Big Button Box Animals HD vs SymbolSupport
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Big Button Box Animals HD
Explore a collection of animal sound buttons designed for interactive play on iPad. Customize button display, pitch, and order to create unique sound experiences. Record and share your animal sound performances.
- Animal sound buttons
- Show/hide animal names
- Pitch shifting
- Multiple button display modes
- Customizable button order
- Record and share performances
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Big Button Box™ brings Big Button Box Animals HD, an amazing collection of animal sound buttons for your to play on your iPad! Big Button Box Animals uses the same proven interface as the other Big Button Box apps. Features: - Show or hide the names of the animals - Pitch Shift - shift the pitch of the animals! - Three buttons modes: Play the sound from full screen big buttons or choose to play them from the menu in two different ways - Change the order of the buttons - Randomize the order of the buttons - Record and share your performances Add these awesome Big Button Box apps for iPad to your collection: - Big Button Box HD - Big Button Box 2 HD - BBBox: Alarms, Sirens & Horns HD
SymbolSupport
This iPad utility app enhances text by automatically adding symbols above typed or pasted content. It features text-to-speech with word-by-word highlighting and offers extensive symbol libraries. Documents can be easily shared as PDFs or in a proprietary format.
- Automatic symbol addition to text
- Text-to-speech with highlighting
- Pre-loaded and searchable symbol libraries
- Image import from camera roll and internet
- Customizable symbol assignment
- Document sharing via AirDrop, email, and cloud storage
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SymbolSupport is an iPad utility app that effortlessly adds symbols to text. As textis typed, symbols are automatically added above it. Text can also be copied from pre-existing written materials and pasted into SymbolSupport where symbols are instantly added. Documents are read with a high-quality text-to-speech voice and include word-by-word highlighting. This support helps students better understand class assignments.Symbols from Slater Literacy Support Pictures™ and Attainment’s Image Library are included. Plus, there is easy access to your camera roll and a built-in internet image search.Easy-to-use editing tools include changing auto-assigned symbols to other symbols or imported images and removing symbols from text to reduce the number of symbols on a page. SymbolSupport is designed to create symbolized text quickly and easily. Sharing these documents is equally important. Share documents via AirDrop, email, or send to any cloud storage setup on the iPad. Documents can be sent as a PDF for studentportfolios or shared with parents. Documents can also be sent as a SymbolSupport file which can be opened by SymbolSupport or SymbolSupport Lite apps. SymbolSupport Lite is a separate and free app. It can receive, read aloud, and print documents that have been created with the SymbolSupport app. SymbolSupport Lite cannot create or edit documents.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Big Button Box Animals HD at $1.99 against SymbolSupport's $59.99. SymbolSupport's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 77 months) and rating (4.0 vs 3.8). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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
Big Button Box Animals HD costs $1.99 and SymbolSupport $59.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SymbolSupport holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively.
Big Button Box Animals HD ships an update every 77 months, SymbolSupport every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and June 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Big Button Box Animals HD | SymbolSupport |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $59.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 77 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 293 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shaved Labs Ltd | Attainment Company, Inc. |
Customer experience
Big Button Box Animals HD
SymbolSupport
In-app purchases
Big Button Box Animals HD
No in-app purchases
SymbolSupport
No in-app purchases
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