SpeakColors vs Lexico Cognition
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SpeakColors
This iPad app helps young children with speech and language delays practice using two-word phrases with colors and objects. It features colorful photos and allows voice recording to build vocabulary and language skills.
- Two-word phrase practice
- Color and object vocabulary
- Voice recording
- Interactive photos
- Progressive language skills
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SpeakColors is an iPad app designed to encourage young children to imitate and use two word phrases with color words and common objects. The app is geared toward toddlers with speech and language delays, autism, Down syndrome and other developmental disorders. This motivating app increases vocabulary skills, phrase length, and receptive and expressive language. This lite version of SpeakColors contains 7 common colors and 100 colorful photographs of objects. Children can record their own voice to name colors, food, animals, toys, and common objects. "SpeakColors can do an excellent job of teaching words and sentence structure as a precursor to or in conjunction with other reinforcing hands-on multi-modality activities." ~ SpeechPathologyApps.com *** Free App of the Week in SpeechPathologyApps.com Newsletter (05/31/2012) *** Instructions: - From the main menu, press "Start". - Pick a color from the top of the screen. - Pick a sentence template from the upper-left of the screen. - Swipe left or swipe right (or use arrow buttons) to change objects. - Press a color or object in the middle of the screen to hear the name of the color or object. *** Includes In App Purchase to unlock features of the Full Version. *** *** Disclosure *** At RWH Technology we are committed to the privacy and safety of our customers and their children. This app: - Does not collect/share any user's personally identifiable information. - Does not contain Social Network Integration or Links to Social Media. - Does not contain ads. - Does not contain push notifications. - Does contain In-App-Purchase on a separate, parent oriented screen.
Lexico Cognition
This app uses playful games to enhance language comprehension, vocabulary, and cognitive skills. It offers 30 games with 360 questions across various themes, suitable for children without reading skills and adults with speech disorders.
- Language understanding development
- Vocabulary building games
- Cognitive and memory skill enhancement
- 30 diverse games
- 360 questions and answers
- Suitable for non-readers and adults
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Lexico Cognition helps to develop language understanding, vocabulary building, cognitive and memory skills in a playful way. 30 games contain 360 question and answers in a variety of themes : pairs, relations, activity, descriptions, positions and opposites. Application: - speech therapy for children without reading skills - reading exercises - language teaching (English as a second language) - Independent practice for adults with a speech disorder. Lexico apps are developed by experienced speech-language professionals. Lexico Cognition contains the level "E". All other levels can be unlocked with one in-app purchase. Lexico Cognition is also available in these languages : Spanish (Lexico Cognitión), Portuguese (Lexico Compreender), French (Lexico Comprendre), German (Lexico Verstehen), Italian (Lexico Comprensione), Dutch (Lexico Cognitie) and Arabic (Lexico الفهم اللغوي)
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lexico Cognition at 4.3 against SpeakColors's 2.5. Lexico Cognition also leads on update cadence (every 8 months vs every 16 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). SpeakColors's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 55%). 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
Both are free to download. SpeakColors sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Lexico Cognition sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lexico Cognition holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of SpeakColors's written reviews are positive against 55% of Lexico Cognition's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SpeakColors ships an update every 16 months, Lexico Cognition every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SpeakColors | Lexico Cognition |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (4 ratings) | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 55.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RWH Technology, LLC | Pappy GmbH |
Customer experience
SpeakColors
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In-app purchases
SpeakColors
- Full Version$3.99
Lexico Cognition
- unlock all levels of Lexico-Cognition$24.99
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