Any sentence, with feeling.
Happy, sad, or angry, one tap on a face. A furious "go away" finally sounds furious.
Pip vs Proloquo: your child's board, or theirs?
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.
Create your child's board — freeIn their own words
"Because the preprogrammed words cannot be moved or removed, the motor plan remains consistent throughout the user's life."
Read that again. The words can't be moved or removed. Not by you, not by your SLP, not ever. Pip keeps words stable too: nothing moves on its own. But when the people who know your child decide a word belongs somewhere else, it moves.
Feature by feature.
| Feature | Proloquo |  Pip |
|---|---|---|
| Price & ownership | ||
| To start speaking | $9.99/mo or $99.99/yr | $0 |
| Every word free, forever Only in Pip | ||
| Never a subscriptionProloquo is $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year. | ||
| 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's report separates words said on their own from words said with a prompt. | ||
| 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.
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.
Where Pip is different.
They rent it. You own it.
Proloquo is a subscription: $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, for as long as your child needs to talk. Every built-in word in Pip is free forever, and Pip Lifetime is $49 once.
Their board. Or yours.
In Proloquo, the preprogrammed words can't be moved or removed. In Pip, any word goes in any spot, with your photos, your people, and your voice.
One tap, whole sentence.
Pip's ✨ Fix it, tense buttons, and question button change the whole sentence at once. No word-by-word popups.
Try Pip tonight alongside what you have.
It's free, so it costs you nothing to see the difference.
Create your child's board — free