Yes / No Barn vs Face Forward
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yes / No Barn
This educational tool helps children develop essential "yes" and "no" answering skills through engaging, barn-themed activities. It offers customizable learning levels and detailed progress tracking for speech therapists and parents.
- Over 300 curated questions
- Six developmental learning levels
- Multi-player progress tracking
- Automated report cards
- Multilingual support (EN, ES, PT)
- Customizable settings
- Engaging farm theme
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Yes/No Barn: Mastering the Fundamentals of Communication Help your child master one of the most essential communication skills: accurately answering "Yes" and "No." Developed by Smarty Ears, a leader in speech therapy technology, Yes/No Barn is a fun, barn-themed educational tool designed for children with speech and language delays, autism, or developmental disabilities. Answering yes/no questions is a foundational building block for functional communication, and this app provides the structured practice needed to move from basic identification to complex reasoning. Why Choose Yes/No Barn? Unlike simple flashcards, Yes/No Barn offers over 300 carefully curated questions across six developmental levels. This allows SLPs and parents to customize the experience based on the child's specific goals and cognitive level. Six Levels of Learning: Basic Questions: Simple identification (e.g., "Is this an apple?") Look & Answer: Visual discrimination based on photos (e.g., "Is he wearing shorts?") Fact-Based: General knowledge and memory (e.g., "Do snakes have legs?") Variable Answers: Personal questions tailored to the user (e.g., "Are you wearing a skirt?") Compare Pictures: High-level discrimination (e.g., "Are both items the same color?") Scene Questions: Analyzing complex environments (e.g., "Is the girl at the beach?") Features for Professionals and Parents: Multi-Player Support: Track progress for multiple students simultaneously—perfect for group therapy or families. Advanced Data Tracking: Automatically generates "Report Cards" with item analysis, showing exactly where a child is succeeding or needs more help. Multilingual Support: Available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese to support bilingual learners. Customizable Settings: Choose between text-only, audio-only, or both. Toggle specific question categories to focus on one skill at a time. Engaging Farm Theme: Fun animal sounds and adorable barn graphics keep children motivated and engaged. Perfect For: Speech-Language Pathologists working on receptive and expressive language. Parents looking for evidence-based home practice. Early intervention and special education classrooms. Download Yes/No Barn today and turn essential skill-building into a fun trip to the farm!
Face Forward
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Features of Face Forward – An N-Back Memory Game • Three engaging games that help train working memory • Designed to challenge both teenagers and adults (ages 13+) • Tap whenever you see the face you saw 1, 2, 3, or more numbers before • Helps train attention and memory skills • Difficulty level is automatically adjusted • A Two-Player Option is available • Scores are automatically saved and can be emailed Explore this fun game and build your memory power for faces. Can you reach the highest level? Are you a memory genius? Prove it with this brain building game. The games will automatically adjust the difficulty level and provide you with new challenges to test your memory. And as the game progresses, you will need to think faster and faster. You can always test yourself and set the game to the highest level of difficulty. Play with a friend and find out who has the best memory. Each round must be completed for your score to be saved in single player mode. Please note that no grades are saved in two player mode. Two player mode only records which Player (1 or 2) won after the match is completed. A training session is completed only when the program is stopped and then removed from memory. If the program is left open in the background and it is selected, then the last session started will be continued. The app will start off with a 60 minute trial version. You can modify the options and run the games during this trial period. Once the trial has ended, you will need to make a one-time in-app purchase to unlock the games for unlimited use.
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The clearest difference is price: Face Forward at Free against Yes / No Barn's $19.99. Face Forward also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Yes / No Barn's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 7 months vs every 39 months). On ads 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
Face Forward is free to download; Yes / No Barn costs $19.99 up front. Face Forward sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Yes / No Barn asks for nothing beyond the download.
Yes / No Barn ships an update every 7 months, Face Forward every 39 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yes / No Barn | Face Forward |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 39 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 125 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Smarty Ears | BrainTrain Inc. |
In-app purchases
Yes / No Barn
No in-app purchases
Face Forward
- Full Version$2.99
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