Comparison

WH Questions vs Shape Coding Lite

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

Head to head
About

WH Questions

This interactive puzzle game helps children aged 3-8 develop speech and language skills by practicing answering "Why" questions. It features engaging illustrations, professional voice-overs, and a built-in recorder for practice and comparison.

Highlights
  • Interactive education cards
  • Jigsaw puzzle gameplay
  • Record and listen feature
  • Professionally created content
  • Helper bubbles for guidance
  • Beautifully illustrated characters
  • Natural voice-overs
Features
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Learn and develop speech and language skills in understanding and answering "Why" questions with 30 interactive education cards. • A modern engine under the hood — ready for the next generation of WH Questions • Engaging jigsaw puzzle game • Professionally created educational content • Beautifully illustrated characters and scenes • Easily learn how to use with helper bubbles • Friendly and natural voice-overs ENGAGING PUZZLE GAME Every card is more fun with the engaging jigsaw puzzle game! Your kid will get familiar with people, animals or objects in the illustration while easily grasping the context. And when the last piece lands — a confetti celebration! RECORD & LISTEN Kids love it! After listening to the question, record and listen your answer with built-in recorder. The right answer that we have recorded for you, will be played automatically. This will help your kid to compare his or her answer with the right one by receiving an audible feedback. PROFESSIONALLY CREATED Speech and Language Therapists worked carefully on all written, visual and audible educational content to make it scientifically accurate and effective. EASY TO HARD CONTENT SCAFFOLDING From top to bottom cards are ordered from easy to hard. Just tap "START" to play in this order. You also have the option to make your own list as you tap and select cards one by one. HELPER BUBBLES It's easy to begin playing right from your first game. Helper Bubbles will lead you through the game on every step. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED Illustration and animation artists prepared 30 educational drawings with more than 50 unique lovely characters specially for this app. NATURAL VOICE-OVERS Your kid will adapt easily and feel comfortable with friendly and natural voice-overs all recorded with professional voice-over artists in hi-quality. YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS No ads. No third-party analytics. No tracking. Your child's recordings and progress stay private on your device — nothing is ever sent to us or anyone else. TRY FOR FREE, PAY ONLY IF YOU LIKE IT Download the app and try it to experience the quality of the content yourself. If you like it, you can easily buy the complete set within the app. WHAT WILL MY KID LEARN? • Cause and Effect Relationship • Receptive and Expressive Language Skills • Naming Actions and Describing Situations • Answering Wh Questions • Making Logical Conclusions • Reasoning by Using Hints and Creative Thinking IS IT SUITABLE FOR MY KID? All typically developing children between ages 3-8 and also special children, without an age restriction, with recommendation of their speech and language pathologists, can benefit from this app. IS LITERACY REQUIRED? Your child can use Wh Questions: Why? even without any reading or writing skills because all the text is vocalized. NOT ONLY "WHY?" You can easily ask Wh Questions other than "Why" about the adventures of our cute characters. ( Wh Questions: What, Where, When, Why, Which, Who, How, ... ) For the card with the little baby and the mother, we asked: - Why is the woman putting a blanket on her baby? You can also ask these: - Who is putting a blanket on the baby? - What is the mother putting on her baby? - Where is the baby sleeping? - When do babies sleep? - ... SPECIAL KIDS Wh Questions: Why? is not only for typically developing children. Special children experiencing special conditions can also benefit from the app. According to the developmental stage of your child, you can easily modify the look and usage of the app with the Settings menu, to meet your special requirements. - Language Impairments (Delayed Language and Speech, Specific Language Impairment, Childhood Aphasia) - Hearing Impairment - Autism Spectrum Disorders - Intellectual Disability - Developmental Delays - Learning Disabilities - Articulation Problems (while generalizing a sound)

About

Shape Coding Lite

This app uses a visual coding system to help children and young people with language disorders improve sentence structure and grammar. It employs colors, arrows, lines, and shapes to represent word classes, tense, and sentence structure, aiding in understanding and producing English sentences.

Highlights
  • Visual coding system for grammar
  • Color-coded word classes
  • Arrow indicators for tense
  • Line indicators for plurality
  • Shape indicators for syntax
  • Text-to-speech functionality
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SHAPE CODING® Lite is a free demonstration version of the full SHAPE CODING® app. This is designed for teachers and speech and language therapists / pathologists to use with children and young people who are having difficulties producing and understanding English sentence structure and grammar. As with the full SHAPE CODING® app, it uses the SHAPE CODING® system which has been shown in several research projects to help children and young people with language disorders increase the length and complexity of sentences they can understand and use and improve the accuracy of their sentence production. The SHAPE CODING® Lite app has less functionality and flexibility than the full SHAPE CODING® app but can be used to form simple sentences. The SHAPE CODING® system uses a visual coding system to show the rules for how words are put together in sentences, to develop the child’s understanding of spoken and written grammar and to develop their ability to use grammar successfully to express themselves. The system includes use of colours (word classes), arrows (tense and aspect) , lines (singular and plural) and shapes (syntactic structure). These are all included in the app (although not all are enabled in the Lite version), but the professional controlling the app can choose which features display for the student, so that it is personalised to their current levels and targets. Settings are preserved for the student between uses. The Lite app allows only a single teacher and student, but the full version can have multiple teachers and students. The SHAPE CODING® Lite app is equipped with a basic set of words which can be inserted into those shapes which are enabled to make simple sentences. A much wider range of shape options are enabled in the full version than the Lite version, so more grammatical rules can be taught and more complex sentences created. The app uses text-to-speech, so that students who struggle to read can also use the app. This app assumes a certain degree of familiarity with the SHAPE CODING system. For more information see www.shapecoding.com. Training on how to use the SHAPE CODING(R) system is available from https://training.moorhouseinstitute.co.uk/. For a demonstration of the features of the full version of the app (some of which are also enabled in the Lite version), see: https://shapecoding.com/demo-videos/, and for Frequently Asked Questions see: https://shapecoding.com/app-info/faqs/ Follow us on Twitter @ShapeCoding, Facebook @ShapeCoding and Instagram @shape_coding or if you have any problems or feedback, please contact us at training@moorhouseschool.co.uk Please review our privacy policy https://shapecoding.com/privacy-policy-apple/

Screenshots

WH Questions4 screens
Shape Coding Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: WH Questions at 60% against Shape Coding Lite's 0%. WH Questions also leads on rating (3.7 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). Shape Coding Lite's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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. WH Questions sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shape Coding Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WH Questions holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WH Questions has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of WH Questions's written reviews are positive against 0% of Shape Coding Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WH Questions ships an update every 6 months, Shape Coding Lite every 7 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
WH Questions versus Shape Coding Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWH QuestionsShape Coding Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (11 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews59.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB357 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOnur TekinMoor House School & College

Customer experience

WH Questions

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive59.6%
Neutral3.5%
Negative36.8%

Shape Coding Lite

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative75.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

WH Questions

One-time1
  • WhQuestions: Why? Complete Set$2.99
None

Shape Coding Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WH Questions free?
WH Questions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shape Coding Lite free?
Shape Coding Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WH Questions or Shape Coding Lite?
WH Questions is rated higher. WH Questions averages 3.7 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Shape Coding Lite averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do WH Questions or Shape Coding Lite have ads?
Neither WH Questions nor Shape Coding Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WH Questions or Shape Coding Lite?
WH Questions ships an update every 6 months, and Shape Coding Lite every 7 months. Most recently, WH Questions was updated on October 24, 2026 and Shape Coding Lite on October 24, 2026.

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