Proloquo4Text AAC vs Hear Beyond
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Hear Beyond
Enhance your listening skills with a variety of auditory training games. Explore sound fundamentals for free, or subscribe for advanced training in areas like speech comprehension and sound localization. Ideal for improving focus and memory through engaging audio challenges.
- Free Sound Fundamentals games
- Trichotic Processing training
- Dichotic Listening exercises
- Auditory Memory games
- Sound In Noise challenges
- Multiple user profiles (Pro Tier)
- Diverse audio library
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Get up and running fast with Hear Beyond: Auditory Brain Training. Enjoy our Sound Fundamentals category COMPLETELY FREE (5-games) because your sound journey should start with opportunity, not a paywall. Download now and get going with localization, reverberation, stereo imaging, frequency identification, and volume-interval recognition. Access the next 20 auditory training games by subscribing to our Standard Tier ($2.99 USD/month or $24.99 USD/month): Trichotic Processing (4-games) Explore your ability to untangle and act on 3+ conversations at once. Dichotic Listening (6-games) Train your brain to follow voices in your left & right ears concurrently. Auditory Memory (5-games) Practice your listening and recall with games that challenge you to remember and repeat ever-longer sequences of spoken words. Sound In Noise (5-games) Pick out and remember key words and sounds in noisy environments. Try our Professional Tier ($8.99 USD/month or $74.99 USD/month) to set up 3 additional profiles for independent training sessions - ideal for different listening setups or structured use with others. All training activities have access to an audio library consisting of human voices, instruments, nature sounds and sound effects. Train with a variety of audio material to keep the challenges interesting and engaging. Read about each category and game in the app by clicking on the information icons. Hear Beyond iOS is written by humans in native Swift code to be fast, effective and low-latency. If you see any technical issues, please reach out to our team at hello@hearbeyond.app for assistance. It's your subscription support that will keep this auditory training tool growing and innovating new features! Engage your auditory system with Hear Beyond and introduce it to someone whose listening matters to you. Privacy Policy: hearbeyond.world/privacypolicy Terms of Service: hearbeyond.world/termsofservice
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hear Beyond at Free against Proloquo4Text AAC's $59.99. Hear Beyond also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Proloquo4Text AAC's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On update cadence 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
Hear Beyond is free to download; Proloquo4Text AAC costs $59.99 up front. Hear Beyond sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Proloquo4Text AAC asks for nothing beyond the download.
Proloquo4Text AAC holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Proloquo4Text AAC has 933 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Proloquo4Text AAC ships an update every 3 months, Hear Beyond every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Proloquo4Text AAC | Hear Beyond |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $59.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (933 ratings) — better | 3.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 933 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #57 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 453 MB | 256 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AssistiveWare | Spheres Creative Inc. |
Customer experience
Proloquo4Text AAC
Hear Beyond
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
Hear Beyond
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Proloquo4Text AAC
No in-app purchases
Hear Beyond
- Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- Monthly Pro Subscription$8.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$24.991 Year
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- Yearly Pro Subscription$74.991 Year









