Comparison

Inference Ace vs Sight Words Candy

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

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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 :-)

About

Sight Words Candy

This interactive game helps children learn to read and spell by unscrambling Dolch Sight Words. It features vibrant graphics and engaging sound effects to make learning fun and effective.

Highlights
  • Teaches all 220 Dolch Sight Words
  • Unscramble words to progress
  • Vibrant graphics and sound effects
  • Interactive learning
  • Offline practice
  • No ads or in-app purchases
Features
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Boost your child's academic success with this interactive app! Engage your child’s imagination with vibrant graphics and cool sounds. Sight Words are critical to achieving functional literacy for both children and adults. The list of most popular Sight Words contains only 220 words, but they make up the majority (50 to 70 percent) of all the words in any general, non-technical text. This game teaches the spelling of Dolch Sight Words in a fun and entertaining way. The goal of the game is to unscramble all the Sight Words in every level. The game is very easy to learn and is guaranteed to keep your children busy while learning one of the most important life skills: reading. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us via email. We read all our emails and replay within one business day. - No Annoying Ads - No In-App Purchases - No Subscriptions - Teaches all 220 Dolch Sight Words the fun way - Vibrant graphics, cool sound effects - Better than flash cards. Practice Sight Words anywhere!

Screenshots

Inference Ace4 screens
Sight Words Candy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Inference Ace at Free against Sight Words Candy's $2.99. Inference Ace also leads on ratings volume (21 vs 1). Sight Words Candy's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On 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

Inference Ace is free to download; Sight Words Candy costs $2.99 up front. Inference Ace sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Sight Words Candy asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sight Words Candy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Inference Ace versus Sight Words Candy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInference AceSight Words Candy
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating3.6 (21 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.212.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB139 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJanine TooleSierra Vista Software

Customer experience

Inference Ace

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

Sight Words Candy

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
None

Sight Words Candy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Inference Ace free?
Inference Ace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sight Words Candy free?
Sight Words Candy costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Inference Ace or Sight Words Candy?
Sight Words Candy is rated higher. Inference Ace averages 3.6 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while Sight Words Candy averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Inference Ace or Sight Words Candy have ads?
Neither Inference Ace nor Sight Words Candy shows ads.

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