Comparison

SpeakColorsHD vs Barton Tiles®

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

Barton Tiles®

This app is designed for users of the Barton Reading & Spelling System. It streamlines tutoring sessions by automatically presenting lesson tiles and words, and includes student progress tracking with note-taking and email capabilities. It aims to save tutors time by managing lesson materials and student data.

Highlights
  • Student progress tracking
  • Automated lesson tiles
  • Automatic word generation
  • Note-taking per lesson
  • Email student/parents/teacher
  • Erase screen function
Features
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This app is only for people who own or use the Barton Reading & Spelling System. More than just tiles on an iPad, this app will save Barton tutors at least 10 minutes each session. How? Student tracking Set up each student once. This app keeps track of their current level and lesson. You can enter notes after each lesson. You can even send an email to the student and/or their parents or teacher – right from the app. Tiles appear automatically Tap on a student’s name and their lesson appears – with all the tiles needed for that lesson. Words appear automatically No need to build the words when you are teaching. Just click on the Next Word button. You will gain at least 10 minutes of teaching time per session. Never put tiles away When spelling with tiles, your student will pull down a COPY of each tile. When he is done, just click on the “Erase Screen” button. You never have to put tiles away.

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Barton Tiles® at Free against SpeakColorsHD's $3.99. Barton Tiles® also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (17 vs 1). SpeakColorsHD's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On rating, review sentiment, ads 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

Barton Tiles® is free to download; SpeakColorsHD costs $3.99 up front. Barton Tiles® sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. SpeakColorsHD asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for SpeakColorsHD against 4.1 for Barton Tiles®. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Barton Tiles® has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of SpeakColorsHD's written reviews are positive against 76% of Barton Tiles®'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SpeakColorsHD ships an update every 15 months, Barton Tiles® every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SpeakColorsHD versus Barton Tiles®: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeakColorsHDBarton Tiles®
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.1 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews76.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings117 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRWH Technology, LLCBright Solutions for Dyslexia, Inc.

Customer experience

SpeakColorsHD

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

Barton Tiles®

All ratings17 ratings
Positive76.5%
Neutral5.9%
Negative17.6%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral5.9%
Negative17.6%

In-app purchases

None

SpeakColorsHD

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Barton Tiles®

One-time10
  • Phonemic Awareness$29.99
  • Consonants & Short Vowels$29.99
  • Closed & Unit Syllables$29.99
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  • Multi-Syllable words and Vowel Teams$29.99
  • Prefixes & Suffixes$29.99
  • Six Reasons for Silent-E$29.99
  • Vowel-R's$29.99
  • Advanced Vowel Teams$29.99
  • Influence of Foreign Languages$29.99
  • Latin Roots and Greek Combining Forms$29.99

Questions

Is SpeakColorsHD free?
SpeakColorsHD costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Barton Tiles® free?
Barton Tiles® is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SpeakColorsHD or Barton Tiles®?
Barton Tiles® is rated higher. SpeakColorsHD averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Barton Tiles® averages 4.1 from 17 ratings.
Do SpeakColorsHD or Barton Tiles® have ads?
Neither SpeakColorsHD nor Barton Tiles® shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SpeakColorsHD or Barton Tiles®?
SpeakColorsHD ships an update every 15 months, and Barton Tiles® every 2 months. Most recently, SpeakColorsHD was updated on November 1, 2026 and Barton Tiles® on November 6, 2026.

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