Comparison

ProPA vs Articulation Test Center Hive

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

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About

ProPA

This advanced assessment tool helps identify and intervene in phonological awareness skills for early literacy development. It features a redesigned interface, bilingual support, and detailed reporting for educators, clinicians, and parents.

Highlights
  • Culturally & Linguistically Responsive Assessment
  • Dynamic Bilingual Reporting
  • Modern, Distraction-Free Interface
  • Smart Progress Tracking & Visual Analysis
  • Professional, Instant PDF Reporting
  • Comprehensive Evaluation for Ages 3+
  • Time-Efficient & Customizable Administration
Features
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Profile of Phonological Awareness (Pro-PA) by Smarty Ears Unleash effective speech and literacy development with our most advanced, culturally responsive assessment tool yet. Pro-PA is a groundbreaking app created in collaboration with speech-language pathologist Tanya Coyle and the team at Smarty Ears. Designed for educators, clinicians, and parents, it facilitates early identification, assessment, and intervention in phonological awareness skills, setting a new standard in speech, language, and literacy development. Now completely redesigned with a gorgeous modern interface and industry-leading bilingual support, Pro-PA makes evaluating foundational literacy skills more intuitive, accurate, and inclusive than ever. Key Features & 2026 Enhancements NEW: Culturally & Linguistically Responsive: Pro-PA now allows you to comprehensively track a student's language exposure, including their Primary, Home, and Classroom languages. NEW: Dynamic Bilingual Reporting: When generating reports for bilingual students, the app automatically embeds a "Clinical Note on Bilingualism," protecting clinicians and ensuring scores are interpreted holistically with cross-linguistic transfer in mind. Beautifully Redesigned Interface: Enjoy a distraction-free, modern iPadOS experience featuring floating student cards and a clean, perfectly padded testing interface. During active administration, vibrant capsule buttons provide instant visual feedback for "Correct," "Missed," and "Not Administered" items. Smart Tracking & Visual Analysis: View student progress at a glance with stunning new color-coded donut charts and progress bars. Professional, Instant Reporting: Generate highly readable, perfectly formatted PDF reports that feature comprehensive student metadata—including their full Language Profile—right in the header. Easily print or email these reports to support collaboration among IEP team members and parents. Comprehensive Evaluation: An essential resource for evaluating children aged three years and older, with tasks appropriate for learners of all ages to develop early reading, writing, and speech skills. Time-Efficient Administration: Customize test content, skip sections when needed, and reduce testing time without sacrificing accuracy—ideal for busy professionals. Group Assessment: Evaluate and manage multiple students, easily identifying similar skill levels across a classroom for targeted, data-driven intervention. Areas Assessed Rhyming: Identification and production Blending: Syllables and sounds Isolating: First, middle, and last sounds Segmenting: Words, syllables, and sounds Deleting: Syllables and first sound Substituting: First and last sound Consonant clusters with special attention Who is it for? Pro-PA is perfect for educators working with groups, speech-language pathologists who need a robust, culturally responsive assessment tool, and parents who want to support their child’s phonological development. Why choose Pro-PA? Built on extensive research and clinical best practices. Developed by industry experts at Smarty Ears. A pioneer in inclusive, special-education technology. From the makers of Smarty Ears—leaders in speech and communication disorder technology—Pro-PA brings you an inclusive tool perfectly tailored to modern education needs. Download now and take the first step toward more inclusive, individualized, and data-driven education with the power of Pro-PA at your fingertips!

About

Articulation Test Center Hive

This app provides a comprehensive tool for assessing speech sound disorders in children and adults. It offers flexible testing options, intelligent scoring with auto-marked phonological processes, and interactive scenes for speech sampling. Generate data-driven reports to track progress and identify areas for practice.

Highlights
  • Flexible testing options (Screener, Full Test)
  • Intelligent scoring with auto-marked processes
  • Interactive speech scenes for sample collection
  • Comprehensive test results and progress graphs
  • Auto-generated, editable reports
  • Speech sample recording and playback
Features
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Articulation Test Center Hive (ATC Hive) is a criterion-referenced, articulation and phonology test, created by SLPs for SLPs to assess speech sound disorders in children and adults. It is a smart testing solution that offers flexible testing options, interactive speech scenes, comprehensive test results, and auto-generated, data-driven reports that will save you time! ARTICULATION TEST CENTER HIVE OFFERS: FLEXIBLE TESTING OPTIONS: Screener: Assesses the sounds and words that are developmentally appropriate based on age. Full Test: Assesses all the speech sounds in the English language including initial sounds, medial sounds, final sounds, blends, vowels, and R sounds or any combination of these sound sets. INTELLIGENT SCORING: - Quickly mark sounds incorrect or approximate - Easily mark substitutions and omissions - Enjoy 19 auto-marked phonological processes & distortions - Rate intelligibility INTERACTIVE SPEECH SCENES: Speech Sample: Offers two beautifully illustrated and interactive speech scenes for children to explore with question prompts to keep them talking. It is a fun and easy way to record and save a connected speech sample for assessing a student’s speech and language skills, and it provides a more accurate way to measure intelligibility. COMPREHENSIVE TEST RESULTS: Scores Overview: Displays progress graphs for Percent Phonemes Correct and Intelligibility, and a list of tests given. Words Tested: Displays all the words tested, how they were scored, and phonological processes & distortions marked. You can listen to recordings made and view notes. If edits are needed you can return to the test to make changes. Sound Errors: Displays the sound errors by sound position and age of acquisition. You can also mark sound errors for stimulability. Place/Manner: Displays sound errors based on the place of articulation and on the manner of articulation. It also displays vowel errors by position and quadrant. Substitutions: Displays all the substitutions made and omissions marked. Processes/Distortions: Displays all the phonological processes and distortions marked in the test. It does this with a visual graph as well as a list of processes marked. Speech Sample: The audio recording taken from the speech sample is saved and available for playback. The intelligibility can be updated and a transcription can be entered or viewed. Recommendation: Shows a quick summary of sounds and phonological processes recommended for practice and sounds processes that should be monitored for appropriate development. AUTO-GENERATED REPORTS: The Report tab presents a full written report summarizing the test results. The report can be edited and/or shared with parents, teachers, and others involved in the intervention process. Once you immerse yourself in ATC Hive’s many testing and reporting features you will come to know we invested an enormous amount of our resources and our best thinking in both the testing experience, and in the test administrator–YOU! We’re proud to offer ATC Hive as part of the Little Bee Hive membership which includes access to both Articulation Test Center Hive and Articulation Station Hive. If you are already subscribed to Articulation Station Hive (Pro tier) you may download and login to Articulation Test Center Hive with your same login information at no additional cost. SUBSCRIPTION, PRICING & TERMS: Articulation Test Center Hive offers a 14-day free trial which includes unlimited access to both Articulation Test Center Hive and Articulation Station Hive. The subscription automatically renews unless the auto-renew feature is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your Apple account at the end of your 14-day trial period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off at any time.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Articulation Test Center Hive at Free against ProPA's $49.99. Articulation Test Center Hive also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (169 vs 3). ProPA's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). On ads, device support and 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Articulation Test Center Hive is free to download; ProPA costs $49.99 up front. Articulation Test Center Hive sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. ProPA asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Articulation Test Center Hive holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Articulation Test Center Hive has 169 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of ProPA's written reviews are positive against 67% of Articulation Test Center Hive's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ProPA ships an update every 2 months, Articulation Test Center Hive monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
ProPA versus Articulation Test Center Hive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProPAArticulation Test Center Hive
Price$49.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (3 ratings)4.8 (169 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings3169 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB162 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmarty EarsLittle Bee Speech

Customer experience

ProPA

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Articulation Test Center Hive

All ratings169 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral1.2%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

ProPA

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Articulation Test Center Hive

Subscriptions2
  • Hive Pro (Monthly)14 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Hive Pro (Yearly)14 Days trial$119.991 Year

Questions

Is ProPA free?
ProPA costs $49.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Articulation Test Center Hive free?
Articulation Test Center Hive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ProPA or Articulation Test Center Hive?
Articulation Test Center Hive is rated higher. ProPA averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Articulation Test Center Hive averages 4.8 from 169 ratings.
Do ProPA or Articulation Test Center Hive have ads?
Neither ProPA nor Articulation Test Center Hive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ProPA or Articulation Test Center Hive?
ProPA ships an update every 2 months, and Articulation Test Center Hive monthly. Most recently, ProPA was updated on November 1, 2026 and Articulation Test Center Hive on November 12, 2026.

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