The Surprise (Pro)

The Surprise (Pro)

Wordless book that is animated

15 ratings
44 reviews

Archived App (Last seen on 21 May 2025)

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Details

  • Released
  • Updated
  • May 22, 2012
  • March 5, 2021

Features

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About

This wordless animated book allows children to create their own narrations by recording their voice or writing text for each scene. It's designed to enhance language development, storytelling skills, and even offers therapeutic benefits for articulation and fluency.

Wordless animated storybook
Record custom voice narrations
Write custom text narrations
Supports up to 30 user profiles
Challenge words and questions for language practice
Email and print narrated stories
Original story replay with/without music
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What's New in The Surprise (Pro)

1.5

March 5, 2021

IOS 14 Bug fix

User reviews

Great app- needs updating

I love this app. Went to download it again and cannot. The developer needs to up date it.

Response from developer

Hi Pattibslp. No worries! We updated it to work with IOS 11 shortly after your review. Can you check and make sure it is working ok now? If so, we hope you will update your rating and review. Anytime you have any issues with our apps, please contact us at info@hamaguchiapps so we can communicate directly with you and help answer your questions. Justin @ Hamaguchi Apps.

More, more please!

How great is this app! While it is only one story the versatility and the perfect design of this app makes it an exceptional tool for language impaired kids. It has been particularly helpful for some of my autistic students. What I've found is that repeated viewing of individual segments or reviewing the entire story over many sessions is very helpful. The ability to pause the story and look at the facial expressions within the context of a story is wonderful. Hope there will be more stories to come!
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Wonderful App with Many Educational Applications!

My intermediate elementary school students love this app. It is perfect for small groups and can address expressive and receptive language, oral and written narrative skills, perspective taking and inferencing. Please make some more stories!

Great tool for slps

This is a great story to work on narrative skills. I only wish there was a way to make it go slower because my speech and language impaired students cannot keep up.

Awesome

I love this app. It's really thought out and there is so much to this app. You get to work on creating your own story based on what you see and think is happening. You get three questions per chapter, but I sometimes will ask my own questions. There is a great info page with tips and suggestions for using the app. Also, with the Pro version you can let your kid listen to other kids stories so they can hear how others interpreted the story. Great job Hamaguchi!
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FAQ

What is The Surprise (Pro) app?

The Surprise (Pro) is a wordless, animated storybook application designed for the iPad. It allows users to create their own narrated versions of the story by recording their voice or writing text for each scene. The app is intended to support language development and storytelling skills.

What are the key features of The Surprise (Pro)?

Key features include a wordless animated story divided into chapters, the ability to record voice narrations and write text for each scene, support for up to 30 user profiles, optional challenge words and questions for language practice, and the option to email or print the created stories.

How much does The Surprise (Pro) app cost?

The provided information indicates that this is a paid application. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements mentioned, suggesting a one-time purchase for the Pro version.

What are the educational and therapeutic uses of this app?

This app is beneficial for narrative language development, articulation practice, fluency, syntax development, and social cognitive skills like perspective-taking and inferring body language. It is particularly recommended as a speech therapy app.

What devices is The Surprise (Pro) compatible with?

The Surprise (Pro) is specifically designed for the iPad. The description explicitly states that there is no iPhone version available for this Pro edition.