Expressive Builder vs Articulation Test Center Hive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Expressive Builder
This app helps children improve sentence ideation, formation, and language skills through interactive exercises. It utilizes audio clips and voice recording to enhance auditory processing and reinforce language development, making it ideal for special needs children.
- Sentence ideation and formation practice
- Auditory processing enhancement with audio clips
- Voice recording and playback
- Multiple hint levels
- 250+ images for sentence creation
- Import custom images
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Voted 3rd best educational app of 2011 by AppsForHomeschooling.com Voted 9th best education app of 2011 by SmartAppsForKids.com Own as an individual app or as part of our MES Speech Therapy Bundle. Expressive Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve sentence ideation ; 2) Improve sentence formation; and 3) Improve receptive and expressive language. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders. Auditory playback of child's voice offers reinforcement for language development. Expressive Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to create grammatically correct sentences. FEATURES -Record feature allows students to record sentences in their own voice -3 levels of hints -Simple and intuitive interface to record sentence -Save and email recorded sentences -250 distinct images to create sentences from -Import your own images -Optional hint button LANGUAGES - English REQUIREMENTS - Compatible with iPad - Requires Iphone 5.1 software update ExpressiveBuilder is part of "The Builder Series" of award winning education apps. Mobile Education Store has won over 40 app awards and has been named educational developer of the year in 2011 and 2012. Mobile Education Store is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families. Recommended Ages: 3-6, 6-10 Categories: Special Needs
Articulation Test Center Hive
This app provides a comprehensive tool for assessing speech sound disorders in children and adults. It offers flexible testing options, intelligent scoring, interactive scenes for speech sampling, and auto-generated reports to save time for speech-language pathologists.
- Flexible testing options (Screener, Full Test)
- Intelligent scoring with auto-marked phonological processes
- Interactive speech scenes for connected speech samples
- Comprehensive test results and progress graphs
- Auto-generated, editable reports
- Speech sample audio recording and playback
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Articulation Test Center Hive (ATC Hive) is a criterion-referenced, articulation and phonology test, created by SLPs for SLPs to assess speech sound disorders in children and adults. It is a smart testing solution that offers flexible testing options, interactive speech scenes, comprehensive test results, and auto-generated, data-driven reports that will save you time! ARTICULATION TEST CENTER HIVE OFFERS: FLEXIBLE TESTING OPTIONS: Screener: Assesses the sounds and words that are developmentally appropriate based on age. Full Test: Assesses all the speech sounds in the English language including initial sounds, medial sounds, final sounds, blends, vowels, and R sounds or any combination of these sound sets. INTELLIGENT SCORING: - Quickly mark sounds incorrect or approximate - Easily mark substitutions and omissions - Enjoy 19 auto-marked phonological processes & distortions - Rate intelligibility INTERACTIVE SPEECH SCENES: Speech Sample: Offers two beautifully illustrated and interactive speech scenes for children to explore with question prompts to keep them talking. It is a fun and easy way to record and save a connected speech sample for assessing a student’s speech and language skills, and it provides a more accurate way to measure intelligibility. COMPREHENSIVE TEST RESULTS: Scores Overview: Displays progress graphs for Percent Phonemes Correct and Intelligibility, and a list of tests given. Words Tested: Displays all the words tested, how they were scored, and phonological processes & distortions marked. You can listen to recordings made and view notes. If edits are needed you can return to the test to make changes. Sound Errors: Displays the sound errors by sound position and age of acquisition. You can also mark sound errors for stimulability. Place/Manner: Displays sound errors based on the place of articulation and on the manner of articulation. It also displays vowel errors by position and quadrant. Substitutions: Displays all the substitutions made and omissions marked. Processes/Distortions: Displays all the phonological processes and distortions marked in the test. It does this with a visual graph as well as a list of processes marked. Speech Sample: The audio recording taken from the speech sample is saved and available for playback. The intelligibility can be updated and a transcription can be entered or viewed. Recommendation: Shows a quick summary of sounds and phonological processes recommended for practice and sounds processes that should be monitored for appropriate development. AUTO-GENERATED REPORTS: The Report tab presents a full written report summarizing the test results. The report can be edited and/or shared with parents, teachers, and others involved in the intervention process. Once you immerse yourself in ATC Hive’s many testing and reporting features you will come to know we invested an enormous amount of our resources and our best thinking in both the testing experience, and in the test administrator–YOU! We’re proud to offer ATC Hive as part of the Little Bee Hive membership which includes access to both Articulation Test Center Hive and Articulation Station Hive. If you are already subscribed to Articulation Station Hive (Pro tier) you may download and login to Articulation Test Center Hive with your same login information at no additional cost. SUBSCRIPTION, PRICING & TERMS: Articulation Test Center Hive offers a 14-day free trial which includes unlimited access to both Articulation Test Center Hive and Articulation Station Hive. The subscription automatically renews unless the auto-renew feature is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your Apple account at the end of your 14-day trial period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off at any time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Articulation Test Center Hive at Free against Expressive Builder's $9.99. Articulation Test Center Hive also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.8) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). Expressive Builder's advantage is review sentiment (95% vs 64%) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 16.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Articulation Test Center Hive is free to download; Expressive Builder costs $9.99 up front. Expressive Builder sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Articulation Test Center Hive sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Articulation Test Center Hive holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Articulation Test Center Hive has 136 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 95% of Expressive Builder's written reviews are positive against 64% of Articulation Test Center Hive's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Expressive Builder ships an update every 4 months, Articulation Test Center Hive monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Expressive Builder | Articulation Test Center Hive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.8 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (136 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.4% of reviews — better | 64.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 136 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 162 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mobile Education Store LLC | Little Bee Speech |
Customer experience
Expressive Builder
Articulation Test Center Hive
Bugs and requests
Expressive Builder
Reported bugs
2 issues- Cannot choose picture set
- Skip image button not present after update
Requested features
14 requests- Bring back the skip image button
- Wider variety of ethnicities represented
- Ability to have words read aloud
- Ability to have hints read aloud
- Highlighting word as it is read
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- Add a 'gaming' picture pack
- Ability to upload personal photographs
- More sets without in-app purchases
- Ability to archive more students
- Add older children (teens) to original pack
- Ability to go to next/previous image at any time
- Text to speech for non-readers
- Play button on the first page
- Tap on words to have them read aloud
Articulation Test Center Hive
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Expressive Builder
- School Game Pack$1.99
- Sports Game Pack$1.99
- Hobbies Game Pack$1.99
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- Inside Playtime Game Pack$1.99
- Medical Game Pack$1.99
- Pets Game Pack$1.99
- Places Game Pack$1.99
- Playground Game Pack$1.99
- Winter Game Pack$1.99
- All Game Packs$19.99
Articulation Test Center Hive
- Hive Pro (Monthly)14 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Hive Pro (Yearly)14 Days trial$119.991 Year
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