Splingo vs TAAS Pictures
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Splingo
Engaging educational games designed by speech and language therapists to help children develop essential communication skills. Features interactive gameplay, bright visuals, and motivating reward systems. Targets various language areas from early words to complex directions.
- Therapist-designed games
- Targets receptive language
- Early words development
- Following directions
- Interactive gameplay
- Reward games
- Language assessment tool
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Speech and Language apps for children Designed by Speech and Language Therapists/Pathologists, Splingo apps are fun and engaging educational games to help your child develop their speech and language skills. Specially designed by Speech and Language Therapists/Pathologists to target different areas of language development Fun and interactive gameplay with an emphasis on learning Bright, colorful images and animations In-built reward games to engage and motivate Recommended by Speech and Language Therapists/Pathologists Splingo games target all these areas of language development – Following Directions/Receptive Language Actions/verbs Pronouns Early Words development Past Tense Categories Adjectives / Describing Words Language Assessment Splingo also includes a professional’s Language Assessment tool designed to assess children’s receptive language skills. As Speech and Language Therapists / Pathologists with over 40 years experience between us we know what it takes to support children’s speech and language development! We’ve designed these Splingo games to be fun and educational by using bright, colorful images and animations. Splingo games can be customized to target specific language skill areas so you can be certain that your child is playing the right games at the right level. We’ve added high-quality, in-built reward games to motivate your child to keep on learning. The games also have an option to select between US voice and UK voice. Children love playing Splingo and parents and professionals tell us it’s an app that children ask for over and over again – they’re having fun whilst they’re learning! Used for over a decade by Speech and Language Therapists all over the world, Splingo is a go-to app for developing children’s language skills. **Frequently listed as a Top 10 Speech and Language App (Speech Sisters; District Speech; Therapy Tree; The Sped Guru; TechBooky**
TAAS Pictures
This educational app aids in assessing auditory skills for deaf education. It provides a variety of picture sets to evaluate identification of specific sounds and word types, aligning with a specialized curriculum.
- Picture selection for assessment
- Identification of Ling 6 Sounds
- Assessment of Spondees
- Monosyllable identification
- Rhyming word assessment
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This app is intended to be used in conjunction with the Moog Center for Deaf Education Teacher Assessment of Auditory Skills (TAAS) curriculum. It will allow for the selection of pictures for assessment of Identification skills. There are a variety of pictures to use for identifying the Ling 6 Sounds, Spondees, Monosyllables Differing in Vowels and Consonants, Monosyllables Differing in Vowels Only, Monosyllables Differing in Consonants Only, Rhyming Words with Varied Initial Consonants, and Rhyming Words with Minimal Contrasts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TAAS Pictures at none against Splingo's 8. TAAS Pictures also leads on ads (none vs shown). Splingo's advantage is rating (3.3 vs 3.0) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Splingo sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. TAAS Pictures asks for nothing beyond the download.
Splingo holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Splingo | TAAS Pictures |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (7 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 34.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 791 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Splingo Ltd | The Moog Center for Deaf Education |
Customer experience
Splingo
TAAS Pictures
In-app purchases
Splingo
- Splingos Language UniverseFree
- Actions With Splingo$0.99
- Categories With Splingo$0.99
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- Describing Words With Splingo$0.99
- Pronouns With Splingo$0.99
- Past Tense With Splingo$0.99
- Early Words With Splingo$0.99
- Language Assessment$9.99
TAAS Pictures
No in-app purchases
Questions
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