Comparison

Avaz FreeSpeech vs Jellow Plus AAC

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Avaz FreeSpeech

This app helps individuals with language impairments practice and develop English grammar skills. Users rearrange picture tiles to form grammatically correct sentences, visually exploring sentence structure and word properties. It's designed for learners of all levels, including those with special needs or learning English as a second language.

Highlights
  • Build sentences with picture tiles
  • Visual grammar exploration
  • Supports tenses and sentence forms
  • Customizable prediction levels
  • Over 2,000 Symbolstix symbols
  • Errorless modeling for grammar
Features
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FreeSpeech helps anyone with a language impairment practice and develop grammar skills! Drag and rearrange picture tiles, and FreeSpeech will convert them into a perfectly grammatical English sentence. Explore how tenses, sentence forms, parts of speech, and other grammatical properties change the structure of English -- and it's all visual! FreeSpeech is the perfect app for anyone who is learning the English language - whether you are - A person with special needs, such as autism, dyslexia and hearing impairments - An ELL student, trying to make sense of English grammar - Someone who loves languages and likes to explore them! Developed by an interdisciplinary team including SLPs, educators, and researchers with over 100 years of collective experience, FreeSpeech is the most advanced language learning technology currently on the App Store. The technology behind FreeSpeech was the subject of a TED talk by its creator Ajit Narayanan which has been viewed more than one million times. The development of FreeSpeech, combining engineering with generative linguistics, earned the team recognition as one of the world's Top 35 Innovators from MIT Technology Review. AS SEEN ON TED BY 1M+ VIEWERS: http://go.ted.com/CW6u "A powerful new app designed to help children of all learning levels and language abilities develop grammatically correct sentences... A welcome addition for anyone with young writers that struggle with arranging sentences or who have a language impairment that makes it frustrating to communicate." - SmartAppsForKids FreeSpeech is unique because it's the only app in the world that predicts grammar. You can throw a bunch of picture tiles at it, and the app will automatically figure out a grammatically correct sentence from them. - It's possible to manipulate words, tenses and structure as if you were manipulating building blocks. - The app lets teachers and learners model/recast/contrast various grammar rules pictorially, all the while speaking out correct English. - A teacher or therapist can configure how much prediction FreeSpeech does, and fade away its capabilities as a student develops confidence. FreeSpeech is based on solid research, and builds language by: - EXPANDING: Prompting users with questions to expand their sentences; - SCAFFOLDING: Intelligently predicting words that they are likely to use; - CONTRASTING: Visually modeling tense and sentence modifiers; - RECASTING: Automatically inserting prepositions and articles as needed; and - ERRORLESS MODELING: Automatically predicting grammar, to assemble a map of pictures into a grammatically correct English sentence. Scientific trials validating the efficacy of FreeSpeech have been presented at leading conferences in linguistics and special education. FreeSpeech features more than 2,000 symbols from Symbolstix, and is ideally suited to use alongside other AAC, articulation and education apps that use these lovely symbols. Additionally, you can customize the vocabulary with 20,000+ Symbolstix symbols. Download FreeSpeech & learn English language skills today! Please email us at support@freespeechapp.com with any comments, questions or suggestions about FreeSpeech. *Pricing plan - Auto Renewable Subscription* 1 month auto renewing - 9.99 USD 6 months auto renewing - 59.99 USD 1 year auto renewing - 99.99 USD Link to privacy policy - www.avazapp.com/privacy Link to Terms of use - www.avazapp.com/terms-of-use/ -Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase -Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period -Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period -You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings after purchase -Any unused portion of the free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription Symbols used in this app are © 2016 SymbolStix LLC.

About

Jellow Plus AAC

This communication aid uses a vast library of icons and images to help adults with speech and language difficulties construct phrases and sentences. It supports users with conditions like Autism, Cerebral Palsy, and Down's syndrome, enabling them to express themselves and gradually learn to speak.

Highlights
  • Icon-based phrase and sentence construction
  • Extensive library of ~5000 icons
  • Categorized icons for easy sentence building
  • Keyboard feature for custom sentence generation
  • Text-to-speech with multiple accents and voices
  • Supports users with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down's syndrome
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Jellow Plus Communicator is a friendly Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) system that uses icons/images to enable aid communication in adults learning to speak or with difficulty with speech and language. Jellow Plus helps non-verbal adults to communicate by constructing their own phrases/sentences and gradually learn to speak - especially those with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, and Down’s syndrome. Jellow Plus is also an extension of Jellow Basic. It has all the icons and much more in this version. The expressive buttons, which were part of the Emotional Language Protocol (ELP) driving Jellow Basic, are available in Jellow Plus. These features make it easy for children using Jellow Basic to graduate to Jellow Plus as they grow up, making it possible to communicate better. Jellow Plus is designed especially for adults and can be used to form words, phrases and sentences frequently used in their daily lives. Jellow’s library of icons can help adults communicate using pictures along with their corresponding word labels. Jellow Plus has a library of around 5000(?) icons designed specially with feedback from users. These are organized in different categories based on parts of the speech to make it convenient to form a sentence. Some of these categories are verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, expressions, etc. In addition, using the 'keyboard' feature, the user can also generate new sentences and use the app to speak them out aloud. The current version of the app allows the user to choose English language with multiple accents Indian, American, British, Australia, Nigeria along with a choice of voices. Other languages are being introduced. Jellow Plus is developed with support from the IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay, UNICEF, the Ministry and Hospitals. It is designed iteratively with regular feedback from users namely children, parents, therapists, teachers and care givers. Jellow Plus is a premium application which requires subscription to use the application. If you have any suggestions for improvement, please submit your feedback/comments via email at jellowcommunicator@gmail.com For further information on Jellow Plus and FAQs, please visit www.jellow.org https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Avaz FreeSpeech4 screens
Jellow Plus AAC3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Avaz FreeSpeech at 3.5 against Jellow Plus AAC's 2.3. Avaz FreeSpeech also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and review sentiment (64% vs 33%). Jellow Plus AAC's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Avaz FreeSpeech sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Jellow Plus AAC sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Avaz FreeSpeech holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Avaz FreeSpeech's written reviews are positive against 33% of Jellow Plus AAC's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Avaz FreeSpeech versus Jellow Plus AAC: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAvaz FreeSpeechJellow Plus AAC
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (12 ratings) — better2.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews64.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — better—
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size452 MB39 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPrathiba SwaminathanRavi Poovaiah

Customer experience

Avaz FreeSpeech

All ratings12 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive64.0%
Neutral16.0%
Negative20.0%

Jellow Plus AAC

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Avaz FreeSpeech

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Access: Pics & Voices$4.991 Month
  • Premium Access: Pics & Voices$39.991 Year
  • Premium Access: Pics & Voices$59.996 Months
2 purchases

Jellow Plus AAC

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Annual$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Avaz FreeSpeech free?
Avaz FreeSpeech is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Jellow Plus AAC free?
Jellow Plus AAC is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Avaz FreeSpeech or Jellow Plus AAC?
Avaz FreeSpeech is rated higher. Avaz FreeSpeech averages 3.5 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Jellow Plus AAC averages 2.3 from 3 ratings.

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