Comparison

Naming Therapy vs Conversation Paceboard

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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!

About

Conversation Paceboard

This app provides visual and tactile cues to help individuals improve their speech rate and clarity. It uses interactive circles that fill with color as you speak, guiding you to pace your words effectively. Includes conversation prompts to aid practice.

Highlights
  • Interactive pacing board with 6 circles
  • Adjustable speed for visual cues
  • Tactile feedback on iPhone
  • Conversation prompt categories
  • "Too Fast!" feedback indicator
Features
Currently charting
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Conversation Paceboard is a modern pacing board with visual cues. It helps individuals with unclear articulation and a fast speaking rate to pace their speech and improve their intelligibility in conversation. CORE FEATURES - A modern pacing board made of 6 interactive circles - Visual cues and feedback; the circles gradually fill with color when pressed at an adjustable speed - Several categories of conversation prompts to get the conversation started - Tactile cues on iPhone for additional feedback HOW IT WORKS The user is instructed to begin answering a conversation question and to hold a circle down each time they say a word or syllable. Each circle gradually fills with color when pressed. When a circle has fully filled with color, the user should move to the next circle and say the next word or syllable. The speed at which each circle fills with color can be adjusted in order to help the user maintain the desired rate of speech. If the user moves to the next circle too quickly, "Too Fast!" will be displayed. BENEFITS Conversation Paceboard is ideal for people who have slurred speech/dysarthria due to Stroke, Brain Injury, Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Multiple Sclerosis, Multiple Systems Atrophy, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Cerebral Palsy. See for yourself how effective a pacing board with additional visual cues and feedback can be!

Screenshots

Naming Therapy4 screens
Conversation Paceboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Conversation Paceboard at $12.99 against Naming Therapy's $29.99. Conversation Paceboard also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months) and chart position (#194 vs unranked). Naming Therapy's advantage is review sentiment (84% vs 56%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Naming Therapy costs $29.99 and Conversation Paceboard $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Naming Therapy holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Naming Therapy has 370 ratings behind it against 22, 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 56% of Conversation Paceboard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Naming Therapy ships an update every 7 months, Conversation Paceboard every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Naming Therapy versus Conversation Paceboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNaming TherapyConversation Paceboard
Price$29.99$12.99 — better
Rating4.7 (370 ratings) — better4.4 (22 ratings)
Positive reviews84.0% of reviews — better55.6% of reviews
Number of ratings370 — better22
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#194 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better10.0
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB90 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.Aptus Speech and Language Therapy Limited

Customer experience

Naming Therapy

All ratings370 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive84.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.0%

Conversation Paceboard

All ratings22 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative44.4%

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

Conversation Paceboard

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Naming Therapy

No in-app purchases

None

Conversation Paceboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Naming Therapy free?
Naming Therapy costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Conversation Paceboard free?
Conversation Paceboard costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Naming Therapy or Conversation Paceboard?
Naming Therapy is rated higher. Naming Therapy averages 4.7 out of 5 from 370 ratings, while Conversation Paceboard averages 4.4 from 22 ratings.
Do Naming Therapy or Conversation Paceboard have ads?
Neither Naming Therapy nor Conversation Paceboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Naming Therapy or Conversation Paceboard?
Naming Therapy ships an update every 7 months, and Conversation Paceboard every 2 months. Most recently, Naming Therapy was updated on September 26, 2026 and Conversation Paceboard on September 10, 2026.

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