Comparison

Grid Player vs Conversation 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
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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

Conversation Therapy Lite

This app facilitates speech therapy by providing conversation starters and tools to practice language and social skills. It helps individuals with speech or language impairments engage in dialogue and carry over therapy lessons at home. The app offers customizable settings and tracks progress for one-on-one or group sessions.

Highlights
  • Conversation starters for various topics
  • Tools to practice language and social skills
  • Progress tracking for sessions
  • Customizable settings for age-appropriateness
  • Audio recording and scoring
  • Emailable session summaries
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Work more effectively toward your speech therapy goals. Help people who have had a stroke, live with autism, or have a speech or language impairment get talking with an app that sparks conversation. The best way to improve talking is by talking! Download this free sample version of Conversation Therapy to try it for yourself! - Get a tool that helps adults, teens, and children put therapy strategies into practice - Improve language, social skills, speech, and thinking while using this powerful speech therapy app - Carryover the lessons from speech therapy at home with an app that’s easy for everyone to use - Focus on what matters – stop racking your brain for fresh topics and let the app guide you - Take things in any direction with thousands of possible conversation starters - Create the right experience for each person with customizable settings - Talk one-on-one, host groups of up to 4 at a time, and track improvement with ease Coming up with fresh, attention-grabbing conversation starters every day is surprisingly hard, even for speech therapy professionals. Think of this app as your talk facilitator, taking the pressure and planning out of starting and maintaining dialogue while you monitor how your clients use their speech strategies. "This is the app that is going to pave the way for converting speech therapists to the digital age." - Ryan Knoblauch, SLP, The Speech Knob GETTING STARTED IS AS EASY AS 1, 2, 3 Target higher-level expressive language, pragmatic, problem-solving, speech, and cognitive-communication goals with open-ended conversation starters. Here’s how it works. 1) CHOOSE YOUR CATEGORIES. Tailor your experience with specific topics like Food or Health, or select all topics for free-flowing discussion that could go anywhere! You can always change the settings to see only age-appropriate categories for children, teens, or adults. *This free Lite version of the app has 3 photos and 30 questions suitable for all ages* 2) START THE CONVERSATION. Look at the picture, then touch any of the 10 buttons to see a question. The questions on the left are simpler (like “What is…?”) while the ones on the right are more complex (“How do you know…?”). Hear the question aloud, record your own audio, and score answers as you go. 3) USE YOUR STRATEGIES. While taking turns discussing the answers to the questions, use your word-finding strategies, smooth speech techniques, or other personalized therapy approaches to communicate more clearly. ALL DONE? E-mail an automatically generated summary of your results, along with any audio, or share the results to a PDF, file storage, printer, or copy/paste. GET EVERY FEATURE YOU NEED IN THE FULL APP - 275+ vivid photos, with 10 questions per photo, for over 2750 possible questions in the full app; 3 photos in the Lite version - 10 languages: English, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Zulu - 11 categories full of real-world topics including daily life, hobbies, current events, social issues, health concerns, and much more in the full app - Record audio at any time with just a tap - Perfect for treating language, cognitive-communication, pragmatic, and speech disorders - Great as stimulus material to work on fluency, articulation, eye contact, and word-finding strategies in spontaneous speech - No subscriptions, no monthly bills, no Wi-Fi needed BETTER DISCUSSIONS MEAN BETTER PRACTICE. Inspire curiosity and creativity while motivating people to keep improving – DOWNLOAD IT NOW! Once you've had a chance to try this free Lite app, download the full version of Conversation Therapy to get so much more content. Looking for something different in a speech therapy app? We offer a wide range to choose from. Find the right one for you at tactustherapy.com/find

Screenshots

Grid Player4 screens
Conversation Therapy Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Conversation Therapy Lite at 4.7 against Grid Player's 3.7. Conversation Therapy Lite also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 63%). Grid Player's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 9.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

Conversation Therapy Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 60 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Grid Player's written reviews are positive against 75% of Conversation Therapy Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grid Player ships an update every 3 months, Conversation Therapy Lite every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Grid Player versus Conversation Therapy Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrid PlayerConversation Therapy Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (26 ratings)4.7 (60 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.7% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2660 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better9.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB27 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSensory Software InternationalTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.

Customer experience

Grid Player

All ratings26 ratings
Positive65.4%
Neutral7.7%
Negative26.9%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive62.7%
Neutral10.4%
Negative26.9%

Conversation Therapy Lite

All ratings60 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%

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

Conversation Therapy Lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Grid Player

No in-app purchases

None

Conversation Therapy Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grid Player free?
Grid Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Conversation Therapy Lite free?
Conversation Therapy Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Grid Player or Conversation Therapy Lite?
Conversation Therapy Lite is rated higher. Grid Player averages 3.7 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Conversation Therapy Lite averages 4.7 from 60 ratings.
Do Grid Player or Conversation Therapy Lite have ads?
Neither Grid Player nor Conversation Therapy Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grid Player or Conversation Therapy Lite?
Grid Player ships an update every 3 months, and Conversation Therapy Lite every 7 months. Most recently, Grid Player was updated on October 15, 2026 and Conversation Therapy Lite on October 9, 2026.

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