Inference Ace vs Color Quest AR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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 :-)
Color Quest AR
Bring your coloring creations to life with augmented reality! Color fruits, vegetables, and human body characters, then watch them dance and share fun health facts. Unlock new characters, earn badges, and play games to become a Magic Health Master.
- Augmented reality character animation
- Educational health facts
- Unlockable characters and badges
- Bonus games
- Customizable coloring tools
- Photo and video sharing
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Color, learn, and discover fun characters that come to life in your exciting augmented reality quest for health! Stayhealthy's new educational app includes fruits, vegetables, and a magical look into the human body with engaging new characters every month! Color your favorite character, press the magic button, read a fun health fact, and see your new creation come to life and dance in front of you in augmented reality (AR). Keep on coloring to unlock all the characters to win badges, play bonus games, and become the ultimate Magic Health Master in this coloring adventure! Use various colors, shades, and pencil sizes to color the character however you’d like - inside or outside the lines! Place your character on any nearby surface to see your completed character. Each AR experience comes with an important fun fact about your character, too. All AR experiences can also be saved as a photo or video to be shared later with friends and family on social media. Be on the lookout for more Stayhealthy Color Quest experiences coming soon! Purchase Information: If you are a member of one of the following wellness programs, you may qualify for premium access at no extra charge: Attentive Health and Wellness, US HealthCenter, Joy of Mom. Check with your wellness provider today. Terms of Use can be found here: https://www.stayhealthy.com/cq-terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Inference Ace at 89% against Color Quest AR's 41%. Inference Ace also leads on ads (none vs shown). Color Quest AR's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months) and rating (3.8 vs 3.5). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Inference Ace sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Color Quest AR sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Color Quest AR holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Quest AR has 259 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Inference Ace's written reviews are positive against 41% of Color Quest AR's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Inference Ace ships an update every 7 months, Color Quest AR every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Inference Ace | Color Quest AR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (22 ratings) | 3.8 (259 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.6% of reviews — better | 40.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 22 | 259 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 150 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Janine Toole | STAYHEALTHY, INC. |
Customer experience
Inference Ace
Color Quest AR
Bugs and requests
Inference Ace
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Color Quest AR
Reported bugs
9 issues- App is hacked, getting dating notifications
- Camera not opening on iPad mini
- Unable to get characters live via camera after coloring
- App told user to be aware of surroundings, then glitched and characters disappeared
- AR doesn't work, doesn't ask for camera permission
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- Screen stays black when trying to open camera
- Screen stays black, no lines appear
- Coloring doesn't come out in 3D
- Glitch: cousin gets kicked out of the game
Requested features
5 requests- Add more colors and coloring sheets
- Make all characters free
- Remove the money/purchase system
- Add ability to make coloring pencils smaller/bigger
- Add more characters
In-app purchases
Inference Ace
- Upgrade to 2 Players$1.99
- Inference Ace: Buy All Levels$2.99
- Upgrade to 10 Players$2.99
Color Quest AR
- Unlock characters (monthly)$1.991 Month
- Unlock characters (annual)$19.991 Year
- Body Buddies$1.99
- Healthy Foods$1.99
- Heart Healthy Foods$1.99
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- Snacks to Eat at Home$1.99
- Spooky Sweets$1.99
- Yummy Munchies$1.99
Questions
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