Comparison

Conversation Skills vs PBIS

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

PBIS

Features
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The Model Me Kids® PBIS app is a great visual teaching tool for demonstrating appropriate behaviors in various locations at school: classroom, cafeteria, hall, restroom, and playground. Each location features a photo slideshow showing children modeling behavior at school. The app integrates visual supports, narration, and music to reinforce essential behavioral skills in an educational environment. Ideal for teachers, therapists, and parents, the app provides a clear framework for setting expectations at school. Accessible for all tiers, including those with Autism and special needs. Locations: Classroom Cafeteria Hall Restroom Playground Easy to Use: Touch the forward and back buttons to move through the photos one by one. Press the slideshow button to advance photos automatically. The home button brings you back to the navigation menu where you may choose your next location. About: The app is based on the Model Me Kids® PBIS Curriculum, part of the All Access video modeling streaming platform for teaching social skills. Features: The app includes audio narration (English) and descriptive text of each photo. The app also includes a song about each location. To learn more, visit www.modelmekids.com.

Screenshots

Conversation Skills4 screens
PBIS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PBIS at none against Conversation Skills's 3. Conversation Skills's advantage is iOS requirement (12.2 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. PBIS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Conversation Skills against 5.0 for PBIS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Conversation Skills versus PBIS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterConversation SkillsPBIS
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 86 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.2 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJanine TooleModel Me Kids, LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Conversation Skills

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

PBIS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Conversation Skills free?
Conversation Skills is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PBIS free?
PBIS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Conversation Skills or PBIS?
Conversation Skills and PBIS are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Conversation Skills or PBIS have ads?
Neither Conversation Skills nor PBIS shows ads.

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