Comparison

Conversation Therapy Lite vs IDDSI

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

Head to head
About

Conversation Therapy Lite

This app facilitates speech therapy by providing conversation starters and tools to practice language and social skills. It helps individuals with speech or language impairments engage in dialogue and carry over therapy lessons at home. The app offers customizable settings and tracks progress for one-on-one or group sessions.

Highlights
  • Conversation starters for various topics
  • Tools to practice language and social skills
  • Progress tracking for sessions
  • Customizable settings for age-appropriateness
  • Audio recording and scoring
  • Emailable session summaries
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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! Download this free sample version of Conversation Therapy to try it for yourself! - 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 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. *This free Lite version of the app has 3 photos and 30 questions suitable for all ages* 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 THE FULL APP - 275+ vivid photos, with 10 questions per photo, for over 2750 possible questions in the full app; 3 photos in the Lite version - 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 in the full app - 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! Once you've had a chance to try this free Lite app, download the full version of Conversation Therapy to get so much more content. 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

IDDSI

Access the IDDSI framework for food texture and drink thickness testing. This tool provides easy lookup of descriptors and tests, suitable for all ages and care settings to assist individuals with dysphagia.

Highlights
  • IDDSI framework access
  • Food texture descriptors
  • Drink thickness tests
  • Easy lookup
  • Applicable to all ages
  • Supports all care settings
Features
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Have the IDDSI framework at your fingertips - get access to the descriptors and look up the different IDDSI food texture and drink thickness tests easily either in the lab, office or at home. The IDDSI Framework is culturally sensitive, measurable and applicable to individuals of all age groups in all care settings, designed in an effort to help those with dysphagia.

Screenshots

Conversation Therapy Lite4 screens
IDDSI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Conversation Therapy Lite at 75% against IDDSI's 0%. Conversation Therapy Lite also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.6) and update cadence (every 7 months vs every 21 months). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Conversation Therapy Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 60 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Conversation Therapy Lite's written reviews are positive against 0% of IDDSI's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Conversation Therapy Lite ships an update every 7 months, IDDSI every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on August 20, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Conversation Therapy Lite versus IDDSI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterConversation Therapy LiteIDDSI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (60 ratings) — better1.6 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings60 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 7 months — betterEvery 21 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB100 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperTactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative Iddsi

Customer experience

Conversation Therapy Lite

All ratings60 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%

IDDSI

All ratings14 ratings
Positive14.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative85.7%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral13.3%
Negative86.7%

In-app purchases

None

Conversation Therapy Lite

No in-app purchases

None

IDDSI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Conversation Therapy Lite free?
Conversation Therapy Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IDDSI free?
IDDSI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Conversation Therapy Lite or IDDSI?
Conversation Therapy Lite is rated higher. Conversation Therapy Lite averages 4.7 out of 5 from 60 ratings, while IDDSI averages 1.6 from 14 ratings.
Do Conversation Therapy Lite or IDDSI have ads?
Neither Conversation Therapy Lite nor IDDSI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Conversation Therapy Lite or IDDSI?
Conversation Therapy Lite ships an update every 7 months, and IDDSI every 21 months. Most recently, Conversation Therapy Lite was updated on August 20, 2026 and IDDSI on September 23, 2026.

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