# Articulation Assessment ToolKt — user reviews > 86 indexed App Store user reviews of Articulation Assessment ToolKt by Smarty Ears, rated 4.30/5 from 15 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/articulation-assessment-toolkt/id371280343/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/articulation-assessment-toolkt/id371280343.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 11 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## What do users think of Articulation Assessment ToolKt? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Saves time and effort - 👍 Easy to use and administer - 💡 Engaging for children - 📊 Generates helpful reports - 📱 Portable and convenient - 📸 Clear and engaging photos - 🗣️ Recording feature is useful - 📝 Allows for notes and error marking - 📧 Emailing results is convenient - 🎯 Useful for progress monitoring - 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Reports are parent-friendly - ✅ Comprehensive assessment tool - 🌟 Favorite app for many SLPs - 💡 Auditory feedback for sessions - 🔄 Ability to flip IPA for child - 📈 Useful for IEPs and goal writing - 👍 Good for screening and evaluation - 💯 Highly recommended by SLPs **Cons** - 🐛 App crashes frequently - 🐛 Issues on iPhone - ❌ Lacks some target sounds/positions - ❌ Target words can be difficult - 📉 Scoring not sensitive enough - 📊 Reports have unhelpful charts - ❌ Some pictures could be better - ❌ Vocabulary is American English focused - ❌ Not standardized - 🐛 Data loss after updates - 🐛 Unusable after updates - 🐛 App freezes or becomes unresponsive - ❌ Lacks standardized scores - ❌ Some users experience bugs - ❌ Customer service issues - ❌ Missing error analysis for blends - ❌ Limited cluster targets - ❌ Some words not in child vocabulary - ❌ Cumbersome to interrupt for notes - ❌ Cannot mark multiple error processes - ❌ Cannot record specific substitutions for processes - ❌ Cannot score vowel errors - ❌ Missing connected speech assessment - ❌ Difficult to select error types logically - ❌ Cannot select multiple processes for one sound - ❌ Dropdown menu only in full assessment mode - ❌ Some users find it too long **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on iPhone 6 Plus when hitting email or 'manner' tab - Continually drops connection on iPhone, cannot retrieve results - App bugs out when viewing results on iPhone - App keeps crashing in the middle of assessment - Lost all data after update to 5.2 - Cannot add new students after update - Cannot press all pictures to hear correct pronunciation - Recording is cumbersome - Opening screen is a list of past tests, not an opening screen - Dropdown menu only appears in full assessment mode - Cannot deactivate automatic praise - Issues with specific updates - Incompatibility with certain devices **Most requested features** - Include all sounds in each position - More target words suitable for children - More sensitive scoring - More helpful charts in reports - Ability to mark off errors for non-targeted phonemes - Picture to elicit sentences/conversation - More consonant blend targets - More /s/, /l/, and /r/ cluster pictures - Ability to skip items that were missed - Ability to record multiple error processes - Ability to record substitution for processes - Hard copy form for post-test substitutions - Ability to indicate vowel substitutions - Stimulus for errors in connected speech - Standardized scores - Dark mode - Advanced analytics dashboard - More sound options for substitution errors (vowels, blends) - Option to choose phonological processes (gliding, cluster reduction) - Analysis in terms of processes (fronting, simplification) - Ability to select two choices (substitution and process) - Recommendations section for indicating disorder and treatment plan - Ability to score vowels - Ability to stop and resume test - Phrases section - More stimulus pictures - A 'no response' option - More choices for sound substitutions - More blends represented - Updates with different words for second measure - More consonant blend targets - Summary chart of sound errors - Typical developmental milestones chart - Receptive language/auditory comprehension component - More consonant blend targets - Ability to record vowel errors - More sound options for substitution errors - Option to choose phonological processes - Multiple errors for blends - Phonological processes analysis - Quick button for stimulability - Ability to enter two sounds for substitution - More blend targets - All sounds tested in all positions - Overall intelligibility measure - Ability to deactivate automatic praise - More substitution errors for blends - Normative data and age-equivalents - More consonant blend targets - More sounds represented - Updates with different words - More choices for sound substitutions - Ability to record vowel errors - More sound options for substitution errors - Option to choose phonological processes - Multiple errors for blends - Phonological processes analysis - Quick button for stimulability - Ability to enter two sounds for substitution - More blend targets - All sounds tested in all positions - Overall intelligibility measure ## Newest reviews (12 of 86) ### 4/5 — Go-To Screener *2018-07-21* This is my favorite app for articulation screenings. It’s quick, easy, and well organized. I love using it for progress monitoring and initial evaluations! Only downside is used the app on my iPhone and couldn’t access the R-screener, which was frustrating. Still highly recommend! ### 4/5 — Great app for SLPs *2018-07-21* This app is great for SLPs. It is quick and it holds the child's attention so much better than paper artic tests. I love the addition of the phonological component. So helpful and such a timesaver! The district in which I work just got iPads for all SLPs and I have been showing this app to a lot of people. This is a great way for me to track progress and write IEP present levels. Some of the pictures could be better. ### 5/5 — Another great app from Smarty Ears *2017-08-25, version 5.6* I love this app to help parents and teachers understand speech errors. This is great for the times when a classroom teacher asks for a quick screening on a student. It is colorful and easy to administer for even the youngest of students. Thanks Smarty Ears. I use it for screening and to identify patterns in errors. I use many Smarty Ears apps but this is definitely a favorite. ### 5/5 — Awesome app! *2016-08-13, version 5.6* I purchased this app to assess my preschoolers and keep tabs on my daughter's speech sound development (she has Down syndrome.). I love that I can record sessions and take notes, then go back and listen for errors I may have missed and compare to my notes! Portability is also a huge plus! ### 5/5 — SLP *2014-04-15, version 5.2* THANK YOU for fixing & improving the report writer function on this app! Love that I can cut and paste it into Word and can edit as well! I will return to using it on a regular basis as a valuable tool. ### 4/5 — Fun & Very Useful *2014-01-10, version 4.0* This is a great way to update, monitor, screen and assess. Love the features for data collection! Just wish you could have a Standardized score. ### 4/5 — Great App some American English vocab *2013-10-12, version 4.0* As an SLT in the UK I find some of the vocabulary has to be explained to the student. Other than that it is a great tool for eliciting a comprehensive speech sample. The option of the screening tool is great too. Pictures are clear and you can easily keep track of the students errors. It's one if my favourites from Smarty Ears! ### 5/5 — love this app! perfect *2013-10-12, version 4.0* This app is perfect for the school based slp. It saves so much time and is perfect when you work in multiple schools! ### 4/5 — Great for screenings!!! *2013-10-12, version 4.0* I started using this app got my school screenings. The screen and full assessment are great to use It's easy to mark the errors and give over time. The report generated it awesome. Great app with multiple uses ### 5/5 — <3 this app! *2013-10-12, version 4.0* I use this often in therapy--great pictures and easy to use. ~Laurenmcb ### 4/5 — Convenient *2013-08-24, version 3.8* This app is good, convenient and pretty thorough! The children don't feel the pressure of a 'test' because they are playing on the iPad. The assessment itself is easy to administer. The report is a little lengthy and would prefer to be able to chose what portions of the report were used and to be able to have a little more input. Overall - effective and efficient. ### 4/5 — Love this! *2013-08-24, version 3.8* I use this supplement with 'paper' assessments. Love that it doesn't require any additional paper/scoring sheets. I adore that I can notate the errors right on the test. A necessity for the SLP who travels! Great app! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2024-06-24* As an SLP, I was very disappointed in this app. It did not have every sound in each position. The target words are very difficult for kids, such as olive and dove. The scoring is not sensitive enough to capture all types of errors. The report has many charts that are not helpful for analysis or parents. ### 1/5 — Waste of money, huge disappointment *2016-01-13* Very disappointed with this app; even more so with their customer service. It just seems crazy to me that you would make an app to assess articulation that doesn’t even include gliding as an error for liquid blends. You shouldn’t have to make a separate note for all of those words. It should also have a few more pictures included to look at more clusters. For example, it only looks at /sn, st, sw/ for /s/-clusters. I don't think it would have been that hard to add a picture for /sp, sm, sk, sl/. Same goes for /l/ and /r/ clusters. Granted, it is supposed to be used to supplement standardized assessment data, however I still think it wouldn't have hurt to include it. I’ve tried contacting the company’s support department three times to get help with issues/concerns and have not heard back from them once. This app is a waste of money.... I so regret buying this. I’ve used it once, and won’t use it again. I have their Articulate It Pro! app and like that, but this was a huge disappointment. ### 1/5 — Not good for iPhone *2015-02-22, version 5.4* My iPad does not have internet while I'm doing home visits, so I rely on my iPhone for quick and documentable samples. This app continually drops me, still can't retrieve results. Disappointing. ### 1/5 — SLP *2014-04-09, version 5.2* I wish I could undo this update. I loved the changes in 5.1, but after updating to 5.2 I lost all data and now it won't let me add new students. The app is unusable now. This is very frustrating since I have always used this app at the end of the year to monitor progress. If there is any way to fix this please do it! ### 1/5 — Oh no!!! *2012-02-01, version 3.2* Maybe I have a glitch because I am unable to press all of the pictures to hear the correct pronunciation of the words. Also recording is cumbersome. Not what I expected for the price. Wasted moola. ### 2/5 — Awe, nice concept *2014-06-26, version 5.3* Mine keeps crashing also:( ### 2/5 — Fix it already *2014-06-15, version 5.3* I used this app 5 times and loved it ! But now the app keeps crashing, right in the middle of my assessment! Imagine the embarrassment with the parents! I had to go back and use the GFTA ! Waste of time. Fix it, or refund the $$ ### 2/5 — Close, but.... *2013-03-08* The portability, emailability and photos are pluses. So is the intuitive use. However this really needs an error summary chart to see the incorrect phonemes and blends in one at-a-glance visual. I understand The value and importance of knowing which processes are in place but I also like to know which phonemes are present in which positions and I would rather not have to sift through lists and charts dealing with Manor Place Voice etc. to find this information. I won't use or recommend this app until improvements are made in this regard. Overall disappointed. But hopeful as I know this developer listens to customers. ### 3/5 — Bugs *2015-07-12, version 5.5* I downloaded this test on my iPhone 6 Plus, performed the assessment, and now can't do anything with it because when I hit the email button or the "manner" tab the app crashes. This app is good for iPad but you need to fix the above issues for the iPhone 6 Plus. ### 3/5 — Crashes on iPhone *2015-01-15, version 5.4* When I try to view the results on my iPhone, the app bugs out. It works better on my iPad. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Information at your fingertips. *2019-04-30* This is a great app. It generates reports, shows data in various ways and is therapist and kid friendly! ### 5/5 — Makes evaluation so easy *2019-04-29* I have been using the Sunny Artic Test for a while now. I love the portability aspect and the ability to email results. The kids love the photos. The full test covers most phonemes. It would be nice to be able to mark off errors of the phonemes not targeted in a specific photo, as well. Recording aspect is great. I would like to see a picture that can elicit a sentence or conversation. ### 5/5 — Sarah WootenSLP *2019-04-29* The sentence test that’s included really helps further assess students that are able to say the sounds in words but struggle at the sentence level. I use it almost daily!! ### 5/5 — Awesome app for SLPs *2019-04-28* I just love this app for screening and evaluating articulation! It saves me a lot of time analyzing the errors by the different features. This is all I use now! ### 5/5 — Articulation Assessment Toolkit *2019-04-10* What a fabulous app!! The AAT assesses articulation and phonological skills at the word level and at the sentence level. It provides comprehensive test results which makes analyzing the data and writing goals/objectives so much easier! I highly recommend this app to anyone who provides speech therapy services to children who present with communication needs. ### 5/5 — Great Information and fun for kids too *2019-04-09* My kids love using the iPad for anything and will go through all of the pictures and love it. This gives a great report at the end and parents like to see the progress. Great app! ### 5/5 — Very Engaging! *2017-09-04* I work with students who have a complex learning challenges. This app engages them much better than a paper test, and pops out a super-thorough report when we're done! I love it! ### 5/5 — Makes testing fun and efficient *2017-08-26* Sunny has become my favorite artic & phonology testing resource. The pictures are engaging and I have yet to find a client who doesn't enjoy "flipping" the pictures and saying the words. I love the data collection and report that automatically populates with specific errors and diagnostic findings. This app is a great investment for SLPs. No books to get ripped or protocols to run out of! ### 5/5 — Useful tool and a time saver *2017-08-25* While this test is not standardized, it provides detailed information on speech production errors in single words, including types of errors and percentage of errors in specific word positions. It allows for audio recording of responses which can be reviewed later. The option of screening or full assessment is a nice feature, and can be a quick way to monitor progress. The report feature can be a time saver, with reports available for both screening and full assessment. ### 5/5 — Great app for SLPs *2017-08-25* This is my go to app for testing articulation and phonology. You could choose if you want to do the full test, a quick screener, or the r screener. While doing the test/ screener you could mark errors right away. You could also type in notes to remind you of certain errors or manner of production. Recording is also an option to review later. It could also help the child by using it as an auditory feedback for sessions. They would know they are producing speech sounds better. Another great thing is that you could flip the IPA facing you if you are in front of the child. After the test, you rate their intelligibility in 2 ways: single word and conversational. So there is a touch of subjectivity. I love that the reports are easy for parents to understand. It's very visual. It explains to the parents that there are phonemes that are supposed to be mastered at a specific age. Making them understand that it is important to also work on them at home. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*