10 Best Speech Therapy Apps for Adults 

Amanda Unrau
CCC-SLP
06/24/25 | Last modified: 08/06/25

Speech therapy is not just for children. Many adults benefit from speech therapy. Adults who may need speech therapy include those who have suffered a stroke or traumatic brain injury, and adults with Parkinson’s disease, dementia, dysphagia, aphasia, dysarthria, voice disorders, or autism. 

Speech therapy for adults can help to improve their cognitive communication skills, their clarity of speech, and their ability to participate in conversation. Improvements in these areas can boost confidence and aid adults in fully participating in their daily lives and improve their quality of life.

In addition to speech therapy with a certified speech language pathologist, SLP apps for adults provide opportunities for adults to practice their skills during and in between speech therapy sessions. Apps also allow adults to take more ownership and use their skills in functional daily settings. 

We have compiled a list of the best speech therapy apps for adults. After a thorough review, we have included an overview of each app, with information on the target audience, key features, integrations, pricing, and overall pros/cons.

Best Speech Therapy Apps for Adults

Speech/Articulation Apps:

These are apps for adults who are looking to improve their articulation skills. Adults who may benefit from these types of apps may have aphasia, apraxia of speech, or a speech sound disorder such as an articulation or phonological disorder.

Speech Tutor Pro

This speech therapy app is for individuals with speech sound disorders. An articulation screener helps users know which sounds to target. Individuals can practice these sounds using the many articulation decks. 

The feature that sets Speech Tutor Pro apart from other ipad speech therapy apps for adults is the set of articulation videos depicting the inside of the mouth as various sounds are produced. Users can view these videos and then watch and record their own productions.

• Target Audience: Individuals with speech sound disorders, speech language pathologists, adults, parents, children

• Key Features:
  • Includes screeners for both speech therapists and parents/adults
  • Includes almost 5,000 flashcards of 33 phoneme decks and 36 minimal pair decks, including all word positions (initial, medial, final) in different levels (word, phrase, sentence)
  • 52 articulation videos demonstrating the movement and placement of the tongue and mouth when producing various speech sounds; includes views from the front, side, and palate
  • Camera view for clients to view their own sound productions, with record/playback capabilities

• Integrations: Speech Tutor Pro can be used with Forbrain. Forbrain provides immediate auditory feedback to its users, which is helpful when working on speech and language skills. When individuals wear the Forbrain headset as they view the articulation videos, they will be more focused. In addition, when users practice their speech sounds, Forbrain allows them to hear their own speech louder and clearer.

• Pricing: One-time purchase of $69.99

• Pros/Cons: 

Apraxia Therapy

The Apraxia Therapy app is a speech therapy app for adults with apraxia of speech or aphasia. Individuals with apraxia or aphasia may include a stroke or brain injury survivor. Individuals can use the app to learn to speak more fluently. 

Users watch the mouth movements in a video, tap along in rhythm, and speak in unison. They repeat the audio as it fades out, and then eventually speak alone with only visual support. Users work through three different speeds and a variety of difficulty levels. 

• Target Audience: Individuals with apraxia of speech or aphasia

• Key Features:
  • Utilizes VAST: Video Assisted Speech Therapy, a video technology system that uses mouth movements, sounds, and other cues to help people speak in unison
  • Includes three main activities:
    • Sequences
    • Phrases
    • Long words
  • Adjustable difficulty, steps, speed, and cues 
  • 110 conversational phrases, 60 long words, and 5 automatic sequences
  • Automatically records the user’s speech for awareness and self-monitoring

• Integrations: Individuals can wear Forbrain while using the Apraxia Therapy app. When users hear themselves louder while wearing Forbrain and practicing their speech, their brain can better process the auditory signal. Being more aware of your own speech can help users to improve it. This can also lead to greater self-confidence, helping individuals to stay motivated and keep practicing using the app.

• Pricing:
  • One-time purchase of $24.99
  • Free version: Apraxia Therapy Lite

• Pros/Cons: 

Intelligibility

These apps are for adults who are looking to improve their overall intelligibility of speech. Adults may have reduced intelligibility due to a medical condition such as a stroke or brain injury, dysarthria, ALS, MS, or Cerebral Palsy. These conditions can cause speech to be slurred, quiet, slow. The apps listed below offer ways for individuals to monitor and improve some of these aspects of speech so that others can understand them better. 

Conversation Paceboard

A pacing board helps individuals monitor their rate of speech. Pacing boards help individuals who tend to rush speak at a slower rate. This app is a modern pacing board designed to improve speech rate and clarity, and provides feedback when the user talks too fast. The user is given a question prompt to answer. They have to hold down a circle each time they say a word or syllable.

As they do so, the circle gradually fills with color. Once the circle is completely filled, the user moves to the next circle and says the next word or syllable. If the user goes to the next circle too quickly, the screen will display, “Too Fast!” Conversation Paceboard can be helpful for individuals who have dysarthria or slurred speech due to a stroke, brain injury, ALS, MS, Huntington’s Disease, or Cerebral Palsy. 

• Target Audience: Individuals with reduced intelligibility, unclear articulation, or a fast rate of speech

• Key Features:
  • Visual cues and feedback
  • Multiple categories with over 200 conversation prompts 
  • Adjustable speed settings to help the user maintain the desired rate of speech
  • Option to record speech samples to compare speech with and without the pacing board

• Integrations: Forbrain pairs well with Conversation Paceboard.  Both apps provide immediate feedback: the Conversation Paceboard app provides visual and tactile feedback and Forbrain provides auditory feedback. With Forbrain, individuals can hear their speech more clearly, which helps them monitor their clarity of speech in order to make future adjustments. 

• Pricing: One-time purchase of $12.99

• Pros/Cons: 

Bla Bla Bla

This app is designed to help users increase their speaking volume. It works by reacting to the user’s speech through animated black and white faces that change expressions based on the volume and duration of the sound. The facial expression becomes more pronounced the longer and louder the sound is. 

Bla Bla Bla provides immediate visual feedback to encourage users to monitor their volume and length of speech. It also helps individuals learn to use appropriate intonation, stress patterns, emphasis, and rhythm in speech. Bla Bla Bla can be especially helpful for individuals with autism or those who have had a stroke.

• Target Audience: Individuals with reduced volume or duration of speech, or individuals with monotone speech

• Key Features:
  • Improves regulation of voice volume, duration, and intonation
  • Dynamic changing facial expressions provide immediate visual feedback
  • Can motivate minimally verbal individuals to communicate and vocalize

• Integrations: Users of the Bla Bla Bla app can benefit from combining it with Forbrain. The auditory feedback that Forbrain provides pairs well with the visual feedback that Bla Bla Bla provides. The Forbrain headset allows users to hear their own speech louder and more clearly, which helps them monitor their speech.

• Pricing: Free

• Pros/Cons: 

Receptive Language/Auditory Comprehension

These are apps for adults who are looking to improve their receptive language skills. Adults who may benefit from these types of apps may have poor auditory and reading comprehension due to aphasia or as the result of suffering a stroke or brain injury.

Comprehension Therapy

This speech therapy app for adults is designed for people with weak receptive language skills, such as individuals with aphasia or those recovering from a stroke or brain injury. It offers a structured approach to understanding single words through interactive exercises. Three modes are included. 

In Listen mode, users match an auditory stimulus (spoken word) to a picture. In Read mode, users match a written stimulus (printed word) to a picture. In Listen & Read mode, users match an auditory stimulus (spoken word) to a written word. 

• Target Audience: Individuals with weak reading or auditory comprehension skills

• Key Features:
  • Includes three modes of practice: Listen, Read, Listen and Read
  • Over 700 color photographs of functional vocabulary chosen by an SLP
  • Built-in progress tracking scores and tracks progress on the screen. Results can be emailed to speech therapists or teachers
  • Users can personalize the content by adding their own images and words

• Integrations: Individuals who wear Forbrain while using the Comprehension Therapy app will hear the app louder and more clearly, which can help to improve attention and memory to complete the tasks. Using Forbrain can also improve auditory processing skills. 

• Pricing:
  • One-time purchase of $24.99
  • Free Lite version available
  • Also included in the 4-in-1 Language Therapy app

• Pros/Cons: 

Reading Therapy

The Reading Therapy app helps to improve reading comprehension skills. It is designed for individuals with neurological impairments, such as some with aphasia or those who have suffered a stroke or brain injury. 

It helps to bridge the gap between recognizing single words and understanding full sentences. Users complete a variety of reading comprehension tasks, including phrase matching, sentence matching, phrase completion, and sentence completion. Users receive immediate feedback and can also create their own exercises.

• Target Audience: Individuals with neurological impairments and weak reading comprehension skills

• Key Features:
  • Four modes with over 450 exercises totaling over 1,800 practice items:
    • Phrase matching
    • Sentence matching
    • Phrase completion
    • Sentence completion
  • Add personalized exercises using your own photos and audio recordings
  • Customize the number of answer choices (2, 3, or 4) or automatically adjust based on performance
  • Data tracking and reporting automatically scores exercises and emails reports for therapist progress monitoring and documentation

• Integrations: Users of the Reading Therapy app can wear Forbrain at the same time to improve the auditory feedback look and help with reading difficulties. When the user reads the words and passages in the app aloud while using Forbrain, they can improve their pronunciation, phonics, phonemic awareness, reading fluency, and understanding of the vocabulary. 

• Pricing:
  • One-time purchase of $24.99
  • Try for free as part of Language Therapy Lite

• Pros/Cons: 

AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) Apps:

AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) offers a method of communicating to support or replace spoken and/or written language. These AAC apps are for adults who have difficulty communicating orally. Adults who may benefit from these types of apps may have autism, apraxia of speech, ALS, Down Syndrome, or may have suffered a stroke.

TouchChat

TouchChat is an AAC app that is for individuals who have difficulty communicating verbally, such as those with autism, apraxia, ALS, Down Syndrome, or those who have suffered a stroke. 

Users choose vocabulary files that include pages and buttons of words, phrases, sentences, and other functions. Individuals can also create their own vocabularies and customize all settings in the app, including the voice, button images, and layout.

• Target Audience: Nonverbal individuals or those with limited verbal skills

• Key Features:
  • Customizable vocabulary files and pages
  • Users can choose between various synthesized and custom voice options
  • Upgrade Store offers additional AAC vocabularies for purchase

• Integrations: 
  • Cloud storage: Users can import and export vocabulary files through Dropbox and Google Drive.
  • File sharing: Users can transfer files between devices using iTunes File Sharing and Airdrop
  • Messaging and social media: Text created in TouchChat can be shared via iMessage, email, or social media platforms
  • Media integration: Buttons can be programmed to play audio files from the music library, audio files, or Youtube.
  • Forbrain: TouchChat can be used with Forbrain to improve attention and help users focus better while learning and using the app. TouchChat users who also wear Forbrain may be able to understand and respond more easily since Forbrain can boost sensory integration and auditory processing skills.

• Pricing: One-time purchase of $149.99; offers in-app purchases

• Pros/Cons: 

GoTalk NOW

GoTalk NOW is an AAC app that is for individuals who have difficulty speaking. In GoTalk NOW, a symbol set is included, the page layouts are adjustable, there are recorded and text-to-speech capabilities, and you can customize the navigation. Users can create as many communication books as they need, with unlimited pages. 

There are three types of communication pages that can be mixed and matched in one communication book.. In standard pages, action occurs when the location is selected. In express pages, recorded or speech-to-text messages are formulated and played when the bar is pressed. In scenes pages, hotspots play speech, music, or videos when arranged over a photo or image. 

• Target Audience: Nonverbal individuals or those with limited verbal skills

• Key Features:
  • Three styles of communication pages: Standard, Express, Scenes
  • Voice options: users can record their voice, use built-in speech-to-text voices, or purchase higher quality voices in multiple languages
  • Supports images, music, and videos from various sources 

• Integrations: 
  • Cloud storage: Users can back up communication books on Dropbox or iTunes
  • Additional resources: users can purchase high quality text-to-speech voices from Acapela or other symbols from SymbolStix or Picture Communication Symbols (PCS)
  • Forbrain: Using Forbrain with GoTalk NOW can help individuals to learn how to use the app since Forbrain can help users better attend to tasks. Forbrain also helps when inscribing AAC to motor memory and supports memory in learning new words.

• Pricing: One-time purchase of $119.99; offers in-app purchases

• Pros/Cons: 

Predictable

Predictable is a text-based AAC app with word prediction technology that helps users type their message quickly. Users set up a personalized grid divided into categories, where they can store a phrasebank, images, symbols, links, and attach audio recordings. 

There are over 100 device voices, 200 online voices, and 4 voice banking providers for users to choose from. Bilingual speakers can even switch between a primary and a secondary language. 

• Target Audience: Nonverbal individuals or those with limited verbal skills

• Key Features:
  • Smart word prediction technology adapts to the user’s typing patterns, enhancing typing speed and accuracy
  • Multilingual support allows users to choose between 43 languages and switch between primary and secondary languages 
  • Completely customizable: customize the voice, images, audio recordings, symbols, links, and layout and appearance.

• Integrations: 
  • Users can integrate personalized synthetic voices through voice banking services via Acapela, ModelTalker, SpeakUnique, or The Voice Keeper
  • ElevenLabs offers additional voice options. This AI platform creates realistic voices and integrates with Predictable.
  • ChatGPT: Users can ask questions and receive responses directly in the app for additional conversation support
  • Predictable is equipped with a translation tool that translates messages and allows users to communicate across language barriers
  • Web platform allows users to log into the web platform remotely to manage settings and content
  • Forbrain integrates with the Predictable app, since wearing Forbrain while using the app can help users to focus better and improve memory skills as they use the app to communicate.

• Pricing: One-time purchase of $159.99

• Pros/Cons: 

General/Multipurpose Apps:

Some speech therapy apps for adults target a variety of skills. A multipurpose app is a great option for those looking to improve a variety of skills, such as receptive language, expressive language, articulation, intelligibility, and social skills. Adults with a wide variety of medical conditions or language difficulties may benefit from these types of apps.

Word Vault Pro

Word Vault Pro is a speech therapy app for adults that targets articulation, phonology, language, and social skills. This app was developed by two speech therapists, and includes a client management and data tracking system that allows SLPs to send content to clients for home practice. 

This app includes over 25 categories of images or interactive activities, such as flashcards or lists of words for articulation practice, stories for reading comprehension, and images for vocabulary learning.

• Target Audience: Individuals with speech and/or language delay; SLPs

• Key Features:
  • Interactive activities with real life pictures designed to enhance learning and retention
  • Audio recordings of every word, phrase, sentence, story, question, minimal pair, multisyllabic word
  • Over 25 categories of images or activities targeting articulation, language, and social skills
  • Client management and data tracking system
  • Add your own custom words, phrases, pictures, and recorded audio
  • SLPs can send lists for home practice when clients download the free iPhone version

• Integrations: Forbrain can support users of Word Vault Pro since it provides immediate auditory feedback when individuals are wearing the Forbrain headset. When practicing speech sounds, adults can make adjustments more easily since they hear their speech more clearly. Their auditory memory and auditory processing skills can also improve as they hear and practice language skills on the app. 

• Pricing:
  • One-time purchase of $49.99 or a subscription of $5.99/month
  • Free version available (Word Vault Essential) available on iPhone for clients to download

• Pros/Cons: 

Selection Criteria 

When compiling this list of speech therapy apps, we considered multiple factors. These are the criteria that we reviewed:

• Target audience: Speech therapy apps for adults target different diagnoses, therapy targets, and difficulty levels. We have identified the primary audience of each app so you can find the one that fits your specific goals.

• Key features: The key features are the main components of the app that help you identify if the app has what you are looking for. We considered the target of the app (intelligibility, apraxia, comprehension, etc.), the types of activities, the difficulty level and variety of the activities, if the app is customizable, the design of the app (e.g., visual/audio prompts), and data tracking and sharing options.

• Integrations: Some apps support third-party integrations, or external programs that can be combined and used together to support the app. We specifically sought to identify how Forbrain could help boost the effectiveness of the app. When appropriate, we explained how Forbrain could be used in conjunction with each app and the benefits of doing so.

• Pricing: Price is a major factor for most people when choosing speech apps for adults. Most of these apps give the user unlimited access for a one-time purchase, which is a benefit over subscription plans that require an ongoing monthly payment. We included apps with a variety of price points, from free to $159.99, so there is something for everyone. We also made sure to include a few apps that offer free trials with limited features, so you can try it out before purchasing the full app. Although a few of the apps are more expensive, we included them in the list if they are comprehensive and include a variety of difficulty levels and options for customization, because that provides a better value for your money. 

How to Choose the Right Speech Therapy App for Adults

Here are some practical tips on how you can choose the best speech therapy app for adults:

• Consider your specific needs or delays – If you have apraxia of speech or reduced intelligibility, you will want to find an app that focuses on improving articulation and clarity of speech. If you have weak auditory processing or comprehension skills, you will want to look for a reading comprehension app. If you have difficulty communicating verbally, you may want to look for an AAC app. If you need to work on speech, language, and conversation skills, look for an app that targets a variety of skills.

• Consider your related strengths and weaknesses – Take into consideration your motivation, motor skills, and your need for auditory and/or visual cues. If you have weak fine motor skills and need an AAC app, you may need to look for an app with alternate scanning methods, such as eye gaze. If you have difficulty taking in auditory information, you will want an app with a lot of pictures. If you have poor reading fluency, you may want to find an app that reads aloud or has text-to-speech options. You may also find that an app with immediate feedback is more motivating to you.

• Consider your long term goals – What are you hoping to be able to accomplish as a result of speech therapy. You want to find a speech therapy app that helps you meet your goals. Do you want to be able to send, read, and understand emails? Do you want to send voice memos or videos to your grandkids? Do you want to be able to converse clearly with your spouse? Identifying your main goal and keeping it in mind will help you choose an appropriate app and keep you motivated.

• Consult with your speech therapist – Your speech therapist may have recommendations or apps they use in your therapy sessions that you can download for home practice. Many apps offer options for the

Forbrain to Support Speech Therapy Apps for Adults

Forbrain is a wireless auditory feedback device that pairs well with speech therapy apps for adults. When wearing the Forbrain headset, the microphone amplifies your speech so that you hear yourself in real time, but louder and more clearly. Adults will find it easier to pay attention to tasks on the SLP apps for adults since the background noise is also reduced. Over time, using Forbrain can lead to improved memory, auditory processing, and intelligibility of speech. 

Final Words

A wide variety of speech therapy apps for adults are available to help them improve their speech and language skills. We compiled this list of the best speech apps for adults to help you narrow down your search. Technology helps individuals access teaching and learning tools and practice their skills outside of speech therapy sessions. When using apps in collaboration with your speech therapist, you can keep track of your progress and identify challenge areas that require additional help.