Inference Ace vs All Critical Thinking
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 features over 450 examples, a reward center, and guided learning to make practice engaging and effective.
- Step-by-step inference skill building
- Over 450 engaging examples
- Fun reward center for motivation
- Guided learning for less frustration
- Detailed reporting for up to 10 students
- Smart Sentence technology for varied examples
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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. ***** 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! This version of the Inference Ace app has access to all levels for up to 10 players. You can try this app by downloading the free version. The free version has 4 free levels for one player. You can purchase levels and players separately through 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 :-)
All Critical Thinking
Enhance problem-solving, reasoning, and critical thinking skills through engaging activities. This app is designed for therapeutic use with children and adults facing cognitive or language challenges.
- Problem identification and analysis
- Cause and effect reasoning
- Item generation and listing
- Prioritization and sequencing
- Moral dilemma resolution
- Creative product advertising
- Absurdity identification
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The All Critical Thinking app targets problem solving, reasoning, and critical thinking and can be used in language or cognitive therapy sessions with children ages 10 and up and adults with cognitive or language deficits and disorders. Tasks included in the Critical Thinking app allow the users to analyze, evaluate, create, and problem solve. The Critical Thinking app includes the following activities: • Identifying and stating main problems • Identifying and stating multiple causes • Generating lists of items • Generating multiple uses of objects • Prioritizing what should be done in what order • Solving moral dilemmas • Stating what one is thinking • Generating an ad for a product • Solving absurdities
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Inference Ace at 100% against All Critical Thinking's 0%. Inference Ace also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 7 months vs every 101 months). On ads and in-app purchases 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
Inference Ace costs $8.99 and All Critical Thinking $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Inference Ace holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Inference Ace's written reviews are positive against 0% of All Critical Thinking's.
Inference Ace ships an update every 7 months, All Critical Thinking every 101 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inference Ace | All Critical Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 101 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Janine Toole | Virtual Speech Center Inc. |
Customer experience
Inference Ace
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In-app purchases
Inference Ace
No in-app purchases
All Critical Thinking
No in-app purchases
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