Fricatives Articulation vs Weave Chat AAC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fricatives Articulation
This educational game, developed by a speech therapist, helps children aged 3-12 improve their sound production and language skills through interactive graphics and over 400 words. It targets specific speech sounds in various word positions with full narration and engaging animations.
- Over 400 target words
- Dozens of immersive sound effects
- Full narration by a Speech Therapist
- Interactive graphics
- Vibrant, hand-drawn illustrations
- Targets specific speech sounds
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This game was designed by a speech therapist to improve your child’s sound production while keeping them entertained with fun interactive graphics and over 300 words. Target sounds are presented in initial, medial, and final positions in 1-3 syllable words. This game not only addresses articulation but can also improve your child’s receptive and expressive language skills. Sounds covered are: F, V, TH voiced, TH voiceless, FR, FL, FS, FT, THR Features: Over 400 target words Dozens of immersive sound effects Full narration by a Speech Therapist Interactive graphics Vibrant, hand-drawn illustrations and animations Perfect for children ages 3-12
Weave Chat AAC
This communication app offers a dynamic and customizable platform with over 3,500 pre-configured words and 65,000 symbols. Users can personalize boards, add custom images and phrases, and select synthetic voices to facilitate communication.
- Dynamic, customizable AAC boards
- Extensive vocabulary and symbol library
- Add custom images and categories
- Create and save custom phrases
- Select synthetic voice options
- Modify board layouts and features
- Password protection for customization
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Weave Chat AAC is a free, dynamic, and completely customizable AAC app that is available to a variety of devices. There are over 3,500 pre-configured words with a symbol library including more than 65,000 symbols that you can choose from. Weave Chat AAC offers a large variety of verbs (green), pronouns (yellow), questions (purple), nouns (tan/orange), adjectives (blue), and conversational words (pink). All color choices were made based on the Fitzgerald Key and new vocabulary is added weekly. Users can add their own custom images and categories in Settings —> Manage Custom Images. In addition, users can add their own custom phrases that can easily be accessed from their board; to add phrases, go to Settings —> Manage Phrases. Users can select a synthetic voice (dependent on their device settings) from Settings —> Change Voice Settings - here you can select your voice, vocal pitch, and rate of speech. Image and text size can be personalized from Settings —> Change Image & Text Size (select from default - small, medium, and large). Settings —> Configure Image Keyboard allows the user to turn on/off features that allow for the category text to be read aloud (synthetic voice for categories), to keep the user in the category after a image has been selected (stay on category after image selection), and disable the speech output for individual words so that it only reads aloud when the white text screen is touched (synthetic voice disabled for individual words). The AAC board can be modified in Settings —> Manage Board Builder. Here, the user can select from the default board (you must make a copy to edit it - to do this select “Add new keyboard” and then select “Hide Images” for Type of Keyboard); grid position boards (ranging in size from 1x2 - 7x15 rows/columns); and Board Builder (gives you the option to build a board from scratch). All boards are completely editable and all custom images and categories can be used from all boards. Lastly, Manage Pin Configuration allows the user to set a pin over all (or just some) aspects of customization to lock down features as needed. Feature List: - Dynamic, customizable, AAC boards - Large variety of verbs, nouns, and adjectives with additional vocabulary added weekly - Add custom images and custom categories - Create and save phrases - Select a synthetic voice (as available per your device settings) - Copy & Paste AAC picture icon messages via “share” - Create and/or modify AAC boards via 3 options: grid position boards (ranging from 1x2 - 7x15), hide images, and/or create a new board from scratch - “Text” others who have the app using AAC picture icons - Set a passcode to lock down features as needed - Weave Chat AAC currently only has English buttons/images
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Weave Chat AAC at Free against Fricatives Articulation's $2.99. Weave Chat AAC also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (555 vs 2). Fricatives Articulation's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 79%). On 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
Weave Chat AAC is free to download; Fricatives Articulation costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fricatives Articulation holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weave Chat AAC has 555 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Fricatives Articulation's written reviews are positive against 79% of Weave Chat AAC's.
Fricatives Articulation ships an update every 17 months, Weave Chat AAC weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fricatives Articulation | Weave Chat AAC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (555 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 79.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 555 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 141 MB | 132 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Preferred Mobile Applications, LLC | Weave Chat, LLC |
Customer experience
Fricatives Articulation
Weave Chat AAC
Bugs and requests
Fricatives Articulation
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Weave Chat AAC
Reported bugs
3 issues- Syncing issues causing long loading times
- Inability to receive verification token during signup
- Freezing when trying to share between devices
Requested features
5 requests- Easier custom button editing from main board
- More age-appropriate voice options
- Increased custom button capacity
- Pre-made vocabulary for sensitive topics
- Improved volume and audio quality control
In-app purchases
Fricatives Articulation
No in-app purchases
Weave Chat AAC
No in-app purchases
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