Comparison

iHear PECS vs UR Involved

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

Head to head
About

iHear PECS

This app uses animal sounds to help children develop communication skills. It allows personalization with custom sentence starters and animal images, making learning interactive and fun for early communicators.

Highlights
  • Animal sound association
  • Personalized sentence starters
  • Customizable image selection
  • Drag-and-drop interface
  • Supports spontaneous communication
  • Interactive learning experience
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Children love animals—and the sounds they make! iHear PECS™: Animals is an engaging app designed to support learners as they develop communication skills. Animal sounds are used to encourage natural communication opportunities. Families and educators can personalize the experience by choosing 1–3 sentence starters and up to12 animal images, allowing for flexible use across settings. With simple drag-and-drop features, iHear PECS™: Animals helps learners with responsive and spontaneous communication in a motivating, and interactive way. Designed for early communicators and emerging language learners, this app turns listening and commenting into a fun experience that supports curiosity, connection, and lots of smiles along the way.

About

UR Involved

Discover campus events and ways to get involved at the University of Richmond. Filter events by organization or activity, and add them to your personal calendar to stay informed.

Highlights
  • Event discovery
  • Filter by organization
  • Filter by activity
  • Add events to calendar
  • Student engagement tools
Features
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Use the University of Richmond Events app to find out what events are happening and find out how you can get involved on campus! • Sort by campus organizations hosting events • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Add events to your calendar so you don’t miss out! Powered by Presence. Presence provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, allocate funding efficiently, and improve retention through simplifying and digitizing processes, collecting, structuring, and analyzing involvement data, and provides tools to help reach and engage more students.

Screenshots

iHear PECS3 screens
UR Involved3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: UR Involved at Free against iHear PECS's $0.99. UR Involved also leads on rating (3.7 vs 3.0) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.6). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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

UR Involved is free to download; iHear PECS costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

UR Involved holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iHear PECS versus UR Involved: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriHear PECSUR Involved
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)3.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.69.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPyramid Global Communication Technology LLCCheck I'm Here, LLC

Customer experience

iHear PECS

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

UR Involved

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

iHear PECS

No in-app purchases

None

UR Involved

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iHear PECS free?
iHear PECS costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is UR Involved free?
UR Involved is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iHear PECS or UR Involved?
UR Involved is rated higher. iHear PECS averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while UR Involved averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do iHear PECS or UR Involved have ads?
Neither iHear PECS nor UR Involved shows ads.

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