iHear PECS vs UR Involved
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
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.
- Event discovery
- Filter by organization
- Filter by activity
- Add events to calendar
- Student engagement tools
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | iHear PECS | UR Involved |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pyramid Global Communication Technology LLC | Check I'm Here, LLC |
Customer experience
iHear PECS
UR Involved
In-app purchases
iHear PECS
No in-app purchases
UR Involved
No in-app purchases
Questions
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