Best speech therapy apps for Android

What Android users are missing

It is worth knowing what is not available, so you can stop searching for it.

1. Speech Blubs — for copying first words

The biggest name in the category, with over 52,000 US App Store ratings at 4.6 stars and a full Android release. Its method is video modelling: your child watches short clips of real children producing a word and copies them. Children copy other children more readily than adults, and for a two- to four-year-old that is a real advantage.

It is the most expensive option at $14.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Its structure suits exploring word libraries more than drilling one target sound, so it fits younger children better than school-age ones.

2. Help Me Talk — for sound-by-sound practice

Our app, so weigh accordingly. It covers 30 speech sounds, each with a recorded lesson and mouth-position guidance, and over 6,000 practice words, phrases and sentences. The distinguishing part is that your child says a word out loud and the app scores how close it was, then tracks that sound week by week — instead of leaving you to decide whether that R was good enough.

It also carries picture-based communication boards for building sentences and naming feelings, which is unusual: most apps do either pronunciation or picture communication, not both.

At $39.99 a year it is the cheapest annual price here. It has a small rating base — 36 US App Store ratings — because it is a small independent app, and it is English only.

3. Otsimo — the lifetime option

Otsimo comes out of autism education and uses speech recognition to check attempts. Alone on this list it offers a lifetime purchase at $119.99, which beats every subscription here if you expect three years of use.

Two facts worth knowing before you buy: its US App Store rating is 3.36 from 180 ratings, the lowest here, and the iOS version had not been updated since May 2025 when this was written. Check the Play Store listing's own update date for the Android build before committing.

4. My Words — for late-talking toddlers

Narrow and good at its niche: ages one to four, built specifically around late talkers and first words, with activities written by certified speech therapists. If your worry is “my two-year-old barely says anything” rather than “nobody can understand my four-year-old”, this is closer to what you need than anything else on this list.

It is a small app with a small user base, so expect less material once your child moves beyond first words.

5. Mio — if English is not your home language

Mio ships in seven languages — English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Ukrainian — which is more than everything else here combined. It is an early-learning app built with educators and speech therapists rather than a targeted therapy tool, and it holds 4.57 stars from over 3,000 US ratings.

For a bilingual household where the child is not yet strong in English, having the app speak the home language matters more than any feature comparison.

Free before paid

Everything on this list except Proloquo2Go is free to download and paid to use properly. Before you subscribe to any of them, work through a week of the free practice material on this site — every sound has its mouth-position guide, an audio clip, hundreds of practice words, and three games. It costs nothing and it tells you whether your child will sit for this kind of practice at all.

• All 30 speech sounds
• How to do speech therapy at home
• Speech milestones by age

Practice these sounds

Free word lists, mouth-position guides and games — no app needed.