Verbal Me Sampler vs Skies Learn
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.
Skies Learn
Create and deliver collaborative lessons with an interactive bulletin board. Easily add rich content, questions, and quizzes to foster discussion and group work. Ideal for teachers and students to build and contribute to lessons together.
- Collaborative lesson creation
- Interactive bulletin board
- Rich content cards
- Discussion questions
- Quiz integration
- Student presentations
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SKIES is the easiest way to create and deliver collaborative lessons. It's like a class bulletin board, but bigger, and everyone can branch off each others' ideas endlessly. Add informational cards containing rich text, photos, drawings, web links, and more. Slip in questions to kick off a discussion. Attach quiz questions to discover what everyone else knows. Teachers, it's never been easier to make a lesson -- and students, it's never been easier to add to one! Great for formative assessment, labs, discussions, group work, and student presentations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Verbal Me Sampler at 4.2 against Skies Learn's 3.0. Verbal Me Sampler also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 43%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Skies Learn's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (91 vs 14). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Verbal Me Sampler holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skies Learn has 91 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Verbal Me Sampler's written reviews are positive against 43% of Skies Learn's.
Verbal Me Sampler ships an update every 5 months, Skies Learn every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Verbal Me Sampler | Skies Learn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (14 ratings) — better | 3.0 (91 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better | 43.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 91 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — 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 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fishdog.net | Su-Kam Intelligent Education Systems Inc |
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Verbal Me Sampler
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In-app purchases
Verbal Me Sampler
No in-app purchases
Skies Learn
No in-app purchases
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