Comparison

HB Auditory Memory vs Listening Power Advanced Lite

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

Head to head
About

HB Auditory Memory

This educational app helps students improve auditory memory, closure, and comprehension skills through engaging, multi-level missions. Players assist characters in saving MemoryTown from a forgetful villain by completing various listening activities.

Highlights
  • Auditory memory training
  • Auditory closure exercises
  • Comprehension skill development
  • Memory for Numbers
  • Memory for Words
  • Memory for Details
  • Auditory Closure
  • Memory for WH Information
Features
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HearBuilder is available for all users—families, educators, therapists, schools, and districts. Anyone witha HearBuilder subscription can access the full program. Join Recall Agents Kim and Joey as they race to save MemoryTown from the mischievous Dr. Forgetsit. Students strengthen auditory memory, closure, and comprehension skills through engaging missions that make learning feel like an adventure. Each multi‑level task in HearBuilder Auditory Memory sends students on a new challenge to outsmart Dr. Forgetsit. The humorous storylines and interactive activities keep learners motivated while they build essential skills for recalling verbal information. Program Features HearBuilder Auditory Memory teaches key strategies for remembering important information and includes five essential listening activities: • Memory for Numbers (3–7 digits) • Memory for Words (3–5 words organized by syllable) • Memory for Details (1–4 details) • Auditory Closure (Sentence Completion) • Memory for WH Information (2–3 sentences / 2–4 questions) HearBuilder Online (my.hearbuilder.com) • Access all four HearBuilder programs: Following Directions, Phonological Awareness, Auditory Memory, and Sequencing • Monitor progress and track student performance • Individualize each student’s settings and difficulty levels • Add adjustable background noise to increase challenge • Customize and print detailed reports

About

Listening Power Advanced Lite

Enhance auditory and language processing skills with engaging exercises. This free app offers practice in grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, and memory for students and adults. It's designed to supplement therapy and improve listening abilities.

Highlights
  • Grammar comprehension
  • Vocabulary and meaning understanding
  • Auditory memory exercises
  • Rapid sentence processing
  • Story comprehension with distractions
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Optional text display
Features
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Listening Power Advanced Lite provides listening practice for students from late elementary school age through high school and beyond. No subscriptions needed. Designed by Patti Hamaguchi, M.A., CCC-SLP, a licensed speech-language pathologist and author of books and tests on auditory and language processing, this app focuses on language processing (grammar, vocabulary, narrative and question comprehension) and auditory processing tasks (auditory memory, rapid auditory processing, auditory closure and auditory figure-ground). It's a perfect app to supplement speech, language or auditory therapy! This app was previously released as "Listening Power Grades 4-8+ Lite HD" . We have renamed it to better reflect the older students and adults who have reported benefitting from this app. It is now a universal Apple app that is compatible with the iPhone, iPad and Macbook. There are 5 activities in this app and over 150 questions total, in the following categories: Listening for Grammar (Which sentence sounds right?) Listening for Meaning (What does that mean?) Listening for Fast Sentences (What did I say?) Listening for Missing Sounds (What did I say?) Listening for Stories: (Various questions about the story-includes optional visual and/or background noise distraction) An auto advance/drop setting automatically adjusts the level of difficulty of the app. Text can be turned on (for reading decoding and comprehension practice) or left off. Within the Settings, you can select 2, 3 or 4 choices as well as the Easy, Intermediate, or Advanced level. Questions? Contact our tech support at: info@hamaguchiapps.com For our privacy policy, please go to: http://www.hamaguchiapps.com/privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

HB Auditory Memory4 screens
Listening Power Advanced Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HB Auditory Memory at Free against Listening Power Advanced Lite's $0.99. HB Auditory Memory also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 28 months) and review sentiment (64% vs 50%). Listening Power Advanced Lite's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.6). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

HB Auditory Memory is free to download; Listening Power Advanced Lite costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Listening Power Advanced Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HB Auditory Memory has 35 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of HB Auditory Memory's written reviews are positive against 50% of Listening Power Advanced Lite's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HB Auditory Memory ships an update every 3 months, Listening Power Advanced Lite every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
HB Auditory Memory versus Listening Power Advanced Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHB Auditory MemoryListening Power Advanced Lite
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating3.6 (35 ratings)4.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings35 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 28 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size242 MB1.2 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSuper Duper PublicationsHamaguchi Learning & Development, LLC

Customer experience

HB Auditory Memory

All ratings35 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral11.4%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral9.1%
Negative27.3%

Listening Power Advanced Lite

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HB Auditory Memory

No in-app purchases

None

Listening Power Advanced Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HB Auditory Memory free?
HB Auditory Memory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Listening Power Advanced Lite free?
Listening Power Advanced Lite costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HB Auditory Memory or Listening Power Advanced Lite?
Listening Power Advanced Lite is rated higher. HB Auditory Memory averages 3.6 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while Listening Power Advanced Lite averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do HB Auditory Memory or Listening Power Advanced Lite have ads?
Neither HB Auditory Memory nor Listening Power Advanced Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HB Auditory Memory or Listening Power Advanced Lite?
HB Auditory Memory ships an update every 3 months, and Listening Power Advanced Lite every 28 months. Most recently, HB Auditory Memory was updated on November 2, 2026 and Listening Power Advanced Lite on November 1, 2026.

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