Instant Words vs GoTalk About It!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Instant Words
This flashcard app helps children learn to read by practicing instant words. It uses Fry's instant word list, covering words 1-500, to build essential reading fluency and vocabulary for early learners.
- Words 1-500 from Fry's list
- Develops reading, spelling, and language skills
- Enriches vocabulary
- Audio pronunciation of words
- Progress tracking
- Aligned with Common Core Standards
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Help your child learn to read by using Instant Words by Teach Speech Apps. This simple flashcard app makes it easy to practice instant words anywhere. Based on Fry’s instant word list, which is broken down into groups. Instant Words by Teach Speech Apps includes words 1 - 500. It is important for early readers to instantly recognize these sight words / instant words / high-frequency words to become proficient and fluent readers. Fry's Instant Words are the most common words used in reading and writing in the English language and are ranked in order of frequency. Dr. Fry's research resulted in the following findings: - 25 words make up approximately one-third of all published text. - 100 words comprise approximately 50% of all the words found in publications. - 300 words make up approximately 65% of all written material. It is recommended that: - The first 100 words should be mastered by Grade 1. - The second 100 words should be mastered by Grade 2. - The third 100 words should be mastered by Grade 3. - The remaining lists (words 301 - 1000) should be mastered in Grades 4 - 5. Features: - Includes words 1 - 500 - Simple and colorful - Develops reading, spelling, and language skills - Enriches vocabulary - Easy swipe feature to advance cards or auto-advance after a correct answer - Hear the word read aloud by tapping the word - Keep track of the number of correct and incorrect words - Aligned with the Common Core Standards - No in-app purchases - No ads Teach Speech Apps encourages learning side-by-side with an engaged adult. Privacy Policy: Teach Speech Apps does not collect personal information. To learn more, visit: http://redfive.llc/teach-speech-apps-privacy-policy/ Email Teach Speech Apps with questions or feedback: teachspeech@redfive.llc Find / Like / Follow us: Facebook: Teach Speech Apps, LLC Twitter: @teachspeechapps
GoTalk About It!
This app uses AI to generate topic-specific communication boards from photos, supporting language learning and communication for non-speaking individuals. Users can customize displays, vocabulary complexity, and symbol choices to create personalized sentence-building tools.
- AI-generated topic-specific displays
- Vocabulary symbol generation
- Customizable display editing
- Adjustable interface element size
- Configurable vocabulary complexity
- Personalized recognition of familiar people
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Powered by AI, GoTalk About It! creates topic-specific displays automatically from photographs to support communication and language learning for non-speaking individuals, their families, and speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Choose a photograph, and in a few seconds GoTalk About It! will create a topic-specific display containing vocabulary symbols (pictograms) related to the input photograph! Topic-specific displays are a single page containing all relevant vocabulary to discuss a certain topic or activity. Users can then select vocabulary to create sentences using synthesized speech. GoTalk About It! is fully customizable: ~> You can edit the topic display created to add or remove words, or select a better symbol for a specific word. ~> You can change the size of all elements in the interface. ~> You can choose the complexity of vocabulary generated automatically. ~> You can program familiar people to enable QuickPic to automatically recognize them when creating new boards. GoTalk About It! was designed by a team of experts (PhDs and CCC-SLPs) in the field of speech-language therapy and human-computer interaction (HCI) using user-centered design methodologies, which involved the participation of end-users in the process. *** Development of this application was partly supported by the App Factory to Support Health and Function of People with Disabilities funded by a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the Shepherd Center (Grant # 90DPHF0004) *** Created by Mauricio Fontana de Vargas (PhD), Howard Shane (PhD), and Christina Yu (CCC-SLP).
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The clearest difference is price: Instant Words at $0.99 against GoTalk About It!'s $49.99. Instant Words also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 50%) and device support (3 vs 1). GoTalk About It!'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 122 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Instant Words costs $0.99 and GoTalk About It! $49.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Instant Words against 4.0 for GoTalk About It!. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Instant Words's written reviews are positive against 50% of GoTalk About It!'s.
Instant Words ships an update every 122 months, GoTalk About It! every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Instant Words | GoTalk About It! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $49.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 122 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 814 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Red Five LLC | Attainment Company |
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Instant Words
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In-app purchases
Instant Words
No in-app purchases
GoTalk About It!
No in-app purchases
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