Number Therapy vs The BRACE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Number Therapy
Practice understanding, saying, and typing numbers to improve essential communication skills. This app helps stroke survivors and individuals with cognitive disorders build independence with number-related tasks like dates, money, and phone numbers.
- Practice understanding, saying, and typing numbers
- Covers dates, money, phone numbers, and more
- Thousands of unique exercises
- Customizable interface
- Progress tracking and recommendations
- Email progress reports for therapists
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Numbers communicate so much, yet they are often left out of communication therapy. Now stroke survivors can practice understanding, saying, and typing numbers at home to improve these essential life skills. ***Try for FREE with Number Therapy Lite*** “I really like it! The money and phone numbers – that’s what I need to practice.” – Sarah, stroke survivor with aphasia Age, dates, phone numbers, addresses, money, time, measurements, fractions, weight, years – numbers are everywhere and so important. Be more independent with communication with stronger number communication skills. Would you be able to understand, write down, and tell someone this phone message? “Your appointment is at 3:15 p.m. on August 3rd, 2015 at 1650 18th Avenue. Bring $5. Please call back to confirm at 785-5662.” Work on all these number skills and more with the evidence-based Number Therapy app! 30 categories of numbers including: *Single Digits *Double Digits *Triple Digits *Four Digits *Time *Money *Phone Numbers (add your own!) *Ordinals *Fractions Thousands of unique exercises you can use anywhere. Work at your own pace to practice the skills that matter to you. Great for cognitive disorders such as impaired working memory or auditory memory, too! Listen to long numbers and type them in - it's harder than it sounds. Train the ear to listen with this app. This app has the same highly customizable, clean, intuitive interface you’ve come to love in Tactus Therapy apps. Developed in conjunction with people with aphasia, this app is designed to help you get the intensity of practice you need in a way that is easy to use. Number Therapy also has a feature to give you recommendations for which level and settings you should use based on your score. See how easy it is to make progress when you're working at the right level for you! "Number Therapy is a game changer for me. I love it." - Trish, stroke survivor with aphasia Speech-Language Pathologists: use this app to make the communication of numbers a part of your therapy plan for people with aphasia or other disorders. Three unique activities address auditory and reading comprehension, verbal expression, and written expression. Your clients can use the built-in hints, cues, and audio recording to be successful, then e-mail you their results in a professional report so you can track their progress over time. Ideal for use in the clinic and at home, add Number Therapy to your therapy app collection! *Please note: this app does NOT address math skills or equations. It focuses on the communication of numbers, not calculations.
The BRACE
This clinical research application facilitates in-clinic neuropsychological testing for individuals with HIV. It offers multiple testing protocols to aid in the development of a sensitive screening instrument for neurological complications.
- In-clinic neuropsychological testing
- Testing for people with HIV
- Multiple testing protocols (BRACE, BRACE Plus, Custom)
- Screening for neurological complications
- Supports antiretroviral therapy research
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The BRACE application is a clinical research application designed for in-clinic neuropsychological testing of people with HIV. There are three testing protocols, BRACE, BRACE Plus, and Custom Configuration. Together, with researchers across the country, we hope to develop a sensitive, non-invasive screening instrument for neurological complications among people with HIV on antiretroviral therapy. For more information or to setup a study at your institution please contact Digital Artefacts LLC, the creator of the BrainBaseline testing platform that is used to power the study.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: The BRACE at Free against Number Therapy's $29.99. The BRACE also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Number Therapy's advantage is ratings volume (268 vs 1) and chart position (#198 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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
The BRACE is free to download; Number Therapy costs $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The BRACE holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Number Therapy has 268 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Number Therapy ships an update every 4 months, The BRACE every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Number Therapy | The BRACE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (268 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 268 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #198 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Digital Artefacts L.L.C. |
Customer experience
Number Therapy
The BRACE
In-app purchases
Number Therapy
No in-app purchases
The BRACE
No in-app purchases








