Good morning!
With how easy to use PocketSign was in the previous post, it made me wonder if I could find any other apps to see the differences between them. I downloaded another app onto my phone, this one being called simply, The ASL App.
Right from the start, these two apps are set up completely differently. With The ASL App, it is set up according to what you would like to learn.
It is organized by category and has a varying amount of videos for each section. This appears to be awesome for the first few sections, but scroll down, and the dreaded “purchase” word appears.
I have no issue with apps that you may have to pay for, but it is unfortunate how quickly this one got to that point. There was only about five free categories, then it went to purchasable. I took a look at the free categories to see how the instruction is in this app as compared to the other!
(It was not great)
This one is honestly just short videos. No practice, no prompts, and no assessment of progress. I clicked on the know your numbers category, and watched the number videos.
This instructor does not pause, or do more than one example. It is literally a seven-second video speeding through the numbers. I had to watch it over and over again just to be able to understand up to number 5.
Overall, I would not recommend this resource. PocketSign is much more user-friendly, and makes me want to keep using it. The ASL App does not give me that motivation at all.
– Dallas
