Comparison

GoTalk® Start vs Lexico Compreender (pt)

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

Head to head
About

GoTalk® Start

This communication app assists individuals with speaking difficulties by providing customizable pages for recorded messages, text-to-speech, and visual aids. Users can create communication books with various layouts and integrate images, videos, and music.

Highlights
  • Adjustable page layouts
  • Customizable navigation
  • Recorded and text-to-speech capabilities
  • Included symbol set
  • Multiple communication page styles
  • Internet image search
Features
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Attainment has been making augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools for 25 years. Our experience is front and center in GoTalk Start, a flexible, easy-to-use, yet powerful communication app for people who have difficulty speaking. As the name implies, GoTalk Start is a great way to start using your iPad for AAC. Built on the framework of Attainment’s full-featured GoTalk NOW, GoTalk Start has all the essentials of an effective AAC app, like adjustable page layouts, customizable navigation, recorded and text-to-speech capabilities, and an included symbol set. Choose from over 60 ready-to-use, high quality text-to-speech voices in 30 languages! So why is GoTalk Start less expensive than GoTalk NOW? Because GoTalk Start is limited to five Communication Pages and doesn’t offer the sharing capabilities of GoTalk NOW. If you need more Communication Pages or the ability to share, simply upgrade your GoTalk Start to full GoTalk NOW Features via an in-app purchase. The new Start offers three styles of communication pages: Standard, Express, and Scene. In Standard pages, the action occurs when the location is pressed. In Express pages, recorded or text-to-speech messages build in a speech bar and play in sequence when the bar is pressed. Scene pages are built around a single photo or image. When you arrange invisible hotspots over people or objects in the photo, the hotspots play speech, music, or videos! Feel free to mix and match pages within a communication book. Create a communication book with unique settings and up to 5 pages in length. Envision the impact of blending video, music, and jump to actions among your pages. How cool is it to have access to 30 different text-to-speech voices, in a variety of different languages! Plus, GoTalk Start is a full-feature scanning app! Features: • Choose 1, 2, 4, 9, 16, or 25 locations per page. • Ability to create multiple books with unlimited pages via in-app purchase. • Use images from your iPad camera, photo library, or the Imagine Symbol set. • Search the Internet in-app for the perfect image or icon. • Purchase SymbolStix or Widgit Symbols libraries in-app. • Crop, scale, or rotate an image using your fingers. • Combine multiple images in a single communication location. • Color pages, borders, and text with any hue. • Move and size text with your fingers so it feels just right. • Record your voice or use our free text-to-speech voice. • Access 30 different text-to-speech voices, in an assortment of different languages. • Add spoken labels (auditory cues) to any button. Great for scanning, guiding visually impaired users, and identifying any new or difficult vocabulary. • Trim videos in-app, and play them from any communication location. • Select our alternate video interface to pause or exit the video easily. • Link songs from your playlist to any communication location and control them with Pause/Play, Next, and Previous. • Include a core vocabulary button for extra quick access to important messages. • Create multimedia social stories and step-by-step instruction layouts by linking pages with an after action. •In-app purchase allows for back up of communication books via Dropbox or to any Mac or PC for safekeeping. • Store and share interactive templates (each including speech, video, text, and jump to links) on our online gallery via in-app purchase. • Download and edit premade templates from Attainment’s collection on the public gallery available via in-app purchase. • Print and save communication book layouts via PDFs. • Access Start with single or two-switch scanning. GoTalk Start participates in Apple's Volume Purchasing Program for Education in the United States. Attainment is well known for top-notch customer service. Email us with questions or comments and check our website for free webinars. And yes, we're happy to talk to you on the telephone!

About

Lexico Compreender (pt)

Features
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Lexico Compreender é um aplicativo com o desenvolvimento da linguagem de crianças que podem ser encorajadas pela brincadeira entre os três e os dez anos. Muito simples e facil de usar, imagens engraçadas e atrativas, ilustrações lógicas, Ler em voz alta as perguntas permitir que os pré-escolares tenham a possibilidade de trabalhar de forma independente com o aplicativo. Também na terapia da fala, após um acidente vascular cerebral ou lesão cerebral traumática, Lexico Compreender tem uma nova abordagem nos conceitos e vocabulário (acompanhado ou sozinho) pode trabalhar na reabilitação das suas competências linguísticas. Centrado na formação da compreensão da fala, construção de vocabulário, memória e o treinamento auditivo. Nos exercícios, depois da pergunta feita deve ser encontrada a resposta certa. Alguns níves são jodados com imagens, outros são jogados com palavras escritas e gravações de voz. Não é necessário que a criança seja capaz de ler para jogar. Digite o nome da pessoa que vai jogar a fom de registrar seu progresso. Léxico Compreender contém o nível "E". Os outros níveis pode ser desbloqueado com uma compra in-app.

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: GoTalk® Start at every 6 weeks against Lexico Compreender (pt)'s every 14 months. GoTalk® Start also leads on price ($19.99 vs $24.99). Lexico Compreender (pt)'s advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On 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

GoTalk® Start costs $19.99 and Lexico Compreender (pt) $24.99 up front. GoTalk® Start sells 13 one-off in-app purchases and Lexico Compreender (pt) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GoTalk® Start ships an update every 6 weeks, Lexico Compreender (pt) every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
GoTalk® Start versus Lexico Compreender (pt): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoTalk® StartLexico Compreender (pt)
Price$19.99 — better$24.99
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 14 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size235 MB94 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAttainment CompanyPappy GmbH

In-app purchases

13 purchases

GoTalk® Start

One-time13
  • Vidhi$0.99
  • Ella$11.99
  • Josh$11.99
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  • Carmen$11.99
  • Vidhi English$11.99
  • Ready-Set-Communicate$19.99
  • Talk All Day$19.99
  • Core! Start NOW$39.99
  • SymbolStix$49.99
  • METACOM (German Keywords)$55.99
  • AAC2go (Girl 3-10)$79.99
  • Upgrade to GoTalk NOW Features$104.99
  • ZAK Kommunikationsbuch für Kinder$199.99
1 purchases

Lexico Compreender (pt)

One-time1
  • unlock all levels of Lexico Compreender$24.99

Questions

Is GoTalk® Start free?
GoTalk® Start costs $19.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Lexico Compreender (pt) free?
Lexico Compreender (pt) costs $24.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do GoTalk® Start or Lexico Compreender (pt) have ads?
Neither GoTalk® Start nor Lexico Compreender (pt) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GoTalk® Start or Lexico Compreender (pt)?
GoTalk® Start ships an update every 6 weeks, and Lexico Compreender (pt) every 14 months. Most recently, GoTalk® Start was updated on October 7, 2026 and Lexico Compreender (pt) on October 6, 2026.

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