Comparison

SpeakColorsHD vs Developing Sentence Strips

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

Head to head
About

SpeakColorsHD

This app helps young children with speech and language delays practice imitating and using simple sentences. It focuses on colors, objects, and vocabulary development through interactive exercises and voice recording.

Highlights
  • Imitate and use simple sentences
  • Improve vocabulary skills
  • Enhance phrase length
  • Practice speech/articulation
  • Record own voice
  • Import custom photos
Features
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SpeakColorsHD is a speech therapy app designed to encourage young children to imitate and use simple sentences using colors and photos of objects. This app is geared toward toddlers with speech and language delays, autism, Down syndrome and other developmental disorders. This app does much more than just teach colors. Use SpeakColorsHD to improve the following: - Receptive and expressive vocabulary skills - Phrase length - Spoken sentences - Speech/Articulation skills - Initiation and choice making skills for colors and objects - Fluency skills This premium version of SpeakColors includes: - 7 common colors - 200 colorful photographs of objects - 13 Types of sentences - 1469 Sentences - English female voice recordings - Import your own photos - Add/delete nouns for the sentences - Record your own voice - Microphone for your child to record their own voice for practicing the names of colors, food, animals, toys and common objects. "Increasing the number of words used in sentences and improving reading skills are two skills the affordable SpeakColors HD will help speech therapists and parents develop in their students." ~ iHeartThisApp.com "SpeakColorsHD is a simple and effective app with a solid amount of content." ~ theiPhoneMom.com "It is also great for teaching adjective+ noun phrases..." ~ Special Apps, Special Kids "I find it great for children with dyspraxia (childhood apraxia of speech) where you are working on multiple targets and trying to move them onto short sentences." ~ SpeechBlogUK "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 4/5 Overall Rating ~ Technology In (SPL) Education 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. *** 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. - Does not contain ads. - Does not contain In-App-Purchases. - Does not contain push notifications.

About

Developing Sentence Strips

Features
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As you work with learners to broaden their reading/sight word volcabulary, helping them see the words used in context is an important tool. Buying commercial sentence strips or preparing them in advance can certainly be helpful, but we wanted a way to tap into the context of the moment as we worked with learners. Writing out a sentence and then cutting out each word is time consuming and cumbersome while working one-on-one or in small groups with learners. Our goal for this app was to provide a tool to quickly enter a sentence given by a learner, break that sentence into individual words, and scatter them on the "table" for them to reconstruct their sentence. We also included a way to easily add/remove punctuation and add/delete words one at a time.

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Developing Sentence Strips at Free against SpeakColorsHD's $3.99. Developing Sentence Strips also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 15 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.6). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Developing Sentence Strips is free to download; SpeakColorsHD costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SpeakColorsHD ships an update every 15 months, Developing Sentence Strips fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SpeakColorsHD versus Developing Sentence Strips: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeakColorsHDDeveloping Sentence Strips
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS17.610.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRWH Technology, LLCClassroom Focused Software

In-app purchases

None

SpeakColorsHD

No in-app purchases

None

Developing Sentence Strips

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SpeakColorsHD free?
SpeakColorsHD costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Developing Sentence Strips free?
Developing Sentence Strips is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SpeakColorsHD or Developing Sentence Strips have ads?
Neither SpeakColorsHD nor Developing Sentence Strips shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SpeakColorsHD or Developing Sentence Strips?
SpeakColorsHD ships an update every 15 months, and Developing Sentence Strips fortnightly. Most recently, SpeakColorsHD was updated on September 29, 2026 and Developing Sentence Strips on October 3, 2026.

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