Table 1.
Mobile App Rating Scale app quality ratings.
| Mobile health app ranking | Engagement | Functionality | Aesthetics | Information quality | Content-specific criteriaa | |
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Signily | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
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The ASL App | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.0 |
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ListenClear | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 2.5 |
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Petralex Hearing Aid | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.4 |
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Sound Alert | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 3.0 |
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BeWarned–App for DHOH | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.1 |
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Visual Hearing Aid | 3.3 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 2.0 |
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eyeHear | 2.7 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 2.2 |
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Live Caption | 2.8 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 2.4 |
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Earfy | 2.9 | 3.3 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 1.8 |
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Text to Speech! | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
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Speak4Me–Text to Speech | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.0 |
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Smart Record: Audio Recorder | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 1.0 |
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Transcribe–Speech to Text | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 2.1 |
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TextToSpeech (Iconic Solutions, LLC) | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 1.5 |
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Text to Speech for iMessage | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 1.3 |
aContent-specific criteria are based on the interest in an app-specific section by the original Mobile App Rating Scale authors to evaluate apps for specific populations.
bASL: American Sign Language.
cDHOH: deaf and hard-of-hearing.