ArtikPix vs BITS Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ArtikPix
This app provides engaging flashcard and matching activities to help children with speech sound delays practice sounds in words and sentences. It offers group scoring, audio/video recording, and customizable student profiles for tracking progress. Additional sound decks are available for purchase.
- Flashcard and matching activities
- Group scoring for unlimited students
- Audio and video recording
- Customizable student profiles
- Progress tracking and data export
- Configurable audio and visual options
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ArtikPix is an engaging articulation app with flashcard and matching activities for children with speech sound delays. Among the many features in ArtikPix, group scoring is available with an unlimited number of students per group in the flashcard and matching activities. Scores can be collected as students practice sounds in words and sentences. Utilizing fun and modern graphics, ArtikPix is a free application offering the 'b' deck with 23 additional decks available as In App Purchases: ch, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, l-blends, m, n, p, r, r-blends, s, s-blends, sh, t, th, v, w, y, z. ArtikPix has a total possible 24 decks with 40 cards each (113 cards in r deck, 1,033 total cards). As part of a step-by-step process, decks and corresponding sound positions are configured for student profiles. The configurations are saved for each student, so they are automatically available in the activities. In ArtikPix, the flashcard and matching activities have features in common like audio and video recording, default audio, and group scoring. The activities do have differences, though. The flashcard activity includes word and sentence levels; whereas, the matching activity includes the word level with 3 matching levels: Easy (3 pairs), Medium (6 pairs), and Hard (10 pairs). ArtikPix includes the following features: • Group scoring for an unlimited number of students • A wizard (aka setup assistant) provides a step-by-step process to easily configure the following for each new student: name, decks, sound positions, syllable lengths, grammatical levels (word, sentence), and matching level • A student profile provides an easy way to view student notes and scores, and to update student configurations • Auto-play of default audio • Tap-to-play default audio • Audio and video recording features - videos can be saved to your camera roll • Collect data by tallying independent and prompted responses for student sound positions (e.g., initial th, er) • Take notes for a student in or out of a session • Tallied data is automatically converted to percentage based data • Student data organized by sessions that are open or completed; the latter of which can be reopened • Create custom cards for use in the flashcard and matching activities • Data rings provide a better view of student scores • Export student data for a range of dates to report progress during a period of time • Configurable options across the app for audio (e.g., tap-to-play), and visual (e.g., hide matched cards). • Undo tallying mistakes by tapping the undo button at the bottom of each activity screen
BITS Lab
This app uses visual biofeedback to help users, particularly children and adolescents, correct speech errors related to the American English 'r' sound. It offers guided practice, adaptive challenges, and progress tracking for effective speech therapy.
- Visual biofeedback for speech correction
- Tutorial for biofeedback interpretation
- Free play mode for 'r' practice
- Adaptive quest mode for increasing difficulty
- Quiz mode for progress tracking
- Visual rewards for improvement
- Clinician dashboard for progress monitoring
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Many children, adolescents, and adults struggle to eliminate speech errors affecting the American English 'r' sound. Research suggests that these errors can in some cases be eliminated through biofeedback, where learners view a dynamic visual image of their speech and attempt to match a target representing correct production. staRt ("Speech Therapist's App for /r/ Treatment") aims to make biofeedback treatment for /r/ widely accessible to practicing speech-language pathologists. Features: - Tutorial explaining how to interpret and use the biofeedback display - "Free play" mode where users match their real-time visual-acoustic display to a target representing correct production of ‘r’ - "Quest" mode presenting syllables/words for 'r' practice; complexity increases or decreases in an adaptive fashion based on recent performance - "Quiz" mode for use in measuring baseline performance and tracking progress - Visual rewards reinforcing improvements in performance - Clinician dashboard tracking progress over the course of treatment
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ArtikPix at 5.0 against BITS Lab's 3.9. ArtikPix also leads on device support (3 vs 1). BITS Lab's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (67% vs 40%). On price, 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
Both are free to download. ArtikPix sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. BITS Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.
ArtikPix holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BITS Lab has 16 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of ArtikPix's written reviews are positive against 67% of BITS Lab's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ArtikPix | BITS Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.9 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Expressive Solutions LLC | Tara McAllister |
Customer experience
ArtikPix
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In-app purchases
ArtikPix
- f deck$2.99
- k deck$2.99
- sh deck$2.99
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- g deck$2.99
- s deck$2.99
- s-blends deck$2.99
- l deck$2.99
- r-blends deck$2.99
- r deck$5.99
- All Decks$39.99
BITS Lab
No in-app purchases
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