Comparison

BSL Hands One vs Classroom Acoustics

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

Head to head
About

BSL Hands One

Learn British Sign Language through interactive visual and auditory lessons. Covers essential topics like the alphabet, colors, emotions, and animals, suitable for all ages to enhance language skills.

Highlights
  • Interactive learning
  • Visual and auditory support
  • Covers alphabet, colors, emotions, animals
  • Suitable for children and adults
  • Enhances spoken English skills
  • Regional signs (Liverpool dialect)
Features
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A new and exciting interactive way to learn British Sign Language using visual and auditory support. This app is suitable for both children and adults who want to learn sign language, develop their language skills, support the already established primary school curriculum and for those children and adults whose 1st language is not English to further enhance and develop English as their spoken language. The signs in this App are regional signs based on a Liverpool dialect. Topics include, Alphabet, Colours, Emotions, Animals, Transport, Family, Jobs, Numbers, Days of the Week and Months of the Year. This app requires an internet connection. Privacy Policy To view our privacy policy visit our website - http://www.deafactive.org/app-privacy-policy.html

About

Classroom Acoustics

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Build a clearer picture of a classroom's listening environment. Classroom Acoustics by Hear2Learn helps parents, teachers and practitioners explore background noise, signal-to-noise, reverberation and practical room observations. Follow the graphical Guided view one check at a time. See four clear results, their status and a useful next step. A teacher-to-child illustration helps explain listening, while a room report keeps the supporting evidence available for discussion with the school. Switch to Detailed view whenever you need specialist controls. Choose selected BATOD (British Association of Teachers of Deaf Children and Young People) and BB93 criteria, the research-led Universal Acoustic Design framework or the advisory ASHA/ANSI benchmark. Detailed view also offers contextual comparisons with published classroom-acoustics references from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden, with each reference's room conditions and source shown. The signal-to-noise indicator uses the lesson level above background noise; its method and limitations are explained in the app. Use the built-in microphone or a compatible external microphone. Check the level against an acoustic calibrator or calibrated sound-level meter, import supported microphone compensation files, or enter a separate sound-level meter result. For reverberation, record three claps or use swept sine with a suitable connected loudspeaker. Detailed view includes octave-band T20, C50 and Schroeder decay evidence. Strategy and repeat assessments require Unlimited. Guided and Detailed views are included with every plan and share the same saved rooms. Try fictional examples and keep one real room free. Guided Annual keeps up to five saved assessments. Unlimited Annual or Unlimited Lifetime adds unlimited saved assessments, repeat assessments and Strategy. You can choose Unlimited directly. Annual plans are alternatives; Apple manages changes between them. Buying Lifetime does not cancel an existing annual subscription. Annual subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled in Apple subscription settings. Restore purchases is available in the app. Evidence stays on your device unless you deliberately export it. Optional photographs can accompany room records. Share a PDF or full and de-identified evidence exports. No account is required, raw classroom audio is not retained, and native purchases are separate from Hear2Learn web purchases. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

BSL Hands One4 screens
Classroom Acoustics3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Classroom Acoustics at Free against BSL Hands One's $1.99. Classroom Acoustics also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 16 months). BSL Hands One's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Classroom Acoustics is free to download; BSL Hands One costs $1.99 up front. Classroom Acoustics sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. BSL Hands One asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BSL Hands One ships an update every 16 months, Classroom Acoustics every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 9, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 4 level
BSL Hands One versus Classroom Acoustics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBSL Hands OneClassroom Acoustics
Price$1.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviews58.3% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 16 monthsEvery 9 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
MonetizationPaidโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size27 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDeaf Active North Westdavid canning

In-app purchases

None

BSL Hands One

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Classroom Acoustics

Subscriptions2
  • Guided Annual$4.991 Year
  • Unlimited Rooms Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlimited Rooms$49.99

Questions

Is BSL Hands One free?
BSL Hands One costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Classroom Acoustics free?
Classroom Acoustics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BSL Hands One or Classroom Acoustics have ads?
Neither BSL Hands One nor Classroom Acoustics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BSL Hands One or Classroom Acoustics?
BSL Hands One ships an update every 16 months, and Classroom Acoustics every 9 days. Most recently, BSL Hands One was updated on October 9, 2026 and Classroom Acoustics on October 9, 2026.

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