Comparison

Grid Player vs Apraxia Therapy Lite

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

Head to head
About

Grid Player

This app enables individuals with speech impairments to communicate by speaking out created sentences. It offers extensive symbol libraries and pre-made grid sets for various needs, including those with disabilities or learning difficulties.

Highlights
  • Over 12,000 Widgit Symbols
  • Over 12,000 SymbolStix Symbols
  • High-quality male and female voices
  • TouchType word prediction
  • Prediction suggestions with symbols
  • Copy sentences for social media
Features
Read full description

Grid Player is an Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) App that helps people who cannot speak or who have unclear speech to communicate. Sentences that you create are spoken out loud. Grid Player is suitable for a wide range of people with communication difficulties, including those who use symbols. Grid Player is designed for use with Grid 3 and The Grid 2, allowing you to play your grids on iPad. If you don't have Grid 3 or The Grid 2, you can use Grid Player with four complete grid sets: Symbol Talker A, Symbol Talker B, Talking Photographs and Text Talker Phrasebook. Please note that you need a Online Grids account to use Grid Player. You can create an account for free within the Grid Player app, or sign in to an existing account. GRID PLAYER FEATURES • Over 12,000 Widgit Symbols • Over 12,000 SymbolStix Symbols • High-quality male and female voices • “TouchType” word prediction for faster typing • Prediction suggestions with symbols to help with word recognition • Word list grids for large topics • Copy sentences to use with Twitter, Facebook, etc SYMBOL TALKER A and B • Dynamic screen AAC • Uses Widgit symbols • Over 2,000 unique words in over 50 topics • Two vocabulary sizes (levels A and B) TALKING PHOTOGRAPHS • Over 1000 vivid photographs • 42 categories • Inspirational for education and communication TEXT TALKER PHRASEBOOK • Over 100 instant phrases • 10 topics to discuss • Quick response buttons for answering questions Grid Player is suitable for people with a wide range of disabilities, including cerebral palsy, motor-neurone disease (ALS), autism, apraxia, traumatic brain injury, stroke and deafness. It can also be used in education for people with learning difficulties or special needs, and with young children. All over the world, thousands of people are communicating with Grid 3 and The Grid 2 from Smartbox. Install Grid Player and you can join the conversation today!

About

Apraxia Therapy Lite

This app provides a video-based approach to speech therapy, focusing on apraxia and aphasia. It guides users through watching mouth movements, listening, and speaking along with recorded audio and video models. Users can adjust difficulty and record their own speech for practice and sharing.

Highlights
  • Video modeling of speech
  • Interactive audio and visual cues
  • Speech recording and playback
  • Adjustable speed and complexity
  • Email recordings and reports
  • Designed by experts
Read full description

Tackle apraxia and aphasia head-on with a powerful speech therapy app that uses video to help people speak again. Get an app that can help you overcome the frustration and helplessness of not being able to communicate clearly after a stroke. See Apraxia Therapy in action with this FREE SAMPLE of the full app. Download this Lite version to see how your loved one or speech therapy client interacts with the video model in each of the 3 activities. Try it for yourself! Get results you can hear. HERE’S HOW IT WORKS: 1) Watch the video model’s mouth movements. 2) Listen, tap along in rhythm, and speak in unison. 3) Repeat as the audio fades out, using the video to keep speech going strong. 4) Speak alone with only visual support. Your speech is automatically recorded. 5) Listen to yourself and decide how you did. 6) Adjust the speed or complexity to keep your therapy at the right level. 7) Email the recordings and report to your speech therapist or family member. Once you’re ready for the full experience, simply upgrade to Apraxia Therapy. HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET: - Unlimited hours of use with no monthly bills - 110 conversational phrases, 60 long words, and 5 automatic sequences - Videos that include functional everyday greetings & expressions for adults - A tool that works just as well in speech therapy as it does for home practice - Adjustable difficulty, speed, and many more options for a personalized experience - A professional speech therapy app designed by experts and based on evidence It takes lots of repetition to change the brain after a stroke – and that’s how we can help. With the full version of the app guiding your daily practice, you can learn to speak fluently again. There’s hope. ** Get started right now. Try Apraxia Therapy Lite for FREE. ** Looking for something different in a speech therapy app? Tactus Therapy offers a wide range of aphasia apps to choose from. Find the right one for you at https://tactustherapy.com/find

Screenshots

Grid Player4 screens
Apraxia Therapy Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Apraxia Therapy Lite at 4.5 against Grid Player's 3.7. Apraxia Therapy Lite also leads on ratings volume (165 vs 26). Grid Player's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 8 months) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 9.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Apraxia Therapy Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Apraxia Therapy Lite has 165 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Grid Player's written reviews are positive against 67% of Apraxia Therapy Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grid Player ships an update every 3 months, Apraxia Therapy Lite every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Grid Player versus Apraxia Therapy Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrid PlayerApraxia Therapy Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (26 ratings)4.5 (165 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.2% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings26165 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better9.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSensory Software InternationalTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.

Customer experience

Grid Player

All ratings26 ratings
Positive65.4%
Neutral7.7%
Negative26.9%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive63.2%
Neutral10.3%
Negative26.5%

Apraxia Therapy Lite

All ratings162 ratings
Positive85.2%
Neutral8.0%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Grid Player

Reported bugs

21 issues
  • Doesn't work on iOS 26
  • Bug voix superposées (overlapping voices)
  • Black blue screen on startup
  • No grid appears
  • Cannot select voices
Show 16 more
  • App crashes
  • Sound stops working after a few minutes
  • No sound on phone version
  • App hasn't been updated for 6 years
  • Cannot access past registration page without Wi-Fi
  • Audio doesn't work after update
  • Missing ABC keyboard after re-installation
  • UK words used in US English version
  • Audio problem after latest update
  • Cannot create account online
  • Cannot get a password
  • Missing grid error message
  • No speech output for words
  • App crashes on all devices
  • Audio doesn't work
  • Sound not working

Requested features

13 requests
  • Add a keyboard for typing
  • Update app for newer devices/iOS
  • Allow Wi-Fi override
  • Add more language options for free
  • Add text-to-talk functionality
Show 8 more
  • Add a keyboard to type words not in the database
  • Update voice and vocabulary to American English
  • Add a keyboard to type instead of looking for words
  • Add a keyboard to type
  • Save own phrases into the app
  • Replace unused phrases or fill gaps
  • Add a way to text to talk
  • Add a keyboard

Apraxia Therapy Lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Grid Player

No in-app purchases

None

Apraxia Therapy Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grid Player free?
Grid Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Apraxia Therapy Lite free?
Apraxia Therapy Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Grid Player or Apraxia Therapy Lite?
Apraxia Therapy Lite is rated higher. Grid Player averages 3.7 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Apraxia Therapy Lite averages 4.5 from 165 ratings.
Do Grid Player or Apraxia Therapy Lite have ads?
Neither Grid Player nor Apraxia Therapy Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grid Player or Apraxia Therapy Lite?
Grid Player ships an update every 3 months, and Apraxia Therapy Lite every 8 months. Most recently, Grid Player was updated on October 30, 2026 and Apraxia Therapy Lite on October 24, 2026.

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