SmallTalk Common Phrases vs Aphasia Talk Help Text Speech
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmallTalk Common Phrases
This app offers speech exercise videos demonstrating tongue and lip movements for common phrases, including those relevant to aphasia. Users can customize the video order to focus on specific practice needs.
- Speech exercise videos
- Demonstrates tongue and lip movements
- Common phrases library
- Aphasia-oriented phrases
- Customizable video order
- Reset to original settings
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SmallTalk Common Phrases provides a series of speech exercise videos, each showing the tongue and lip movements necessary to produce common phrases such as greetings, conversational phrases, and aphasia-oriented phrases -- for example, “I had a stroke”. You can easily rearrange the order of the icons or remove others to make it simpler to focus on your most important practice videos. 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
Aphasia Talk Help Text Speech
This communication aid offers four distinct methods for individuals facing speech difficulties due to aphasia or injury. It supports visual communication with images and text, freehand drawing, standard text-to-speech, and AI-powered predictive text suggestions.
- Visual communication with images and text
- Hand drawing for expression
- Text-to-speech functionality
- AI predictive text suggestions
- Customizable images and actions
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Aphasia Talk Help is designed to help patients affected by the aforementioned disease by providing four different ways of communicating. Obviously the app will also work great if you can't speak/talk after an injury and you need to find a way to express yourself. FOUR DIFFERENT WAYS OF COMMUNICATING - Visive images with text, by tapping on the image the app will talk. You can also add custom actions and images! - Draw by hand to communicate; - Standard Text To Speech, type and the app will talk; - AI Predictive text: different words are suggested, they can be tapped and consecutive new words will be provided. Make sure your ringtone is turned on and that your volume is not muted or the app will not talk! For any question or information you can get in touch with us by sending an email to: info@genovasoftworks.com By using the app you accept the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy available at: https://www.genovasoftworks.com/terms.php.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmallTalk Common Phrases at 3.0 against Aphasia Talk Help Text Speech's 2.3. SmallTalk Common Phrases also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). Aphasia Talk Help Text Speech's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Aphasia Talk Help Text Speech sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. SmallTalk Common Phrases asks for nothing beyond the download.
SmallTalk Common Phrases holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
SmallTalk Common Phrases ships an update every 7 months, Aphasia Talk Help Text Speech every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmallTalk Common Phrases | Aphasia Talk Help Text Speech |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (5 ratings) — better | 2.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 11 months |
| 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 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 260 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lingraphicare, Inc. | GENOVA Softworks |
Customer experience
SmallTalk Common Phrases
Aphasia Talk Help Text Speech
In-app purchases
SmallTalk Common Phrases
No in-app purchases
Aphasia Talk Help Text Speech
- Premium Subscription$2.991 Month
- Premium Subscription$9.991 Year
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