Comparison

Conversation Paceboard vs Advanced Comprehension Therapy

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

Head to head
About

Conversation Paceboard

This app provides visual and tactile cues to help individuals improve their speech rate and clarity. It uses interactive circles that fill with color as you speak, guiding you to pace your words effectively. Includes conversation prompts to aid practice.

Highlights
  • Interactive pacing board with 6 circles
  • Adjustable speed for visual cues
  • Tactile feedback on iPhone
  • Conversation prompt categories
  • "Too Fast!" feedback indicator
Features
Currently charting
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Conversation Paceboard is a modern pacing board with visual cues. It helps individuals with unclear articulation and a fast speaking rate to pace their speech and improve their intelligibility in conversation. CORE FEATURES - A modern pacing board made of 6 interactive circles - Visual cues and feedback; the circles gradually fill with color when pressed at an adjustable speed - Several categories of conversation prompts to get the conversation started - Tactile cues on iPhone for additional feedback HOW IT WORKS The user is instructed to begin answering a conversation question and to hold a circle down each time they say a word or syllable. Each circle gradually fills with color when pressed. When a circle has fully filled with color, the user should move to the next circle and say the next word or syllable. The speed at which each circle fills with color can be adjusted in order to help the user maintain the desired rate of speech. If the user moves to the next circle too quickly, "Too Fast!" will be displayed. BENEFITS Conversation Paceboard is ideal for people who have slurred speech/dysarthria due to Stroke, Brain Injury, Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Multiple Sclerosis, Multiple Systems Atrophy, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Cerebral Palsy. See for yourself how effective a pacing board with additional visual cues and feedback can be!

About

Advanced Comprehension Therapy

This app offers professional speech therapy to improve sentence-level understanding, following directions, and language processing. It features three engaging activities designed for adults and older children with communication impairments, helping to build comprehension skills beyond single words.

Highlights
  • Sentence identification with increasing complexity
  • Sentence building from word order
  • Following multi-step directions
  • Auditory, reading, and combined comprehension modes
  • Progress tracking and email reports
  • Hints and audio repeat options
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Train your brain to listen carefully with this professional speech therapy app. Three activities help you to understand sentences, follow directions, and improve language processing. If you’re looking for a speech therapy app for adults and older children with communication and cognitive impairments that takes understanding beyond single words, this app is for you. ** Try for FREE by downloading Advanced Language Therapy Lite ** Advanced Comprehension Therapy will help you find where comprehension breaks down, then help you build it back up with 3 classic speech therapy activities targeting sentence-level listening and reading comprehension. 1) IDENTIFY the picture that matches the sentence, increasing in syntactic complexity. Start by finding the picture that matches a sentence like “The baby sleeps.” Work up to finding “The grandparent is told a secret by the child” from closely related pictures. * 11 levels of difficulty for understanding sentences with nearly 700 unique trials * Listen, Read, & Both modes to focus on auditory, reading, or total comprehension * Includes up to 3 nouns, indirect objects, reversible sentences, & passives 2) BUILD a sentence by focusing on each word & how they all fit together. Arrange the words one-by-one to match the pictured sentence you hear. Start with 3 words and work up to 9. * 20 sentence types in nearly 1200 unique trials * Add up to 3 extra words for an added challenge * Tricky "little words" like articles, pronouns, and prepositions * Hear each word as you touch it 3) FOLLOW directions of increasing difficulty in 1-, 2-, & 3-step commands. Start with exercises like “Touch the pencil.” Work up to brain-bending challenges like “Before you touch the large yellow striped circle, touch the small blue solid star.” * 16 levels of difficulty for following directions * Listen, Read, & Both modes to focus on auditory, reading, or total comprehension * Includes basic, temporal, & conditional commands in a hierarchy of 1-, 2-, & 3-step directions In All Activities: * Enjoy 1000’s of unique stimuli with hundreds of photos * Use hints when you get stuck so you always finish successfully * Track progress with detailed e-mail reports * Record yourself on-screen and send it when you’re finished * Repeat audio at any time, or repeat slowly for easier understanding * Designed with adults in mind but easy enough for children to use * No subscriptions, no monthly bills, no Wi-Fi needed ------------------------------------------------- Who is Advanced Comprehension Therapy For? * Speech-Language Pathologists * Adults with Aphasia (mild-moderate) * Stroke & TBI Survivors * Children with Autism or Language Learning Difficulties * Anyone who has mastered the single words in Comprehension Therapy or Language 4-in-1 & wants to take their therapy to the next level! ------------------------------------------------- Which Skills Does This App Target? * Auditory Comprehension (listening) * Reading Comprehension * Attention to Detail * Working Memory (holding information) * Nouns & Pronouns (he/she/it/they) * Adjectives (colors, size, shading) * Syntactic Processing (understanding grammar) * Temporal Concepts (before/after) * Conditional Directions (if/then) * Problem Solving (using hint/repeat or fixing errors) ------------------------------------------------- Download now to get started – or try it for FREE with Advanced Language Therapy Lite! Looking for something different in a speech therapy app? We offer a wide range to choose from. Find the right one for you at tactustherapy.com/find

Screenshots

Conversation Paceboard4 screens
Advanced Comprehension Therapy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Conversation Paceboard at $12.99 against Advanced Comprehension Therapy's $29.99. Conversation Paceboard also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and chart position (#198 vs unranked). Advanced Comprehension Therapy's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (276 vs 22). On review sentiment, 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

Conversation Paceboard costs $12.99 and Advanced Comprehension 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 Comprehension Therapy holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Advanced Comprehension Therapy has 276 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 56% of Conversation Paceboard's written reviews are positive against 50% of Advanced Comprehension Therapy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Conversation Paceboard ships an update every 2 months, Advanced Comprehension Therapy every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Conversation Paceboard versus Advanced Comprehension Therapy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterConversation PaceboardAdvanced Comprehension Therapy
Price$12.99 — better$29.99
Rating4.4 (22 ratings)4.7 (276 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22276 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — 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
Size90 MB149 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAptus Speech and Language Therapy LimitedTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.

Customer experience

Conversation Paceboard

All ratings22 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative44.4%

Advanced Comprehension Therapy

All ratings276 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Conversation Paceboard

No in-app purchases

None

Advanced Comprehension Therapy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Conversation Paceboard free?
Conversation Paceboard costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Advanced Comprehension Therapy free?
Advanced Comprehension Therapy costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Conversation Paceboard or Advanced Comprehension Therapy?
Advanced Comprehension Therapy is rated higher. Conversation Paceboard averages 4.4 out of 5 from 22 ratings, while Advanced Comprehension Therapy averages 4.7 from 276 ratings.
Do Conversation Paceboard or Advanced Comprehension Therapy have ads?
Neither Conversation Paceboard nor Advanced Comprehension Therapy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Conversation Paceboard or Advanced Comprehension Therapy?
Conversation Paceboard ships an update every 2 months, and Advanced Comprehension Therapy every 4 months. Most recently, Conversation Paceboard was updated on October 14, 2026 and Advanced Comprehension Therapy on October 17, 2026.

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