Comparison

SentenceBuilderTeen™ vs ClaroSpeak Plus

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

Head to head
About

SentenceBuilderTeen™

This app helps teenagers build grammatically correct sentences using a fun and engaging interface. It focuses on connector words and includes teen-themed images and audio to support learning. Track progress with detailed statistics.

Highlights
  • Intuitive sentence building interface
  • 100 teenager-themed pictures
  • 3 levels of play
  • 30 encouragement audio clips
  • Optional correct sentence audio
  • Progress tracking statistics
Features
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**WINNER** - 2010 IEAR Language Arts App of the Year!!! Own as an individual app or as part of our MES Speech Therapy Bundle. SentenceBuilderTeen™ is designed to help teenage children learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. The content for SentenceBuilderTeen™ is identical to the IAP's of the award winning SentenceBuilder™, but in a stand alone app for teenagers. SentenceBuilderTeen™ pays explicit attention to the connector words that make up over 80% of the english language. Combined with images that will appeal to older children, SentenceBuilderTeen™ offers a rich and fun environment for improving the grammar of teenaged special needs children. FEATURES - Simple and intuitive interface to build sentences - 100 teenager themed pictures to build sentences around - 3 Levels of play - 30 encouragement audio clips - Optional correct sentence audio re-enforcement - Statistics to track students progress - Individual student statistics page We take children's privacy seriously. This app - Does not collect any information - Does not contain ads - Does not contain in-app purchases - Does not link to social networks - Does not use data collection tools LANGUAGES - English REQUIREMENTS - Compatible with iPad SentenceBuilderTeen is part of "The Builder Series" of award winning education apps. Mobile Education Store has won over 40 app awards and has been named educational developer of the year in 2011 and 2012. Mobile Education Tools is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families. Recommended Ages: 11-16 Categories: Special Needs

About

ClaroSpeak Plus

This app aids reading and writing with advanced text-to-speech, customizable formatting, and OCR technology to extract text from photos. It supports cloud integration and offers word prediction to improve literacy and proofreading.

Highlights
  • Text-to-Speech with highlighting
  • Capture text from photos (OCR)
  • Word prediction and autocorrection
  • Customizable font, size, and layout
  • Cloud storage integration
  • Save text as audio files
Features
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ClaroSpeak is a reading and writing app with high-quality text-to-speech, formatting controls, a wide range of fonts and styles and cloud storage integration. ClaroSpeak Plus also includes our "Capture Text from Photo" feature with high quality Optical Character Recognition (powered by ABBYY). ClaroSpeak provides visual highlighting in-sync with spoken words, a great range of color and font settings to allow for optimum reading, and word prediction to help with writing. ClaroSpeak is a quality app for proofreading text through listening, helping with reading and literacy development, and creating audio files from any text. PRODUCT FEATURES • Text-to-Speech - Type into ClaroSpeak and have the text read back to you. You can check text and proofread it quickly and easily. - You can import documents into ClaroSpeak from apps such as Mail, or import directly from Dropbox or Google Drive using ClaroSpeak's integration. ClaroSpeak can open a range of document formats including Word doc, PDF and epub. - Text from any app can be copied and pasted into ClaroSpeak ready to be read back. - Apple's speech recognition can be used to dictate text directly into ClaroSpeak, and can be listened back to ensure it is right. - The Apple spell check works in ClaroSpeak too, further helping accuracy. - You can save the text as an audio file using the same high-quality voice. • High-Quality Voices 4 high-quality Nuance Vocalizer voices are available as free downloads, with the language of your choice. The voice can be made to speak faster or slower. The voices are installed within ClaroSpeak, so they work when not online and do not use up any data allowance. Additional Nuance & Acapela voices in 30+ languages and even more accents are available through in-app purchase in ClaroSpeak. • Capture text from photo This feature lets you select a photo from your library or take a new one with your camera. Your chosen image will be scanned for text, using high-quality OCR (powered by ABBYY), and the text in the image will be inserted into ClaroSpeak. ***Minimum camera spec: 2MP*** • Word Prediction & Autocorrection Word prediction helps with writing more quickly and accurately. Train dictionaries from the current text so the best suggestions come up first. Enable Claro autocorrect and ClaroSpeak will use our specifically designed correction list to automatically correct misspelt words as they are typed. • Visual Highlighting Text is highlighted as the text is read back. Highlighting allows you to coordinate reading and listening. ClaroSpeak lets you pick the color and style of highlighting required. There are four highlighting modes to choose from: none, word by word, word trail, or sentence by sentence highlighting. • Font & Layout Change the font type, size or color to suit your needs. Layout the text for easier reading by adjusting the character, line and paragraph spacing and adjusting the page margins. Text can be formatted bold, italic and underlined to emphasize. Images can be inserted into the text from the camera or your library. • Save to Audio Convert any text into an audio file using any of the high-quality voices. This is quick and easy, allowing text to be listened to on the move. Great for proofreading on the go. • Sharing your text Text created within ClaroSpeak can be emailed, messaged, printed, opened in another app, or copied and pasted into another app, like Safari. Sending the text to Facebook and Twitter lets you join in with social media. • Read webpages You can now read webpages in Safari and other browsers, using the "Read with ClaroSpeak" extension from the share menu. • Dropbox and Google Drive Integration Open documents stored in Dropbox or Google Drive directly in ClaroSpeak. Save text and audio files directly back to Dropbox or Google Drive. Great for transferring files between devices and keeping files in the cloud. For the latest news, tips and advice follow @ClaroSpeak on Twitter.

Screenshots

ClaroSpeak Plus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SentenceBuilderTeen™ at 93% against ClaroSpeak Plus's 18%. SentenceBuilderTeen™ also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and price ($5.99 vs $9.99). ClaroSpeak Plus's advantage is rating (3.4 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 14 months). On ads and monetization model 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

SentenceBuilderTeen™ costs $5.99 and ClaroSpeak Plus $9.99 up front. ClaroSpeak Plus sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. SentenceBuilderTeen™ asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ClaroSpeak Plus holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 93% of SentenceBuilderTeen™'s written reviews are positive against 18% of ClaroSpeak Plus's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SentenceBuilderTeen™ ships an update every 14 months, ClaroSpeak Plus every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
SentenceBuilderTeen™ versus ClaroSpeak Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSentenceBuilderTeen™ClaroSpeak Plus
Price$5.99 — better$9.99
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)3.4 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.0% of reviews — better18.2% of reviews
Number of ratings29 — better
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB723 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMobile Education Store LLCClaro Software Limited

Customer experience

SentenceBuilderTeen™

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive93.0%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.7%

ClaroSpeak Plus

All ratings9 ratings
Positive55.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive18.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative81.8%

In-app purchases

None

SentenceBuilderTeen™

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

ClaroSpeak Plus

One-time10
  • Allison$1.99
  • Heather$1.99
  • Ryan$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Tracy$1.99
  • Micah$1.99
  • Rod$1.99
  • Will$1.99
  • Peter$1.99
  • Rachel$1.99
  • Susan$1.99

Questions

Is SentenceBuilderTeen™ free?
SentenceBuilderTeen™ costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ClaroSpeak Plus free?
ClaroSpeak Plus costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SentenceBuilderTeen™ or ClaroSpeak Plus?
ClaroSpeak Plus is rated higher. SentenceBuilderTeen™ averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while ClaroSpeak Plus averages 3.4 from 9 ratings.
Do SentenceBuilderTeen™ or ClaroSpeak Plus have ads?
Neither SentenceBuilderTeen™ nor ClaroSpeak Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SentenceBuilderTeen™ or ClaroSpeak Plus?
SentenceBuilderTeen™ ships an update every 14 months, and ClaroSpeak Plus every 3 weeks. Most recently, SentenceBuilderTeen™ was updated on October 14, 2026 and ClaroSpeak Plus on October 23, 2026.

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