DCMP vs Sounds Essentials
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DCMP
Access a large library of educational videos with captions and descriptions for students with disabilities. The content is free for qualifying students, teachers, and professionals. Registration is simple and provides access to thousands of licensed educational videos.
- Vast library of educational videos
- Captions and descriptions available
- Free for qualifying users
- Accessible content
- Easy registration process
- Licensed content from quality producers
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Instantly watch streamed educational videos from the Described and Captioned Media Program's vast library of accessible content! The DCMP has over 16,000 streaming educational videos featuring captions and/or descriptions for students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind. Our library is available **free of charge** to qualifying students and their teachers, parents, and other professionals serving them. If you already have a DCMP account, simply log in to the app using the same credentials you use on our website. If you do not have an account, registration is free and simple! Just visit https://dcmp.org/signup and fill out an application. Once approved, you'll have access to thousands of full-length educational videos licensed from hundreds of quality producers. The DCMP is funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Sounds Essentials
This app helps children develop sound recognition and listening skills through engaging activities. It's designed for early learners to improve auditory discrimination and memory, making learning fun and interactive.
- Sound recognition activities
- Auditory discrimination training
- Auditory memory building
- Matching objects and sounds
- Categorized sound games
- Multiple user support
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Sounds Essentials is a speech therapy app designed and developed to increase sound recognition and listening skills in children. The app has 4 engaging and beautiful activities, each of which is used to develop Auditory Discrimination skills in children. Sounds essentials is a perfect blend of education with entertainment. This edutainment application can be used by SLPs and speech therapies during therapy sessions to enable children build auditory memory and recognition skills. The fun and engaging interface of the app makes it enjoyable for toddlers all the way from preschoolers to kindergarten. The App features exciting activities for children to explore thousands of objects by swiping left or right and listen to their sounds. Sounds Essentials enables young learners to differentiate between sounds of different objects. This function which is commonly known as “Auditory Discrimination” helps in building sound or “Auditory Memory” among students. The app has separate activities for both the functions enabling better sound recognition and listening skills. Children having problems in sequencing the sounds they hear during speech therapy sessions such as articulation & writing can benefit from the content based on Auditory Sequencing within the app. This app is designed in collaboration with speech therapists, parents and teachers who are looking to expand children’s listening & sound discrimination skills. This app is intended for children of ages 2-8 years old. With different Sound games children improve their skills by matching objects and their associated sounds. WHY PARENTS AND TEACHERS LOVE THIS APP • The app is fun, super easy to use for kids of all ages and all abilities • Explore different sounds through flash cards containing real life images of everyday items and learn their sounds and appearance • Different Sound games improve skills by matching objects and their associated sounds. • You can turn individual features in different activities, ON or OFF and introduce features differently. • Sounds are grouped into 6 selectable categories Animals, Machines, Nature, Actions, Transport and Instruments. • Wrong answers do not interfere with gameplay. The app has 4 engaging and beautiful activities: * Know the Sound * Match the Sound * Find the Sound * Sound Hunt Other features * Timer * Multiple Users * Leader board Please share your suggestions & feedback on feedback@soundsessentials.com Google+ : https://plus.google.com/u/0/107302410009075383713 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/articulationessentials Twitter: https://twitter.com/articulationess OR via Reviews Below
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The clearest difference is rating: DCMP at 3.9 against Sounds Essentials's 1.0. DCMP also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). Sounds Essentials's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Sounds Essentials sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DCMP asks for nothing beyond the download.
DCMP holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DCMP has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DCMP ships an update every 4 months, Sounds Essentials every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DCMP | Sounds Essentials |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (15 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Described and Captioned Media Program | Nabeel Ahmed Khan |
Customer experience
DCMP
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In-app purchases
DCMP
No in-app purchases
Sounds Essentials
- Sounds Essentials Full Access$1.99
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