Comparison

GoTalk® NOW PLUS vs Dialogue AAC

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

Head to head
About

GoTalk® NOW PLUS

This powerful app provides a flexible and user-friendly platform for individuals with speech difficulties. It offers customizable page layouts, text-to-speech, and extensive image libraries to create personalized communication books. Users can also share and back up their creations.

Highlights
  • Adjustable page layouts
  • Recorded and text-to-speech capabilities
  • Over 15,000 images from SymbolStix and GoTalk Image Library
  • Ready-Set-Communicate pre-made book for children
  • Three communication page styles: Standard, Express, and Scenes
  • Create and share unlimited communication books
  • Full-feature scanning app
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 NOW PLUS, a flexible, easy-to-use, yet powerful app for people who have difficulty speaking. GoTalk NOW PLUS shares the same foundation as GoTalk NOW, and has all the essentials of an effective AAC app; adjustable page layouts, recorded and text-to-speech capabilities, and customizable navigation are all featured. So what differentiates PLUS from NOW? PLUS comes bundled with a wealth of extra content to help you get more out of the app. Between both SymbolStix and The GoTalk Image Library you have access to over 15,000 images! Also featured is Ready-Set-Communicate, a pre-made communication book for children ages 3-10. PLUS also contains 7 English text-to-speech voices, including 2 children’s voices. Please note an internet connection is required to download the additional content. GoTalk NOW PLUS offers three styles of communication pages: Standard, Express, and Scenes. 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 as many communication books as you need, each with unique settings and unlimited pages. Then share these books with other users via WiFi, and back them up for safekeeping via Dropbox or any Mac/PC. Envision the impact of blending video, music, and jump to actions among your pages. How cool is it to have your own private online galley to store and save your templates (up to five communication pages) for free, and to email these templates to parents and colleagues! Furthermore, GoTalk NOW PLUS is a full-feature scanning app! Features: • Choose 1, 2, 4, 9, 16, or 25 locations per page. • Use images from your iPad camera, photo library, GoTalk Image Library, or SymbolStix symbols. • Search the Internet in-app for the perfect image or icon. • Includes free download for Ready-Set-Communicate, a pre-made communication book for children ages 3-10. • Purchase additional pre-made communication books in-app. • 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. • Utilize 7 American English text-to-speech voices, available as free download • Buy additional voices for only 99 cents each, available in over 20 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. • Share complete communication books via WiFi with any iPad user who has NOW or PLUS. • Back up 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 for free. • Download and edit pre-made templates from Attainment’s collection on the public gallery, also free. • Email links to your templates to parents and colleagues, who can open the template on their iPad by tapping on the link. • Print and save communication book layouts via PDFs. • Access PLUS with single or two-switch scanning. GoTalk NOW PLUS participates in Apple's Volume Purchasing Program for Education in the United States.

About

Dialogue AAC

This communication aid helps adults with speech difficulties express themselves through spelling and pre-made phrases. It offers a personalized synthesized voice and message banking for a unique communication experience. Customizable options cater to individual visual and motor needs.

Highlights
  • Spelling and phrase-based vocabulary
  • Personalized synthesized voice creation
  • Message banking import
  • Customizable sentence pages
  • Motor and visual access accommodations
  • Switch scanning and head tracking support
Features
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Dialogue AAC is a communication solution geared towards adults who have difficulty using their natural voice. Included is Essence, a simple spelling and phrased- based vocabulary. The Essence vocabulary allows individuals to use spelling and word prediction to say virtually anything, while having pre-made pages for quick sentences – either use pre-stored selections or create your own. Customizing with specific, personalized sentences is easy to do, allowing the system to grow with an individual’s needs. The Essence vocabulary is available in 60 and 84 locations to accommodate different visual and motor abilities. Integrated and FREE creation of a unique and personal synthesized voice through TheVoiceKeeper – a $75 value (for more information see app.thevoicekeeper.com/dialogue) Built-in Message Banking lets you import messages that use your own voice – from either MyMessageBanking.com or PRC-Saltillo Message Banking. A variety of accommodations for motor/ visual access are built in, including: Adaptations for selection/ release time when touching buttons; Integrated switch scanning, with most Bluetooth switches or the AeroSwitch from PRC-Saltillo; Integrated head tracking on iPad Pros with facial recognition; Easy customization of font and button size/ style/ color. By downloading and using the Dialogue app, the purchaser accepts the PRC-Saltillo Dialogue Software License Terms. The Manufacturer of the iOS application – Dialogue AAC is: Prentke Romich Company dba PRC-Saltillo 1022 Heyl Rd Wooster, OH 44691 USA Tel.: (330) 262-1984 // (800) 262-1984 Fax: (330) 262-4829 Email: info@aacapps.com Web: www.prc-saltillo.com The EU Authorized European Representative for the iOS application – Dialogue AAC is: Prentke Romich GmbH Karthäuserstr. 3 D-34117 Kassel Germany Tel.: (05 61) 7 85 59-0 Fax: (05 61) 7 85 59-29 Email: info@prentke-romich.de Web : www.prentke-romich.de The UK Responsible Person for the iOS application – Dialogue AAC is: Liberator Ltd “Whitegates”, 25-27 High Street Glenside Business Park West Pinchbeck, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 3SA Tel: +44 (0)1733 370470 Email: info@liberator.co.uk Web: www.liberator.co.uk/ The Swiss Authorized Representative for the iOS application – Dialogue AAC is: Inspera GmbH Thunstrasse 64 | CH-3110 Münsingen Phone +41 31 819 74 60 | Mobile +41 79 435 53 09 mail@inspera.ch | www.inspera.ch

Screenshots

Dialogue AAC4 screens

Verdict

The call

GoTalk® NOW PLUS and Dialogue AAC both sit at 3.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 40% of GoTalk® NOW PLUS's written reviews are positive against 0% of Dialogue AAC's. GoTalk® NOW PLUS also leads on price ($94.99 vs $99.99) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). Dialogue AAC's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 12). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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® NOW PLUS costs $94.99 and Dialogue AAC $99.99 up front. GoTalk® NOW PLUS sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Dialogue AAC asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for GoTalk® NOW PLUS against 3.0 for Dialogue AAC. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 40% of GoTalk® NOW PLUS's written reviews are positive against 0% of Dialogue AAC's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GoTalk® NOW PLUS ships an update every 5 weeks, Dialogue AAC every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
GoTalk® NOW PLUS versus Dialogue AAC: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoTalk® NOW PLUSDialogue AAC
Price$94.99 — better$99.99
Rating3.0 (4 ratings)3.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings46 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size235 MB849 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAttainment CompanyPrentke Romich Company

Customer experience

GoTalk® NOW PLUS

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%

Dialogue AAC

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

12 purchases

GoTalk® NOW PLUS

One-time12
  • Ella$11.99
  • Josh$11.99
  • Emilio - English$11.99
Show 9 more
  • Will$11.99
  • Emilio - Spanish$11.99
  • Talk All Day$19.99
  • PCS High Contrast$29.99
  • Participate NOW$49.99
  • Tactile Talk$49.99
  • English (US) Keywords$59.99
  • AAC2go (Girl 3-10)$79.99
  • AAC2go (Boy 3-10)$79.99
None

Dialogue AAC

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GoTalk® NOW PLUS free?
GoTalk® NOW PLUS costs $94.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Dialogue AAC free?
Dialogue AAC costs $99.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GoTalk® NOW PLUS or Dialogue AAC?
GoTalk® NOW PLUS and Dialogue AAC are both rated 3.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do GoTalk® NOW PLUS or Dialogue AAC have ads?
Neither GoTalk® NOW PLUS nor Dialogue AAC shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GoTalk® NOW PLUS or Dialogue AAC?
GoTalk® NOW PLUS ships an update every 5 weeks, and Dialogue AAC every 2 months. Most recently, GoTalk® NOW PLUS was updated on October 24, 2026 and Dialogue AAC on November 1, 2026.

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