Comparison

LanguageScreen vs Scene & Heard Pro

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

Head to head
About

LanguageScreen

This app helps education professionals quickly and accurately assess young children's oral language skills. It guides examiners through activities using pictures and sounds, recording responses or scores. Assessment data is uploaded for detailed individual and class reports.

Highlights
  • Oral language skills assessment
  • Picture and sound-based activities
  • Response recording
  • Examiner scoring
  • Individual and class reports
  • Free school trial registration
Features
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LanguageScreen enables education professionals to assess young children’s oral language skills accurately and quickly. LanguageScreen is the product of extensive research by a team at the University of Oxford. LanguageScreen assesses four components of oral language skills by guiding the examiner through a series of activities. In these activities the child is presented with pictures and sound clips and is asked to perform simple tasks. Depending on the activity, the app either directly records the child’s responses, or the examiner’s scoring of their responses. Assessment data is uploaded to oxedandassessment.com which generates individual and class assessment reports. In order to use LanguageScreen a school must register for a free trial on oxedandassessment.com.

About

Scene & Heard Pro

This app allows users to create dynamic visual scene displays and video scenes for communication support. It offers customizable hotspots for audio, video, and scene linking, along with features for literacy development and visual timetables. The app supports multiple languages and head tracking access.

Highlights
  • Create visual scene displays
  • Prepare video visual scene displays
  • Add audio and video hotspots
  • Link to other scenes
  • Transition To Literacy features
  • Visual timetables
  • Head tracking access
Features
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Scene & Heard Pro is a visual scene display AAC app! Create visual scenes and video visual scenes quicker than before with either voice recordings or synthesised speech. Add hotspots that play audio, and videos, link to other scenes or activate Transition To Literacy features. To gain access to all of our amazing features, choose from our affordable monthly and yearly auto-renewing subscription plans. Features: * Make visual scene displays on the go with your clients and students * Prepare video visual scene displays to support communication and independence * Create hotspots anywhere on the photo * Add audio recordings or use text-to-speech * Include videos on hotspots * Link to scenes * Transition To Literacy for both sight words and decodable words * Set up visual timetables * Make grid based AAC pages using symbols and photos * Organise communication books by topics * Export and import scenes *Head Tracking access method available! No calibration or additional hardware required. *Available in 10 languages, which you can switch to after downloading the app: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

LanguageScreen4 screens
Scene & Heard Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LanguageScreen at none against Scene & Heard Pro's 2. On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. Scene & Heard Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. LanguageScreen asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LanguageScreen ships an update monthly, Scene & Heard Pro every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and August 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LanguageScreen versus Scene & Heard Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLanguageScreenScene & Heard Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB323 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOxEd and Assessment LtdPrentke Romich Company

Customer experience

LanguageScreen

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Scene & Heard Pro

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

LanguageScreen

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Scene & Heard Pro

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$8.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription1 Month trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is LanguageScreen free?
LanguageScreen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scene & Heard Pro free?
Scene & Heard Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LanguageScreen or Scene & Heard Pro have ads?
Neither LanguageScreen nor Scene & Heard Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LanguageScreen or Scene & Heard Pro?
LanguageScreen ships an update monthly, and Scene & Heard Pro every 6 weeks. Most recently, LanguageScreen was updated on June 5, 2026 and Scene & Heard Pro on August 25, 2026.

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