SmallTalk Consonant Blends vs Advanced Language Therapy Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmallTalk Consonant Blends
This app provides speech exercise videos to assist individuals with aphasia, apraxia, or dysarthria, often resulting from stroke or brain injury. It focuses on tongue and lip movements for consonant blends, allowing for customizable practice sessions.
- Speech exercise videos
- Focus on consonant blends
- Demonstrates tongue and lip movements
- Customizable video order
- Repeat exercises as needed
- Reset to original settings
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SmallTalk Consonant Blends 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 divided into standard consonant blends and final consonant blends. The videos show the tongue and lip movements necessary to product constant blends like “bl” or “str”. You can easily rearrange the order of the videos or remove others to make it simpler to focus on key consonant blends. 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
Advanced Language Therapy Lite
This app offers a free sample of four advanced speech therapy applications designed to improve language skills for individuals with aphasia or cognitive-communication impairments. It provides practice in comprehension, naming, reading, and writing through various evidence-based activities.
- Advanced comprehension practice
- Word-finding skill improvement
- Paragraph-level reading practice
- Typing and writing exercises
- Evidence-based therapy techniques
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Take your aphasia therapy to the next level with four evidence-based advanced apps that build on the skills established the best-selling Language Therapy 4-in-1 app. This free sample of the new value-priced advanced app lets you try four popular speech therapy apps to help you improve. YOU'LL GET TO TRY THESE 4 APPS: ----- 1) ADVANCED COMPREHENSION THERAPY Practice understanding sentences with three activities to improve listening and reading skills. ------- 2) ADVANCED NAMING THERAPY Practice word-finding skills with four activities to improve verbal expression. ------- 3) ADVANCED READING THERAPY Practice reading at the paragraph-level with three levels of difficulty with comprehension questions and audio support. ------- 4) ADVANCED WRITING THERAPY Practice typing at the word, sentence, and paragraph levels along with strengthening sound-letter relationships. ----- WHO IS THIS APP FOR? *Stroke survivors with mild or moderate aphasia (impaired language) *Brain injury survivors with high-level cognitive-communication impairments *Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) who work with adult communication TRY FOR FREE! Download Advanced Language Therapy Lite to try each of the four apps for free. Then purchase all four in Advanced Language Therapy, or purchase only the ones you need separately. THE TACTUS THERAPY DIFFERENCE In all Tactus Therapy apps for speech therapy, you'll get wifi-free use, no log-ins, and no subscriptions. The activities are based on researched techniques that work. The content is designed with adults in mind, yet can easily be used with older children and teens. Support is built-in to encourage independent use for home practice while being flexible for in-clinic use with a qualified clinician. Looking for something different in a speech therapy app? We offer a wide range to choose from. Find the right one for you at tactustherapy.com/find
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Advanced Language Therapy Lite at none against SmallTalk Consonant Blends's shown. Advanced Language Therapy Lite also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 17%) and ratings volume (589 vs 2). SmallTalk Consonant Blends's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Advanced Language Therapy Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Advanced Language Therapy Lite has 589 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of SmallTalk Consonant Blends's written reviews are positive against 50% of Advanced Language Therapy Lite's.
SmallTalk Consonant Blends ships an update every 7 months, Advanced Language Therapy Lite every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmallTalk Consonant Blends | Advanced Language Therapy Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 4.7 (589 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 589 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 276 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lingraphicare, Inc. | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. |
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SmallTalk Consonant Blends
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In-app purchases
SmallTalk Consonant Blends
No in-app purchases
Advanced Language Therapy Lite
No in-app purchases
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