Comparison

Visual Choices AAC vs Little Tips

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

Head to head
About

Visual Choices AAC

This app provides a communication tool for early communicators, aiding in language and speech development. It offers customizable choice boards, integrated AAC, and speech promotion features, designed with early intervention experts.

Highlights
  • Present choices using photos
  • Build language with AAC and signing videos
  • Promote speech with lip animations
  • Convert voice to instant choices
  • Printable choice boards
  • Multilingual support
Features
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Visual Choices provides an easy way to communicate, and develops natural speech. It is made for early communicators with autism. Developed with early intervention experts and trusted by speech therapists, special education teachers, clinical directors, parents, and grandparents. The app: • Helps you discover what your child wants by making it easy to present choices; • Uses photos your child will respond to; • Promotes speech with lip animations and visual phonics; • Builds language with integrated AAC and signing videos; • Provides access to over 50,000 SymbolStix pictures; • Lets you type and dictate into the AAC sentence bar; • Enables easy modeling with voice-to-highlight; • Lets you convert your voice to instant choices for on-the-fly use; • Lets you print out boards as a no-tech option; • Lets you make choices with eye gaze for hands-free use; • Can be used offline; • Supports English, Spanish, and Russian; • Works on its own or alongside an existing AAC system. Terms of use: https://skieslearn.com/visualchoices_terms_of_service

About

Little Tips

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Little Tips helps young children practice early communication, daily needs, first words, ABCs, and calm learning activities in English and Spanish. Designed for toddlers and families, Little Tips combines a simple AAC-style Talk board with early learning activities that are calm, visual, and easy to use. Children can tap large buttons to hear words, build simple phrases, explore letters, grow a plant, pop bubbles, and practice everyday concepts. Free features include basic communication words, needs, ABC learning, Garden, and Bubbles with colors and numbers. Little Tips Plus unlocks more AAC categories and learning activities for feelings, people, food, routines, body, animals, colors, shapes, and more. Little Tips is built to be simple, warm, bilingual, and child-friendly. There are no ads, no tracking, and no accounts. Privacy Policy: https://pilotsoftware.llc/little-tips/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Visual Choices AAC4 screens
Little Tips4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Little Tips at every 4 days against Visual Choices AAC's fortnightly. On price, 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

Both are free to download. Visual Choices AAC sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Little Tips sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Choices AAC ships an update fortnightly, Little Tips every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Visual Choices AAC versus Little Tips: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual Choices AACLittle Tips
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (153 ratings) — better
Positive reviews97.8% of reviews
Number of ratings153 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size161 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSu-Kam Intelligent Education Systems IncJAVIER EMMANUEL MARTINEZ CRUZ

Bugs and requests

Visual Choices AAC

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Eye gaze not tracking accurately for some users

Requested features

5 requests
  • Lifetime purchase option
  • Locking section for child use
  • Ability to type choices directly for visual boards
  • Option to change font
  • Make instructional videos/tips paid, core features free

Little Tips

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Visual Choices AAC

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial2 variants$6.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription1 Month trial$59.991 Year
One-time3
  • 1 Coaching Credit$25.99
  • 3 Coaching Credits$60.99
  • Lifetime Access$179.99
3 purchases

Little Tips

Subscriptions2
  • Little Tips Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Little Tips Plus Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Little Tips Plus Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Visual Choices AAC free?
Visual Choices AAC is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Little Tips free?
Little Tips is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Visual Choices AAC or Little Tips have ads?
Neither Visual Choices AAC nor Little Tips shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Choices AAC or Little Tips?
Visual Choices AAC ships an update fortnightly, and Little Tips every 4 days. Most recently, Visual Choices AAC was updated on September 20, 2026 and Little Tips on September 10, 2026.

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