# Smart Oral Motor — user reviews > 27 indexed App Store user reviews of Smart Oral Motor by Smarty Ears, rated 3.00/5 from 45 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smart-oral-motor/id418949476/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smart-oral-motor/id418949476.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 14 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 15 ## Newest reviews (7 of 27) ### 2/5 — Eh.... *2013-04-29* Eh.... This is priced too high! The quality is cheesy and the wording is poor when giving directions. Hopefully someone else will create an OM app of higher quality. I wish I could return this and get my $ back! ### 3/5 — Not worth the price *2012-09-24* For 5.99 you get a duck (not even a real person) showing your child how to do different mouth and tongue exercises. There aren't even that many, maybe 12???... Different choices. Save yourself the money. ### 3/5 — Motivating app *2012-06-25* The kids I work with enjoy watching the duck when they are doing their oral motor exercises. They are much more motivated when doing it along with the duck! I would like the option to change repetitions and manipulate the app a little more. ### 3/5 — Kid friendly *2012-02-25* This app is very kid friendly!!! I tried taking real pictures of my students for oral motor, but nothing was more motivating than this little duck!! I'm not sure older kids would enjoy it as much, but my preschoolers love it!! ### 4/5 — Overall a nice tool for iPad speech therapy tools *2011-12-16* First of all this Smarty Ears App has a great variety of exercises. I like being able to choose the number of repetitions. With some modifications this useful app could even be easier for to use. It would be nice if the reinforcing collection of stars by the client was more interactive and more rewarding. Additionally I would like to see a close up of the exercises since the duck's little mouth isn't that easy to spot (although they are exagerrated nicely). As far as interactivity, maybe another option could be a simple identification game where the user could identify lips, teeth, gums, etc. on a big duck head. Overall nice addition to my tools. Kids are so drawn to technology. ### 4/5 — Oral motor! *2011-10-25* I love this app! It is very motivating for kids because they can earn stars for each exercise they complete. I recommend! ### 2/5 — Oral motor *2011-04-01, version 1.0* I have been looking for a good oral-motor app to use with my students. I thought this might be it. It is not! If I could get my money back, I might be happy! The duck as the main character is not a good idea. Real lips would work so much better. It is difficult to follow the exercises with the duck as an example. Not worth the money! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not interactive, waste of $ *2022-10-24* This is just a duck and a picture of a mouth making sounds. There is no interaction with the app at all. My non-verbal 5yo looked at it for less than a minute before losing interest. ### 1/5 — Blank screen *2022-10-09* Bought for my grandson, and the app doesn’t even work. When opening up the app it is just a blank white screen. ### 1/5 — App doesn’t work anymore *2021-02-15* I tried several times and it doesn’t work. It goes blank when you click the app to open it. Please, fix it! ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2016-10-14, version 1.0* This app is cheesy and not interesting at all. There should be a way to get your money back for apps you are dissatisfied with. As a birth to three SLP, I know I will never use this app. Very disappointed. ### 1/5 — Not worth the investment. *2016-06-08* I was hoping to provide a fun alternative to a five year old patient's exercise regime with this app however we were both disappointed. First, I could not get this app to switch to a horizontal IPad and the vertical position cut out some of the screenshot. Second, I could not scroll through the exercise tabs. Third, I will agree that the duck's lips and tongue movements did not provide enough of a visual prompt. It simply wasn't worth the price. ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2013-01-17* Really wish I had read reviews. There's no way to go back to main page in the middle of the duck giving instructions so you have to listen to them each time. You also cannot go back in the middle of a production if done. It doesn't allow you to keep track of appropriate productions or vice versa. Really wish I could have my money back or at least get another app for the waste on this one! ### 1/5 — Not worth the money *2012-11-07* This app is unrealistic and difficult to imitate due to the fact that the character is a duck with a bill instead of something with a more human like mouth. It does not have a wide range of oral motor exercises. My students and I are not impressed by this app at all. I am disappointed that I spent the money on it. ### 1/5 — Please update *2012-03-21, version 1.0* This app is simple, and easy to use. Please update and replace the duck with a child. We treat children and/or adults, not ducks. ### 1/5 — No Sound! *2012-02-01* I purchased this for my mother who is currently in the hospital and cannot pass a swallow/evaluation test and come to find out when I got to the hospital to do therapy with her the darn program had NO SOUND! How do I get this fixed? Can anyone help me with this? My mother would enjoy this even though it is for children it is the exact exercises the speech therapist ordered for her to do to strengthen her to where she can eat instead of being fed by a tube. PLEASE HELP! ### 2/5 — I wish I had time to make a good one... *2015-04-23* A duck does not have lips, so this app does not really give the child a good visual model. A duck’s bill is naturally round and that makes it difficult to tell the position of the mouth. I was desperate to find an oral motor app for kids and this was disappointing. Not only do I not like the duck, the duck performs the exercise once and then pops off the screen. It needs to repeat until the child has joined in and the therapist taps it off. My kids watch it and don’t join it b/c it disappears AFTER they know what to do. It was a nice idea, but poorly executed. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Awesome *2013-08-25* This is a fantastic app for learning oral motor exercises. Must have. Also great to recommend to parents. ### 5/5 — Makes oral-motor exams easier! *2013-01-06* No child really enjoys having peculiar items poke and prod at their face, but with this app, it makes the whole process a lot easier. The kids love the graphics and animations, and I even have them try it on me first to get them engaged and help them understand it won't hurt! Another great app from Smarty Ears :) ### 5/5 — Perfect! *2012-09-21, version 1.0* This app is wonderful for my son who has oral apraxia! Thank you! ### 5/5 — Motivating app *2012-06-25* I use this app with my students in preschool and elementary school. It is a good warm-up before beginning articulation practice. The interface is simple so even my three year olds can navigate independently. Whether it is the duck or the stars they accrue from completing various oral motor tasks, they are often willing to attempt many oral postures in a short amount of time. This app also provides me with good diagnostic information about their oral motor skills. ### 5/5 — Love *2011-10-25* As a mom I don't know what to do for speech exercises so this has been fun using! ### 5/5 — Great interactive app for working on Oral Motor skills *2011-08-16* I have some of the Super Duper flashcards for Oral motor, but I am so happy I found this app! I use this app and Speech Trainer together to work on Oral Motor Skills with my students. Interesting that someone mentions the Duck, yes I wish it was a different animal; but come on! How come you didn't see that before you bought the app. I highly recommend this app as the ONLY app to work on these skills. ### 5/5 — Engaging *2011-04-16* My pediatric patients find this app interesting and rewarding. They are more engaged in the activity than they are when simply following my own example or pictures in a book. They enjoy earning the stars at the top of the screen (however, it disturbs my autistic patient that there seems to be no way to earn a 15th star, an that leaves an empty space in the progress bar. I resolve his concern by giving him an actual star sticker to keep). I'm not a fan of the duck's voice, or of the mysterious brown blob at the left of the scene, however, it doesn't bother the kids, and that's really what it's all about, right? ### 4/5 — Good oral motor app for preschool *2013-11-07* I just started using this app with 3,4, & 5 year olds. It is very easy to follow and makes exercises fun! It also makes data collection easy! ### 4/5 — Oral motor *2012-11-08, version 1.0* This is great for my preschoolers! Imitating the duck is more fun. ### 4/5 — Just Ducky *2012-02-25* Love this app to guide my students in oral motor exercises. However, I still need to give them my own visual cues with models since ducks don't have lips. But the graphics are cute, simple, and they to emulate human mouths. Works great with an Elmo to project on the board for classroom lessons. --- *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 2026-08-25.*