Comparison

Proloquo4Text AAC vs Choiceworks Calendar

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

Choiceworks Calendar

This app helps children understand the concept of time and sequence through a visual calendar. It allows caregivers to easily create personalized schedules with images, audio, and video, reducing anxiety and promoting independence for children.

Highlights
  • Create visual calendars with images and audio
  • Attach video to calendar events
  • Use preloaded or custom images and audio
  • Create multiple personalized calendars
  • Count down to upcoming events
  • Built-in visual timer
  • Automatically adds holidays
Features
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Choiceworks Calendar makes time visible. For children who find days, weeks, and months abstract, Choiceworks Calendar turns time into pictures: what is happening today, what is coming tomorrow, and how many days until the moments that matter. Each day can show a simple visual schedule: what happens first, what comes next, and what is done. Children can see the day, hear it spoken, and check off events as they finish them. Made personal in minutes - Use your own photos and videos, or start with the built-in library of 275+ images with audio - Record labels and events in your own voice - Customize day labels with your own words, like To Do and Finished - Adjust day number size for growing readers and low-vision users - Create separate calendars for different children, classrooms, or routines Time your child can feel - Count Days Until shows a visual countdown to birthdays, trips, visits, and special events - Day, Week, and Month views support different levels of time understanding - Built-in visual timers include selectable timer and alarm sounds - Optional notifications can remind children what is coming next - Holidays and repeating events help build predictable routines Backup, sync, and sharing - iCloud Sync & Backup can keep calendars backed up and matched across your own devices signed in to the same Apple ID, when you turn it on - Sync events to your device's Apple Calendar - Send a Copy by AirDrop, Mail, or Files so another device or caregiver can import a calendar copy - Print any month, week, or day, or save it as a PDF - Passcode-protected editing helps keep the plan from being changed accidentally Our promise One-time purchase. No subscriptions. No ads. No trackers. No account required. Your family's data stays under your control. Choiceworks Calendar is used by parents, teachers, SLPs, OTs, and BCBAs to support children with autism, ADHD, anxiety, language differences, and other needs for visual structure. Questions? We answer personally: info@beevisual.com

Screenshots

Proloquo4Text AAC4 screens
Choiceworks Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Choiceworks Calendar at $14.99 against Proloquo4Text AAC's $119.99. Choiceworks Calendar also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). Proloquo4Text AAC's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (90% vs 59%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Proloquo4Text AAC costs $119.99 and Choiceworks Calendar $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Proloquo4Text AAC holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Proloquo4Text AAC has 935 ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Proloquo4Text AAC's written reviews are positive against 59% of Choiceworks Calendar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Proloquo4Text AAC ships an update every 3 months, Choiceworks Calendar every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Proloquo4Text AAC versus Choiceworks Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProloquo4Text AACChoiceworks Calendar
Price$119.99$14.99 — better
Rating4.7 (935 ratings) — better4.1 (32 ratings)
Positive reviews90.5% of reviews — better59.4% of reviews
Number of ratings935 — better32
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size453 MB243 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAssistiveWareBee Visual, LLC

Customer experience

Proloquo4Text AAC

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

Choiceworks Calendar

All ratings29 ratings
Positive69.0%
Neutral10.3%
Negative20.7%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive59.4%
Neutral18.8%
Negative21.9%

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

Choiceworks Calendar

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Proloquo4Text AAC

No in-app purchases

None

Choiceworks Calendar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Proloquo4Text AAC free?
Proloquo4Text AAC costs $119.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Choiceworks Calendar free?
Choiceworks Calendar costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Proloquo4Text AAC or Choiceworks Calendar?
Proloquo4Text AAC is rated higher. Proloquo4Text AAC averages 4.7 out of 5 from 935 ratings, while Choiceworks Calendar averages 4.1 from 32 ratings.
Do Proloquo4Text AAC or Choiceworks Calendar have ads?
Neither Proloquo4Text AAC nor Choiceworks Calendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Proloquo4Text AAC or Choiceworks Calendar?
Proloquo4Text AAC ships an update every 3 months, and Choiceworks Calendar every 3 days. Most recently, Proloquo4Text AAC was updated on October 24, 2026 and Choiceworks Calendar on October 23, 2026.

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