Proloquo vs SpeechTeach
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Proloquo
This communication app provides a user-friendly interface for individuals of all ages to develop language and communicate effectively. It offers features like quick word access, a search function, and a unique 'Thinking Space' for visualizing thoughts. The app grows with the user, offering extensive vocabulary and literacy support.
- Intuitive design for immediate use
- Quick access to most used words
- Search function for effortless word finding
- Focus Mode™ for targeted word emphasis
- Thinking Space™ for visualizing thoughts
- Extensive vocabulary and literacy support
- Proloquo Coach for expert guidance
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AssistiveWare Proloquo is an intuitive, easy-to-use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app. Based on years of research, it is the only AAC app designed to meet the needs of all ages without sacrificing ease of use or efficiency. Proloquo is more than just a communication tool; it’s a gateway to language development and effective communication. AN EASY START With a unique design and quick one-tap access to the most used words, you can start using AAC right away. Finding any word is effortless, with an easily accessible Search function. Need to focus on or teach specific words? Use Focus Mode™ and draw attention without restricting or deleting words. THINKING SPACE (only available on iPad) Understanding a beginning communicator can feel like an endless guessing game, leading to frustration on both sides. Proloquo’s unique Thinking Space™ feature allows you to visualize and explore thoughts and meaning even with the earliest communicators. Arrange Proloquo’s visuals in any order for more intuitive communication. Understand each other faster and easier with Proloquo’s Thinking Space. GROWS WITH YOU Proloquo offers an extensive vocabulary unmatched in size and efficiency. With a user-friendly interface and innovative features such as Related Words™, Proloquo ensures everyone, from toddlers to adults, can discover, learn, and love language. Proloquo also offers a full keyboard with word prediction to support literacy. GET EXPERT AAC GUIDANCE WITH PROLOQUO COACH We know learning AAC can be challenging - that’s why we paired Proloquo with Proloquo Coach. Free with a Proloquo subscription, it equips families and educators with the tools and knowledge needed to support children and students in learning to communicate using AAC. With fast in-app support and guided practice, you will always know what to do next. SHARE PROLOQUO WITH YOUR TEAM FOR FREE Share Proloquo at no additional cost. Involve teachers, Speech Pathologists, and grandparents - download the Proloquo app and sync across multiple devices for free. Try Proloquo free for one month! How payment works • After your trial ends, payment will be charged to your Apple Account. • Subscriptions renew automatically. Payment is charged 24 hours before the current subscription period ends. • Don’t want to renew? Cancel more than 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. • Want to cancel or change your subscription? Manage it in your account settings on the App Store. The standard Apple Terms of Use apply to this app: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
SpeechTeach
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Speech practise your child will love. SpeechTeach turns the word list your speech pathologist sends home into an explorable experience. The app says a word out loud. Your child says it back. The phone listens, cheers, and a star lands on the map. IT LISTENS FOR THE SOUND, NOT JUST THE WORD Most apps that "listen" are running ordinary word recognition, which will happily accept "thock" for "sock". It is built to find real words in messy audio, which is exactly the wrong instinct for articulation practice. SpeechTeach also runs a phoneme model, right on your device, that looks for the target sound in the right place in the word. Your child hears encouragement either way. You get the honest picture. HEAR THE IMPROVEMENT This is the part parents talk about. SpeechTeach keeps your child's very first attempt at each word, and puts it next to their most recent one, with two play buttons. You don't read a percentage and hope. You press play twice and hear the change yourself. SEND IT STRAIGHT TO YOUR THERAPIST One tap builds a report (accuracy by sound, sounds at the start of words versus the end, week over week) and bundles it with your child's actual recordings, ready to send. Your speech pathologist sees what home practice really sounded like, instead of what anyone remembers of it. BUILT FOR A CHILD WHO CAN'T READ YET Every instruction is spoken. The microphone opens by itself when the prompt ends, so there is no button a three-year-old has to work out. The words on screen are for the grown-up looking over their shoulder. Pictures, sounds and cheering do the rest. NO PRESSURE. NO GUILT. NO NAGGING. No notifications, ever. No streak to break. A word your child can't say yet stays waiting on the map and comes back another day: they move straight on, and nothing on screen ever says "wrong". The daily goal celebrates when you hit it and stays quiet when you don't, because some days are like that. EVERYTHING STAYS ON THE PHONE No accounts. No sign-up. No ads. No tracking. No analytics. Speech recognition, sound scoring and every recording happen on your device and stay there. Nothing is ever sent anywhere unless you tap share yourself. Our App Store privacy label says Data Not Collected, and it means it. MADE FOR GROWN-UP AND CHILD, TOGETHER Five minutes a day, side by side. SpeechTeach is a sit-together activity, not solo screen time: you hold the phone, your child says the words, and the app does the listening. FREE, WITH ONE IN-APP PURCHASE SpeechTeach is free to download. Pick the sound your child is working on: that whole world is free, forever. Every word in it, the animated mouth, the recordings and the honest numbers. When your speech pathologist adds the next sound, a single in-app purchase opens all 17 worlds and unlimited child profiles. One payment, it covers your whole family through Family Sharing, and it never renews. WHAT'S INSIDE ▶ Your child's own sound world free, in full ▶ 17 speech sounds, each its own explorable-map world ▶ 270+ picture words, ordered easy to hard ▶ Every sound practised at the start and the end of words ▶ Three levels: single words, short phrases, full sentences ▶ A parent dashboard behind a PIN, with honest numbers ▶ Recordings of your child's own attempts, then and now ▶ How to cue each sound, written for you to say out loud ▶ A one-tap report and recording bundle for your therapist WHO IT'S FOR Children roughly 1 to 7 who are working on their speech sounds, and the grown-ups practising with them. It fits alongside what your speech pathologist has already given you. MADE BY A DAD Romeo is four and works on his articulation. His dad built this because the ten minutes between the therapy session and the next one is where progress is won, and a printed word list is not fun for anybody. SpeechTeach supports the therapy your speech pathologist delivers. It does not diagnose, treat, or replace it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SpeechTeach at every 11 days against Proloquo's every 2 months. SpeechTeach also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). 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. Proloquo sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and SpeechTeach sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Proloquo ships an update every 2 months, SpeechTeach every 11 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Proloquo | SpeechTeach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (149 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 47.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 149 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 510 MB | 369 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AssistiveWare | Make it click Pty Ltd |
In-app purchases
Proloquo
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription1 Year trial$9.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription6 Months trial$9.991 Month
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- Yearly Subscription1 Month trial$99.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription1 Year trial$99.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription6 Months trial$99.991 Year
SpeechTeach
- Unlock all 17 sounds forever$19.99









