Gabby vs Jellow Plus AAC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gabby
This app provides an affordable and powerful communication tool for individuals with disabilities that affect verbal communication. It uses images, text, and audio to help users express themselves, with customizable interfaces and multiple user profiles.
- Create and modify custom vocabulary
- Text-to-speech and voice recording
- Multiple user profiles with privacy
- Organize vocabulary with folders/tags
- Quick Access Panel for frequent items
- Image capture and basic editing
- Send text/email messages
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Everyone deserves the gift of gab! But some disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, stroke, and autism, make verbal communication almost impossible. With Gabby, there is finally an affordable, yet powerful program to help you find your voice. Using images associated to text and/or audio combined with an easy to use and configurable interface, allows people with all ranges of disabilities to communicate much easier. Key features: ▪ Easily create and modify your own vocabulary. ▪ Use the built-in text-to-speech (TTS), or record your own voice. ▪ Administration mode so normal users can't modify or change anything. ▪ Multiple users with passwords (all vocabulary and organization private to each user). ▪ Temporarily hide vocabulary from view (until unhidden). ▪ Organize your vocabulary into any combination of folders or tags. ▪ Access vocabulary by folder, or view (most recent, most used, GPS location, etc). ▪ Quick Access Panel to keep vocabulary used often always available. ▪ Text mode: Gabby can read back anything you type. ▪ Sentence mode: Combine multiple vocabulary to form a sentence and play it back. ▪ Immediate mode: Click on an image and have the phrase or phonetic phrase spoken by TTS or your own audio played back. ▪ Built in web browser to provide easy access to images on the web. ▪ Image capture from camera, photo album, or web browser. ▪ Basic image editing (flip horizontal/vertical, crop, zoom, pan) without leaving the application. ▪ Send text/e-mail message while in sentence or text mode. ▪ Each vocabulary item has an image, phrase, phonetic phrase, tags, and comments. ▪ GPS Location, usage count, date, and time are all captured as each vocabulary item is used. ▪ Advanced search capability to find your vocabulary quickly. View video tutorials here: http://www.enabledsoftware.net/vid-basic.html Please note: 1. The images provided are for example only. It is strongly suggested that you use your own images to customize the application to your own needs. 2. All settings are accessible from the information screen (by tapping the Info button in the top right corner of the application,
Jellow Plus AAC
This communication aid uses a vast library of icons and images to help adults with speech and language difficulties construct phrases and sentences. It supports users with conditions like Autism, Cerebral Palsy, and Down's syndrome, enabling them to express themselves and gradually learn to speak.
- Icon-based phrase and sentence construction
- Extensive library of ~5000 icons
- Categorized icons for easy sentence building
- Keyboard feature for custom sentence generation
- Text-to-speech with multiple accents and voices
- Supports users with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down's syndrome
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Jellow Plus Communicator is a friendly Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) system that uses icons/images to enable aid communication in adults learning to speak or with difficulty with speech and language. Jellow Plus helps non-verbal adults to communicate by constructing their own phrases/sentences and gradually learn to speak - especially those with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, and Down’s syndrome. Jellow Plus is also an extension of Jellow Basic. It has all the icons and much more in this version. The expressive buttons, which were part of the Emotional Language Protocol (ELP) driving Jellow Basic, are available in Jellow Plus. These features make it easy for children using Jellow Basic to graduate to Jellow Plus as they grow up, making it possible to communicate better. Jellow Plus is designed especially for adults and can be used to form words, phrases and sentences frequently used in their daily lives. Jellow’s library of icons can help adults communicate using pictures along with their corresponding word labels. Jellow Plus has a library of around 5000(?) icons designed specially with feedback from users. These are organized in different categories based on parts of the speech to make it convenient to form a sentence. Some of these categories are verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, expressions, etc. In addition, using the 'keyboard' feature, the user can also generate new sentences and use the app to speak them out aloud. The current version of the app allows the user to choose English language with multiple accents Indian, American, British, Australia, Nigeria along with a choice of voices. Other languages are being introduced. Jellow Plus is developed with support from the IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay, UNICEF, the Ministry and Hospitals. It is designed iteratively with regular feedback from users namely children, parents, therapists, teachers and care givers. Jellow Plus is a premium application which requires subscription to use the application. If you have any suggestions for improvement, please submit your feedback/comments via email at jellowcommunicator@gmail.com For further information on Jellow Plus and FAQs, please visit www.jellow.org https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Jellow Plus AAC at Free against Gabby's $4.99. Jellow Plus AAC also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). Gabby's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (3.0 vs 2.6). On iOS requirement 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
Jellow Plus AAC is free to download; Gabby costs $4.99 up front. Jellow Plus AAC sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Gabby asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gabby holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jellow Plus AAC has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Gabby's written reviews are positive against 33% of Jellow Plus AAC's.
| Parameter | Gabby | Jellow Plus AAC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Enabled Software | Ravi Poovaiah |
Customer experience
Gabby
Jellow Plus AAC
In-app purchases
Gabby
No in-app purchases
Jellow Plus AAC
- Monthly$4.991 Month
- Annual$14.991 Year









