Naming Therapy vs Speech Pacesetter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Naming Therapy
This app helps individuals with aphasia and special needs practice naming and description skills. It offers a variety of exercises with photos, real voice, and customizable options to improve language abilities.
- Naming practice with cueing hierarchy
- Description prompts for semantic analysis
- Naming test for screening
- Flashcards with verbs and adjectives
- Customizable word lists and photos
- Syllable length word filtering
- Child-friendly mode
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"Great!!! This is a fantastic and very practical application! This app is well worth it! 5 stars!" "This app has proven to be very helpful for multiple children on my caseload who have difficulty using expanded descriptive language. 5 stars!" Naming Therapy is the best-selling word-finding app to help people with aphasia and children with special needs practice important naming and description skills. Designed by a Speech-Language Pathologist for use in the home and clinic, this app features beautiful photos, real voice, and full customization with over 700 words included! ***Try it for FREE as part of Language Therapy Lite*** ***One of four full apps included in Language Therapy*** This app has 4 parts: 1) Naming Practice: 400+ pictured nouns with an evidence-based cueing hierarchy and optional self-scoring, with the option to add your own photos and cues. The app records which cue was used to get the correct answer and produces a score report for email. Use different cues within Naming Practice to target confrontation naming, responsive naming, phrase completion, repetition, and oral reading. 2) Describe: 580+ pictures with 4-6 semantic & 4 phonemic question prompts for semantic feature analysis, phonological components analysis, and expanding expression skills. You can add your own words and select from 25 prompts to go with them. Icons representing questions prompting for information about the appearance, category, function, shape, size, color, taste, location and more surround each picture. Target sound knowledge by hearing prompts for first and last sound, rhyming words, and syllables. 3) Naming Test: a set presentation of 30 pictures with scoring and a report. This is a non-standardized test intended for screening a person's ability to name common items. It contains common and less common items of the categories contained in this app. A perfect screener! 4) Flashcards: 700+ clear, full-color pictures including verbs and adjectives; touch to hear the spoken word or see the printed word with the ability to add your own pictures. Use the verb pictures to create sentences or implement response elaboration training. Features: *Limit words by syllable length to just practice the short ones or target the longer ones - perfect for apraxia *Real recorded male voice provides a neutral accent in 5 languages with slow, natural speech for easy comprehension *Child-friendly mode turns off references to alcohol and violence and deactivates links to outside sites on the home screen *Database controls let you turn each word on or off within the app, so you can customize even further *Tap is the only motion required - no dragging, swiping or pinching needed for new users and those with motor impairment NO in-app purchase and NO collection or sharing of private information. 50% discount for Education Volume Purchase Program - put this app in every classroom!
Speech Pacesetter
This app helps users practice clearer, more controlled speech using adjustable visual cues. It's designed for individuals with articulation difficulties and fast speech rates due to neurological conditions or stuttering. Users can select text and pace their reading with a speed-adjustable visual guide.
- Adjustable visual cues for speech pacing
- Syllable or word highlighting
- Library of reading passages
- Customizable reading passages
- Adjustable font size and pause duration
- Choice of backgrounds and fonts
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Practice clearer, more controlled speech with Speech Pacesetter. Speech Pacesetter uses adjustable visual cues to help users practice speaking at a slower, more consistent rate. - Designed specifically for people who have unclear articulation and a fast rate of speech due to stroke, brain injury, acquired stuttering, Parkinson’s Disease or other neurological condition - Suitable for older children who have unclear articulation or who stutter - Allows the user to choose a text and pace their rate of speech with the help of a speed-adjustable visual cue - Highlights each syllable or each word. The user reads each syllable or word aloud as the visual cue appears. ADDITIONAL FEATURES The simple, effective and easy-to-use interface also allows the user avail of the following features: - Built-in library of phonemically-balanced reading passages (The Rainbow Passage, The Grandfather Passage etc) - Built-in functional everyday phrases, short stories, poems and tongue twisters - The option to create and save a library of custom reading passages - Adjustable font size and pause duration on punctuation - A choice of different colored backgrounds and fonts TESTIMONIALS "This affordable app brings a novel way of carrying out pacing therapy for adult speech and language therapists." – Mike Richards, SLT, UK "I've had wonderful success using this app with a lady who has dysarthria due to a stroke." - Carol Winters, SLP "Speech Pacesetter is one of my most used therapy apps! I use it with clients who have a fast speaking rate or slurred speech. I've had amazing results using this app." - Anna Wilson, SLP A UNIQUE WAY TO PACE SPEECH Speech Pacesetter provides a unique way to pace speech and improve speech clarity. See for yourself how effective visual cues can be!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Speech Pacesetter at $17.99 against Naming Therapy's $29.99. Speech Pacesetter also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months). Naming Therapy's advantage is review sentiment (84% vs 46%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and chart position 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
Naming Therapy costs $29.99 and Speech Pacesetter $17.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Naming Therapy holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Naming Therapy has 382 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Naming Therapy's written reviews are positive against 46% of Speech Pacesetter's.
Naming Therapy ships an update every 7 months, Speech Pacesetter every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Naming Therapy | Speech Pacesetter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | $17.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (382 ratings) — better | 4.3 (31 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better | 46.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 382 — better | 31 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #135 — better | #167 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 312 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Aptus Speech and Language Therapy Limited |
Customer experience
Naming Therapy
Speech Pacesetter
Bugs and requests
Naming Therapy
Reported bugs
5 issues- Microphone is bad
- Word playback too quiet
- Customizable stimulus pictures not presented as entered
- Customizable stimulus pictures presented in random order
- Sentence completion cue required for custom pictures
Requested features
2 requests- Translate more apps to French
- More diverse models in images
Speech Pacesetter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Naming Therapy
No in-app purchases
Speech Pacesetter
No in-app purchases
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