IPAChartApp vs AV Phonetics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IPAChartApp
Easily insert International Phonetic Alphabet characters into any text using a custom keyboard. Access official IPA charts directly from your device for quick reference and accurate phonetic transcription.
- Custom IPA keyboard
- Use in any iOS app
- Access official IPA charts
- Phonetic detail made easy
- System settings integration
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International Phonetic Alphabet in your email, tweet or Facebook post! IPAChartApp gives you an International Phonetic Alphabet keyboard you can use on any iOS app. IPAChartBoard puts the seven official IPA charts at your fingertips. Phonetic detail was never so easy! Like other iOS third-party keyboards, this IPA keyboard comes to your device in a carrying app, in this case IPAChartApp. Once you've installed IPAChartApp on your device, you install the keyboard through System Settings. (The app will remind you how to do this.) Then IPAChartBoard keyboard is available for use with any app on your device. From your default system keyboard, you switch to the IPAChartBoard by tapping the "globe" key, as you would to use any other system keyboard.
AV Phonetics
Explore the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) with this interactive app. It offers clear graphic, audio, and textual descriptions of speech sounds, including animations of articulations. Practice consonants and vowels with comprehensive coverage of symbols.
- Interactive IPA chart
- Graphic, audio, and textual sound descriptions
- Consonant and vowel practice
- Tonal symbol coverage
- Articulations animations
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To be able to read and provide accurate transcriptions of speech sounds is the most fundamental and yet most demanding task facing students of language and linguistics. This App has a unique interface for exploring the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). - Practice consonants and vowels with this fun and interatcive app. - Clear graphic, audio and textual descriptions of speech sounds. - Comprehensive coverage of the consonants, vowels and tonal symbols. Press on the symbols in the charts to see and hear them. - Cross-section animations illustrate the articulations of the speech sounds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: IPAChartApp at 5.0 against AV Phonetics's 4.5. AV Phonetics's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 12 months) and review sentiment (80% vs 57%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
IPAChartApp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AV Phonetics has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of IPAChartApp's written reviews are positive against 80% of AV Phonetics's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
IPAChartApp ships an update every 12 months, AV Phonetics every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | IPAChartApp | AV Phonetics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 159 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frederick Kuhl | Apps Resource Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University |
Customer experience
IPAChartApp
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In-app purchases
IPAChartApp
No in-app purchases
AV Phonetics
No in-app purchases
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