Comparison

Phonology vs Board Communicator

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

Head to head
About

Phonology

This app provides speech therapy exercises for children aged 3-5 with unintelligible speech. It uses auditory discrimination activities and colorful visuals to help children distinguish and produce sounds, based on the Hodson model of Phonological Processing.

Highlights
  • Auditory discrimination activities
  • Speech intelligibility practice
  • Colorful drawings
  • Hodson model based
  • Speech model imitation
  • Record and playback feature
  • Multiple scoring methods
Features
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Phonology lets you give more Speech Therapy for children with unintelligible speech! This app is an auditory discrimination activity that helps children hear the difference between words like “stop” and “top” and say words like “cap” and “spoon”. Colorful drawings to hold children’s interest as they practice their good speech. The app is based on the Hodson model of Phonological Processing. It is appropriate for children ages 3-5 with impaired speech intelligibility. A clear speech model is presented for the child to imitate and they can record and play back their own speech. The clinician can choose from three scoring methods. 1. Score each response as correct, distorted or incorrect. 2. Score responses as correct, distorted, substituted, or omitted. 3. Score productions based on whether they are spontaneously correct/incorrect or imitatively correct/incorrect. This app is based on the Word Practice game from LocuTour’s Phonology I CD.

About

Board Communicator

This app provides a voice for individuals who cannot speak by enabling the creation of custom communication boards. Users can personalize boards with their own images and audio, or utilize a vast library of pre-recorded content. It offers flexible customization options to suit a wide range of users and learning styles.

Highlights
  • Create custom communication boards
  • Tens of thousands of images available
  • Thousands of pre-recorded audios available
  • Adjustable grid size
  • Multiple selection modes (drag and drop, tap)
  • Sentence building support
Features
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Board Communicator is a powerful and simple acc app that helps to give a voice to individuals that cannot speak on their own. "This is our go to AAC app! It is by far the simplest and easiest to customize! Even our 3 year old can use it without problems. It's made a huge difference in our home. Thank you for all of your hard work!" S. Penny - Mom of a child with autism The magic in the Board Communicator is that it is super simple and easy to customize. Kids love hearing speech in their parents voice and love to see real photos of things around their home. Board Communicator makes creating custom communication boards a breeze. You can easily adjust the settings of the Board Communicator interface to make it an effective AAC app for a wide range of users. PERSONALIZATION - Easily create your own communication boards - Get access to tens of thousands of images or easily add your own - Get access to thousands of pre-recorded audios or easily add your own - Add as many boards as you like CUSTOMIZATION - Easily adjust the grid size and decide how many items to display per row - Adjust the selection mode to support drag and drop, tap to select, or both - Hide or display the answer bar to support sentence building - Display tiles with words only, with images, or both HEROIC SUPPORT Heroic Support is not just what we do. It's really what makes us, well, us. It's that drive to make a difference in your life - no matter how big or small. Really, it's our way of life because we want you to be our customer for a lifetime of fun and learning. Have questions? We are here to help. Email us at support@grasshopperapps.com

Screenshots

Phonology4 screens
Board Communicator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Board Communicator at 58% against Phonology's 0%. Board Communicator also leads on price ($4.99 vs $5.99). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Phonology costs $5.99 and Board Communicator $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Phonology versus Board Communicator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhonologyBoard Communicator
Price$5.99$4.99 — better
Rating—1.3 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews57.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB200 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLearning Fundamentals, Inc.Innovative Investments Limited

Customer experience

Phonology

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Board Communicator

All ratings8 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative87.5%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive57.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.1%

In-app purchases

None

Phonology

No in-app purchases

None

Board Communicator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Phonology free?
Phonology costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Board Communicator free?
Board Communicator costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Phonology or Board Communicator have ads?
Neither Phonology nor Board Communicator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Phonology or Board Communicator?
Phonology ships an update every 10 months, and Board Communicator every 10 months. Most recently, Phonology was updated on October 23, 2026 and Board Communicator on October 24, 2026.

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