Comparison

Speech Pacesetter vs Advanced Reading Therapy

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

Head to head
About

Speech Pacesetter

This app helps users improve their speech rate and clarity through adjustable visual cues. It offers a library of reading passages, custom text options, and adjustable settings for a personalized therapy experience.

Highlights
  • Adjustable visual pacing cue
  • Speed-adjustable visual cue
  • Syllable or word highlighting
  • Built-in reading passages
  • Customizable reading passages
  • Adjustable font size and pause duration
Features
Currently charting
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Make measurable progress on articulation and speech rate goals using Speech Pacesetter. - Designed specifically for people who have unclear articulation and a fast rate of speech due to stroke, brain injury, acquired stuttering, Parkinson’s Disease or other neurological condition - Suitable for older children who have unclear articulation or who stutter - Allows the user to choose a text and pace their rate of speech with the help of a speed-adjustable visual cue - Highlights each syllable or each word. The user reads each syllable or word aloud as the visual cue appears. ADDITIONAL FEATURES The simple, effective and easy-to-use interface also allows the user avail of the following features: - Built-in library of phonemically-balanced reading passages (The Rainbow Passage, The Grandfather Passage etc) - Built-in short stories, poems and tongue twisters - The option to create and save a library of custom reading passages - Adjustable font size and pause duration on punctuation - Optional metronome sound cue - A choice of different colored backgrounds TESTIMONIALS "This affordable app brings a novel way of carrying out pacing therapy for adult speech and language therapists." – Mike Richards, SLT, UK "I've had wonderful success using this app with a lady who has dysarthria due to a stroke." - Carol Winters, SLP "Speech Pacesetter is one of my most used therapy apps! I use it with clients who have a fast speaking rate or slurred speech. I've had amazing results using this app." - Anna Wilson, SLP A UNIQUE WAY TO PACE SPEECH Speech Pacesetter provides a unique way to pace speech and improve speech clarity. See for yourself how effective visual cues can be!

About

Advanced Reading Therapy

This app helps adults improve reading comprehension after a stroke or brain injury. It offers engaging exercises with text and audio support, comprehension questions, and progress tracking across three graded levels. Designed for adult learners and speech-language pathologists.

Highlights
  • Paragraph-level reading exercises
  • Text and audio support
  • Comprehension questions
  • Self-rating for metacognition
  • Progress score reports
  • Adjustable font and spacing
  • Audio recording for self-practice
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If your reading skills have been impacted by a stroke or brain injury, this app can help you improve. Practice reading with engaging exercises that include text and audio support. ** Try for FREE by downloading Advanced Language Therapy Lite ** Advanced Reading Therapy uses technology to assist struggling adult readers to make sense of paragraph- and multi-paragraph-level passages. Self-ratings encourage metacognitive awareness, comprehension questions test accuracy, and hints enable greater success and independence. Score reports make it easy to see progress (and write progress notes) along the three graded levels: * Level 1: Shorter passages of 50 words or less, written around a Grade 0 – 1 reading level. Three questions after each passage test comprehension. ** Level 2: Medium passages of 50-150 words, written around Grade 2 – 3 reading level. Four questions appear to see how well you understood. *** Level 3: Harder passages get you ready for the texts you want to read. 150 – 600 words and Grade 3 – 6 reading level with five questions each. Adult readers will enjoy these functional and entertaining passages as they get back to reading the pages and screens in their own lives. Speech-language pathologists will love having so many modern reading passages with carefully-crafted questions at hand to teach strategies. Built-in audio controls let you listen to a single word, go sentence-by-sentence, or hear the whole article – whatever you need. You’ll get over 200 reading rehabilitation exercises in 15 categories! Features: • Text-to-speech available on touch • Adjust font size, spacing, and rate at any time • On-screen audio recording to listen to yourself reading aloud • Self-rating of comprehension encourages metacognitive awareness • Inference and prediction question encourage thinking outside the text • Huge variety of topics to appeal to mature readers • E-mail reports for easy data tracking • Unique categories such as Jokes, Inferences, First Chapters, Text Messages, and Functional Passages • Look back at the passage any time, or have the relevant text highlighted with a Hint Tactus Therapy offers a wide variety of apps to help with reading comprehension. Advanced Reading Therapy is the next step in your rehab after mastering the single words in Comprehension Therapy, the phrases & sentences of Reading Therapy, and the complex sentences of Advanced Comprehension Therapy. All of our apps work together to help you reach your reading goals. Find the right apps for you with our App Finder at tactustherapy.com/find

Screenshots

Speech Pacesetter4 screens
Advanced Reading Therapy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Advanced Reading Therapy at 100% against Speech Pacesetter's 46%. Advanced Reading Therapy also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3). Speech Pacesetter's advantage is price ($17.99 vs $29.99) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On ratings volume, 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

Speech Pacesetter costs $17.99 and Advanced Reading Therapy $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Advanced Reading Therapy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 64 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Speech Pacesetter's written reviews are positive against 100% of Advanced Reading Therapy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Speech Pacesetter ships an update every 3 weeks, Advanced Reading Therapy every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Speech Pacesetter versus Advanced Reading Therapy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeech PacesetterAdvanced Reading Therapy
Price$17.99 — better$29.99
Rating4.3 (31 ratings)4.8 (64 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3164 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#198 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAptus Speech and Language Therapy LimitedTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.

Customer experience

Speech Pacesetter

All ratings31 ratings
Positive83.9%
Neutral3.2%
Negative12.9%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive46.2%
Neutral30.8%
Negative23.1%

Advanced Reading Therapy

All ratings64 ratings
Positive98.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Speech Pacesetter

No in-app purchases

None

Advanced Reading Therapy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Speech Pacesetter free?
Speech Pacesetter costs $17.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Advanced Reading Therapy free?
Advanced Reading Therapy costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Speech Pacesetter or Advanced Reading Therapy?
Advanced Reading Therapy is rated higher. Speech Pacesetter averages 4.3 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while Advanced Reading Therapy averages 4.8 from 64 ratings.
Do Speech Pacesetter or Advanced Reading Therapy have ads?
Neither Speech Pacesetter nor Advanced Reading Therapy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Speech Pacesetter or Advanced Reading Therapy?
Speech Pacesetter ships an update every 3 weeks, and Advanced Reading Therapy every 4 months. Most recently, Speech Pacesetter was updated on September 10, 2026 and Advanced Reading Therapy on September 28, 2026.

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