SLP Toolkit alternatives in 2026: 5 options for school SLPs, with prices

The main SLP Toolkit alternatives for school SLPs are SLP Now (therapy materials and planning, $29 a month), AbleSpace (a free plan for individual providers, with iPhone and Android apps), SLPDesk (free for up to 10 students; Pro is $24 a month), SLP Draft (AI drafting of evaluations and present levels, $24 a month) and SLPcentral (session data on your iPhone, plus an assistant that drafts notes and progress reports from that data, $19.99 a month or $149.99 a year). SLP Toolkit itself is $29 a month or $215 a year, and it is still the deepest of these on built-in screeners, goal writing and caseload scheduling. Prices were checked November 7, 2026, on each company’s own site.

In short: pick the alternative that fixes the part of Toolkit you don’t use or don’t like. Materials and planning: SLP Now. A free plan and a phone app: AbleSpace. A free plan with AI-drafted SOAP notes: SLPDesk. Evaluation reports: SLP Draft. Tapping data on an iPhone and having notes and progress reports drafted from it: SLPcentral. If your district pays for Toolkit and you use its screeners, keeping it can be the right call.

Hi, I’m Ryan. I’m an SLP grad student, my fiancée is a school SLP, and I built SLPcentral, so I have a horse in this race. Every fact about another company below comes from that company’s own public page, linked, and the full list is under Sources at the end. Read the other tools as “where they’re stronger” first.

What SLP Toolkit does well (so you know what you’d give up)

SLP Toolkit has been built with SLPs since 2016, and its home page (opens in a new tab) says more than 15,000 school-based SLPs use it. Its features page (opens in a new tab) lists built-in present-level screeners you score as you go, criterion-referenced tests and rubrics, a SMART goal generator and goal bank, a “preferred schedule” tool for caseload scheduling, printable progress reports with graphs, and documentation that flows to Medicaid billing partners. On AI, it lists AI tools that draft a therapy plan, and its help center describes an AI Goal Builder (opens in a new tab), a custom GPT you give details like age, grade and area of need.

Price: $29 a month or $215 a year with a 30-day free trial, and districts pay $235 per license per year by purchase order (pricing (opens in a new tab), checked November 7, 2026). Its features page says a card starts the trial and nothing is charged until it ends. It’s a web app, and its device article (opens in a new tab) recommends a tablet, laptop or desktop; phones aren’t the main target.

So the usual reasons SLPs look elsewhere are price (it’s paid out of pocket when the district doesn’t cover it), wanting to tap data on a phone, or wanting help drafting notes and progress reports from the data rather than a printout of it.

SLP Toolkit alternatives compared

SLP Now: if planning therapy is the hard part

SLP Now is content-first: its home page (opens in a new tab) centers on a library of 6,000+ materials and therapy plans, and it also collects session data in real time and charts it. It costs the same per month as Toolkit, $29, or $249 a year, with a 14-day free trial, no credit card required, and up to 5 material downloads during the trial (pricing (opens in a new tab), checked November 7, 2026). Its pricing page doesn’t mention AI.

• Where it’s stronger than Toolkit: materials and ready-made therapy plans.
• Keep in mind: it isn’t cheaper per month, and it isn’t built around screeners the way Toolkit is.
• Weighing it against SLPcentral directly? See SLPcentral vs SLP Now.

AbleSpace: a free plan and phone apps

AbleSpace is an IEP goal and data tracking tool for special education teams: its home page (opens in a new tab) lists SLPs alongside special education teachers, paraprofessionals, OTs and behavior therapists, with iPhone, Android, iPad and desktop apps. It offers more than 10 data types, including accuracy, prompting levels, frequency and duration, plus automatic graphs and reports. Its Basic plan is free for individual providers with unlimited students, and school and district plans are priced on request (pricing (opens in a new tab), checked November 7, 2026). Its site says paid plans unlock its AI features, which include AI-assisted session notes and IEP goal drafts.

• Where it’s stronger than Toolkit: a free plan, native phone apps (including Android), and a team view for paraprofessionals and families.
• Keep in mind: it’s built for whole special education teams, not only SLPs, so check that its screens fit speech goals and cue levels the way you take data.

SLPDesk: a free plan with AI-drafted SOAP notes

SLPDesk is built for K–12 school SLPs. You import your caseload, log trial-by-trial data with cueing levels, and get a SOAP note drafted from those trials to review and approve (home page (opens in a new tab)). The free plan covers up to 10 students and 3 AI drafts a month with no card; Pro is $24 a month, or $19 a month billed yearly, with a 14-day trial; Team is $99 a month for a school (pricing (opens in a new tab), checked November 7, 2026).

• Where it’s stronger than Toolkit: a free plan for a small caseload, and SOAP notes drafted from your logged trials.
• Keep in mind: neither its home page nor its pricing page mentions a mobile app.

SLP Draft: if evaluation reports eat your week

SLP Draft is a browser-based documentation tool. You tap each trial box once for correct, twice for incorrect or three times for prompted, for one student or a whole group, and it drafts progress updates, present levels, evaluation reports and session notes. For evaluations, you type in the official scores from the test manual. It’s $24 a month or $240 a year, with 14 days free and no card (SLP Draft (opens in a new tab), checked November 7, 2026).

• Where it’s stronger than Toolkit: drafting evaluation reports and present levels.
• Keep in mind: it runs in the browser, and its site doesn’t name a phone app.

SLPcentral: tap data on your iPhone, review the drafts

Full disclosure again: I built this one. SLPcentral is a caseload app for school SLPs. During a session you tap ✓ or ✗ for each trial on your iPhone (or on the web), mark the cue level a response needed, keep frequency goals as counts, and switch between students in a group. Each goal’s graph builds itself, and the caseload keeps track of IEP review and progress-report due dates.

Then there’s Ollie, the app’s AI assistant. Ollie already knows your caseload: the trials you tapped, each goal’s history and graph, and what’s due. A general chatbot like ChatGPT only knows what you paste into it. Ask Ollie to draft today’s notes or a progress report for a date range, or draft present levels from a screener’s results, and he drafts them in your format. Every draft is labeled as a draft, the app flags any number it can’t trace back to your data, and nothing is saved until you review it, edit it and tap Save.

Privacy, the plain version. The client names you’ve saved are swapped for a code like CLT_X92J before anything goes to the AI. A name you type into a note can still be sent, so keep names out of free text, and follow your district’s rules. Details are in the FAQ.

Where it’s weaker than Toolkit: fewer built-in screeners, no criterion-referenced tests or rubrics, no caseload-schedule builder, no therapy-materials library, and no Medicaid billing integration. It runs on iPhone and the web; there’s no Android app. It’s also new (2026), with a small team. Price: licensed SLPs start with a 14-day free trial on yearly, 7-day on monthly, then Pro is $19.99 a month, or $149.99 a year (about $12.50 a month). Grad students use it free (up to 10 clients, with 15 free AI drafts a month), and Clinical Fellows get their first year for $74.99. See pricing, or try it with Leo, a made-up student, without signing up.

Want the two side by side? Here’s SLPcentral vs SLP Toolkit.

If you also run a private practice: Ambiki

Ambiki is practice-management software for pediatric therapists: scheduling, insurance claims, invoices and notes. Professional is $59 per user a month and Professional (Limited), for small caseloads, is $25, after a 30-day free trial; its Tenalog add-on is $1 a session (pricing (opens in a new tab), checked November 7, 2026). For a school-only SLP it covers a lot you may not need, which is why it isn’t in the table above.

How to choose

• You mostly use Toolkit for screeners, goals and scheduling: keep Toolkit, especially if your district pays.
• Planning therapy is your bottleneck: SLP Now.
• You want a free plan and an Android or iPhone app: AbleSpace.
• You want a free plan with AI-drafted SOAP notes: SLPDesk.
• You write lots of evaluation reports: SLP Draft.
• You want to tap data on your iPhone and review drafted notes and progress reports: SLPcentral.
• You can mix them. Some SLPs keep one tool for screeners or materials and use another for data and notes.

Switching mid-year without losing data

1. Export first. Toolkit’s features page (opens in a new tab) says your data exports whenever you want it. Save each student’s graphs and recent notes before you cancel.
2. Check who pays. A district license may run to the end of the school year; ask before you cancel anything.
3. Switch at a reporting break. Start the new tool right after progress reports go out, so one quarter’s data lives in one place.
4. Re-enter goals, not history. Add each goal as written in the IEP, then enter the most recent data points as the starting point.
5. Follow your district’s rules on where student information may be stored, whichever tool you pick.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• SLP Toolkit: pricing (opens in a new tab), features (opens in a new tab), home page (opens in a new tab), help center on the AI Goal Builder (opens in a new tab) and supported devices (opens in a new tab)
• SLP Now: pricing (opens in a new tab), home page (opens in a new tab)
• AbleSpace: home page (opens in a new tab), pricing (opens in a new tab)
• SLPDesk: home page (opens in a new tab), pricing (opens in a new tab)
• SLP Draft: home page, pricing and FAQ (opens in a new tab)
• Ambiki: pricing (opens in a new tab)

Prices and features checked November 7, 2026. They change, so check each site before you buy.

Drafted with AI help from the sources listed, then reviewed and edited by Ryan Lillard. He built SLPcentral. No client information is used in this article. SLPcentral isn’t affiliated with any company named here. If a fact changed, email support@slpcentral.app and it will be fixed.