Verbal Me Sampler vs Choicegenics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Verbal Me Sampler
This communication aid app allows non-verbal children to express themselves by tapping buttons that speak text aloud. It features pre-set screens with text and pictures for easy participation, and offers voice options. This sampler version provides a limited selection of common communication boards.
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Buttons with text and/or pictures
- Pre-set communication screens
- Choice of boy or girl voice
- Screen navigation options
- Spanish language version available
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This is a sample version of Verbal Me, a basic AAC and choice board app designed by special needs teachers for their students. Non-verbal kids can tap a button and the iPad will speak the button text aloud in either a boy's or girl's voice. This limited version includes 14 screen choices: yes-no, A-B-C, 1-2-3-4-5, Happy-Mad-Sad-Calm, Day-Night, bullying, weather, colors, fruits, letter sounds. Buttons contain text and/or picture so non-reading students can participate. By default, left- and right-arrow buttons allow students to switch screens. Optionally, the screen-switching buttons can be hidden and the adult switches screens by sliding one finger from the upper right to the lower left of the screen. Choose one of 18 screens and girl or boy voice. On the Settings screen, there is a link to the full version Verbal Me app with over 100 screen choices. A Spanish-language version is also available.
Choicegenics
This communication app aids individuals with speech and language challenges using an auditory-visual method. It allows users to create custom boards with images and text, enabling text-to-speech and navigation for seamless interaction. Data can be backed up and restored for convenience.
- Customizable communication boards
- Image and text integration
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Board navigation and linking
- Data backup and restore
- Folder organization for boards
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Choicegenics is an AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) app for persons with special needs, who may have speech and language challenges and use an auditory-visual method of communication. The app provides features to create boards using images and texts. Actions, such as text to speech and navigation to other boards can be configured on choice selection to provide immediate feedback and continued communication opportunity. Boards can be created at home level, and also inside folders for ease of access and logical categorization. The boards inside a folder can be linked to provide paginated choices. Users can also backup their data to google drive and import previous data to restore boards and folders.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Choicegenics at 4.6 against Verbal Me Sampler's 4.2. Choicegenics also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Choicegenics holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of Verbal Me Sampler's written reviews are positive against 67% of Choicegenics's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Verbal Me Sampler ships an update every 5 months, Choicegenics every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Verbal Me Sampler | Choicegenics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (14 ratings) | 4.6 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fishdog.net | Pooja Kumar |
Customer experience
Verbal Me Sampler
Choicegenics
In-app purchases
Verbal Me Sampler
No in-app purchases
Choicegenics
No in-app purchases
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