Comparison

Sorting by Teach Speech Apps vs Articulation Test Center Hive

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

Head to head
About

Sorting by Teach Speech Apps

This educational app helps develop sorting and classifying skills through interactive activities. It covers concepts like shapes, colors, feelings, and coins, enhancing vocabulary and hand-eye coordination. Designed for learning alongside an adult, it offers multi-sensory feedback and aligns with educational standards.

Highlights
  • Sorting and classifying skills
  • Vocabulary enrichment
  • Hand-eye coordination
  • Visual perception development
  • Multi-sensory learning
  • Aligned with Common Core Standards
Features
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**Shapes, colors, feelings, transportation, hot/cold, and coins** No ads No in-app purchases Sorting by Teach Speech Apps is designed to develop skills of sorting and classifying as well as benefits of hand-eye coordination, concentration, visual perception, and vocabulary by working with concepts: - shapes - colors - feelings - transportation - hot/cold - coins Teach Speech Apps encourages learning side-by-side with an engaged adult. Benefits: - Develops sorting and classifying skills - Enriches vocabulary - Professional photos for individuals of all ages and learning levels - Multi-sensory learning - combining seeing and hearing feedback - Reinforcement sounds - Aligned with the Common Core Standards - No ads - No in-app purchases

About

Articulation Test Center Hive

This app provides a comprehensive tool for assessing speech sound disorders in children and adults. It offers flexible testing options, intelligent scoring, interactive scenes for speech sampling, and auto-generated reports to save time for speech-language pathologists.

Highlights
  • Flexible testing options (Screener, Full Test)
  • Intelligent scoring with auto-marked phonological processes
  • Interactive speech scenes for connected speech samples
  • Comprehensive test results and progress graphs
  • Auto-generated, editable reports
  • Speech sample audio recording and playback
Features
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Articulation Test Center Hive (ATC Hive) is a criterion-referenced, articulation and phonology test, created by SLPs for SLPs to assess speech sound disorders in children and adults. It is a smart testing solution that offers flexible testing options, interactive speech scenes, comprehensive test results, and auto-generated, data-driven reports that will save you time! ARTICULATION TEST CENTER HIVE OFFERS: FLEXIBLE TESTING OPTIONS: Screener: Assesses the sounds and words that are developmentally appropriate based on age. Full Test: Assesses all the speech sounds in the English language including initial sounds, medial sounds, final sounds, blends, vowels, and R sounds or any combination of these sound sets. INTELLIGENT SCORING: - Quickly mark sounds incorrect or approximate - Easily mark substitutions and omissions - Enjoy 19 auto-marked phonological processes & distortions - Rate intelligibility INTERACTIVE SPEECH SCENES: Speech Sample: Offers two beautifully illustrated and interactive speech scenes for children to explore with question prompts to keep them talking. It is a fun and easy way to record and save a connected speech sample for assessing a student’s speech and language skills, and it provides a more accurate way to measure intelligibility. COMPREHENSIVE TEST RESULTS: Scores Overview: Displays progress graphs for Percent Phonemes Correct and Intelligibility, and a list of tests given. Words Tested: Displays all the words tested, how they were scored, and phonological processes & distortions marked. You can listen to recordings made and view notes. If edits are needed you can return to the test to make changes. Sound Errors: Displays the sound errors by sound position and age of acquisition. You can also mark sound errors for stimulability. Place/Manner: Displays sound errors based on the place of articulation and on the manner of articulation. It also displays vowel errors by position and quadrant. Substitutions: Displays all the substitutions made and omissions marked. Processes/Distortions: Displays all the phonological processes and distortions marked in the test. It does this with a visual graph as well as a list of processes marked. Speech Sample: The audio recording taken from the speech sample is saved and available for playback. The intelligibility can be updated and a transcription can be entered or viewed. Recommendation: Shows a quick summary of sounds and phonological processes recommended for practice and sounds processes that should be monitored for appropriate development. AUTO-GENERATED REPORTS: The Report tab presents a full written report summarizing the test results. The report can be edited and/or shared with parents, teachers, and others involved in the intervention process. Once you immerse yourself in ATC Hive’s many testing and reporting features you will come to know we invested an enormous amount of our resources and our best thinking in both the testing experience, and in the test administrator–YOU! We’re proud to offer ATC Hive as part of the Little Bee Hive membership which includes access to both Articulation Test Center Hive and Articulation Station Hive. If you are already subscribed to Articulation Station Hive (Pro tier) you may download and login to Articulation Test Center Hive with your same login information at no additional cost. SUBSCRIPTION, PRICING & TERMS: Articulation Test Center Hive offers a 14-day free trial which includes unlimited access to both Articulation Test Center Hive and Articulation Station Hive. The subscription automatically renews unless the auto-renew feature is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your Apple account at the end of your 14-day trial period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off at any time.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Articulation Test Center Hive at Free against Sorting by Teach Speech Apps's $2.99. Articulation Test Center Hive also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 80 months) and ratings volume (159 vs 1). Sorting by Teach Speech Apps's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 64%) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Articulation Test Center Hive is free to download; Sorting by Teach Speech Apps costs $2.99 up front. Articulation Test Center Hive sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Sorting by Teach Speech Apps asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sorting by Teach Speech Apps holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Articulation Test Center Hive has 159 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Sorting by Teach Speech Apps's written reviews are positive against 64% of Articulation Test Center Hive's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sorting by Teach Speech Apps ships an update every 80 months, Articulation Test Center Hive monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Sorting by Teach Speech Apps versus Articulation Test Center Hive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSorting by Teach Speech AppsArticulation Test Center Hive
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (159 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better64.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1159 — better
Update frequencyEvery 80 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB162 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRed Five LLCLittle Bee Speech

Customer experience

Sorting by Teach Speech Apps

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Articulation Test Center Hive

All ratings136 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral1.5%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive64.3%
Neutral14.3%
Negative21.4%

In-app purchases

None

Sorting by Teach Speech Apps

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Articulation Test Center Hive

Subscriptions2
  • Hive Pro (Monthly)14 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Hive Pro (Yearly)14 Days trial$119.991 Year

Questions

Is Sorting by Teach Speech Apps free?
Sorting by Teach Speech Apps costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Articulation Test Center Hive free?
Articulation Test Center Hive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sorting by Teach Speech Apps or Articulation Test Center Hive?
Sorting by Teach Speech Apps is rated higher. Sorting by Teach Speech Apps averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Articulation Test Center Hive averages 4.8 from 159 ratings.
Do Sorting by Teach Speech Apps or Articulation Test Center Hive have ads?
Neither Sorting by Teach Speech Apps nor Articulation Test Center Hive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sorting by Teach Speech Apps or Articulation Test Center Hive?
Sorting by Teach Speech Apps ships an update every 80 months, and Articulation Test Center Hive monthly. Most recently, Sorting by Teach Speech Apps was updated on October 2, 2026 and Articulation Test Center Hive on October 29, 2026.

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