Join the Dots vs Functional Listening
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Join the Dots
This educational puzzle game helps young children develop thinking, memory, and attention skills. It features modes for connecting points by numbers or letters, followed by coloring the revealed dinosaur images. The app offers a user-friendly palette for custom color creation and automatically saves progress.
- Connect points by numbers or letters
- Reveal hidden dinosaur pictures
- Coloring mode with custom palettes
- Develops thinking, memory, and attention
- Three game modes: numbers, letters, coloring
- Automatic picture saving
Read full descriptionHide full description
Dinosaurs lived on Earth millions of years ago, long before our ancestors emerged on the face of the planet. These amazing animals boggle our imagination by their variety and size. Some were small like modern lizards, others as huge as a multi-storey building. Some were predators, for example the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Allosaurus, Velociraptor, Spinosaurus, while others were herbivorous - like the Diplodocus, Ankylosaurus and Iguanodon. Some species could fly, some lived in water, but most of them walked on the ancient land. Dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic era, which is subdivided into three periods: Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. Today, archaeologists study the remains of these animals and can only assume how they looked and lived. Features: ◦ Connect points by numbers or letters ◦ When points are connected, you will see the silhouette of a hidden picture ◦ Once all the points have been connected, you can color the picture ◦ Choosing a wrong symbol three times in a row will bring up a tip ◦ Blue, orange, green or pink stars make the game even more exciting ◦ Easy-to-use palette that allows you to put together your own unique set of colors ◦ Colored pictures automatically saved on closing the program Connect points is a learning puzzle for small children. It helps develop thinking, improve memory and attention. The application has three game modes: by numbers, letters and coloring. Game modes with letters and numbers will be useful for kindergarten and pre-K kids. Connecting by numbers will help to easily memorize the order of numbers and learn to count. To do this, you need to consecutively connect circles with numbers starting from 1. As you connect circles in the right order, the silhouette of a hidden picture will become more and more visible. If three points are chosen incorrectly, a tip will pop up. Once all the points are fully connected, the picture will become fully visible and you’ll be able to color it. Those studying the alphabet can choose to connect points by letters. It is important that children know letters as early as possible, since it is essential for learning to read and write. But knowing the order of letters in the alphabet is also very important! This can be achieved by connecting circles with letters in the right sequence. The coloring mode will be especially appreciated by young artists. In this mode, you can proceed to coloring pictures without connecting points. To make the process even more exciting, you can change any predefined color. To do this, press and hold the paint bucket and choose the necessary color from the palette.
Functional Listening
This app offers structured activities to improve auditory comprehension and real-life listening skills for children and adults. It features varied scenarios, visual aids, and progress tracking, making it suitable for therapy, education, or home practice.
- Functional listening tasks
- Real-life scenarios
- Visual supports
- Adjustable difficulty
- Progress tracking
- Therapy, classroom, and home use
Read full descriptionHide full description
Functional Listening helps children and adults strengthen their real-life listening and auditory comprehension skills. Through structured, engaging activities, users practice listening in a variety of everyday contexts such as conversations, questions, directions, and environmental sounds. Ideal for speech-language pathologists, educators, and parents, the app provides leveled listening tasks, clear audio prompts, visual supports, and built-in progress tracking. Functional Listening is designed to support individuals with auditory processing challenges, language delays, hearing impairments, autism, or anyone who needs to improve real-life listening performance. Features include: • Functional listening tasks across multiple levels • Real-life scenarios and auditory prompts • Visual supports to help comprehension • Adjustable difficulty levels • Progress tracking and reporting • Designed for therapy, classroom use, and home practice • User-friendly interface for all ages This app helps users build practical listening skills that transfer to everyday communication, improving participation and confidence in real-world situations.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Join the Dots at $2.99 against Functional Listening's $14.99. Join the Dots also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.3) and ratings volume (11 vs 3). On in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Join the Dots costs $2.99 and Functional Listening $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Join the Dots holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Join the Dots | Functional Listening |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (11 ratings) — better | 3.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 46 months |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | — | iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kedronic UAB | Virtual Speech Center Inc. |
In-app purchases
Join the Dots
No in-app purchases
Functional Listening
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Join the Dots free?
Is Functional Listening free?
Which has better reviews, Join the Dots or Functional Listening?
Other comparisons















