Comparison

Pictello Visual Stories vs Talk Suite Pro 2.0

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pictello Visual Stories

Create engaging visual stories and social schedules with photos, videos, and text. Supports literacy development through features like word-by-word highlighting and text-to-speech. Easily share your creations with others or export them for wider distribution.

Highlights
  • Create visual stories with photos and videos
  • Text-to-speech and voice recording
  • Word-by-word text highlighting
  • Built-in word prediction
  • Import books from Tar Heel Reader
  • Share stories via server or Dropbox
  • Export to PDF or print
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Everyone loves to tell fun, engaging, and imaginative stories. Go ahead and make a social story or visual schedule for a child with autism or a slide show of holiday pictures for your friends - Pictello makes it a breeze to create and share! Whether you use the included natural-sounding Text to Speech voices, or record your own voice, Pictello is the perfect tool for visual storytelling. Each page in a Pictello story consists of a photo or video and some text, which can be read aloud by a Text to Speech voice or your own recorded audio. Develop literacy skills - Support reading with word-by-word text highlighting - Develop writing and spelling with built-in word prediction and Speak as You Type - Create stories to teach academic and social skills - Import free early literacy and adapted academic books from Tar Heel Reader Create and playback with ease - Let students use the wizard to create stories - Play stories page by page or as a slideshow - Use Text to Speech voices to read the story - Turn on switch access for story playback Integrate multimedia - Add your own photos - Include short video clips - Record your own voice or sound Share your stories - Share with other Pictello users through our free sharing server - Use Dropbox to exchange stories - Export to PDF or print to share with non-Pictello users Speak your language - Pick English, Spanish, German, French, Italian or Dutch for the user interface - Select from over 110 free Text to Speech voices in 29 languages - Use genuine American, British, Australian, American-Spanish, Swedish, French, Italian, German, Norwegian and Swedish children's voices - Create interest with fun character and specialty voices Customize to fit your needs - Pick between Wizard or Expert creation modes - Swipe or automatically turn pages - Adjust speech rate and pronunciations Read more at www.assistiveware.com/products/pictello Additional Note: Educational institutions can get a 50% discount if they purchase 20 or more licenses through Apple’s Volume Licensing Program for Education.

About

Talk Suite Pro 2.0

This powerful app supports literacy and social communication for individuals needing augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). It offers multiple communication modes, customizable features, and tools to build sentences, relationships, and inclusion.

Highlights
  • Ten powerful communication modes
  • Core organization for intuitive sentence building
  • Photo Albums, Step-by-Step stories, Joke mode
  • Customizable for early to advanced communicators
  • Symbol and voice options for age, gender, race
  • Built-in scanning features
  • Support for families, teachers, and SLPs
Features
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An incredibly powerful AAC app that balances literacy and social communication! Talk Suite Pro was created working with many of the field's top SLPs and offers core and more! Compare our many features and supports and see the power of our multi-modal communication approach! TEN powerful communication modes so you can access the most effective language for any situation. Core organization that lets you build sentences intuitively and easily. And multiple modes so people can learn to be truly engaging and build not only sentences - but relationships! Our app includes Photo Albums, Step-by-Step stories, Joke mode and so much more! Talk Suite Pro meets the needs of early communicators to advanced communicators. And to be easily customizable. And it's the only app that offers symbols and voices to highlight an individual's age, gender, race, and so much more! *********** Talk Suite Pro was created working with many of the top SLPs and educators in our field. Learn about our comprehensive approach to communication which blends precise generative language and social learning. Discover how quick, easy, and intuitive editing can be! And our built-in scanning features are created to support those with even the most complete motor challenges. Even at its best, being a person who needs Alternative Communication and Speech Apps is tough. Talk Suite Pro is designed to make it all a bit easier. *********** TSP also offers a complete communication environment to support not only the person who uses the app, but also the families, teachers, SLPs and others who are part of that individuals world. Our approach features multiple communication modes, bi-weekly activities, and online resources. So you can do more on your own. And that's especially important during these times. Talk Suite Pro is designed to be easily customizable for beginning communicators, and advanced communicators. *********** Talk Suite helps build more than great sentences. It helps build connection, engagement, and inclusion. Our communication structure was developed with the input of some of our field’s most important leaders: Pati-King DeBaun, Caroline Musselwhite, Deanna Wagner, Mo Buti, Gretchen Hanser, and Megan Fucci-Wenzel. With their input, you can feel assured Talk Suite's approach – incorporating principles of Multi-Modal Communication while balancing the need for precise speech with those for faster communication – can give you powerful tools possible to reach your potential! *********** Families and Parents: You’ll love the phrases included to help get conversations going - and communication growing. And you'll love our activities. Teachers and SLPs: You’ll love how we’ve made it easier to incorporate Talk Suite into your classes! And all our academic vocabulary. *********** Talk Suite provides non-verbal individuals with thousands of words, smartly organized, to create new sentences word-by-word. As you grow, you'll love our state-of-the-art editing interface. Programming is actually enjoyable! Talk Suite also comes with hundreds of pre-programmed things to say - organized in a variety of ways, so one can get to them quickly. *********** Talk Suite’s website also offers all sorts of free resources for learning and support – including dozens of quick “How To Videos” to save you from plodding through manuals. *********** To see more, visit our site at bit.ly/TS-TSPro Talk Suite! It has Core.... and MORE!

Screenshots

Pictello Visual Stories4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pictello Visual Stories at $19.99 against Talk Suite Pro 2.0's $44.99. Pictello Visual Stories also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 7). Talk Suite Pro 2.0's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 7 months) and rating (4.4 vs 4.1). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pictello Visual Stories costs $19.99 and Talk Suite Pro 2.0 $44.99 up front. Talk Suite Pro 2.0 sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Pictello Visual Stories asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Talk Suite Pro 2.0 holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 17 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Pictello Visual Stories's written reviews are positive against 67% of Talk Suite Pro 2.0's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pictello Visual Stories ships an update every 7 months, Talk Suite Pro 2.0 every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Pictello Visual Stories versus Talk Suite Pro 2.0: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPictello Visual StoriesTalk Suite Pro 2.0
Price$19.99 — better$44.99
Rating4.1 (33 ratings)4.4 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings33 — better17
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size660 MB1.7 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAssistiveWareEllenson Integration Enterprises, Inc.

Customer experience

Pictello Visual Stories

All ratings33 ratings
Positive78.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral6.3%
Negative22.2%

Talk Suite Pro 2.0

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pictello Visual Stories

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Talk Suite Pro 2.0

One-time7
  • Character - Zac Child$7.99
  • Character - Zoe Child$7.99
  • Voice - Ella$11.99
Show 4 more
  • Voice - Josh$11.99
  • Voice - Emilio (English)$11.99
  • Voice - Valeria(English)$11.99
  • Voice - Scott$11.99

Questions

Is Pictello Visual Stories free?
Pictello Visual Stories costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Talk Suite Pro 2.0 free?
Talk Suite Pro 2.0 costs $44.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pictello Visual Stories or Talk Suite Pro 2.0?
Talk Suite Pro 2.0 is rated higher. Pictello Visual Stories averages 4.1 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while Talk Suite Pro 2.0 averages 4.4 from 17 ratings.
Do Pictello Visual Stories or Talk Suite Pro 2.0 have ads?
Neither Pictello Visual Stories nor Talk Suite Pro 2.0 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pictello Visual Stories or Talk Suite Pro 2.0?
Pictello Visual Stories ships an update every 7 months, and Talk Suite Pro 2.0 every 5 weeks. Most recently, Pictello Visual Stories was updated on October 27, 2026 and Talk Suite Pro 2.0 on October 24, 2026.

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