Comparison

Proloquo4Text AAC vs RK Controller

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

Head to head
About

Proloquo4Text AAC

This text-to-speech app assists individuals who cannot use their voice to communicate. It features a streamlined interface for easy typing, customizable layouts, and quick access to common phrases. Users can personalize voices, adjust appearance, and integrate with messaging and calling functions.

Highlights
  • Single-screen interface for easy typing
  • Customizable screen layout and appearance
  • Quick access to saved phrases
  • Advanced word prediction
  • Multiple natural-sounding voices
  • Integration with messaging and calls
  • Offline communication capability
Features
Currently charting
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Proloquo4Text™ is a text to speech app for those who cannot rely on their voice to speak. The app is laid out on a single screen to reduce the effort of typing. The layout enables easy, daily conversation and quick access to your most common phrases. Personalize it to your needs and preferences, whether that’s through choosing from the many voices available, or through customizing your screen layout. Proloquo4Text is the leading AAC solution for literate adults, teens and children. It is used by people with a wide range of diagnoses, including developmental disabilities (like autism, apraxia, and cerebral palsy) and acquired disorders (like laryngectomy, ALS, stroke, or traumatic brain injury). Proloquo4Text can be used to produce speech by anyone who can type and spell. Communicate with ease • Use the single screen for easy access to words, phrases and keyboard • Switch easily between conversations, making it easy to answer a question in another conversation, without disrupting what you typed in the first conversation. • Decide when you speak with play, pause and speak-as-you-type • Adjust appearance (font, color, text size) to your preference and needs Reduce typing effort • Create, save and organize commonly used phrases • Make typing quicker with advanced, self-learning PolyPredix™ word prediction • Show what you typed with the fullscreen view and flip text features • Type once, then say it again with history and sentence prediction • Use keyboard shortcuts for quick access when using an external keyboard Choose your voice • Download, natural-sounding voices within Proloquo4Text. All premium Acapela voices are included in Proloquo4Text with no in-app purchase. • Add personality and humor to your conversations with free specialty voices • Choose from over 100 voices in 18 languages, so you can find the one that sounds most like you. Switch easily between languages. • Use my-own-voice, a voice-banking technology, to preserve and capture the essence of your own voice in synthetic speech. Share your world • Send email, messages, and tweets from Proloquo4Text • Write in Proloquo4Text and copy your text into another app • Listen to text by pasting into Proloquo4Text • Make phone and FaceTime video calls with Proloquo4Text. Take your voice anywhere • Proloquo4Text is available on both iOS and macOS. With iOS, you can use the app on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The Mac version is a separate purchase on the Mac App Store. • Smoothly transition between devices, thanks to Proloquo4Text’s consistent navigation on iPhone and iPad • Easily access your commonly used phrases on Apple Watch, and just tap to show or speak them. You can customize the contents shown on the Watch from your iPhone. Accessibility features • Follow words as they are spoken with optional sentence or word highlighting • Optimized for Switch Control and VoiceOver • Communicate without an internet connection • Use multitasking functionality to run another app side-by-side on supported devices • Keep your devices in sync by easily backing up and restoring your customizations and stored phrases. AssistiveWare® is the developer of Proloquo2Go®, an award-winning symbol-based communication app that provides a voice to over 200,000 individuals around the world. Additional note: Educational institutions can get a 50% discount if they purchase 20 or more licenses through Apple’s Volume Purchase Program for Education.

About

RK Controller

Features
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Exploratory tool for controlling and interacting with the R25 robot. For demonstrational purposes only. Requires a RoboKind R25 Robot to use.

Screenshots

Proloquo4Text AAC4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: RK Controller at Free against Proloquo4Text AAC's $119.99. RK Controller also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). Proloquo4Text AAC's advantage is chart position (#52 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads and in-app purchases 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

RK Controller is free to download; Proloquo4Text AAC costs $119.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Proloquo4Text AAC versus RK Controller: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProloquo4Text AACRK Controller
Price$119.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (933 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings933 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#52 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPad
Requires iOS18.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size453 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAssistiveWareRobokind LLC

Bugs and requests

Proloquo4Text AAC

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Keyboard switching issue when using third-party keyboards
  • Passcode locking the app unexpectedly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to adjust voice tone more precisely
  • Option to speak entire text box regardless of cursor position
  • Integrated iOS keyboard with prediction
  • Separate volume control for the app

RK Controller

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Proloquo4Text AAC

No in-app purchases

None

RK Controller

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Proloquo4Text AAC free?
Proloquo4Text AAC costs $119.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is RK Controller free?
RK Controller is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Proloquo4Text AAC or RK Controller have ads?
Neither Proloquo4Text AAC nor RK Controller shows ads.

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