

Token Board4 screens
Ref Marty4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ref Marty at 100% against Token Board's 0%. Ref Marty also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 8). Token Board's advantage is ratings volume (32 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Token Board sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Ref Marty asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ref Marty holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Token Board has 32 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Token Board's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ref Marty's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Token Board versus Ref Marty: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterToken BoardRef Marty
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (32 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings32 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNatalia Jakubczyk-GajewskaJAMEY CICALESE

Customer experience

Token Board

All ratings32 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Ref Marty

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

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Token Board

Subscriptions7
  • 1 Week Token Board Plus3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • 1 Week Token Board Plus3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • 1 Month Token Board Plus$9.991 Month
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  • 3 Months Token Board Plus1 Month trial$19.993 Months
  • 6 Months Token Board Plus3 Days trial$29.996 Months
  • 1 Year Token Board Plus3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • 1 Year Token Board Plus$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Token Board Plus$39.99
None

Ref Marty

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Token Board free?
Token Board is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ref Marty free?
Ref Marty is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Token Board or Ref Marty?
Ref Marty is rated higher. Token Board averages 4.5 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while Ref Marty averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Token Board or Ref Marty have ads?
Neither Token Board nor Ref Marty shows ads.

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