Comparison

Autism iHelp vs Conversation Skills

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

Head to head
About

Autism iHelp

This app uses real-life photos to teach vocabulary to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. It features categorized picture groups and learning activities to enhance retention and visual memory. Progress reports help track a child's development.

Highlights
  • Real-life photo vocabulary
  • Color-categorized picture groups
  • Learning enhancement activities
  • Auditory and visual memory integration
  • Progress tracking reports
  • Focus on expressive vocabulary
Features
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Autism iHelp is a vocabulary teaching aid developed by parents of a child with Autism and a speech-language pathologist. Autism iHelp was inspired by the need for specific language intervention tools for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder focusing on their unique strengths and difficulty with expressive vocabulary. Autism iHelp is an invaluable tool for your child with Autism when those first words just don’t come. The colorful real-life photos are presented in an easy-to-label format. This app includes 72 real world photos; it has been proven that children with Autism respond best to photos as opposed to illustrations and are very visual learners. This app also includes two Learning Enhancement activities. These learning activities are presented in a game-like format. These games check retention of the learned vocabulary and integrate auditory and visual memory. Additionally, you are able to track your child's gains through progress reports that average the last 3 performances of each learning enhancement activity. Autism iHelp colors is extremely unique when compared to any other first word learning apps. This app includes groups of pictures categorized by specific color. This app helps to distinguish and identify common items by color and allows for increased environmental generalization. This helps the child with Autism to recognize that boundaries in regards to categorization are not exclusive. Fortunately, the pictures for groups 'red' and 'yellow' are free of charge. “with Autism iHelp…..it gets better.”

About

Conversation Skills

This app helps children with autism practice essential conversation skills in a supportive, stress-free environment. It offers interactive scenarios, progress tracking, and a reward system to build confidence for real-life social interactions. Designed for children and adults with social learning needs.

Highlights
  • Practice identifying interests
  • Choose appropriate topics
  • Join and continue conversations
  • Over 140 practice situations
  • Progressive skill mastery
  • Reporting and reward center
  • Independent and therapist modes
Features
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** Happy Frog Apps is a Mom’s Choice Award Winner! Also featured on FunEducationalApps.com, TeachersWithApps.com, and more! ** The “Conversation Skills” app helps children with autism practice key steps in conversation: - Identifying a friend's interests, - Choosing an appropriate topic, - Figuring out what topic is already being talked about, - Joining a conversation, - Continuing a conversation with appropriate follow-up questions and comments. This app provides kids the chance to practice and get supportive feedback in a calm, stress-free environment where they can consider their options. Once kids build the skills of how to choose topics and continue conversations, they'll be able to bring these skills to real-life situations. The “Conversation Skills” app gives your learner the social conversation skills they need to better manage social situations at home, school and in the community. What parents say about our awesome apps: *** 5 stars! Brilliant! An app that understands how kids actually learn. Thank you. *** 5 stars! Your social skill apps are excellent! “Conversation Skills” provides: - More than 140 situations for a wide variety of practice. - Students progress to the next level only when mastery of the current skill is demonstrated. - 'At a glance' reporting shows you instantly how your learner is progressing. - The fun Reward Center motivates even hesitant learners. Most exciting, this app offers independent AND therapist mode. In independent mode, answers are displayed and the learner taps the correct answer. In therapist mode, no answers are displayed. For each question, the student answers orally and the therapist taps whether the learner's oral answer was correct or incorrect. Both modes earn coins for the Reward Center. Our apps are designed for and tested by typical and special needs children. Testers include children with Autism and other special needs. Our apps work for them! Our apps are also suitable for adults dealing with aphasia or learning English as a Second Language. To evaluate the app, download the lite version, which has 1 free level. Additional levels and additional players can be accessed with in-app purchases. If you prefer no in-app purchases, download the paid version of this app, which includes all levels and up to 10 players. We take customer service very seriously! If you ever have a problem or find that we've missed something, contact us at our website and we will do our best to fix the problem.  www.HappyFrogApps.com Our apps are safe for kids. We collect NO private information in our app. None! Our apps do not allow unrestricted web or social media access. We conform to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

Screenshots

Autism iHelp4 screens
Conversation Skills4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Conversation Skills at 5.0 against Autism iHelp's 2.6. Autism iHelp's advantage is update cadence (every 7 months vs every 86 months) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Autism iHelp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Conversation Skills sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Conversation Skills holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Autism iHelp has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Autism iHelp ships an update every 7 months, Conversation Skills every 86 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Autism iHelp versus Conversation Skills: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAutism iHelpConversation Skills
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.6 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 months — betterEvery 86 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.2 — better12.2
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn TalaveraJanine Toole

Customer experience

Autism iHelp

All ratings9 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative50.0%

Conversation Skills

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Autism iHelp

One-time1
  • ALL COLORS and Learning Enhancements$4.99
3 purchases

Conversation Skills

One-time3
  • 2 Users$1.99
  • 10 Users$4.99
  • Access All Levels$5.99

Questions

Is Autism iHelp free?
Autism iHelp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Conversation Skills free?
Conversation Skills is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Autism iHelp or Conversation Skills?
Conversation Skills is rated higher. Autism iHelp averages 2.6 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Conversation Skills averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Autism iHelp or Conversation Skills have ads?
Neither Autism iHelp nor Conversation Skills shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Autism iHelp or Conversation Skills?
Autism iHelp ships an update every 7 months, and Conversation Skills every 86 months. Most recently, Autism iHelp was updated on November 2, 2026 and Conversation Skills on November 3, 2026.

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