Sounds Essentials vs Hearoes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sounds Essentials
This app helps children develop sound recognition and listening skills through engaging activities. It's designed for early learners to improve auditory discrimination and memory, making learning fun and interactive.
- Sound recognition activities
- Auditory discrimination training
- Auditory memory building
- Matching objects and sounds
- Categorized sound games
- Multiple user support
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Sounds Essentials is a speech therapy app designed and developed to increase sound recognition and listening skills in children. The app has 4 engaging and beautiful activities, each of which is used to develop Auditory Discrimination skills in children. Sounds essentials is a perfect blend of education with entertainment. This edutainment application can be used by SLPs and speech therapies during therapy sessions to enable children build auditory memory and recognition skills. The fun and engaging interface of the app makes it enjoyable for toddlers all the way from preschoolers to kindergarten. The App features exciting activities for children to explore thousands of objects by swiping left or right and listen to their sounds. Sounds Essentials enables young learners to differentiate between sounds of different objects. This function which is commonly known as “Auditory Discrimination” helps in building sound or “Auditory Memory” among students. The app has separate activities for both the functions enabling better sound recognition and listening skills. Children having problems in sequencing the sounds they hear during speech therapy sessions such as articulation & writing can benefit from the content based on Auditory Sequencing within the app. This app is designed in collaboration with speech therapists, parents and teachers who are looking to expand children’s listening & sound discrimination skills. This app is intended for children of ages 2-8 years old. With different Sound games children improve their skills by matching objects and their associated sounds. WHY PARENTS AND TEACHERS LOVE THIS APP • The app is fun, super easy to use for kids of all ages and all abilities • Explore different sounds through flash cards containing real life images of everyday items and learn their sounds and appearance • Different Sound games improve skills by matching objects and their associated sounds. • You can turn individual features in different activities, ON or OFF and introduce features differently. • Sounds are grouped into 6 selectable categories Animals, Machines, Nature, Actions, Transport and Instruments. • Wrong answers do not interfere with gameplay. The app has 4 engaging and beautiful activities: * Know the Sound * Match the Sound * Find the Sound * Sound Hunt Other features * Timer * Multiple Users * Leader board Please share your suggestions & feedback on feedback@soundsessentials.com Google+ : https://plus.google.com/u/0/107302410009075383713 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/articulationessentials Twitter: https://twitter.com/articulationess OR via Reviews Below
Hearoes
This app offers interactive auditory training for individuals with cochlear implants, hearing aids, or hearing loss. It helps users familiarize themselves with environmental sounds and vocabulary through gamified activities and proven assessments, making rehabilitation more engaging.
- Interactive auditory training
- Environmental sound familiarization
- Vocabulary learning (Ling's Sounds, vowels, consonants)
- Gamified activities
- Proven rehabilitation assessments
- Dynamic learning modules
- Progress tracking
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Empower your hearing today! Hearoes is an interactive auditory training platform for those with Cochlear Implants, Hearing aids and hearing loss to help familiarise different environmental sounds, and vocabulary (such as Ling's Sounds, Vowels and Consonants) to improve auditory feedback with a clear understanding of how progress is being made. We've collaborated with different audiologist and speech pathologist at hospitals to help bring engaging interactive auditory training different stages of their hearing journey to help hear new sounds and confidence today. It combines proven assessments used in rehabilitation sessions and on-going training with gamified activities and interactions to create an aesthetically engaging and user-centric experience for recipients. Hearoes helps this critical stage of on-going training become less of a chore for those with hearing aids, cochlear implants, and hearing loss. It features dynamic pathways covering 5 key proven modules and 30+ fun activities focused on learning a specific part in the hearing journey of new sounds. Some of the key modules featured in Hearoes are: - Environmental Sounds: Combination of daily sounds, such as in the kitchen, rural and farm, and music. Immerse yourself in different environments and hear the sounds around the theme. - Introduction to Words: Featuring Ling's Sounds, High/Low Pitches and a wide range of different Syllables - Singleton Vowels: Featuring a range of activities and difficulties around vowel sounds. - Common Consonant Confusions: Helping to be familiar with common consonant sounds in initial, final and mix position. - Understanding Sentences: Progressive narratives in common day scenes. Ranging from video clips (for visual cues like lip-reading) to audio with background noise to help learn in a comfortable notion. We also have a feedback option built-in and would love to hear your thoughts, so we can continue to build a great product to help those with hearing loss feel comfortable in different environments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hearoes at 4.2 against Sounds Essentials's 1.0. Hearoes also leads on ratings volume (86 vs 1). Sounds Essentials's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 11 days). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Sounds Essentials sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Hearoes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Hearoes holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hearoes has 86 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Sounds Essentials ships an update every 2 days, Hearoes every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sounds Essentials | Hearoes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.2 (86 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 73.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 86 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 347 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nabeel Ahmed Khan | Games 4 Hearoes |
Customer experience
Sounds Essentials
Hearoes
Bugs and requests
Sounds Essentials
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Hearoes
Reported bugs
12 issues- App not letting user exit, requires phone shut down
- Audio is a wall of static
- Audio to one ear function does not work
- Errors in levels 3 & 4 missing background noise
- Environmental sounds in review mode do not play
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- In-app Feedback form is broken (cannot add lines, submit button unresponsive)
- App is stuck on the first loading screen
- Story stoppers won't load
- App doesn't save old data
- App requires frequent login
- No sounds are playing in the app
- Feedback form crashes when text is too long
Requested features
6 requests- Option to replay sounds when unsure
- Add section for identifying emotion in speech
- More flexibility in pricing, e.g., monthly payments
- Make scoring configurable (by week/day)
- Add email option for feedback
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- Improve text box for feedback
In-app purchases
Sounds Essentials
- Sounds Essentials Full Access$1.99
Hearoes
- Hearoes 1 Month Subscription$9.991 Month
- Hearoes 6 Months Subscription$52.996 Months
- Hearoes 12 Months Subscription$99.991 Year
Questions
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