Comparison

Conversation Skills vs Pre

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

Head to head
About

Conversation Skills

This app helps children with autism practice essential conversation skills in a supportive, stress-free environment. It offers interactive scenarios, progress tracking, and a reward system to build confidence for real-life social interactions. Designed for children and adults with social learning needs.

Highlights
  • Practice identifying interests
  • Choose appropriate topics
  • Join and continue conversations
  • Over 140 practice situations
  • Progressive skill mastery
  • Reporting and reward center
  • Independent and therapist modes
Features
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** Happy Frog Apps is a Mom’s Choice Award Winner! Also featured on FunEducationalApps.com, TeachersWithApps.com, and more! ** The “Conversation Skills” app helps children with autism practice key steps in conversation: - Identifying a friend's interests, - Choosing an appropriate topic, - Figuring out what topic is already being talked about, - Joining a conversation, - Continuing a conversation with appropriate follow-up questions and comments. This app provides kids the chance to practice and get supportive feedback in a calm, stress-free environment where they can consider their options. Once kids build the skills of how to choose topics and continue conversations, they'll be able to bring these skills to real-life situations. The “Conversation Skills” app gives your learner the social conversation skills they need to better manage social situations at home, school and in the community. What parents say about our awesome apps: *** 5 stars! Brilliant! An app that understands how kids actually learn. Thank you. *** 5 stars! Your social skill apps are excellent! “Conversation Skills” provides: - More than 140 situations for a wide variety of practice. - Students progress to the next level only when mastery of the current skill is demonstrated. - 'At a glance' reporting shows you instantly how your learner is progressing. - The fun Reward Center motivates even hesitant learners. Most exciting, this app offers independent AND therapist mode. In independent mode, answers are displayed and the learner taps the correct answer. In therapist mode, no answers are displayed. For each question, the student answers orally and the therapist taps whether the learner's oral answer was correct or incorrect. Both modes earn coins for the Reward Center. Our apps are designed for and tested by typical and special needs children. Testers include children with Autism and other special needs. Our apps work for them! Our apps are also suitable for adults dealing with aphasia or learning English as a Second Language. To evaluate the app, download the lite version, which has 1 free level. Additional levels and additional players can be accessed with in-app purchases. If you prefer no in-app purchases, download the paid version of this app, which includes all levels and up to 10 players. We take customer service very seriously! If you ever have a problem or find that we've missed something, contact us at our website and we will do our best to fix the problem.  www.HappyFrogApps.com Our apps are safe for kids. We collect NO private information in our app. None! Our apps do not allow unrestricted web or social media access. We conform to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

About

Pre

Features
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Our Pre-coding Penguins App is available as a multi-platform resource, which means that you can enjoy this exciting software on your favourite device! Simply use your licence to activate the app on your iPad(s) and/or computer(s). These delightful penguins will help develop skills necessary for children to be effective coders. In a suite of games, the penguins can be matched to each other, sorted into sequences and guided through mazes. Each of these games develops specific thinking skills that will be of value when children begin to apply them to digital technology. These is also an interactive collection of fascinating facts to teach children more about the wonderful creatures that are penguins. Teacher options provide the facility to change modes, set the number of rounds and adjust the complexity. FEATURES * Match penguins like for like or to their opposite. * Complete penguin sequences of different length and complexity. * Guide a penguin through a maze step by step or by writing a complete sequence. * Use settings to manage the options available. * A Read Me file including ideas to develop pre-coding skills away from a screen. * No third-party advertising. * No in-app purchases. WHO IS YELLOW DOOR? We are a publisher offering a range of inspiring and innovative resources. From multisensory games to interactive software, we combine hands-on learning with open-ended technology to promote communication and language, collaborative play and creativity across the curriculum. Our aim is to produce resources that are appealing to small hands and curious minds, and that will help build an engaging, playful learning environment for all young children. CUT for US OTHER APPS FROM YELLOW DOOR Pre-Writing App Letter Recognition App Letter Formation App I-Spy Initial Sounds App Initial Sounds Bubble App Find the Rhyme App I’ve Got a Feeling App Number Formation App Come Alive Traditional Tales (6 individual apps) Come Alive Nursery Rhymes Come Alive Sound and Letters Come Alive Listening. REVIEW THE APP We would love to know what you think of our new app, so please leave a review!

Screenshots

Conversation Skills4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pre at none against Conversation Skills's 3. Pre also leads on update cadence (every 41 months vs every 86 months). Conversation Skills's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Conversation Skills sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Pre asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Conversation Skills ships an update every 86 months, Pre every 41 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Conversation Skills versus Pre: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterConversation SkillsPre
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 86 monthsEvery 41 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS12.211.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJanine TooleYellow Door Ltd

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Conversation Skills

One-time3
  • 2 Users$1.99
  • 10 Users$4.99
  • Access All Levels$5.99
None

Pre

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Conversation Skills free?
Conversation Skills is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pre free?
Pre is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Conversation Skills or Pre have ads?
Neither Conversation Skills nor Pre shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Conversation Skills or Pre?
Conversation Skills ships an update every 86 months, and Pre every 41 months. Most recently, Conversation Skills was updated on October 6, 2026 and Pre on September 29, 2026.

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