Comparison

Social Quest vs ClaroSpeak Plus

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

Head to head
About

Social Quest

This app uses gamified scenarios to help tweens and teens develop essential social-emotional and problem-solving skills. It offers over 800 narratives with real-life images to facilitate therapeutic discussions and skill generalization. Features include automated data collection and IEP-ready reporting for progress tracking.

Highlights
  • Evidence-based social-pragmatic intervention
  • Over 800 real-life scenarios with images
  • Gamified learning with quest theme
  • Personalized student profiles and rewards
  • Automated data collection and reporting
  • Focus on generalization of skills
Features
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The Definitive Social-Pragmatic Intervention for Teens & Tweens Winner: Best Educational App by Teachers with Apps Social Quest is the premier, evidence-based gamified intervention tool developed by a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) to help tweens and teens (Ages 8-17) master crucial pragmatic language, social-emotional, and problem-solving skills. Stop searching for relevant, age-appropriate materials. Social Quest provides over 800 high-interest narratives paired with real-life contextual images set in everyday locations like home, school, and the community. This app transforms abstract social concepts into a motivating, customizable quest, providing the vital "jumping-off" points for deep therapeutic discussion. Why Professionals and Families Choose Social Quest: 1. Evidence-Based & Curriculum-Ready Story-Based Intervention: Aligned with evidence-based practices found effective for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and social communication disorders. Targeted Pragmatic Skills: Explicitly addresses perspective-taking, conversational maintenance, gauging reactions, problem-solving, and developing self-talk for anxiety reduction. Focus on Generalization: Features separate Receptive (multiple choice) and Expressive (open-ended) activities to promote the generalization of skills beyond the therapy room and into real-world settings. 2. Motivating Quest Theme & Personalized Profiles Gamified Learning: Students navigate a "Tele-Transporter Machine" to visit different locations and solve social challenges. Hall of Heroes: Easily manage multiple student profiles with customizable avatars or real photos to build ownership of progress. The Hall of Rewards: Reinforce growth with skill-linked tokens—such as a "Saddle" for asserting control or a "Prism" for perspective—providing tangible anchors for discussing social success. 3. Critical Data Tracking & IEP-Ready Reporting Automated Data Collection: Effortlessly track student accuracy across activities, specific locations, and individual sessions. Detailed Report Cards: Generate comprehensive session reports highlighting accuracy, items presented, and most/least successful locations. Seamless Sharing: Print or email reports directly to parents and case managers, simplifying record-keeping and enhancing parent-professional communication. The Social Quest Advantage Real-World Contexts: Scenarios are set in the kitchen, library, supermarket, mall, doctor’s office, and more to ensure high ecological validity. Flexible Social Scripts: Customize Receptive activities to require one or two correct answers, reflecting the nuanced and flexible nature of social rules. Multi-Sensory Support: Every question includes high-quality contextual images, text, and accompanying audio to support diverse learning needs and literacy levels. Bring the quest for social competence into your practice or home today!

About

ClaroSpeak Plus

This app aids reading and writing with advanced text-to-speech, customizable formatting, and OCR technology to extract text from photos. It supports cloud integration and offers word prediction to improve literacy and proofreading.

Highlights
  • Text-to-Speech with highlighting
  • Capture text from photos (OCR)
  • Word prediction and autocorrection
  • Customizable font, size, and layout
  • Cloud storage integration
  • Save text as audio files
Features
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ClaroSpeak is a reading and writing app with high-quality text-to-speech, formatting controls, a wide range of fonts and styles and cloud storage integration. ClaroSpeak Plus also includes our "Capture Text from Photo" feature with high quality Optical Character Recognition (powered by ABBYY). ClaroSpeak provides visual highlighting in-sync with spoken words, a great range of color and font settings to allow for optimum reading, and word prediction to help with writing. ClaroSpeak is a quality app for proofreading text through listening, helping with reading and literacy development, and creating audio files from any text. PRODUCT FEATURES • Text-to-Speech - Type into ClaroSpeak and have the text read back to you. You can check text and proofread it quickly and easily. - You can import documents into ClaroSpeak from apps such as Mail, or import directly from Dropbox or Google Drive using ClaroSpeak's integration. ClaroSpeak can open a range of document formats including Word doc, PDF and epub. - Text from any app can be copied and pasted into ClaroSpeak ready to be read back. - Apple's speech recognition can be used to dictate text directly into ClaroSpeak, and can be listened back to ensure it is right. - The Apple spell check works in ClaroSpeak too, further helping accuracy. - You can save the text as an audio file using the same high-quality voice. • High-Quality Voices 4 high-quality Nuance Vocalizer voices are available as free downloads, with the language of your choice. The voice can be made to speak faster or slower. The voices are installed within ClaroSpeak, so they work when not online and do not use up any data allowance. Additional Nuance & Acapela voices in 30+ languages and even more accents are available through in-app purchase in ClaroSpeak. • Capture text from photo This feature lets you select a photo from your library or take a new one with your camera. Your chosen image will be scanned for text, using high-quality OCR (powered by ABBYY), and the text in the image will be inserted into ClaroSpeak. ***Minimum camera spec: 2MP*** • Word Prediction & Autocorrection Word prediction helps with writing more quickly and accurately. Train dictionaries from the current text so the best suggestions come up first. Enable Claro autocorrect and ClaroSpeak will use our specifically designed correction list to automatically correct misspelt words as they are typed. • Visual Highlighting Text is highlighted as the text is read back. Highlighting allows you to coordinate reading and listening. ClaroSpeak lets you pick the color and style of highlighting required. There are four highlighting modes to choose from: none, word by word, word trail, or sentence by sentence highlighting. • Font & Layout Change the font type, size or color to suit your needs. Layout the text for easier reading by adjusting the character, line and paragraph spacing and adjusting the page margins. Text can be formatted bold, italic and underlined to emphasize. Images can be inserted into the text from the camera or your library. • Save to Audio Convert any text into an audio file using any of the high-quality voices. This is quick and easy, allowing text to be listened to on the move. Great for proofreading on the go. • Sharing your text Text created within ClaroSpeak can be emailed, messaged, printed, opened in another app, or copied and pasted into another app, like Safari. Sending the text to Facebook and Twitter lets you join in with social media. • Read webpages You can now read webpages in Safari and other browsers, using the "Read with ClaroSpeak" extension from the share menu. • Dropbox and Google Drive Integration Open documents stored in Dropbox or Google Drive directly in ClaroSpeak. Save text and audio files directly back to Dropbox or Google Drive. Great for transferring files between devices and keeping files in the cloud. For the latest news, tips and advice follow @ClaroSpeak on Twitter.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Social Quest at 86% against ClaroSpeak Plus's 18%. Social Quest also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). ClaroSpeak Plus's advantage is price ($9.99 vs $29.99) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 14 months). On ratings volume, ads 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

Social Quest costs $29.99 and ClaroSpeak Plus $9.99 up front. ClaroSpeak Plus sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Social Quest asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Social Quest holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Social Quest's written reviews are positive against 18% of ClaroSpeak Plus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Social Quest ships an update every 14 months, ClaroSpeak Plus every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Social Quest versus ClaroSpeak Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSocial QuestClaroSpeak Plus
Price$29.99$9.99 — better
Rating4.2 (6 ratings) — better3.4 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better18.2% of reviews
Number of ratings69 — better
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size215 MB723 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmarty EarsClaro Software Limited

Customer experience

Social Quest

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

ClaroSpeak Plus

All ratings9 ratings
Positive55.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive18.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative81.8%

In-app purchases

None

Social Quest

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

ClaroSpeak Plus

One-time10
  • Allison$1.99
  • Heather$1.99
  • Ryan$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Tracy$1.99
  • Micah$1.99
  • Rod$1.99
  • Will$1.99
  • Peter$1.99
  • Rachel$1.99
  • Susan$1.99

Questions

Is Social Quest free?
Social Quest costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ClaroSpeak Plus free?
ClaroSpeak Plus costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Social Quest or ClaroSpeak Plus?
Social Quest is rated higher. Social Quest averages 4.2 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while ClaroSpeak Plus averages 3.4 from 9 ratings.
Do Social Quest or ClaroSpeak Plus have ads?
Neither Social Quest nor ClaroSpeak Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Social Quest or ClaroSpeak Plus?
Social Quest ships an update every 14 months, and ClaroSpeak Plus every 3 weeks. Most recently, Social Quest was updated on October 3, 2026 and ClaroSpeak Plus on October 8, 2026.

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