PocketSign vs SpreadTheSign

PocketSign helps people learn American Sign Language through video lessons, a searchable dictionary, alphabet practice, flash cards, and review tools. Its site lists more than 10,000 dictionary entries and over 70 lesson sets and drills. Lessons and dictionary entries pair sign videos with descriptions and repeatable practice. The mobile app includes interactive video lessons, sign translation, questions, common phrases, baby sign language, and an ASL dictionary. In a browser, learners can access lessons, dictionary, study, grammar, rewards, alphabet, and A-Z sections. PocketSign is available on the web, Android, and iOS. The free plan includes ASL lessons, a daily lesson, a video dictionary, and alphabet practice. Listed in-app purchases include unlimited lessons for $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year, alongside subscriptions at $14.99 a month and $109.99 a year. PocketSign says its content draws on input from Deaf educators, qualified sign-language interpreters, and contributors with university education. It says the product is for beginners, families, students, teachers, and anyone wanting to look up and review signs.

SpreadTheSign is a multilingual sign language dictionary that lets users look up signs through video. Its collection contains more than 600,000 videos across 23 sign languages, including ASL and BSL. Users can search for words and sentence examples, compare how the same word is signed in different languages, and slow videos to follow movements. The app also includes hand alphabets, fingerspelling and baby signs, and users can save signs to favorites. It is available on the web, Android and iOS, with video as its lesson format. The maker presents it as a reference for sign language learners, families, educators, interpreters and people who need to check a sign. The free plan is listed at free; the iOS app is free with in-app purchases, including a Pro Version for €599, paid once. New words, videos and language coverage are added regularly, though content availability can differ by language. The developer is Europeiskt Teckenspråkcenter, with an address in Örebro, Sweden.