Yay Data vs Functional Listening
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yay Data
This app helps speech pathologists and educators collect student data with auditory reinforcement. It uses fun sounds to motivate students to improve their performance and behavior.
- Data collection for therapists
- Auditory reinforcement with sounds
- Behavior modification through positive feedback
- Simple and effective interface
- Developed with SLP cooperation
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Designed for speech pathologists, ABA therapists, and other data-driven educators/clinicians. This app was developed in cooperation with an ASHA Certified Speech & Language Pathologist, Yay Data is an elegantly simple tool for data collection with highly effective auditory reinforcement. Choose from dozens of sounds to give auditory feedback on the student's performance. Watch as your student smiles and laughs at the funny sounds, striving to change their behavior to be able to hear the positive sound again. "I had a student eat potato chips for the first time just so he could hear the screaming goat. Its amazing the impact humor can have." - Certified Feeding Therapist "I was tracking the students progress using hash marks on pencil and paper, I now use Yay Data every day to keep track of my students data. I love how simple it is. It does exactly what I need it to do and no more." - ASHA Certified Speech & Language Pathologist.
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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Yay Data at $5.99 against Functional Listening's $14.99. Yay Data also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 46 months) and rating (3.6 vs 3.3). On ratings volume, ads, 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
Yay Data costs $5.99 and Functional Listening $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Yay Data holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Yay Data's written reviews are positive against 50% of Functional Listening's.
Yay Data ships an update every 6 weeks, Functional Listening every 46 months. Both last shipped on October 8, 2026.
| Parameter | Yay Data | Functional Listening |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 3.6 (5 ratings) — better | 3.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 46 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stephen Jones | Virtual Speech Center Inc. |
Customer experience
Yay Data
Functional Listening
In-app purchases
Yay Data
No in-app purchases
Functional Listening
No in-app purchases
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