Comparison

Social Quest vs Talking Together

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

Talking Together

This app helps children develop conversational skills through structured, interactive dialogue practice. It offers guided activities for turn-taking, question answering, and sentence expansion, designed by speech-language pathologists.

Highlights
  • Structured conversation and turn-taking tasks
  • Practice WH-questions and sentence expansion
  • Audio models for understanding and expression
  • Multiple conversation themes
  • Progress tracking
  • Designed by Speech-Language Pathologists
Features
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alking Together is a speech and language therapy app designed to help children build conversational skills through structured, interactive practice. Developed by certified Speech-Language Pathologists, the app provides guided opportunities for turn-taking, asking and answering questions, expanding sentences, and improving overall communication. Children work through realistic dialogue tasks, answer prompts, and follow structured conversation models that support both expressive and receptive language. Each activity encourages functional communication, making Talking Together useful for therapy sessions, home practice, and classroom settings. The app includes a wide range of conversational themes and question types, helping children practice skills such as commenting, clarifying, initiating conversation, staying on topic, and responding appropriately. Reporting features allow parents and professionals to monitor progress over time. Talking Together offers an engaging, evidence-based approach to help children communicate more confidently and naturally in everyday situations. Features • Structured conversation and turn-taking tasks • Practice with WH-questions, topic maintenance, and sentence expansion • Audio models to support understanding and expressive practice • Multiple conversation themes • Progress tracking for therapists, parents, and educators • Designed by Speech-Language Pathologists

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Talking Together at $9.99 against Social Quest's $29.99. Talking Together also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2). Social Quest's advantage is update cadence (every 14 months vs every 131 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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 Talking Together $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Talking Together holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Social Quest has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Social Quest ships an update every 14 months, Talking Together every 131 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and June 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Social Quest versus Talking Together: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSocial QuestTalking Together
Price$29.99$9.99 — better
Rating4.2 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 14 months — betterEvery 131 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size215 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmarty EarsVirtual Speech Center Inc.

Customer experience

Social Quest

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

Talking Together

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Social Quest

No in-app purchases

None

Talking Together

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Social Quest free?
Social Quest costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Talking Together free?
Talking Together costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Social Quest or Talking Together?
Talking Together is rated higher. Social Quest averages 4.2 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Talking Together averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Social Quest or Talking Together have ads?
Neither Social Quest nor Talking Together shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Social Quest or Talking Together?
Social Quest ships an update every 14 months, and Talking Together every 131 months. Most recently, Social Quest was updated on June 1, 2026 and Talking Together on June 25, 2026.

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