Comparison

Fact & Opinion Skill Builder vs Keywords Understanding Lite

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

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About

Fact & Opinion Skill Builder

This app helps children develop critical reading comprehension skills by teaching them to distinguish between facts and opinions. It uses a game-like environment with incremental learning and a reward system to keep young learners motivated. Content is designed by educators and tested with diverse needs.

Highlights
  • Distinguish facts from opinions
  • Incremental skill building
  • Reward Center for motivation
  • Progress tracking for parents
  • Content designed by teachers
  • Timers for fluency practice
  • Extensive reporting for multiple students
Features
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** Happy Frog Apps is a Mom's Choice award winner. Our apps are featured on FunEducationalApps.com, TeachersWithApps.com and more! ** 'Fact or Opinion' builds an important comprehension skill in a fun, game-like environment. All kids need to know how to interpret what they read -- it is a fact, or is it someone's opinion? This skill is especially important as they reach the age of accessing information from the internet. ***** 5 Stars - I like how this app teaches kids how to look for the clue words that can identify a fact or opinion. No other app I've used has done that. ***** 5 Stars - Lots of practice. My son loves the Reward Center. Even I did a few levels so I could earn some coins to play! 'Fact or Opinion' is targeted to children in Grades 2-5. Beginning readers in earlier grades can also benefit from the targeted skill development. The focus of 'Fact or Opinion' is teaching kids how to identify whether a statement is a fact or opinion. This vital skill is built incrementally. Early levels focus on thinking about how to prove and fact/opinion and also how to identify the clue words that are indicative of a fact or opinion. Later levels include timers to ensure fluency. The app includes more than 300 examples for extensive practice. Key Benefits: - Builds comprehension skills step-by-step until mastery. - Incremental learning. New levels are unlocked only when your child is ready. - Frustration-free learning. Your child will always be guided to the correct answer. - Fun and engaging Reward Center to increase motivation. - Easy parental review. Just check out the stars to see how your child is doing. - Content designed by professional teachers and researchers. - Advanced levels include timers to ensure fluency. Research shows fluency in the foundation skills is critical to reading comprehension. - Can be used independently (just hand it over: your child will know what to do!) or with a therapist/parent for reading intervention. - Provides extensive reporting for up to 10 students to suit the needs of parents, teachers and therapists. 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! To evaluate the app, download the free version, which has 4 free levels. Additional levels and additional players can be accessed with in-app purchase. If you prefer no in-app purchases, download the School Edition of this app. While you're thinking about reading, check out our other apps at www.HappyFrogApps.com. 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. We collect NO private information in our app. None! Our apps do not allow unrestricted web access. We comply with COPPA and are members of the prestigious Moms with Apps organization for quality educational app developers.

About

Keywords Understanding Lite

This app offers a sample of speech and language therapy exercises focused on sentence comprehension. It helps users practice following directions, understanding basic concepts, and improving auditory and reading comprehension skills through interactive activities.

Highlights
  • Listening comprehension exercises
  • Reading comprehension exercises
  • Following directions (one/two-step, temporal, sequential)
  • Basic concepts (size, color)
  • Vocabulary understanding
  • Sample of full app features
Features
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Keywords Understanding LITE is a free version of Keyword Understanding. It gives you a sample of the content you would get in the full version. It allows you to see how the full version works and try it out for free. Keyword Understanding (the full app version) is a professional speech and language therapy app that works on sentence-level reading and listening comprehension. It also targets the understanding of vocabulary, basic concepts and the ability to follow directions of increasing keyword length. WHO IS KEYWORD UNDERSTANDING FOR? - Children with reduced attention and auditory processing difficulties - Children with language delay or disorder - Children with autism and language comprehension difficulties - Adults with aphasia and reading or spoken language comprehension difficulties after a stroke or traumatic brain injury - Adults with cognitive-communication difficulties due to stroke or brain injury WHAT LANGUAGE AREAS DOES KEYWORD UNDERSTANDING TARGET? FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS: Following directions is important in our everyday lives. In order to understand and follow directions, one needs a strong knowledge of basic concepts, vocabulary and the ability to process and retain spoken or written information in memory. BASIC CONCEPTS, ONE AND TWO STEP DIRECTIONS: Keyword Understanding works on the basic concepts of size and color as well as one and two-step directions of increasing length and difficulty e.g  - “Touch the red balloon” - “Touch the small green umbrella” - “Touch the yellow chair and the blue candle” - “Touch the big pink cupcake and the small green glasses”. TEMPORAL DIRECTIONS (BEFORE/AFTER): Keyword Understanding includes Temporal Directions tasks that target the child or adult’s ability to follow directions that include the concepts 'Before/After' in a variety of positions in the sentence. e.g  - “Before you touch the t-shirt, touch the phone” - “After you touch the lamp, touch the vase” - “Touch the flower before you touch the box” - “Touch the sock after you touch the bucket” SEQUENTIAL DIRECTIONS (FIRST…THEN): The app also includes Sequential Directions that target the child or adult’s ability to follow directions that include the concepts 'First ... Then' in the sentence. e.g  - “First touch the ladder, then touch the bike”. FEATURES OF KEYWORDS UNDERSTANDING LITE This FREE version, Keywords Understanding LITE allows you to sample each activity in the full version but it only includes 6 objects. The FULL version includes many more allowing for much more variety in each activity and many more trials. The full version also allows you to select and deselect vocabulary items in the Word List. 3 modes: - Listening Comprehension (Audio Only): Match the spoken direction to the pictures - Reading Comprehension (Text Only): Match the written direction to the pictures - Listening and Reading Comprehension (Audio and Text): Match the spoken and written directions to the pictures - Bright, colorful, real-life photos of common objects - 6 objects in five different colors and sizes. The full version has a large variety allowing for thousands of possible following directions tasks - 3 trials in each activity. The full version allows for up to 50 trials per session. - A comprehension check activity to find out where comprehension breakdown occurs - Audio feedback for correct answers only, incorrect answers only or both - Graded tasks of increasing difficulty - User profiles and result history - Automatic tracking of scores - Optional results summary via email - iOS voices (automatically selected based on your region). Download an enhanced iOS voice for best quality. All Aptus Speech Therapy apps participate in the 50% off Volume Purchase Program, so you can buy in bulk at a discounted price. Are you looking for a different kind of speech therapy app? Check out our full range of speech and language therapy apps for adults and children on the AppStore or on our website.

Screenshots

Fact & Opinion Skill Builder4 screens
Keywords Understanding Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Keywords Understanding Lite at none against Fact & Opinion Skill Builder's 3. Keywords Understanding Lite also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Fact & Opinion Skill Builder's advantage is update cadence (every 24 months vs every 68 months) and iOS requirement (12.2 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ads and device support 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

Both are free to download. Fact & Opinion Skill Builder sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Keywords Understanding Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fact & Opinion Skill Builder against 5.0 for Keywords Understanding Lite. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fact & Opinion Skill Builder ships an update every 24 months, Keywords Understanding Lite every 68 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and August 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Fact & Opinion Skill Builder versus Keywords Understanding Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFact & Opinion Skill BuilderKeywords Understanding Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 24 months — betterEvery 68 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.2 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJanine TooleAptus Speech and Language Therapy Limited

Customer experience

Fact & Opinion Skill Builder

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Keywords Understanding Lite

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Fact & Opinion Skill Builder

One-time3
  • Add A User$1.99
  • Purchase All Levels$2.99
  • 10 Users$2.99
None

Keywords Understanding Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fact & Opinion Skill Builder free?
Fact & Opinion Skill Builder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keywords Understanding Lite free?
Keywords Understanding Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fact & Opinion Skill Builder or Keywords Understanding Lite?
Fact & Opinion Skill Builder and Keywords Understanding Lite are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Fact & Opinion Skill Builder or Keywords Understanding Lite have ads?
Neither Fact & Opinion Skill Builder nor Keywords Understanding Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fact & Opinion Skill Builder or Keywords Understanding Lite?
Fact & Opinion Skill Builder ships an update every 24 months, and Keywords Understanding Lite every 68 months. Most recently, Fact & Opinion Skill Builder was updated on September 19, 2026 and Keywords Understanding Lite on August 12, 2026.

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