Comparison

Pathway Tract ID vs SPEAKplay!

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

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About

Pathway Tract ID

Explore detailed anatomical models and animations of neural pathways and brain structures. Interactive features allow users to highlight parts or names, view hidden text, and use a drawing whiteboard for annotations. Save and share screenshots directly from the app.

Highlights
  • Interactive pathway and tract structure IDs
  • Highlight parts or names
  • Hidden/viewable detailed text
  • Drawing whiteboard feature
  • Screenshot saving and sharing
  • 3D pan, zoom, and rotation
  • Pathway and tract animations
Features
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The Pathway Tract ID app covers normal pathway and tract animations and structure id. Structure ID is designed to teach pathway and tract structure in two ways; touch the parts and see the names highlight or touch the name to see the part highlight. The detailed text is hidden or viewed at the touch of a button. All views include a drawing whiteboard feature for easy anointment, screen prints direct to photo app to save and email out or printing. Disclaimer: seek a doctor’s advice in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions. Pathway: structure ID - cortices, brainstem, cerebellum, thalamus and thalamus interrelation views. Animations - audition listen and balance, speech communication and corticobulbar, vision,sensation and movement views.. Tracts: structure ID - audition listen and balance, speech communication and corticobulbar, vision, sensation trigeminal, dorsal column and spinothalamic, movement rubrospinal, reticulopinal, tectospinal and corticospinal views. Animations - audition environment, speech and balance, speech communication and corticobulbar, vision, sensation trigeminal, fasciculus cuneatus, fasciculus gracilis, spinothalamic lateral and anterior, movement rubrospinal, reticulospinal, tectospinal, corticospinal lateral and ventral views. Two finger pan, zoom and rotation of all views, with easy reset button. Drawing Whiteboard feature: Drawing: freeform lines in red, blue, green or black hue. Draw and place text directly on all views. Screenshot whiteboard direct to photo app for easy email out and printing.

About

SPEAKplay!

This app uses gesture-based games to help young children and new users of communication devices develop essential motor skills for navigating touchscreens. It focuses on directed touch, drag and drop, and swipe gestures to improve operational competence and enable earlier access to mobile content.

Highlights
  • Gesture-based games
  • Directed and Sustained Touch training
  • Drag and Drop skill development
  • Vertical and Horizontal Swipe practice
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Auditory and visual feedback
Features
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SPEAKplay!™ is an evidence-based therapy app to introduce mobile interfaces to prospective users of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). SPEAKplay! offers a series of gesture-based games that directly target the difficulties in learning complex and multi-step motor skills to access content on mobile AAC devices. The intended outcome of engaging with these games is to enhance motor functioning of the young child or first time AAC user to maximize operational competence in navigating touchscreen-based content. With better gesture and operating skills, children can get started earlier on mobile devices and benefit from AAC applications to the full extent. Training with SPEAKplay! focuses on the critical gestures of (1) Directed and Sustained Touch, (2) Drag and Drop, and (3) Vertical and Horizontal Swipe. The gestures are introduced through a series of fun and engaging games, including “Pop the Bubbles” (for Targeted Touch), “Fly the Rocket” (for Targeted and Sustained Touch), and “Feed the Dino” (for Horizontal and Vertical Swipes as well as Drag and Drop). In the “Pop the Bubbles” game the user is faced with multicolored bubbles that emerge from a bathtub on the bottom. When the bubbles are tapped or “popped” by the user, they disappear from the screen with an auditory “bubble pop” cue. The task for the user is to “pop” all the bubbles till the “You win!” screen appears. To increase the game’s difficulty, the size and number of bubbles available to “pop” can be modified. The “Fly the Rocket” game teaches its users to respond to a visual stimulus, the movements of the stars. The stars either pulse, shake or flash, signaling the user that they need to be touched to fly the rocket through space. With each star that is pressed the rocket moves closer to the moon, and once it reaches the moon the user wins the game. Three levels of difficulty involve four, six, or eight stars to be tapped. Randomization of the sequence in which the stars appear makes the game different each time and unpredictable. The “Feed the Dino” game teaches the user to press and hold onto a dinosaur and move it around to collect food and bones scattered across the screen. To reward and encourage the user to keep playing, the dinosaur dances for a moment as bones are collected before continuing. Once all the food and bones are gathered, the user drags the dinosaur to its home to complete the game and reach the win screen. The game has two modes, one with a free moving dino and one with a path that the dino must follow. This path can be adjusted to be shorter or longer to change the difficulty for completion. SPEAKplay! is a research-based application and complements intervention provided through SPEAKall!® and SPEAKmore!®. The SPEAK application suite has received strong recognition in the AAC industry as documented by prestigious awards including among others: ● 2025 European Academy of Childhood Disability (EACD) Technology & Innovation Award, First Place ● 2018 Anna Kennedy Online Autism Charity, Autism Hero Award – First Place, Entrepreneurial Category ● 2017 Milken Family Foundation Grand Prize and Overall Winner, Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition ● 2017 ChanceLight Behavioral Health and Education Prize, Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition ● 2017 Edison Innovation Award – Gold, Language Learning Products Thank you for your continued support and please continue to send us your feedback and ideas! (www.speakabilities.com) Product Features: ● Gamification elements to keep the user engaged and motivated ● 
Active training of motor capabilities needed for operating AAC apps ● Different levels of difficulty to adjust for learner growth ● Easy programming through intuitive admin mode ● Manage multiple learners on a single device ● Direct access to SPEAK Abilities YouTube Channel ● Haptic feedback when moving Dino character ● Compatibility with both iPhone and iPad

Screenshots

Pathway Tract ID4 screens
SPEAKplay!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SPEAKplay! at 100% against Pathway Tract ID's 0%. SPEAKplay! also leads on price (Free vs $4.99) and rating (5.0 vs 2.0). Pathway Tract ID's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). 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

SPEAKplay! is free to download; Pathway Tract ID costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SPEAKplay! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Pathway Tract ID's written reviews are positive against 100% of SPEAKplay!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pathway Tract ID ships an update every 51 months, SPEAKplay! every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pathway Tract ID versus SPEAKplay!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPathway Tract IDSPEAKplay!
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 51 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlue Tree Publishing, Inc.SPEAK Abilities, LLP

Customer experience

Pathway Tract ID

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

SPEAKplay!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pathway Tract ID

No in-app purchases

None

SPEAKplay!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pathway Tract ID free?
Pathway Tract ID costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SPEAKplay! free?
SPEAKplay! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pathway Tract ID or SPEAKplay!?
SPEAKplay! is rated higher. Pathway Tract ID averages 2.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while SPEAKplay! averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pathway Tract ID or SPEAKplay! have ads?
Neither Pathway Tract ID nor SPEAKplay! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pathway Tract ID or SPEAKplay!?
Pathway Tract ID ships an update every 51 months, and SPEAKplay! every 2 days. Most recently, Pathway Tract ID was updated on October 8, 2026 and SPEAKplay! on October 7, 2026.

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