Comparison

Phonology vs Articulation Carnival Pro

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

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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

Articulation Carnival Pro

This app provides a comprehensive program for practicing English pronunciation of all phonemes. It offers thousands of photos and audio stimuli, allowing customization for speech therapists. Students are motivated by carnival games as rewards for practicing speech sounds.

Highlights
  • Practice all English phonemes
  • Word, phrase, and sentence levels
  • Thousands of photos and audio stimuli
  • Customizable word lists and audio
  • Four carnival reward games
  • Supports bilabial, labial, labiodental, and more phonemes
Features
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****My students LOVE this app! They are motivated to work hard during the drill portion of the app so they can participate in the carnival games. This app is truly a hit with all age groups! (Appabled)**** The Articulation Carnival app is a comprehensive and flexible articulation program to practice pronunciation of ALL English phonemes at the word, phrase, and sentence levels. The app includes thousands of photos and prerecorded audio stimuli. It allows speech therapists to edit targeted words and to add their own photos and audio recordings. The Articulation Carnival app was developed using the latest app technologies, making it the most fun articulation app on the market. Kids will be motivated to drill different speech sounds, since they will be rewarded with four different carnival games: -Balloon Darts -Basketball -Spray Ducks -Strength Hammer Articulation Carnival offers the following phonemes: •bilabial phonemes: p-/p/, b-/b/, m-/m/ (initial, medial, and final positions of words; twenty pictures per phoneme and per position at the word, unique phrase, and sentence level); •labial phonemes: w-/w/ (initial and medial positions of words; twenty pictures per phoneme and per position at the word, unique phrase, and sentence level); •labiodental phonemes: f-/f/, v-/v/ (initial, medial, and final positions of words; twenty pictures per phoneme and per position at the word, unique phrase, and sentence level); •linguadental phonemes: voiceless th- /ϴ/, voiced th- /ð/ (voiceless: initial, medial, final positions of words; twenty pictures per phoneme per position at the word, unique phrase and sentence level; voiced: initial [twenty words] and medial positions of words with twenty pictures at the unique phrase and sentence level); •lingual-alveolar phonemes: t-/t/, d-/d/, s-/s/, z-/z/, n-/n/, l-/l/ (initial and medial positions of words; twenty pictures per phoneme and per position at the word, unique phrase, and sentence level); •linguapalatal phonemes: sh, ch, j, y, r-/r/ (all the phonemes in the initial, medial, and final positions of words except for y-/j/ [initial and medial positions of words]; twenty pictures per phoneme and per position at the word, unique phrase, and sentence level); •linguavelar phonemes: k-/k/, g-/g/; glottal phonemes: h-/h/ (all the phonemes in the initial, medial, and final positions of words except for h-/h/ [initial position of words]; twenty pictures per phoneme and per position at the word, unique phrase, and sentence level); Additional phonemes: •l-blends: bl, fl, gl, kl, pl, sl, gl (initial position of words; ten pictures per phoneme at word, phrase, and sentence level); •r-blends: br, dr, fr, gr, kr, pr, tr (initial position of words; ten pictures per phoneme at word, phrase, and sentence level); •s-blends: sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st (initial position of words; ten pictures per phoneme at: word, phrase, and sentence level); and •Vocalic r: air, ar, ear, er, ire, or (initial, medial, and final positions of words; ten pictures per phoneme per position at the word, phrase, and sentence level) and rl. Articulation Carnival is easy to navigate and allows users to employ several tools to perform the following: -add additional photos and audio recording -enter multiple students -select multiple phonemes for each student -save selected phonemes for next sessions -select alternate counts for multiple students -enable or disable written picture descriptions -use audio recording feature -track correct, approximate and incorrect responses -view reports in table and graphical forms -e-mail results at the end of the game -add notes during sessions -save audio recordings from sessions -backup and restore data -select sounds for correct, approximate and incorrect responses -shuffle pages for each session -show or hide score during session -enable or disable games as rewards -configure rewards for each game -enable or disable game background music

Screenshots

Phonology4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Articulation Carnival Pro at 57% against Phonology's 0%. Articulation Carnival Pro also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 10 months) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 9.0). Phonology's advantage is price ($5.99 vs $36.99) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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 Articulation Carnival Pro $36.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Phonology ships an update every 10 months, Articulation Carnival Pro every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Phonology versus Articulation Carnival Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhonologyArticulation Carnival Pro
Price$5.99 — better$36.99
Rating—2.6 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews57.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS9.07.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB524 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLearning Fundamentals, Inc.Virtual Speech Center Inc.

Customer experience

Phonology

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

Articulation Carnival Pro

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral21.4%
Negative21.4%

In-app purchases

None

Phonology

No in-app purchases

None

Articulation Carnival Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Phonology free?
Phonology costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Articulation Carnival Pro free?
Articulation Carnival Pro costs $36.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Phonology or Articulation Carnival Pro have ads?
Neither Phonology nor Articulation Carnival Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Phonology or Articulation Carnival Pro?
Phonology ships an update every 10 months, and Articulation Carnival Pro every 5 weeks. Most recently, Phonology was updated on November 1, 2026 and Articulation Carnival Pro on November 1, 2026.

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