Whack A Braille vs Earshot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Whack A Braille
An accessible arcade game that challenges players to type braille characters, symbols, and contractions before they disappear. Designed for blind players and braille learners, it offers various practice modes and adjustable settings for a playful learning experience.
- Playable with Braille Screen Input, Displays, and keyboards
- Practice Grade 1 letters, symbols, and Grade 2 contractions
- Adjustable speech rate and voice selection
- Non-timed training mode for beginners
- Adaptive Mole Recon for personalized practice
- Blind-first and Accessibility-first design
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Whack a Braille! is a fast-paced accessible arcade game where you type the right braille character, symbol, or contraction before the mole ducks away. Play with a braille display, an external keyboard, or Braille Screen Input. Practice Grade 1 letters, symbols, typing-row patterns, and Grade 2 contractions, then cash in your tickets for prizes as you build up your shelf. The game is designed for blind players, braille learners, teachers, and anyone who wants a playful way to build braille speed and confidence. Features: • Built with Blind-first and Accessibility-first design. • Playable with Braille Screen Input, Braille Displays, and external keyboards. • Adjustable speech rate and voice selection. • Mole sets include keyboard touch-typing training, Grade 1 letters and numbers, and UEB Grade 2 symbols,, word signs, and two-character contractions. • Battle Modes have sets of 3-letter, 4-letter, and 5-letter Grade 1 words, and Wordy Mole Mayhem has randomly drawn 4 to 10 letter words to be typed. • Non-timed training mode for beginners, along with adjustable difficulty modes and round timer lengths. • Adaptive Mole Recon feature that keeps track of misses and what braille characters need practice. Type fast, bonk moles, earn tickets, and see what prize suits your fancy.
Earshot
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Earshot is an ear-training game that doesn't lecture you about ear training. You play a detective working thirteen cases across a city of musical conmen. Each case is a puzzle box: a chord, a melody, a fragment you have to identify by ear. Solve it and you close the file. Miss it and the suspect stays at large. Three puzzle modes: - Pitch Sort. Tap cells in pitch order, lowest to highest. Sounds simple. It isn't. - Tone Lock. Spin dials until each one matches the note you heard. The dials don't tell you when you're right. - Frequency Stack. Drag tokens between slots until the stack is in ascending order. Audition tokens by tapping. Decide what's higher. Districts ramp from triads in the cellar to dense voicings on the top floor. Skill focus shifts as you go: diatonic shapes, bass intervals, cluster discrimination, chromatic resolution. The difficulty curve is built around what you would actually struggle with, not what is easy to grade. What Earshot doesn't do: - No ads. - No in-app purchases. - No account, no login, no tracking. - No daily streak guilt trip. - No tutorial. The game teaches itself by being honest about what you got wrong. Single-player. Offline. Your progress lives on your device. Universal Purchase: works on iPhone and iPad with one buy. Best with headphones. Optional, but you will hear the difference.
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The clearest difference is price: Whack A Braille at Free against Earshot's $0.99. Earshot's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). 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
Whack A Braille is free to download; Earshot costs $0.99 up front. Whack A Braille sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Earshot asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Whack A Braille | Earshot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marco Salsiccia | Michele Caserta |
In-app purchases
Whack A Braille
- Light Thwap$0.99
- Big Bonk$1.99
- Mega Whack$2.99
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- Ultimate Whackage$4.99
Earshot
No in-app purchases









