Comparison

Conversation Therapy vs Speech Tutor Pro

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

Head to head
About

Conversation Therapy

This app provides a tool to spark conversation and help individuals with speech or language impairments practice therapy strategies. It offers thousands of customizable conversation starters, supports one-on-one or group sessions, and tracks progress.

Highlights
  • Thousands of conversation starters
  • Customizable settings
  • Supports one-on-one and group sessions
  • Audio recording and progress tracking
  • Multiple languages supported
  • Vivid photo prompts
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Work more effectively toward your speech therapy goals. Help people who have had a stroke, live with autism, or have a speech or language impairment get talking with an app that sparks conversation. The best way to improve talking is by talking! - Get a tool that helps adults, teens, and children put therapy strategies into practice - Improve language, social skills, speech, and thinking while using this powerful speech therapy app - Carryover the lessons from speech therapy at home with an app that’s easy for everyone to use - Focus on what matters – stop racking your brain for fresh topics and let the app guide you - Take things in any direction with thousands of possible conversation starters - Create the right experience for each person with customizable settings - Talk one-on-one, host groups of up to 4 at a time, and track improvement with ease ** SEE HOW IT CAN HELP – download the Lite version for FREE! ** Coming up with fresh, attention-grabbing conversation starters every day is surprisingly hard, even for speech therapy professionals. Think of this app as your talk facilitator, taking the pressure and planning out of starting and maintaining dialogue while you monitor how your clients use their speech strategies. "This is the app that is going to pave the way for converting speech therapists to the digital age." - Ryan Knoblauch, SLP, The Speech Knob GETTING STARTED IS AS EASY AS 1, 2, 3 Target higher-level expressive language, pragmatic, problem-solving, speech, and cognitive-communication goals with open-ended conversation starters. Here’s how it works. 1) CHOOSE YOUR CATEGORIES. Tailor your experience with specific topics like Food or Health, or select all topics for free-flowing discussion that could go anywhere! You can always change the settings to see only age-appropriate categories for children, teens, or adults. 2) START THE CONVERSATION. Look at the picture, then touch any of the 10 buttons to see a question. The questions on the left are simpler (like “What is…?”) while the ones on the right are more complex (“How do you know…?”). Hear the question aloud, record your own audio, and score answers as you go. 3) USE YOUR STRATEGIES. While taking turns discussing the answers to the questions, use your word-finding strategies, smooth speech techniques, or other personalized therapy approaches to communicate more clearly. ALL DONE? E-mail an automatically generated summary of your results, along with any audio, or share the results to a PDF, file storage, printer, or copy/paste. GET EVERY FEATURE YOU NEED IN ONE EASY APP - 275+ vivid photos, with 10 questions per photo, for over 2,750 possible questions - 10 languages: English, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Zulu - 11 categories full of real-world topics including daily life, hobbies, current events, social issues, health concerns, and much more - Record audio at any time with just a tap - Perfect for treating language, cognitive-communication, pragmatic, and speech disorders - Great as stimulus material to work on fluency, articulation, eye contact, and word-finding strategies in spontaneous speech - No subscriptions, no monthly bills, no Wi-Fi needed BETTER DISCUSSIONS MEAN BETTER PRACTICE. Inspire curiosity and creativity while motivating people to keep improving – DOWNLOAD IT NOW! 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

About

Speech Tutor Pro

This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for speech therapy, including articulation screeners, extensive card decks for practice, and detailed video guides for sound production. It supports multiple clients and provides robust data tracking for progress monitoring and home practice.

Highlights
  • Articulation screeners (SLP & Parent friendly)
  • 33 phoneme decks
  • 36 minimal pair decks
  • Nearly 5000 practice cards
  • Detailed data tracking
  • Articulation videos with placement guidance
  • Client video recording
Features
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Speech Tutor Pro is the culmination of nearly a decade's worth of work designing apps for speech therapy. This app brings together the content from 5 of the most well-known apps in the industry and combines them in one easy to use app. Content and features in this app are listed below. Two Articulation Screeners Speech Tutor Pro comes with two different, easy-to-use screeners. A "SLP Friendly" screener and a "Parent Friendly." These screeners reveal which sounds children should have acquired by particular ages SLP Friendly - Easily screen sounds at the beginning and end of words. - SLPs can also tap a button that conveniently lists phonological processes heard during the screening. - Write notes during the screening Parent Friendly - Screen for the major sounds targeted by speech-language pathologists - Write notes during the screening - Questions guide parents for identifying phonological processes Articulation Decks - 33 phoneme decks (Levels: Word, Phrase, Sentence; Positions: Initial, Medial, Final) - 36 minimal pair decks - Nearly 5000 different cards -Use minimal pair decks and phoneme decks at the same time -See multiple clients at a time -"Kid Friendly" mode and "Clean" mode for older clients - Detailed data tracking with line graphs, bar graphs, and word charts to send home for practice - Record videos and save them to client profiles to view progress - View articulation videos during sessions to help with placement - Add/Remove decks during a session Decks included sm, sn, st, sp, sk, sl, s, z, f, v, sh, th, ch, j, l, blends m, n, ing, p, b, t, d, k, g, r, er, or, ar, rl, ear, ire, Cluster Reduction (choose all, L, R, S), Deaffrication (Choose all, Ch, J), Deletion of Final Consonants (Choose all, ch/j, f/v/, k/g, p/b, s/z, t/d, m, n, ing, Final Devoicing, Fronting (choose all, sh, ch/j, velars), Gliding(choose all, L, R), Prevocalic Voicing, Stopping of Fricatives (choose all, ch/j, f/v, s/z, sh, th, Stridency Deletion Articulation Videos (52 Videos in all) - Front and side views - Slow, medium, fast speeds, and pause - Palate views - Information on the ages sounds should be acquired - Tips on how to elicit the sounds - Camera view so clients can watch as they produce sounds - Record/playback video and save to client profiles Videos show the following sound productions: R (bunched), R (retroflex), L, sh, ch, j, s, z, f, v, th (voiced), th (voiceless), p, b, t, d, k, g, m, n, ing, i , æ, a, u

Screenshots

Conversation Therapy4 screens
Speech Tutor Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Conversation Therapy at $29.99 against Speech Tutor Pro's $69.99. Conversation Therapy also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). Speech Tutor Pro's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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

Conversation Therapy costs $29.99 and Speech Tutor Pro $69.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Conversation Therapy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 120 and 83 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Conversation Therapy's written reviews are positive against 85% of Speech Tutor Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Conversation Therapy ships an update every 7 months, Speech Tutor Pro monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Conversation Therapy versus Speech Tutor Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterConversation TherapySpeech Tutor Pro
Price$29.99 — better$69.99
Rating4.8 (120 ratings) — better4.3 (83 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better84.6% of reviews
Number of ratings120 — better83
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB1.5 GB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.Synapse Apps, LLC

Customer experience

Conversation Therapy

All ratings120 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral2.5%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Speech Tutor Pro

All ratings83 ratings
Positive84.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative12.0%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral6.2%
Negative9.2%

Bugs and requests

Conversation Therapy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Speech Tutor Pro

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • App freezes upon touching elements
  • Graph dates are mixed up
  • Content difficult to navigate after update
  • App closes when trying to use it after update

Requested features

12 requests
  • Print or email homework options
  • More minimal pair decks
  • Ability to annotate on paused video
  • Laser pointer feature for videos
  • Option to print or email homework
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  • More stimulus items (words, phrases, sentences)
  • Save or store own words
  • Vowel change options
  • Add/import pictures
  • Clearer videos for voiced/unvoiced productions
  • Future games development
  • Option to turn vocal cords on/off in videos

In-app purchases

None

Conversation Therapy

No in-app purchases

None

Speech Tutor Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Conversation Therapy free?
Conversation Therapy costs $29.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Speech Tutor Pro free?
Speech Tutor Pro costs $69.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Conversation Therapy or Speech Tutor Pro?
Conversation Therapy is rated higher. Conversation Therapy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 120 ratings, while Speech Tutor Pro averages 4.3 from 83 ratings.
Do Conversation Therapy or Speech Tutor Pro have ads?
Neither Conversation Therapy nor Speech Tutor Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Conversation Therapy or Speech Tutor Pro?
Conversation Therapy ships an update every 7 months, and Speech Tutor Pro monthly. Most recently, Conversation Therapy was updated on October 12, 2026 and Speech Tutor Pro on October 6, 2026.

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