Open Hearing PRO vs Thumbslate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Open Hearing PRO
This application is designed for hearing care professionals to enhance accessibility in hearing care. It offers tools and features to support audiologists and other specialists in their practice.
- Professional hearing care tools
- Accessibility enhancement
- Support for audiologists
- Practice management features
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Open Hearing PRO for Hearing Care Professionals
Thumbslate
This HIPAA-compliant medical app facilitates communication between healthcare providers and hearing-impaired patients. Providers can speak, and the app converts it to text for the patient. Patients can then type responses that the app speaks aloud.
- HIPAA-compliant
- Speech-to-text for patients
- Text-to-speech for patient replies
- Real-time communication
- Facilitates provider-patient interaction
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This free app for the hearing-impaired and their health care providers is private, HIPAA-compliant, and free. From the makers of Innaslide, now without sign language or lip reading, providers can speak aloud to their hearing impaired but literate patients! Patients will see our medically-fluent speech to text in real time, and the patient can type a reply and decide when it is ready to be spoken aloud by the device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Thumbslate at none against Open Hearing PRO's shown. Thumbslate also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Open Hearing PRO's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Open Hearing PRO against 5.0 for Thumbslate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Open Hearing PRO ships an update every 3 weeks, Thumbslate every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Open Hearing PRO | Thumbslate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 454 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raghav Shankar | Anescribe, LLC |
In-app purchases
Open Hearing PRO
No in-app purchases
Thumbslate
No in-app purchases
