Cuespeak vs Smarty Ears Online

Cuespeak is a rehabilitation app for people with aphasia and apraxia of speech, intended for practice at home or in a clinic. It runs on iOS and macOS and provides 14 configurable therapy modules with ready-made exercises and templates for personalised content. Sessions can address word finding, reading, writing, understanding words and sentences, spoken word production, sentence construction, and asking or answering questions. More than 15,000 videos break words and sentences into words, syllables, and sounds. Users can record and replay attempts, create exercises about themselves, and request videos for unavailable names or places. Cuespeak Clinician lets speech and language therapists send sessions and updates remotely and receive usage data and results. Clinician tools include progress tracking and custom activities. Home pricing starts at £9.99 per month with a 14-day trial; there is no free plan. Offline access is unavailable, and speech recognition uses Apple’s Siri system.

Smarty Ears Online provides adaptive learning activities and therapeutic tools for children with speech impairment and learning disabilities. Activities cover language, literacy, phonological awareness, speech and articulation, social communication, and reading comprehension. Educators can define goals aligned with individual IEPs, track student activity automatically, and review real-time progress data and detailed reports. Student progress can be shared with educational teams, caregivers, and other educators. Caregivers can receive secure access through a district or therapist for home practice at no additional cost. The service runs on web, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, and requires internet access with a current browser version. There is no free plan, but 30 days of free access is offered. Professional costs $21.99 a month or $240 a year. Enterprise and Collaborative Plus each cost $340 a year; district and organization pricing is by quote.