DonKeyBoard AAC vs Little Tips
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DonKeyBoard AAC
This app facilitates communication for individuals with speech difficulties using pictograms, voice, and text. It offers a customizable interface and offline functionality to support everyday expression of needs, emotions, and messages.
- Pictogram, voice, and text communication
- Tap to speak, press and hold for phrases
- In-app typing and favorites
- Customizable buttons, icons, and colors
- Personal photos for custom buttons
- Adjustable voice settings
- Offline functionality
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DonKeyBoard is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app that helps people express themselves in a fast, clear, and accessible way. Using pictograms, voice, and text, it supports everyday communication for needs, pain, emotions, actions, and important daily messages. DonKeyBoard is designed for people with communication difficulties, including: • children and adults with autism or language delay • people with aphasia • people with ALS • people recovering after surgery • anyone who needs an easier and more immediate way to make themselves understood The app is free, works 100% offline, and does not collect personal data. DonKeyBoard is built around simplicity, speed, and personalization, so each user can adapt it to their own communication style. Main features • Fast communication with pictograms, voice, and text • Tap once to speak a message • Press and hold to expand the phrase • In-app typing • Favorites for quick access to important content • Customizable buttons, categories, icons, colors, and text size • Personal photos for custom buttons • Hide, reorder, and adapt buttons for each user • Adjustable voice, speech rate, and pitch • Send messages to three selected contacts • A built-in game to learn how to use the app • Export and import profiles, including preferences, custom buttons, and photos All content works directly on the device, making DonKeyBoard reliable in everyday situations even without an internet connection. DonKeyBoard was created from a very personal motivation: to build a tool that could genuinely make daily communication easier. The project continues to evolve through real-world use and feedback from families, caregivers, teachers, and professionals. For suggestions, questions, or feedback, contact: donkeyboard@icloud.com
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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DonKeyBoard AAC at none against Little Tips's 3. Little Tips's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Little Tips sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. DonKeyBoard AAC asks for nothing beyond the download.
DonKeyBoard AAC ships an update every 3 weeks, Little Tips every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DonKeyBoard AAC | Little Tips |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Guappa Desarrollo Integral SL | JAVIER EMMANUEL MARTINEZ CRUZ |
In-app purchases
DonKeyBoard AAC
No in-app purchases
Little Tips
- Little Tips Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- Little Tips Plus Yearly$39.991 Year
- Little Tips Plus Lifetime$59.99









