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Same app for every child? Or an app for your child?

The big AAC apps were built in the early iPad era, priced like medical devices, and designed around one idea: their board, their way. Here's Pip against all of them, feature by feature.

Create your child's board — free

Pip vs the field.

PipProloquoProloquo2GoTouchChatLAMP WFLTD SnapCoughDrop
Price & ownership
To start speaking$0$9.99/mo or $99.99/yr$249.99$299.99$299.99Pay to unlock speech$295 or $9/mo
Every word free, forever Only in Pip
Never a subscriptionTouchChat backup is an iShare subscription; TD Snap and CoughDrop sell monthly options.
Every helper edits free, on their own device
Sentences & grammar
✨ Fix it: a whole sentence, one tap Only in Pip
Past, present, future for the whole sentence Done betterOthers change one word at a time, through popups or ending buttons.
❓ Turn it into a question, one tap Only in Pip
Say any sentence happy, sad, or angry Done betterOthers offer special expressive words or a different voice, not a feeling for any sentence.
Next-word suggestions that never move the board Done betterMostly keyboard word prediction; Pip suggests picture tiles in a strip above the board.
Making it yours
Easy to customize Done better
Your own photos and recordings
No picture? Pip draws one in the board's style Only in Pip
Grow from 15 to 90 words without starting over
Team, progress & devices
Model from your phone: the word glows on theirs Done better
Spotlight practice words, nothing turned off Done betterOthers teach by hiding words; Pip dims them and every word still speaks.
IEP-ready progress report, one tap Done betterPip separates words said on their own from words said with a prompt. TouchChat and LAMP log through Realize Language, a separate yearly service; TD Snap and CoughDrop report raw counts.
Edit on any laptop; the iPad has it the same day Done better
Runs on the devices you already own
Works offline
  • Built in, one tap
  • Strong
  • Partial, or buried in menus
  • Limited, paid extra, or a workaround
  • Not available

Our reading of each app's own published features, October 2026.

Only in Pip

Your child taps the words. Pip handles the grammar.

Kids who use AAC often tap the short version: "Mimi go park." One tap turns it into the sentence they meant, in the tense they meant, out loud.

Mimi go park
  • Fix it"Mimi goes to the park."
  • Question"Is Mimi going to the park?"
  • Past"Mimi went to the park."
  • Future"Mimi is going to the park."

Every tap speaks the new sentence out loud. The buttons never move.

Any sentence, with feeling.

Happy, sad, or angry, one tap on a face. A furious "go away" finally sounds furious.

No picture? Pip draws one.

Type a new word and Pip draws its picture in the same friendly style as the rest of the board.

Pip, one by one.

Pip vs Proloquo

Proloquo rents your child's voice for $9.99 a month and won't let you move a single core word. Pip is free, $49 once, and yours to shape.

Read the comparison → Pip vs Proloquo2Go

Five families get Pip Lifetime for the price of one Proloquo2Go.

Read the comparison → Pip vs TouchChat

$299.99 before your child says a word, plus a subscription to back it up. Pip: every word free tonight, backup included.

Read the comparison → Pip vs LAMP Words for Life

LAMP is right that words shouldn't move. Pip agrees, and still lets you make the board your child's.

Read the comparison → Pip vs TD Snap

TD Snap lets you build pages for free, then charges before the board can actually talk. Pip speaks every word, free, from the first tap.

Read the comparison → Pip vs CoughDrop

CoughDrop charges helpers to edit. In Pip, Grandma, the SLP, and the teacher are always free.

Read the comparison →

Why we built it this way: "Your child is not a template" →

See the difference tonight.

Pip is free. Try it alongside what you have.

Create your child's board — free