# Proloquo4Text AAC — Text-to-speech communication

> Text-to-speech communication app for individuals unable to speak. (iPhone/iPad app by AssistiveWare.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/proloquo4text-aac/id751646884 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [AssistiveWare](https://appshunter.io/developer/308368167)
- Category: Education, Medical
- Price: $119.99
- Rating: 4.70/5 from 910 App Store ratings · 62 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 451 MB
- Languages: American English, Danish, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, European Spanish, Swedish
- Released: 2013-11-26
- Data updated: 2026-08-25
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/proloquo4text-aac/id751646884/reviews.md

## What is Proloquo4Text AAC?

Proloquo4Text™ is a text to speech app for those who cannot rely on their voice to speak. The app is laid out on a single screen to reduce the effort of typing. The layout enables easy, daily conversation and quick access to your most common phrases. Personalize it to your needs and preferences, whether that’s through choosing from the many voices available, or through customizing your screen layout. 

Proloquo4Text is the leading AAC solution for literate adults, teens and children. It is used by people with a wide range of diagnoses, including developmental disabilities (like autism, apraxia, and cerebral palsy) and acquired disorders  (like laryngectomy, ALS, stroke, or traumatic brain injury). Proloquo4Text can be used to produce speech by anyone who can type and spell.

Communicate with ease
• Use the single screen for easy access to words, phrases and keyboard
• Switch easily between conversations, making it easy to answer a question in another conversation, without disrupting what you typed in the first conversation. 
• Decide when you speak with play, pause and speak-as-you-type
• Adjust appearance (font, color, text size) to your preference and needs

Reduce typing effort
• Create, save and organize commonly used phrases 
• Make typing quicker with advanced, self-learning PolyPredix™ word prediction 
• Show what you typed with the fullscreen view and flip text features 
• Type once, then say it again with history and sentence prediction
• Use keyboard shortcuts for quick access when using an external keyboard 

Choose your voice
• Download, natural-sounding voices within Proloquo4Text. All premium Acapela voices are included in Proloquo4Text with no in-app purchase.
• Add personality and humor to your conversations with free specialty voices
• Choose from over 100 voices in 18 languages, so you can find the one that sounds most like you. Switch easily between languages.  
• Use my-own-voice, a voice-banking technology, to preserve and capture the essence of your own voice in synthetic speech.

Share your world
• Send email, messages, and tweets from Proloquo4Text
• Write in Proloquo4Text and copy your text into another app
• Listen to text by pasting into Proloquo4Text
• Make phone and FaceTime video calls with Proloquo4Text.

Take your voice anywhere
• Proloquo4Text is available on both iOS and macOS. With iOS, you can use the app on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The Mac version is a separate purchase on the Mac App Store.  
• Smoothly transition between devices, thanks to Proloquo4Text’s consistent navigation on iPhone and iPad
• Easily access your commonly used phrases on Apple Watch, and just tap to show or speak them. You can customize the contents shown on the Watch from your iPhone. 

Accessibility features 
• Follow words as they are spoken with optional sentence or word highlighting
• Optimized for Switch Control and VoiceOver 
• Communicate without an internet connection
• Use multitasking functionality to run another app side-by-side on supported devices
• Keep your devices in sync by easily backing up and restoring your customizations and stored phrases.  

AssistiveWare® is the developer of Proloquo2Go®, an award-winning symbol-based communication app that provides a voice to over 200,000 individuals around the world.

Additional note:
Educational institutions can get a 50% discount if they purchase 20 or more licenses through Apple’s Volume Purchase Program for Education.

## Key features

- Single-screen interface for easy typing
- Customizable screen layout and appearance
- Quick access to saved phrases
- Advanced word prediction
- Multiple natural-sounding voices
- Integration with messaging and calls
- Offline communication capability

## What do users think of Proloquo4Text AAC?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Helpful app for communication
- 💡 Customizable appearance and vocabulary
- 🚀 Efficient for quick communication
- 👍 Useful for those with speech impediments
- 👍 Enhances communication abilities
- 👍 Reliable and dependable

**Cons**

- 🐛 Robotic and less expressive voice
- 🐛 Occasional keyboard issues
- 💰 Expensive compared to alternatives

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Keyboard switching issue when using third-party keyboards
- Passcode locking the app unexpectedly

**Most requested features**

- Ability to adjust voice tone more precisely
- Option to speak entire text box regardless of cursor position
- Integrated iOS keyboard with prediction
- Separate volume control for the app

## Recent user reviews (10 of 62)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/proloquo4text-aac/id751646884/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Best speech app I’ve EVER used!

*2026-07-18, version 5.6*

Believe my when I say have tried EVERY free or some cheap apps and there was always something in them that just sucked a bit, like it wasn’t quite right. This app is PERFECT, and I get to customise it to be all pink, nyeheheheh. So my opinion? Bite the bullet, spend the money, save yourself the hassle. Perfect for users who prefer a text based layout

### 5/5 — Best text based AAC for external keyboard

*2026-07-14*

I’ve been using proloquo4text for several years. I’ve tried many other text based AAC apps and proloquo4text still easily beats them out. I appreciate how adaptable the colors and text are, and the auto spacing helps me type faster. The predictions are reliable. 

I appreciate that you can set phrases to be spoken automatically, put in the text box, or both depending on how long you hold on them. 

There’s zero lag between my external keyboard and the text in the app, which sounds small but you’d be surprised how hard it is to find an app that works so smoothly!

If I had any critique it would be that I’d love to be able to rearrange the buttons on the Quick Talk menu the same way I can on the Phrases menu. I tend to sort my Quick Talk phrases based on their use/meaning so it can be a bit frustrating to have to redo the whole menu when I could just sort them.

This is still such a small complaint about a great program. I highly recommend it as a reliable text based AAC app.

**Developer response:** Hi and thank you for your awesome five star rating. We love to hear from happy customers and we appreciate you taking the time to share your favourite features.  If you have any questions or feedback about the app, please contact us any time at support@assistiveware.com.

### 5/5 — Very Functional!

*2026-07-05*

This AAC app is wonderful for my non-verbal son!  There are so many ways to personalize it for him!  And so handy to use on iPhone or iPad mini!  No need to carry around a cumbersome device. Also love that I can choose a voice that is most suited to what his actual voice tone sounds like.

**Developer response:** Hi and thank you for your five star review. We love hearing you are so happy with the app and especially the features that allow you to personalize it to make it work for your son.  If you have any questions or feedback about the app, please contact us any time at support@assistiveware.com.

### 1/5 — no emotion

*2026-04-16*

The voices have no emotion in them, and there’s no way to inflict emotion such as sarcasm. The voices sound lifeless and they don’t have any expression in them, there’s no emotion or any way to inflict any either.

**Developer response:** Thank you taking the time to leave feedback. We are continuously working with our voice partner to provide the best quality of voice possible. Recent updates underwent extensive testing and feedback and were designed to improve pronunciation, clarity, and overall voice quality, and to ensure voices stay compatible with your device over time. If you have any specific feedback about a voice please email us directly at support@assistiveware.com.

### 1/5 — App Review

*2026-02-13*

This app is helpful, but I am disappointed with the voice quality. It sounds very robotic and less human. The voice does not show much emotional expression like happiness, sadness, anger, or excitement. I hope future updates improve the voice to make it sound more natural and expressive.

**Developer response:** Thank you taking the time to leave feedback. We are continuously working with our voice partner to provide the best quality of voice possible. Recent updates underwent extensive testing and feedback and were designed to improve pronunciation, clarity, and overall voice quality, and to ensure voices stay compatible with your device over time. If you have any specific feedback about a voice please email us directly at support@assistiveware.com.

### 5/5 — speech app

*2026-01-06, version 5.4.1*

I like this speech app works well Reset my 12.5 inch led portable texsonic tv dvd player model TR-D133.

### 5/5 — Proloquo4text aac

*2025-10-21*

Proloquo

**Developer response:** Hi and thank you for your awesome five star rating. We love to hear from happy customers! If you have any questions or feedback about the app, please contact us any time at support@assistiveware.com.

### 5/5 — Love it.

*2025-10-16, version 5.4.1*

As I said, I love it.

### 5/5 — Proloquo4text aac

*2025-08-12, version 5.3*

Proloquo

### 5/5 — Text call

*2025-07-04*

During calls for teenage girls and boys kids child having checklist

**Developer response:** Hi and thank you for your five star rating. If you have feedback regarding the app, please email us at support@assistiveware.com.

## Frequently asked questions about Proloquo4Text AAC

### What is Proloquo4Text AAC?

Proloquo4Text is a text-to-speech application designed for individuals who have difficulty speaking. It allows users to type messages and have them spoken aloud, facilitating communication in daily conversations and various other contexts.

### What are the key features of Proloquo4Text?

Key features include a single-screen interface for efficient typing, customizable screen layouts and appearance, the ability to save and quickly access frequently used phrases, advanced word prediction, and a wide selection of natural-sounding voices in multiple languages. It also supports offline use and integration with messaging and calling functions.

### How much does Proloquo4Text cost?

Proloquo4Text is a paid application. The app itself requires a one-time purchase. All premium Acapela voices are included with the app at no additional in-app purchase cost.

### What devices is Proloquo4Text available on?

Proloquo4Text is available on iOS devices, including iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. A separate version is also available for macOS. The iOS version offers a consistent navigation experience across iPhone and iPad.

### Who can benefit from using Proloquo4Text?

This app is beneficial for literate individuals, including adults, teens, and children, who cannot rely on their voice to speak. This includes people with conditions such as autism, apraxia, cerebral palsy, laryngectomy, ALS, stroke, or traumatic brain injury.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 5.6 — 2026-04-28

We have updated the app to improve the voices and overall performance. Thank you for using Proloquo4Text.

### 5.5 — 2026-03-16

Here's everything to look out for in this Proloquo4Text update:

• Based on your feedback, we have improved the voices, making speech sound smoother, clearer, and more natural. This update also includes four new British English teen voices for you to choose from.
• You can now open Proloquo4Text directly from Control Center for faster, more predictable access to your AAC on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
• Apple Intelligence's Writing Tools are now available in Proloquo4Text, helping you rewrite, proofread, and summarize text directly within the app. 
• We have also fixed bugs and improved overall performance.

### 5.4.1 — 2025-10-01

We have updated the app to address bugs and improve performance and stability. Thank you for updating and using Proloquo4Text.

### 5.4 — 2025-09-12

Proloquo4Text now matches the fresh design of iOS 26, including the new Liquid Glass material. We've also improved the app's accessibility and usability for a better user experience.

### 5.3 — 2025-05-27

We continue to make improvements for a better Proloquo4Text experience.
With this latest update, you can now access the ‘Audio in Calls’ feature available in iOS and iPadOS 18.2 and later to use your Proloquo4Text voice during calls.
Additionally, Apple Watch users can communicate using their watch, even when set to Silent Mode.

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