Functional Listening vs Talk Again
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Functional Listening
This app offers structured activities to improve auditory comprehension and real-life listening skills for children and adults. It features varied scenarios, visual aids, and progress tracking, making it suitable for therapy, education, or home practice.
- Functional listening tasks
- Real-life scenarios
- Visual supports
- Adjustable difficulty
- Progress tracking
- Therapy, classroom, and home use
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Functional Listening helps children and adults strengthen their real-life listening and auditory comprehension skills. Through structured, engaging activities, users practice listening in a variety of everyday contexts such as conversations, questions, directions, and environmental sounds. Ideal for speech-language pathologists, educators, and parents, the app provides leveled listening tasks, clear audio prompts, visual supports, and built-in progress tracking. Functional Listening is designed to support individuals with auditory processing challenges, language delays, hearing impairments, autism, or anyone who needs to improve real-life listening performance. Features include: • Functional listening tasks across multiple levels • Real-life scenarios and auditory prompts • Visual supports to help comprehension • Adjustable difficulty levels • Progress tracking and reporting • Designed for therapy, classroom use, and home practice • User-friendly interface for all ages This app helps users build practical listening skills that transfer to everyday communication, improving participation and confidence in real-world situations.
Talk Again
This app assists individuals with aphasia, dementia, or post-stroke recovery in finding and vocalizing basic words. It features a large library of categorized images and videos with spoken labels, and allows for user customization of items.
- Picture and video library
- Spoken word labels
- Customizable item categories
- User-friendly interface
- Support for aphasia and dementia
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-Talk Again is an easy to use companion for people experiencing Aphasia, dementia or surviving a stroke - helping them find and voice basic words -Talk Again contains hundreds of pictures and video clips with a legend and voice titles, divided into simple item categories - Item categories include: feelings, people, food, objects & more -Talk Again enables the addition and customization of items such as relatives to fit the world of the specific user. -Talk Again is designed for ease-of-use and beautiful pictures.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Talk Again at $4.99 against Functional Listening's $14.99. Talk Again also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.3) and review sentiment (89% vs 50%). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Functional Listening costs $14.99 and Talk Again $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Talk Again holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Functional Listening's written reviews are positive against 89% of Talk Again's.
Functional Listening ships an update every 46 months, Talk Again weekly. Both last shipped on October 8, 2026.
| Parameter | Functional Listening | Talk Again |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (3 ratings) | 4.4 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 46 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Virtual Speech Center Inc. | Yael Dollberg |
Customer experience
Functional Listening
Talk Again
In-app purchases
Functional Listening
No in-app purchases
Talk Again
No in-app purchases
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