SmallTalk Oral Motor Exercises vs Cuespeak
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmallTalk Oral Motor Exercises
This app provides a series of video exercises targeting lip, tongue, cheek, jaw, and soft palate movements. It's designed to assist individuals recovering from stroke or brain injury who experience speech impairments like aphasia, apraxia, or dysarthria.
- Lip exercises
- Tongue exercises
- Cheek exercises
- Jaw exercises
- Soft palate exercises
- Customizable video order
- Repeat exercises
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SmallTalk Oral Motor Exercises is a speech exercise video app. It is designed to help anyone who has suffered a stroke or a traumatic brain injury and presents with aphasia, apraxia, and/or dysarthria. It can also be used by individuals who present similar language impairments. The series of individual speech-exercise videos is broken up into lip exercises, tongue exercises, cheek exercises, jaw exercises, and soft palate exercises. You can easily rearrange the order of the videos or remove others to make it simpler to focus on key phonemes. Repeat each exercise as often as you would like. Then, reset the app to return to original settings. WHO IS THIS APP FOR? + Stroke Survivors + People with Aphasia + Caregivers of People with Aphasia + Speech-Language Pathologists + Speech-Language Pathology Students Learn more about Lingraphica at www.aphasia.com
Cuespeak
This app provides speech and language rehabilitation exercises for individuals with difficulties following stroke or brain injury. It offers a wide range of customizable activities for speaking, understanding, reading, and writing, designed for home or clinic use.
- Expert-developed exercises
- Personalized therapy sessions
- Engaging and interactive activities
- Weekly new content updates
- Session sharing via email
- Mobile accessibility
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Supercharge your speech therapy with Cuespeak, the NHS-recommended rehabilitation tool for people with speech, language, and cognitive difficulties after stroke or brain injury. Designed for use in both home and clinic, Cuespeak offers a huge range of exercises to work on aphasia and apraxia of speech, addressing speaking, understanding, reading and writing. Key Features: - Expert-Developed Content: Access hundreds of exercises developed by specialist speech and language therapists - Personalise it: Customise your therapy sessions and add personalised content such as names of family and friends - Engaging and Fun: Cuespeak’s interactive exercises are relevant to real life to keep you motivated - Up to date: New content added every week, including the latest items from the news - Share sessions via email: Allows you to get help from someone in another location - Accessible on the move: Use Cuespeak on your iPhone or iPad, so you can practise anytime, anywhere, making therapy convenient and flexible Who is it for? - People with speech and language difficulties seeking a home therapy tool - Caregivers and family members supporting a loved one’s recovery following stroke or brain injury What users have said: - “I just wanted to thank you for your marvellous programme. My husband has severe aphasia but has not lost his intelligence. Your programme stimulates his interest – there is no dumbing down. Keep up the good work. We love the humour in Cuespeak” Home user - “This is the best therapy tool I have ever used” Elizabeth McBarnet, Speech & Language Therapist, N. Ireland - "I can’t stress enough how much I love this app. I have been using it today with a lady with apraxia and aphasia and she was just so excited by how relevant it was to her life!” Bev Snowden, Senior Specialist SLT, North Devon Healthcare Trust
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cuespeak at 4.7 against SmallTalk Oral Motor Exercises's 3.9. Cuespeak also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months). SmallTalk Oral Motor Exercises's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price 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. Cuespeak sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. SmallTalk Oral Motor Exercises asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cuespeak holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cuespeak has 89 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of SmallTalk Oral Motor Exercises's written reviews are positive against 84% of Cuespeak's.
SmallTalk Oral Motor Exercises ships an update every 9 months, Cuespeak every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmallTalk Oral Motor Exercises | Cuespeak |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (15 ratings) | 4.7 (89 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 89 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 285 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Lingraphicare, Inc. | Cuespeak Limited |
Customer experience
SmallTalk Oral Motor Exercises
Cuespeak
In-app purchases
SmallTalk Oral Motor Exercises
No in-app purchases
Cuespeak
- Legacy 1$3.991 Month
- Legacy 2$3.991 Month
- Legacy 3$3.991 Month
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- Monthly auto-renewing1 Month trial$7.491 Month
- Monthly auto-renewing$12.991 Month
- 1 year license (non-renewing)$129.99
- 3 year license (non-renewing)$399.00
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