Comparison

Proloquo4Text AAC vs Spell 2 Speak

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
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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

Spell 2 Speak

This application assists non-speaking individuals in communicating by allowing them to spell out messages. It features large, accessible buttons and functions as a stepping stone to standard keyboard use, fostering independence.

Highlights
  • Text-to-speech output
  • Spelling-based communication
  • Large, accessible buttons
  • Promotes independence
  • Bridge to standard keyboards
Features
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An iPad app that enables non-speaking individuals to communicate through spelling with text-to-speech output. Designed as a bridge to standard keyboards, it promotes independence while maintaining large, accessible buttons.

Screenshots

Proloquo4Text AAC4 screens
Spell 2 Speak4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spell 2 Speak at Free against Proloquo4Text AAC's $119.99. Spell 2 Speak also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Proloquo4Text AAC's advantage is ratings volume (935 vs 11). On rating, review sentiment, 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

Spell 2 Speak is free to download; Proloquo4Text AAC costs $119.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Proloquo4Text AAC against 4.7 for Spell 2 Speak. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Proloquo4Text AAC has 935 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Proloquo4Text AAC's written reviews are positive against 83% of Spell 2 Speak's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Proloquo4Text AAC ships an update every 3 months, Spell 2 Speak monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Proloquo4Text AAC versus Spell 2 Speak: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProloquo4Text AACSpell 2 Speak
Price$119.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (935 ratings) — better4.7 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews90.5% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings935 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size453 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAssistiveWareYanling Wang

Customer experience

Proloquo4Text AAC

All ratings933 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive90.5%
Neutral1.6%
Negative7.9%

Spell 2 Speak

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral9.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

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

Spell 2 Speak

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Proloquo4Text AAC

No in-app purchases

None

Spell 2 Speak

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Proloquo4Text AAC free?
Proloquo4Text AAC costs $119.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spell 2 Speak free?
Spell 2 Speak is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Proloquo4Text AAC or Spell 2 Speak?
Proloquo4Text AAC is rated higher. Proloquo4Text AAC averages 4.7 out of 5 from 935 ratings, while Spell 2 Speak averages 4.7 from 11 ratings.
Do Proloquo4Text AAC or Spell 2 Speak have ads?
Neither Proloquo4Text AAC nor Spell 2 Speak shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Proloquo4Text AAC or Spell 2 Speak?
Proloquo4Text AAC ships an update every 3 months, and Spell 2 Speak monthly. Most recently, Proloquo4Text AAC was updated on October 29, 2026 and Spell 2 Speak on October 24, 2026.

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