MyTalkTools Mobile vs Keyguard Designer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyTalkTools Mobile
This communication app empowers individuals with speech impairments to express themselves using customizable images, video, and audio. It offers a comprehensive solution for users, caregivers, and educators, with features for quick setup, data backup, and community sharing.
- Customizable communication boards
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Community sharing of content
- Offline accessibility
- Switch and scanning support
- Data backup and restore
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MyTalkTools is an award-winning app that enables over 100,000+ people with communication difficulties to express their needs and desires to those around them. A good solution for people with down syndrome, cerebral palsy, hearing or visual impairments, autism or other diagnoses that impair communication ability. It supports users, teachers, therapists, caregivers and parents with many innovative features. Complete Solution MyTalk Mobile is a complete stand-alone solution. No other software is required. But, we include a 30 day trial of MyTalk Workspace. Together, they represent a major breakthrough in augmentative alternative communications (AAC) by making it easy to customize how you communicate through a variety of images, video and audio files including human voice. The only solution that simultaneously supports browser, Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and iTouch. Quick Start In 5 minutes, you can download standard content, and customize it for your needs, to communicate in a way that YOU choose. MyTalk offers ease of use and time-savings in a portable, effective, and cool communication tool. Take the iTunes University Course, to see how simple it is. https://itunesu.itunes.apple.com/enroll/ERF-ASN-WAB Keep your work safe Don’t worry about losing your device. All information is backed up on MyTalk Workspace. Every version you create is kept. Don’t worry about experimenting. You can always back up to almost any point in time with undo/redo or restore. Community Sharing & Resources Create and participate in family and professional communities by creating and sharing libraries of boards, cells, or other media with others. Get pre-programmed boards from our public submissions library. Share PDFs, or on-line working previews with parents, family members, or teachers through email or texts. Access to 20,000+ Symbolstix images. Accessibility Many scanning features to customize to the user’s specific needs. Works directly with many popular switches and can be programmed to support most BT switches. Additional features for visual impairment and other physical limitations including auditory scanning and fine motor adjustments. Print hard copy for use without access to a device. Works without internet access. Language Generation Keep core words in standard locations through our repeat function. Grammar support with word variants. Use Fitzgerald or Goosen encoding to categorize words. Use phrase bar to generate complete phrases. Use popup lists to customize variant selections or select simple choices. Popup keyboards for users to add custom words and phrases. Popup Recents, Most-Used or Predicted word lists for quick access to relevant choices. Text-To-Speech A free text-to-speech voice is included. 100 additional voices available as in-app purchase for most languages including English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Hebrew and others. Bi-lingual support – 2 TTS languages can be used simultaneously. Media 20,000+ Symbolstix images. Photographs, videos and recorded audio are supported. Use videos to enable modeling. Download photos and images from your device, the web, or community libraries. Innovative Author Features Variable cell sizes, drag-and-drop arrangement, copy or link pages, user logging with geo-context to provide continuous refinement. Search MyTalkTools content using apple global search. Integrate with apps – like Pandora, FaceTime or others. Integrate pages with automatic reminders or geo-location reminders (Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life). Multiple authors can support a single page using our patented sync technology to merge all changes. Many, many user interface customization options. MyTalk LLC is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families. Recommended Ages: all Categories: Early Learning, Special Needs, Parents
Keyguard Designer
Design custom keyguards for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) apps on iPad. Quickly create and preview personalized layouts with various attachment options. Supports popular AAC applications and allows saving or emailing professional design drawings.
- Custom keyguard design
- App-specific settings
- Button layout customization
- Drag and drop attachment features
- Preview final layout
- Save or email design drawings
- Supports popular AAC apps
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Keyguard Designer by LoganTech is a quick and easy way to make your own keyguard design for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) apps on any iPad. You can create and customize your own keyguard design in minutes, and preview tweaks to any features you want as you go. Experiment with several essential keyguard features, including app-specific settings, button layouts, as well as drag and drop attachment features for securing the keyguard with suction cups or elastic straps. Keyguard Designer supports the most popular AAC communication apps, including ProLoQuo2Go, TouchChat, GoTalk Now, and LAMP Words for Life. When you complete your ideal keygaurd design, you can preview the final layout and then save or email a professional design drawing. Terms of Use (EULA) - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MyTalkTools Mobile at 5.0 against Keyguard Designer's 2.7. MyTalkTools Mobile also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. MyTalkTools Mobile sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Keyguard Designer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MyTalkTools Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.
MyTalkTools Mobile ships an update every 6 weeks, Keyguard Designer every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MyTalkTools Mobile | Keyguard Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 2.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 154 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kenneth Stott | ProxTalker.com LLC |
Customer experience
MyTalkTools Mobile
Keyguard Designer
In-app purchases
MyTalkTools Mobile
- Acapela English Language Voices$39.99
- Acapela Spanish Language Voices$39.99
- Acapela Turkish Language Voice$39.99
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- Acapela Catalan Language Voice$39.99
- Acapela Japanese Voices$39.99
- Acapela Chinese$39.99
- Acepela Czech Voices$39.99
- Acapela Scanian Voices$39.99
- Workspace Family Lifetime$74.99
- Workspace Professional Lifetime$119.99
Keyguard Designer
- Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- One-Time Purchase$149.99
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