List of Android Apps for ASD and Special Needs
This page presents a list of applications for Android devices (or “apps”) divided by categories. Those categories are only indicative, and some apps could be included in more than one category. There are apps specifically designed for people with autism, other which are aimed to help people with special needs in general, and other that can be considered as generic.
The list is divided into 16 categories (6 for AAC). For each one, there is an app table with the following columns:
- App logo.
- App name, additional editions, and prices in dollars and euros. The app name is a link to Google Play.
- List of languages supported by the app.
- Developer’s website.
- A link to the review of the application published in iAutism, if it is already written (represented with the “TEST” logo).
- A short description of the app. This is NOT meant to be a well-thought summary but only an indication of its functionality.
There are already many apps, so when I add a new one I include a “NEW” logo inside its cells and leave it there for at least 3 months. This way, you can come back to this post from time to time and see rapidly which apps have been added.
The Entire List
1. AAC - BUTTONS AND COMMON PHRASES
These apps allow you to create pages with buttons. Each image is a button that plays an audio clip. Some are very focused on Yes/No choices, or on very specific topics (communicating health information) or common phrases.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | AAC YesNo - Female / AAC YesNo - Male / AAC Go Stop - Female / AAC Go Stop - Male / AAC More Finished - Female / AAC More Finished - Male / AAC Turn Taking - Female / AAC Turn Taking - Male / AAC My Message . YesNo: Free My message: $1.99 / €1.49 Others: $0.99 / €0.81 | AnnaSpeak |  | AAC to give yes/no, more/finished, go/stop and my turn/your turn answers. My message allows you record and play a single message. |
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 | Asino | EGGS |  | AAC to give si/no answers. | |
 | Quick Talk $14.99 / €11.55 | Digital Scribbler, Inc. | | AAC based on categories of pairs of buttons to select phrases and words (100 maximum). 11,000 images and symbols from the Smarty Symbols library. Uses any voice already installed and allows to install third-party voices. | |
 | Sim / Nao Free | Looxy |  | AAC for giving simple answers such as yes/no. | |
 | Touch and Go - Speak Free | touch-and-go.org | | AAC with a board for images plus TTS and web with 270+ images. | |
 | touch-n-say Free | Christopher Stärkel |   | AAC based on a single screen with 8 images with an audio clip associated. | |
 | Yes-No Your Way $1.99 / €1.51 | Tech Unlimited, LLC | | AAC for giving simple answers such as yes/no with customizable buttons. | |
 | VirtualTEC Free | accegal | | Virtual keyboard for people with limited motor skills. |
2. AAC - SELECTING IMAGES FROM CATEGORIES
These apps allow you to create categories of images, usually with their associated audio clip. The user chooses a category and, within it, a particular image.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Autism Helper / HD / Lite $4.99 / €3.74 | usama fatah | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. | |
 | Autism myVoice Communicator $2.99 / €2.24 | Apphouse Software | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. Optional set of preloaded images. | |
 | Discover MyVoice $50.00 / €35.35 Free 30 day fully functional trial | PDAscent | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. | |
 | Easy AAC $0.99 / €0.75 | Stealth Enterprises | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. 150 words included. | |
 | Gabby Tabs - AAC for Kids / Lite $9.99 / €7.63 'Lite' is free | Tech Unlimited, LLC | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips focused on kids. 3 customizable tabs and 6 customizable per tab, plus 3 customizable key words. | |
 | HelpTalk Free | HelpTalk | | AAC based on images with text associated and synthesized text-to-speech. | |
 | miaOvoce Free | EGGS | | AAC based on images with text associated and synthesized text-to-speech. | |
 | My Voice My Words $9.99 / €7.24 | Bala Learning Centre | | AAC based on images with text associated. Maximum of 200 images. Synthesized text-to-speech. | |
 | TASUC Communication $11.99 / €8.99 | TASUC Inc. & Info Lounge LLC |  | AAC based on picture cards and recordable audio clips. | |
 | Vocal Slides Free | LycansLab | | Simply app to associate images to a voice recording and play them. | |
 | Voice4u / Voice4u JP $39.99 / €29.99 | Spectrum Visions LLC | |  | AAC based on images and audio clips with 150 preloaded images. |
3. AAC - CREATING PHRASES WITH IMAGES
Construction of a phrase based on concatenating images selected from categories.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | AAC speech communicator Free | aacspeech.org | | AAC based on images to build grammatically correct sentences; 5,000 ARASAAC icons included; text-to-speech (TTS) | |
 | Ablah $0.99 / €0.79 | Maiz Apps | | AAC based on creating phrases using images; 44 preloaded. | |
 | AutismSpeech DiegoSays / AutismSpeech DiegoSaysPro / AutismSpeech SmallPhone / FalaFácil Autismo DiegoDiz / FalaFácil Autismo DiegoDiz Pro / HablaFácil Autism DiegoDice / HablaFácil Autismo DiegoDice Pro . Free or $19.99 / €14.53 | GreenBubbleLabs |    | AAC based on images and on creating phrases with two parts: action + object. Voice included only in English, but can be changed. | |
 | Communication Helper $4.99 / €3.67 | OpeWare | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. | |
 | Communications Free | True Digital Content and Media | | AAC that includes two communication modes: single word or picture, and full sentences. | |
 | CPA Free | CPA | | AAC based on creating phrases using images; 600 preloaded. | |
 | E-Mintza Free | Fundación Orange | | AAC based on creating phrases from images with audio clip associated. | |
 | iToucan Talk (Autism) Free | My Autistic Apps |        | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips, with over 7,000 pictos from ARASAAC. | |
 | JABtalk Free | JABstone LLC | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. Allows you to download images directly from Internet and change their size. | |
 | Let's Talk! / Powwow Talk $3.99 / €3.50 | Toriken Media Information Lab | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. Allows to construct simple phrases. | |
 | Pic-A-Pec $29.99 / €24.95 | ASDjunction | AAC focused on ease of navigation when constructing phrases and options to completely customise it. | ||
 | PictoDroid Lite Free | accegal | | AAC based on pictos to construct action+object phrases. Uses ARASAAC pictos. | |
 | Pictograms Free | Carlos Bustos Tore | | Basic AAC based on images. |
4. AAC – ADVANCED
These apps include many thousands of images and many categories, but also allow you to build communication boards and/or include natural voices, etc. Its price, consistent with that functionality, easily exceeds $100.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | AraBoard Constructor / AraBoard Player Free | Affective Lab. | | Set of 2 tools to create and use communication boards with 1 to 32 images per board. Images and audio clips can be created or directly download from ARASSAC portal. | |
 | Avaz For Autism $99.99 / €75.03 | Invention Labs | | AAC based on creating phrases with picture symbols. 5 Acapela voices (two accents, male, female and child voices), a keyboard to help users transitioning to text. Up to 10,000+ Symbolstix symbols. Designed for people with ASD, with animation for maximizing reinforcement, the ability to remove distracting content from the screen, fine-grained control over the speech output, a high-contrast mode, image size adjustable, ... | |
 | PiktoPlus €150.00 | Limbika | | AAC based on creating phrases with picture symbols. It includes a user avatar designer, natural language, planning and access by scanning and switching. | |
 | Sono Flex / Lite $99.99 / €77.47 'Lite' is free | Tobii Technology | | AAC based on images with 11,000 SymbolStix symbols and 5 natural voices |
5. AAC - WITH WEB SERVICES
Apps that are advanced, with a lot of functionality and web services that provide access to image libraries, allow to share content and manage it via a browser, can manage users, give the option of downloading more voices and languages, etc.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | AACSpeechBuddy $27.99 / €19.03 | CodeDimensions | | AAC that allows you to create many custom sets of images at AACSpeech.com and download them to your device or share them with other users. Image repository with 2,000+ Mulberry Symbols collection. 6 natural voices. | |
 | Alexicom AAC for Android $40 per month | Alexicom Tech LLC | | The free version is an AAC based on images added by the user, word prediction and synthesized text-to-speech. Paying $40 per month, you get access to 1,200+ pre-made pages, 7,000+ images, 20 AT&T natural voices in US English, UK English, Spanish, German, Italian, Parisian French and Canadian French, and a 'cloud' service for backup and share content between devices. | |
 | MyVoice Communication Aid 'Free edition' is free 'Plus edition' is $29 per month | MyVoice Inc. | | AAC based on images plus a web service to select images. Male or female, American and British accents. Can select vocabulary based on the place where you are. | |
 | Niki Talk Free Web service: $50 (never expires) | Alessandro La Rocca |           | AAC based on creating phrases using images (with text and audio associated) grouped into categories. Includes a keyboard, and a "drawing" function to create symbols. It can show velcro strips. Web service allows to create pages, upload images, and access to 70 voices. | |
 | TalkingTiles Free 10$/month (less for longer periods) | Mozzaz Corporation | | AAC based on creating phrases using images (with text and audio associated) grouped into categories. Cloud services to add and share content. Library with more than 50,000 symbols and words in over 30 different languages, accents and voices. | |
 | TapToTalk $99.95 per year or 179.95 "forever" | Assistyx LLC | | AAC based on a web service to create albums of images and sounds. Images from a library of over 2,500, plus add your own. Sounds from text-to-speech for 5 languages or record your own in any language. |
6. AAC – TEXT-TO-SPEECH
Text-to-speech (TTS) apps that allow you to type or select words or phrases which are then converted to a human voice. These apps with an iPad or iPhone can be considered equivalent to an SGD (Speech Generation Device). They also are categorized as AAC. One key aspect, which also largely determines the price, is the type of voice generated. It can be “metallic” or “natural” (based on thousands of stored audio clips, even for voices of men and women). Supported languages are critical. I do not include apps for translating texts, apps to read emails, web pages, etc, or those apps with very low prices that offer only a very simple synthesized speech without any other feature.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | LangLearner Speaker Free | LangLearner LLC | | Notepad with TTS. | |
 | MessageTTS Free | accegal | | Text-to-speech with synthesized voice. Saves history of phrases. | |
 | TapTalker $2.99 / €2.00 | Mark Scott | | Text to speech. Save the phrases you use most often, and organise them into categories. |
7. PICTURE SCHEDULING / SOCIAL STORIES
Apps for showing or constructing sequences of images, typically of actions to perform, to provide a framework known of what to do or what it is going to happen, a schedule of activities to do, etc. Many also allow you to work as AAC, so this category can be considered as a subset of the previous one but consisting on apps with even more features.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | AgileAssyst $42 per month | Agile Disability Solutions LLC | | Visual schedules created using the web service with visual countdown timer, customizable speech output, data tracking and instructions to the user as to how to complete a task based in customizable video modeling movies accessed by the user from the scheduled task button. | |
 | AutiPlan Private users: Free or 5€ per month Companies: €22,5 to €30 (about $30-$40) per month | AutiPlan.com | | | Client app to see schedules created using the associated web service. Uses Sclera pictograms. Schedules downloadable as PDF files. |
 | First Then Visual Schedule $9.99 / €7.59 | Good Karma Applications | | Visual schedules to show daily events, routines or steps needed to complete an activity. Images can be added using the camera, an Internet search feature or by downloading up to 12,000 Smarty Symbols. Includes timer, sound recording, password protection, and schedules sharing. | |
 | iPrompts® - ASD Visual Support $9.99 / €7.92 | HandHold Adaptive, LLC | | Picture schedules, visual countdown timers and choice prompts. | |
 | myPrompts $1.99 / €1.46 | girlcode.net | | Visual schedules based on images, with speech and sounds, timers and choices lists. Schedules downloadable as PDF files. | |
 | Pic-See / Lite $29.99 / €26.72 'Lite' is free | Pic-See Pty Ltd | | Visual scheduler builder to construct 1-to-6 step visual schedules by choosing from over 250+ images plus imported images, schedule execution and performance tracking and exchanging, plus an emotions log and a choice board. | |
 | PictogramAgenda Free | Lorenzo Moreno | | Picture schedules of up to 12 images. | |
 | Scheduler for special needs $0.99 / €0.69 | ERP Rules Developers | | Visual schedules to plan and track daily tasks and get reward upon finish with stars, virtual money and music songs. | |
 | TASUC Schedule / Lite $23 / €16.24 'Lite' is free | TASUC Inc. & Info Lounge LLC | | | Visual schedules based on images, with speech and sounds and timers. |
 | U-Sync Video Scheduler $19.99 / €15.20 | Agile Disability Solutions LLC | | Picture/video schedules. Hundreds of pre-loaded videos & pictures, and you can add your own. Schedules can be controlled remotedly through the Internet, allowing to apply video modeling techniques. Visual countdown timer. |
8. EMOTIONS
Apps for describing emotions or showing typical facial expressions, emotion recognition exercises, etc.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Autism Series - Learn Feelings / Face Read 1 / Face Read 2 / What's the Expression $0.99 / €0.68 Lite versions for Face Read. | WebTeam Corporation | | Learn about various emotions using facial expressions. Based on DTT/ABA and on the Shanesh COLORS Program. | |
 | AutismXpress / Pro Free Pro: $0.99 / €0.72 | Studioemotion | | Shows 12 basic emotions. "Pro" adds two games. | |
 | Cam’s Developmental Preschool $1.99 / €1.57 | Mobos Interactive | | Educational games to learn facial expressions, shapes, and fine motor skills. It includes expression flashcards and expression quiz. | |
 | Emphatic Android Free | 4cko | | App that reads Facial Expressions, such as Smiling, Sadness, Anger, Distress, Concentration, ... | |
 | Facing Up All Smiles Free | Cognable | | 11 characters showing 6 basic emotions. | |
 | Training Faces / Training Faces español $2.99 / €2.42 | Training With Gaming Inc. | | App to improve recognition of the emotion and work on the meaning behind the emotion. | |
 | Understanding Body Language / Understanding Faces Body Language: $2.99 / €2.42 Faces: Free | The Guidance Group | | Flashcards games to read non-verbal communication and recognize different facial expressions. |
9. SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Apps that show correct social behaviors or skills, or common community situations. They are typically based on multimedia presentations or video clips (video modeling).
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Calm Counter / Compliments Speech Tool / Conversation Social Stories / Divorce Social Story / Emotions and Feelings / Going Shopping Social Story / Joke Telling Social Story / Manners Social Story / My Day with WH Words Story / Potty Training Social Story / Running Social Story / Staying Safe Social Story / Taking Care of My Device Story / Using Money and Saving Money / Using My Words to Ask . $0.99-3.99 / €0.79-3.13 | Touch Autism | | Set of 8 apps showing social stories on many topics. | |
 | Daily Tasks Free | True Digital Content and Media | | 3 activities to improve fine motor and concentration skills through simple daily task stories (brush teeth, shower and shampoo). | |
 | Handroid Widget Free | Rares Cristureanu | | Social and self-management skills for teenagers. | |
 | Hidden Rules $2.99 / €2.42 | The Guidance Group | | Flashcards game to learn about rules in the classroom, in the community, and with friends. | |
 | Life Skills Winner Pro / Lite $1.99 / €1.45 'Lite' is free | Wise Mind Studios | | Teaches life and social skills made of tasks and give points to be exchanged by 'prizes' for doing them. Tracking system. | |
 | The Planner Guide Free | Web Ascender | | 135 Reference Guides for pre-adolescence, adolescence and adult life that provide information of what to expect or how to do a task in the following areas: Personal, Problem-Solving, Communication, Relationships, Community, Work, Home, Technology, School, Stress Management, Self-Advocacy, Personal Safety and Interdependence. It also includes a Schedule/Checklist feature and a one year visual, interactive calendar. | |
 | Toilet Sequence ASD (Boy) / Girl $1.99 / €1.60 | Nans Orchid | | Picture sequence with optional narration to visually and aurally support each step of the toileting routine. Star chart to record successfully executed sequences. |
10. GAMES
Gaming apps designed for people with special needs. Some offer added educational value.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cause and Effect Sensory Light Box $1.99 / €1.46 | Cognable | | Light box created by a group of teenagers with complex needs including visual impairments, autism and severe intellectual disabilities. | |
 | My Play Home $2.99 / €2.37 | Cognable | | Dolls house app with many characters and a lot of possible interactions. | |
 | Spot the Difference $0.99 / €0.69 | WebTeam Corporation | | Multilevel spot the difference game for kids meant to assess or develop observation skill. |
11. LANGUAGE THERAPY / ARTICULATION / SLP
These are tools to practice the pronunciation of certain phonemes and spoken language in general, and are usually presented as applications to treat SLP (Speech Language Pathologies). Supported languages are critical.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | iPractice Verbs $9.99 / €7.26 | Smarty Ears, LLC | | Flashcards and exercises to practice 120 verbs at the word and phrase level. | |
 | LearnFruit Free | Diana Luckevich | | Teaches 20 types of fruits. | |
 | Pocket SLP - Articulation / Pocket SLP - TABLET $29.99 / €21.80 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | | 2,100 flashcards with 700 images to practice articulation. Target 29 phonemes in initial, medial, and final positions at the word and/or sentence level. Store results and email them. | |
 | R intensive $6.99 / €5.03 | Smarty Ears, LLC | | Uses a phonetic approach to teaching the “r” sound by creating subgroups. 450 target words. | |
 | Silly Songs / Kk / Ll / Ss+ $4.99 / €3.80 | Chicken Lips Apps | | Interactive songs and games that target sounds frequently misarticulated by children. | |
 | Smarty-Speech Spanish $9.99 / €7.29 | Smarty Ears, LLC | | Practice Spanish pronunciation (phonemes, mode of articulation and phonological processes). 450 images. Data tracking. | |
 | The R App for Parents $7.99 / €5.81 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | | Practice the 'r' phoneme at the beginning, middle, and end of words, and also at sentence level. 600 images. Store results and email them. Includes tips and highly detailed diagrams for the tricky tongue positioning that R requires. |
12. THERAPIES SUPPORT / DTT / ABA
Apps to perform exercises based on DTT (Discrete Trial Teaching) or ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis), as categorizations, generalizations or practicing receptive language. Some let you set the exercises to perform, execute them and record the results. Some apps are simply vocabulary flashcards accompanied by audio clips.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ABA Game - Same or Different $1.99 / €1.54 | Optiqal | | ABA-based tool with exercises that show 4 images, 3 of which are identical and one of which is alightly different. | |
 | Autism & PDD Problem Solving / Autism Basic Questions / Autism and PDD Basic Quest /Autism & PDD Associations / Autism & PDD Categories / Autism & PDD Comparatives / Autism and PDD Concepts / Autism and PDD Grammar / Autism and PDD Opposites / Autism & PDD Yes/No Questions . $14.99 / €11.24 'Lite' versions of each one for free | Linguisystems | | What questions, cause and effect, predicting, sequencing and comparing exercises. | |
 | Autism iHelp - Animals / Food / Home / Play / Sounds / WH Questions Some are free; others are $1.99 / €1.55 | AutismiHelp | | Vocabulary teaching apps based on presenting cards and matching exercises; male and female voices; progress reports. | |
 | Autism MindAwakener / Autism MindAwakenerPro Free Pro: $2.99 / €2.17 | GreenBubbleLabs | | Teaches the first 5 letters and some objects names using the water. | |
 | Autism/DTT Colors Full / Shapes $0.99 / €0.79 | DrBrownsApps.com | | | Discrete trails training to learn the colors (or shapes) |
 | Learning Colours $1.49 / €1.24 | SNS | | Discrete trials to learn colours with optional adjustable gestural prompts and visual rewards. | |
 | MotivAider® for Mobile $3.99 / €2.93 | Behavioral Dynamics, Inc. | | Replicates much of the functionlity of the MotivAider®, a dedicated electronic device that helps people to change their behaviors and habits by keeping your attention focused using a private vibration prompt. | |
 | Preference & Reinforcer $9.99 / €7.97 | Touch Autism | | App to evaluate which reinforcers work better. | |
 | See Me Go Potty $4.99 / €3.43 | AvaKid Productions | | Tips, narrative accompaniment, animations, positive reinforcements, ... to help potty training. | |
 | Show Me - Autism Series / 123 Order / 2 Times Fun / Add Me / Alpha Sequence / Alphabets Cursive Lower Case / Alphabets Cursive Upper Case / Alphabets Lower Case / Alphabets Upper Case / Animals Sound / Color Find / Count It Easy / Days Sequence / Digital Time / Divide N Play / Early Counting Skills / Flowers / Fruits / iLearnNEarn / iLearnNEarn Care / iLNE Spell 1 L / iLNE Spell 2 L / Make Sentences / Match Me / Minus Drills / Month Sequence / Multiply Me / My First ABC / My Words / Number Find / Number Sequence / Objects / See and Do / Shapes / Show Me Colors / Show Me Numbers / Signs / Sounds of the House / Spell Me / Substract Me . Some are $0.99 / €0.69, and there are many Lite versions. Some are completely free. | WebTeam Corporation | | Set of apps based on ABA/DTT and on the Shanesh COLORS Program to learn receptive language, matching, counting, alphabet, colors, numbers, signs, ... There is also an online Tutor App Program. | |
 | Special Words $19.99 / €17.99 | Special iApps |    | To teach children to recognize written words, using pictures and sounds. Includes 4 games with increasing difficulty, matching pictures, words, and both. You can personalize it by reordering, deleting and adding your own words, pictures and audio. | |
 | Speech with Milo: Verbs $2.99 / €2.30 | Doonan Speech Therapy | | Flashcards-animations to learn 100 actions. | |
 | VizZle Player Free | Monarch Teaching Technologies, Inc. | | Environment that allows educators to create interactive instructional lessons for children. | |
 | What is Today? $0.99 / €0.75 | SpeechZoom, Inc | | An interactive book that helps a child discover and organize the passage of time: the day and its parts, day and night, and the basic idea of a calendar including the days of the week. | |
 | ZacZoo/DTT/Autism / ZacZoo2 / Lite $0.99 / €0.79 'Free' is free | ZacZoo | | Discrete trial training (DTT) exercises for matching 1 to 5 cards of colors, shapes, numbers, and letters. |
13. TOKEN REINFORCEMENT / TOKEN ECONOMY
Apps that allow you to define a prize (for example, an image or a text) and a series of actions to perform in order to get it. These are generic applications aimed at all children, but used especially for people with autism.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | EasyKidTokens Free | GoodBehavior Tools.com | | Token board customizable with your own pictures and descriptions of rewards. | |
 | GreenDay - Autism Behavior Free | Applied Autism | | Token economy plus tracking of tokens and reinforcements meant to support an ABA behavior plan. | |
 | iPraiseU $1.99 / €1.43 | Pyramid Educational Consultants | | | Shake or tap the device to randomly generate a praise statement (100 included), say it (5 different voices) and show an animation. |
 | Kids Stars $0.99 / €0.75 | Metaaps | | Behavior/reward chart for children based on 9 stars that unveil a picture of a reward. Data tracking. | |
 | Reward Chart / Lite $1.59 / €1.12 'Lite' is free | SenfPot | | Map of colored stars and sounds for up to 6 tasks and 4 users. | |
 | Win Stars $0.99 / €0.79 | ERP Rules Developers | | Token economy based on stars. Tasks are defined only with text. | |
 | Working4 $2.99 / €2.12 | Pyramid Educational Consultants | | | Define a goal, the number of tokens (1-5) and the reinforcers (1-6 from the included images or other added). |
14. TIMERS / TURN TAKERS
Apps -mostly generic- that allow you to set up a timer or take turns in a particularly graphic way.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | EasyKidTimer $1 / €0.73 | GoodBehavior Tools.com | | Visual timer that allows to include an image and a description of the activities. | |
 | Kids Timer / Pro Free Pro: $0.99 / €0.99 | Skywise | | 2 visual timers (up to 12 or 60 minutes). | |
 | PicAlarms Free | Appestry | | Highly customizable alarm clock that displays a chosen picture when it goes off. | |
 | R+Remind $1.99 / €1.41 | Pyramid Educational Consultants | | | Set a 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10 or 15-minute interval. A tone will sound at each interval. Designed as a tool to help educators remember to reinforce good behavior. |
 | Turn Taker $3.99 / €2.75 | Touch Autism | | Visual and/or audio cues to facilitate turn taking and/or sharing. | |
 | visTimer / visTimer (trial) $0.99 / €0.79 'Trail' is free | MoonMirage Ltd | | Visual timer (1-60 minutes). Clockwise and anticlokwise modes. Sound and textual prompts. | |
 | Visual Auditory Timer / PRO Free 'PRO': $0.99 / €0.69 | Phoenix Advanced Technologies, LLC | | Visual (rounded) timer. | |
 | Visual Countdown Timer / Free $0.70 / €0.50 'Free' is free | touch-and-go.org | | Set various timers (in seconds), the corresponding text and image to display during the countdown and the sound to play when the countdown is up. |
15. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
Database apps created to collect data (typically on the behavior of people) and then even to analyze that data (generating trends and graphics), send it e-mail or share it via the Internet. Some of them allow you to monitor medications and diets. Some are fairly generic applications.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Behavior Status / Donate Free 'Donate' is $1.99 / €1.38 | Chris L. Bennet | | Records behavior using a simple green/yellow/red stoplight mechanism (or using 5 colors) for a child or an entire classroom. Allows to take notes, generate stats and graphs, and email reports. | |
 | Behaviour Tracker Pro $29.99 / €21.80 | Data Makes the Difference, LLC | | | Track and graph behaviors (ABC, frequency and duration and high frequency), specifically designed to support behavioral treatment plans. It can record videos and export data by email or to a web service to share with other caretakers. |
 | SpEd Edition-eCOVE Software / Admin Edition / ESL Edition / General Edition Free | eCOVE Observation Software | | Gather objective data while observing teaching practices and student behavior. Nine very easy to use timer, counter, checklist, and scale tools included. Email data (Excel) with graphs. Sync to computer to upload additional tools or create new ones. | |
 | The Habit Factor Goals Habits 1.1 / LT $6.99 / €5.08 'LT' is free | Equilibrium Enterprises, Inc | | Define goals or habits and track them. Designed for adults. |
16. TESTS & OTHER APPS
Autism tests and other apps difficult to be categorized.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ATEC Free | Autism Research Institute | | Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist developed by the ARI. | |
 | Autism Signs & Symptoms Check Free | Healthism | | 4 different questionnaires specific to toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults based on validated questionnaire instruments developed at the Autism Research Centre of Cambridge University. | |
 | Autism Ed Free | Rami Serhan MD | | Screening tool for autism, Asperger's, ADHD & HSP based on 10 questions. | |
 | Autism-Spectrum Self-Diagnosis Free | Teramonte | | 50 questions for calculating the trends for scores of their autism. | |
 | Detección Temprana de Autismo Free | Compacto Software | | 25 questions for calculating the trends for scores of their autism. | |
 | iAssessNTeach 1-Autism Series / iAssessNTeach 1 Lite / iAssessNTeach 2 Lite Lite versions are free iAssessNTeach 1: $19.99 / €16.34 | WebTeam Corporation | | Assessment tool for professional and parents to assess skill areas in all domains of young learners (0-3) on the autism spectrum based on Eden Autism Services' Infant and Toddler Assessment and Curriculum protocol for skills acquisitions (iAssessNTeach1) or of school age students (iAssessNTeach2). | |
 | iAssessNTeach Home Series 90-day trial period $19.99 per month | WebTeam Corporation | | Assessment tool for professional and parents to assess skill areas in all domains of young learners (0-3) on the autism spectrum. Subscrition is required and includes individualized reporting of the score, progress tracking and analysis. | |
 | KytePhone Free | KytePhone | | App to know your child's location, stay connected with them, block calls from strangers, and set time limits for games. | |
| Preschooler Assessments $0.99 / €0.72 | Darren Gates | | Common assessments (surveys) for preschoolers and toddlers, including autism, bipolar disorder, toilet training readiness and some others. | ||
 | WanderID $9.95 per month $99.95 per year $249.95 lifetime | WanderID | | Localization service for lost people based on face recognition. Service availability is limited. |
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These apps allow you to create pages with buttons. Each image is a button that plays an audio clip. Some are very focused on Yes/No choices, or on very specific topics (communicating health information) or common phrases.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
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| AAC YesNo - Female / AAC YesNo - Male / AAC Go Stop - Female / AAC Go Stop - Male / AAC More Finished - Female / AAC More Finished - Male / AAC Turn Taking - Female / AAC Turn Taking - Male / AAC My Message . YesNo: Free My message: $1.99 / €1.49 Others: $0.99 / €0.81 | AnnaSpeak | | AAC to give yes/no, more/finished, go/stop and my turn/your turn answers. My message allows you record and play a single message. |
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| Asino | EGGS | | AAC to give si/no answers. | |
| Quick Talk $14.99 / €11.55 | Digital Scribbler, Inc. | | AAC based on categories of pairs of buttons to select phrases and words (100 maximum). 11,000 images and symbols from the Smarty Symbols library. Uses any voice already installed and allows to install third-party voices. | |
| Sim / Nao Free | Looxy | | AAC for giving simple answers such as yes/no. | |
| Touch and Go - Speak Free | touch-and-go.org | | AAC with a board for images plus TTS and web with 270+ images. | |
| touch-n-say Free | Christopher Stärkel | | AAC based on a single screen with 8 images with an audio clip associated. | |
| Yes-No Your Way $1.99 / €1.51 | Tech Unlimited, LLC | | AAC for giving simple answers such as yes/no with customizable buttons. | |
| VirtualTEC Free | accegal | | Virtual keyboard for people with limited motor skills. |
These apps allow you to create categories of images, usually with their associated audio clip. The user chooses a category and, within it, a particular image.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
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| Autism Helper / HD / Lite $4.99 / €3.74 | usama fatah | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. | |
| Autism myVoice Communicator $2.99 / €2.24 | Apphouse Software | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. Optional set of preloaded images. | |
| Discover MyVoice $50.00 / €35.35 Free 30 day fully functional trial | PDAscent | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. | |
| Easy AAC $0.99 / €0.75 | Stealth Enterprises | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. 150 words included. | |
| Gabby Tabs - AAC for Kids / Lite $9.99 / €7.63 'Lite' is free | Tech Unlimited, LLC | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips focused on kids. 3 customizable tabs and 6 customizable per tab, plus 3 customizable key words. | |
| HelpTalk Free | HelpTalk | | AAC based on images with text associated and synthesized text-to-speech. | |
| miaOvoce Free | EGGS | | AAC based on images with text associated and synthesized text-to-speech. | |
| My Voice My Words $9.99 / €7.24 | Bala Learning Centre | | AAC based on images with text associated. Maximum of 200 images. Synthesized text-to-speech. | |
| TASUC Communication $11.99 / €8.99 | TASUC Inc. & Info Lounge LLC | | AAC based on picture cards and recordable audio clips. | |
| Vocal Slides Free | LycansLab | | Simply app to associate images to a voice recording and play them. | |
| Voice4u / Voice4u JP $39.99 / €29.99 | Spectrum Visions LLC | | | AAC based on images and audio clips with 150 preloaded images. |
Construction of a phrase based on concatenating images selected from categories.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
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| AAC speech communicator Free | aacspeech.org | | AAC based on images to build grammatically correct sentences; 5,000 ARASAAC icons included; text-to-speech (TTS) | |
| Ablah $0.99 / €0.79 | Maiz Apps | | AAC based on creating phrases using images; 44 preloaded. | |
| AutismSpeech DiegoSays / AutismSpeech DiegoSaysPro / AutismSpeech SmallPhone / FalaFácil Autismo DiegoDiz / FalaFácil Autismo DiegoDiz Pro / HablaFácil Autism DiegoDice / HablaFácil Autismo DiegoDice Pro . Free or $19.99 / €14.53 | GreenBubbleLabs | | AAC based on images and on creating phrases with two parts: action + object. Voice included only in English, but can be changed. | |
| Communication Helper $4.99 / €3.67 | OpeWare | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. | |
| Communications Free | True Digital Content and Media | | AAC that includes two communication modes: single word or picture, and full sentences. | |
| CPA Free | CPA | | AAC based on creating phrases using images; 600 preloaded. | |
| E-Mintza Free | Fundación Orange | | AAC based on creating phrases from images with audio clip associated. | |
| iToucan Talk (Autism) Free | My Autistic Apps | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips, with over 7,000 pictos from ARASAAC. | |
| JABtalk Free | JABstone LLC | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. Allows you to download images directly from Internet and change their size. | |
| Let's Talk! / Powwow Talk $3.99 / €3.50 | Toriken Media Information Lab | | AAC based on images and recordable audio clips. Allows to construct simple phrases. | |
| Pic-A-Pec $29.99 / €24.95 | ASDjunction | AAC focused on ease of navigation when constructing phrases and options to completely customise it. | ||
| PictoDroid Lite Free | accegal | | AAC based on pictos to construct action+object phrases. Uses ARASAAC pictos. | |
| Pictograms Free | Carlos Bustos Tore | | Basic AAC based on images. |
These apps include many thousands of images and many categories, but also allow you to build communication boards and/or include natural voices, etc. Its price, consistent with that functionality, easily exceeds $100.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
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| AraBoard Constructor / AraBoard Player Free | Affective Lab. | | Set of 2 tools to create and use communication boards with 1 to 32 images per board. Images and audio clips can be created or directly download from ARASSAC portal. | |
| Avaz For Autism $99.99 / €75.03 | Invention Labs | | AAC based on creating phrases with picture symbols. 5 Acapela voices (two accents, male, female and child voices), a keyboard to help users transitioning to text. Up to 10,000+ Symbolstix symbols. Designed for people with ASD, with animation for maximizing reinforcement, the ability to remove distracting content from the screen, fine-grained control over the speech output, a high-contrast mode, image size adjustable, ... | |
| PiktoPlus €150.00 | Limbika | | AAC based on creating phrases with picture symbols. It includes a user avatar designer, natural language, planning and access by scanning and switching. | |
| Sono Flex / Lite $99.99 / €77.47 'Lite' is free | Tobii Technology | | AAC based on images with 11,000 SymbolStix symbols and 5 natural voices |
Apps that are advanced, with a lot of functionality and web services that provide access to image libraries, allow to share content and manage it via a browser, can manage users, give the option of downloading more voices and languages, etc.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
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| AACSpeechBuddy $27.99 / €19.03 | CodeDimensions | | AAC that allows you to create many custom sets of images at AACSpeech.com and download them to your device or share them with other users. Image repository with 2,000+ Mulberry Symbols collection. 6 natural voices. | |
| Alexicom AAC for Android $40 per month | Alexicom Tech LLC | | The free version is an AAC based on images added by the user, word prediction and synthesized text-to-speech. Paying $40 per month, you get access to 1,200+ pre-made pages, 7,000+ images, 20 AT&T natural voices in US English, UK English, Spanish, German, Italian, Parisian French and Canadian French, and a 'cloud' service for backup and share content between devices. | |
| MyVoice Communication Aid 'Free edition' is free 'Plus edition' is $29 per month | MyVoice Inc. | | AAC based on images plus a web service to select images. Male or female, American and British accents. Can select vocabulary based on the place where you are. | |
| Niki Talk Free Web service: $50 (never expires) | Alessandro La Rocca | | AAC based on creating phrases using images (with text and audio associated) grouped into categories. Includes a keyboard, and a "drawing" function to create symbols. It can show velcro strips. Web service allows to create pages, upload images, and access to 70 voices. | |
| TalkingTiles Free 10$/month (less for longer periods) | Mozzaz Corporation | | AAC based on creating phrases using images (with text and audio associated) grouped into categories. Cloud services to add and share content. Library with more than 50,000 symbols and words in over 30 different languages, accents and voices. | |
| TapToTalk $99.95 per year or 179.95 "forever" | Assistyx LLC | | AAC based on a web service to create albums of images and sounds. Images from a library of over 2,500, plus add your own. Sounds from text-to-speech for 5 languages or record your own in any language. |
Text-to-speech (TTS) apps that allow you to type or select words or phrases which are then converted to a human voice. These apps with an iPad or iPhone can be considered equivalent to an SGD (Speech Generation Device). They also are categorized as AAC. One key aspect, which also largely determines the price, is the type of voice generated. It can be “metallic” or “natural” (based on thousands of stored audio clips, even for voices of men and women). Supported languages are critical. I do not include apps for translating texts, apps to read emails, web pages, etc, or those apps with very low prices that offer only a very simple synthesized speech without any other feature.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
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| LangLearner Speaker Free | LangLearner LLC | | Notepad with TTS. | |
| MessageTTS Free | accegal | | Text-to-speech with synthesized voice. Saves history of phrases. | |
| TapTalker $2.99 / €2.00 | Mark Scott | | Text to speech. Save the phrases you use most often, and organise them into categories. |
Apps for showing or constructing sequences of images, typically of actions to perform, to provide a framework known of what to do or what it is going to happen, a schedule of activities to do, etc. Many also allow you to work as AAC, so this category can be considered as a subset of the previous one but consisting on apps with even more features.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
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| AgileAssyst $42 per month | Agile Disability Solutions LLC | | Visual schedules created using the web service with visual countdown timer, customizable speech output, data tracking and instructions to the user as to how to complete a task based in customizable video modeling movies accessed by the user from the scheduled task button. | |
| AutiPlan Private users: Free or 5€ per month Companies: €22,5 to €30 (about $30-$40) per month | AutiPlan.com | | | Client app to see schedules created using the associated web service. Uses Sclera pictograms. Schedules downloadable as PDF files. |
| First Then Visual Schedule $9.99 / €7.59 | Good Karma Applications | | Visual schedules to show daily events, routines or steps needed to complete an activity. Images can be added using the camera, an Internet search feature or by downloading up to 12,000 Smarty Symbols. Includes timer, sound recording, password protection, and schedules sharing. | |
| iPrompts® - ASD Visual Support $9.99 / €7.92 | HandHold Adaptive, LLC | | Picture schedules, visual countdown timers and choice prompts. | |
| myPrompts $1.99 / €1.46 | girlcode.net | | Visual schedules based on images, with speech and sounds, timers and choices lists. Schedules downloadable as PDF files. | |
| Pic-See / Lite $29.99 / €26.72 'Lite' is free | Pic-See Pty Ltd | | Visual scheduler builder to construct 1-to-6 step visual schedules by choosing from over 250+ images plus imported images, schedule execution and performance tracking and exchanging, plus an emotions log and a choice board. | |
| PictogramAgenda Free | Lorenzo Moreno | | Picture schedules of up to 12 images. | |
| Scheduler for special needs $0.99 / €0.69 | ERP Rules Developers | | Visual schedules to plan and track daily tasks and get reward upon finish with stars, virtual money and music songs. | |
| TASUC Schedule / Lite $23 / €16.24 'Lite' is free | TASUC Inc. & Info Lounge LLC | | | Visual schedules based on images, with speech and sounds and timers. |
| U-Sync Video Scheduler $19.99 / €15.20 | Agile Disability Solutions LLC | | Picture/video schedules. Hundreds of pre-loaded videos & pictures, and you can add your own. Schedules can be controlled remotedly through the Internet, allowing to apply video modeling techniques. Visual countdown timer. |
Apps for describing emotions or showing typical facial expressions, emotion recognition exercises, etc.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
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| Autism Series - Learn Feelings / Face Read 1 / Face Read 2 / What's the Expression $0.99 / €0.68 Lite versions for Face Read. | WebTeam Corporation | | Learn about various emotions using facial expressions. Based on DTT/ABA and on the Shanesh COLORS Program. | |
| AutismXpress / Pro Free Pro: $0.99 / €0.72 | Studioemotion | | Shows 12 basic emotions. "Pro" adds two games. | |
| Cam’s Developmental Preschool $1.99 / €1.57 | Mobos Interactive | | Educational games to learn facial expressions, shapes, and fine motor skills. It includes expression flashcards and expression quiz. | |
| Emphatic Android Free | 4cko | | App that reads Facial Expressions, such as Smiling, Sadness, Anger, Distress, Concentration, ... | |
| Facing Up All Smiles Free | Cognable | | 11 characters showing 6 basic emotions. | |
| Training Faces / Training Faces español $2.99 / €2.42 | Training With Gaming Inc. | | App to improve recognition of the emotion and work on the meaning behind the emotion. | |
| Understanding Body Language / Understanding Faces Body Language: $2.99 / €2.42 Faces: Free | The Guidance Group | | Flashcards games to read non-verbal communication and recognize different facial expressions. |
Apps that show correct social behaviors or skills, or common community situations. They are typically based on multimedia presentations or video clips (video modeling).
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
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| Calm Counter / Compliments Speech Tool / Conversation Social Stories / Divorce Social Story / Emotions and Feelings / Going Shopping Social Story / Joke Telling Social Story / Manners Social Story / My Day with WH Words Story / Potty Training Social Story / Running Social Story / Staying Safe Social Story / Taking Care of My Device Story / Using Money and Saving Money / Using My Words to Ask . $0.99-3.99 / €0.79-3.13 | Touch Autism | | Set of 8 apps showing social stories on many topics. | |
| Daily Tasks Free | True Digital Content and Media | | 3 activities to improve fine motor and concentration skills through simple daily task stories (brush teeth, shower and shampoo). | |
| Handroid Widget Free | Rares Cristureanu | | Social and self-management skills for teenagers. | |
| Hidden Rules $2.99 / €2.42 | The Guidance Group | | Flashcards game to learn about rules in the classroom, in the community, and with friends. | |
| Life Skills Winner Pro / Lite $1.99 / €1.45 'Lite' is free | Wise Mind Studios | | Teaches life and social skills made of tasks and give points to be exchanged by 'prizes' for doing them. Tracking system. | |
| The Planner Guide Free | Web Ascender | | 135 Reference Guides for pre-adolescence, adolescence and adult life that provide information of what to expect or how to do a task in the following areas: Personal, Problem-Solving, Communication, Relationships, Community, Work, Home, Technology, School, Stress Management, Self-Advocacy, Personal Safety and Interdependence. It also includes a Schedule/Checklist feature and a one year visual, interactive calendar. | |
| Toilet Sequence ASD (Boy) / Girl $1.99 / €1.60 | Nans Orchid | | Picture sequence with optional narration to visually and aurally support each step of the toileting routine. Star chart to record successfully executed sequences. |
Gaming apps designed for people with special needs. Some offer added educational value.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cause and Effect Sensory Light Box $1.99 / €1.46 | Cognable | | Light box created by a group of teenagers with complex needs including visual impairments, autism and severe intellectual disabilities. | |
| My Play Home $2.99 / €2.37 | Cognable | | Dolls house app with many characters and a lot of possible interactions. | |
| Spot the Difference $0.99 / €0.69 | WebTeam Corporation | | Multilevel spot the difference game for kids meant to assess or develop observation skill. |
These are tools to practice the pronunciation of certain phonemes and spoken language in general, and are usually presented as applications to treat SLP (Speech Language Pathologies). Supported languages are critical.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iPractice Verbs $9.99 / €7.26 | Smarty Ears, LLC | | Flashcards and exercises to practice 120 verbs at the word and phrase level. | |
| LearnFruit Free | Diana Luckevich | | Teaches 20 types of fruits. | |
| Pocket SLP - Articulation / Pocket SLP - TABLET $29.99 / €21.80 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | | 2,100 flashcards with 700 images to practice articulation. Target 29 phonemes in initial, medial, and final positions at the word and/or sentence level. Store results and email them. | |
| R intensive $6.99 / €5.03 | Smarty Ears, LLC | | Uses a phonetic approach to teaching the “r” sound by creating subgroups. 450 target words. | |
| Silly Songs / Kk / Ll / Ss+ $4.99 / €3.80 | Chicken Lips Apps | | Interactive songs and games that target sounds frequently misarticulated by children. | |
| Smarty-Speech Spanish $9.99 / €7.29 | Smarty Ears, LLC | | Practice Spanish pronunciation (phonemes, mode of articulation and phonological processes). 450 images. Data tracking. | |
| The R App for Parents $7.99 / €5.81 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | | Practice the 'r' phoneme at the beginning, middle, and end of words, and also at sentence level. 600 images. Store results and email them. Includes tips and highly detailed diagrams for the tricky tongue positioning that R requires. |
Apps to perform exercises based on DTT (Discrete Trial Teaching) or ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis), as categorizations, generalizations or practicing receptive language. Some let you set the exercises to perform, execute them and record the results.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABA Game - Same or Different $1.99 / €1.54 | Optiqal | | ABA-based tool with exercises that show 4 images, 3 of which are identical and one of which is alightly different. | |
| Autism & PDD Problem Solving / Autism Basic Questions / Autism and PDD Basic Quest /Autism & PDD Associations / Autism & PDD Categories / Autism & PDD Comparatives / Autism and PDD Concepts / Autism and PDD Grammar / Autism and PDD Opposites / Autism & PDD Yes/No Questions . $14.99 / €11.24 'Lite' versions of each one for free | Linguisystems | | What questions, cause and effect, predicting, sequencing and comparing exercises. | |
| Autism iHelp - Animals / Food / Home / Play / Sounds / WH Questions Some are free; others are $1.99 / €1.55 | AutismiHelp | | Vocabulary teaching apps based on presenting cards and matching exercises; male and female voices; progress reports. | |
| Autism MindAwakener / Autism MindAwakenerPro Free Pro: $2.99 / €2.17 | GreenBubbleLabs | | Teaches the first 5 letters and some objects names using the water. | |
| Autism/DTT Colors Full / Shapes $0.99 / €0.79 | DrBrownsApps.com | | | Discrete trails training to learn the colors (or shapes) |
| Learning Colours $1.49 / €1.24 | SNS | | Discrete trials to learn colours with optional adjustable gestural prompts and visual rewards. | |
| MotivAider® for Mobile $3.99 / €2.93 | Behavioral Dynamics, Inc. | | Replicates much of the functionlity of the MotivAider®, a dedicated electronic device that helps people to change their behaviors and habits by keeping your attention focused using a private vibration prompt. | |
| Preference & Reinforcer $9.99 / €7.97 | Touch Autism | | App to evaluate which reinforcers work better. | |
| See Me Go Potty $4.99 / €3.43 | AvaKid Productions | | Tips, narrative accompaniment, animations, positive reinforcements, ... to help potty training. | |
| Show Me - Autism Series / 123 Order / 2 Times Fun / Add Me / Alpha Sequence / Alphabets Cursive Lower Case / Alphabets Cursive Upper Case / Alphabets Lower Case / Alphabets Upper Case / Animals Sound / Color Find / Count It Easy / Days Sequence / Digital Time / Divide N Play / Early Counting Skills / Flowers / Fruits / iLearnNEarn / iLearnNEarn Care / iLNE Spell 1 L / iLNE Spell 2 L / Make Sentences / Match Me / Minus Drills / Month Sequence / Multiply Me / My First ABC / My Words / Number Find / Number Sequence / Objects / See and Do / Shapes / Show Me Colors / Show Me Numbers / Signs / Sounds of the House / Spell Me / Substract Me . Some are $0.99 / €0.69, and there are many Lite versions. Some are completely free. | WebTeam Corporation | | Set of apps based on ABA/DTT and on the Shanesh COLORS Program to learn receptive language, matching, counting, alphabet, colors, numbers, signs, ... There is also an online Tutor App Program. | |
| Special Words $19.99 / €17.99 | Special iApps | | To teach children to recognize written words, using pictures and sounds. Includes 4 games with increasing difficulty, matching pictures, words, and both. You can personalize it by reordering, deleting and adding your own words, pictures and audio. | |
| Speech with Milo: Verbs $2.99 / €2.30 | Doonan Speech Therapy | | Flashcards-animations to learn 100 actions. | |
| VizZle Player Free | Monarch Teaching Technologies, Inc. | | Environment that allows educators to create interactive instructional lessons for children. | |
| What is Today? $0.99 / €0.75 | SpeechZoom, Inc | | An interactive book that helps a child discover and organize the passage of time: the day and its parts, day and night, and the basic idea of a calendar including the days of the week. | |
| ZacZoo/DTT/Autism / ZacZoo2 / Lite $0.99 / €0.79 'Free' is free | ZacZoo | | Discrete trial training (DTT) exercises for matching 1 to 5 cards of colors, shapes, numbers, and letters. |
Apps that allow you to define a prize (for example, an image or a text) and a series of actions to perform in order to get it. These are generic applications aimed at all children, but used especially for people with autism.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EasyKidTokens Free | GoodBehavior Tools.com | | Token board customizable with your own pictures and descriptions of rewards. | |
| GreenDay - Autism Behavior Free | Applied Autism | | Token economy plus tracking of tokens and reinforcements meant to support an ABA behavior plan. | |
| iPraiseU $1.99 / €1.43 | Pyramid Educational Consultants | | | Shake or tap the device to randomly generate a praise statement (100 included), say it (5 different voices) and show an animation. |
| Kids Stars $0.99 / €0.75 | Metaaps | | Behavior/reward chart for children based on 9 stars that unveil a picture of a reward. Data tracking. | |
| Reward Chart / Lite $1.59 / €1.12 'Lite' is free | SenfPot | | Map of colored stars and sounds for up to 6 tasks and 4 users. | |
| Win Stars $0.99 / €0.79 | ERP Rules Developers | | Token economy based on stars. Tasks are defined only with text. | |
| Working4 $2.99 / €2.12 | Pyramid Educational Consultants | | | Define a goal, the number of tokens (1-5) and the reinforcers (1-6 from the included images or other added). |
Apps -mostly generic- that allow you to set up a timer or take turns in a particularly graphic way.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EasyKidTimer $1 / €0.73 | GoodBehavior Tools.com | | Visual timer that allows to include an image and a description of the activities. | |
| Kids Timer / Pro Free Pro: $0.99 / €0.99 | Skywise | | 2 visual timers (up to 12 or 60 minutes). | |
| PicAlarms Free | Appestry | | Highly customizable alarm clock that displays a chosen picture when it goes off. | |
| R+Remind $1.99 / €1.41 | Pyramid Educational Consultants | | | Set a 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10 or 15-minute interval. A tone will sound at each interval. Designed as a tool to help educators remember to reinforce good behavior. |
| Turn Taker $3.99 / €2.75 | Touch Autism | | Visual and/or audio cues to facilitate turn taking and/or sharing. | |
| visTimer / visTimer (trial) $0.99 / €0.79 'Trail' is free | MoonMirage Ltd | | Visual timer (1-60 minutes). Clockwise and anticlokwise modes. Sound and textual prompts. | |
| Visual Auditory Timer / PRO Free 'PRO': $0.99 / €0.69 | Phoenix Advanced Technologies, LLC | | Visual (rounded) timer. | |
| Visual Countdown Timer / Free $0.70 / €0.50 'Free' is free | touch-and-go.org | | Set various timers (in seconds), the corresponding text and image to display during the countdown and the sound to play when the countdown is up. |
Database apps created to collect data (typically on the behavior of people) and then even to analyze that data (generating trends and graphics), send it e-mail or share it via the Internet. Some of them allow you to monitor medications and diets. Some are fairly generic applications.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Behavior Status / Donate Free 'Donate' is $1.99 / €1.38 | Chris L. Bennet | | Records behavior using a simple green/yellow/red stoplight mechanism (or using 5 colors) for a child or an entire classroom. Allows to take notes, generate stats and graphs, and email reports. | |
| Behaviour Tracker Pro $29.99 / €21.80 | Data Makes the Difference, LLC | | | Track and graph behaviors (ABC, frequency and duration and high frequency), specifically designed to support behavioral treatment plans. It can record videos and export data by email or to a web service to share with other caretakers. |
| SpEd Edition-eCOVE Software / Admin Edition / ESL Edition / General Edition Free | eCOVE Observation Software | | Gather objective data while observing teaching practices and student behavior. Nine very easy to use timer, counter, checklist, and scale tools included. Email data (Excel) with graphs. Sync to computer to upload additional tools or create new ones. | |
| The Habit Factor Goals Habits 1.1 / LT $6.99 / €5.08 'LT' is free | Equilibrium Enterprises, Inc | | Define goals or habits and track them. Designed for adults. |
Autism tests and other apps difficult to be categorized.
Logo | App | Web | Lang. | Test | Short description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATEC Free | Autism Research Institute | | Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist developed by the ARI. | |
| Autism Signs & Symptoms Check Free | Healthism | | 4 different questionnaires specific to toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults based on validated questionnaire instruments developed at the Autism Research Centre of Cambridge University. | |
| Autism Ed Free | Rami Serhan MD | | Screening tool for autism, Asperger's, ADHD & HSP based on 10 questions. | |
| Autism-Spectrum Self-Diagnosis Free | Teramonte | | 50 questions for calculating the trends for scores of their autism. | |
| Detección Temprana de Autismo Free | Compacto Software | | 25 questions for calculating the trends for scores of their autism. | |
| iAssessNTeach 1-Autism Series / iAssessNTeach 1 Lite / iAssessNTeach 2 Lite Lite versions are free iAssessNTeach 1: $19.99 / €16.34 | WebTeam Corporation | | Assessment tool for professional and parents to assess skill areas in all domains of young learners (0-3) on the autism spectrum based on Eden Autism Services' Infant and Toddler Assessment and Curriculum protocol for skills acquisitions (iAssessNTeach1) or of school age students (iAssessNTeach2). | |
| iAssessNTeach Home Series 90-day trial period $19.99 per month | WebTeam Corporation | | Assessment tool for professional and parents to assess skill areas in all domains of young learners (0-3) on the autism spectrum. Subscrition is required and includes individualized reporting of the score, progress tracking and analysis. | |
| KytePhone Free | KytePhone | | App to know your child's location, stay connected with them, block calls from strangers, and set time limits for games. | |
| Preschooler Assessments $0.99 / €0.72 | Darren Gates | | Common assessments (surveys) for preschoolers and toddlers, including autism, bipolar disorder, toilet training readiness and some others. | ||
| WanderID $9.95 per month $99.95 per year $249.95 lifetime | WanderID | | Localization service for lost people based on face recognition. Service availability is limited. |
-Francesc Sistach
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Hello,
First I want to thank you for adding our app to your list! Since 20/10/10, we have updated and expanded our services. We have apple and android apps as well as work on the internet. Alexicom has more than 7,000 images, 600 pre-made pages, and 9 compiled page sets (including Spanish public pages with more to come). Our goal is to create page sets that can meet the needs of a variety of users. We believe everyone deserves to be heard. Thank you again for including us in your list and feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
~ Staci
Thanks!
I’ve fixed the number of images in the description of your app, which I hope to review soon.
To the staff at Alexicom Tech, LLC. THANK YOU!! I just downloaded you app for Android and my autistic 5 year old has taken to it instantly. I could see his eyes light up instantly with joy because he can now communicate! We always knew he was intelligent but, just couldn’t put into words what his needs are. This software will do wonders for my son and my family as a whole. Once again. THANK YOU!
Chuck
interesting website. I like the idea! thanks for visiting my page, and I approved your comment. http://www.stellamarie.com/index.php/android/
Hello,
Please add our new app to your compilation. It is called Quick Talk by Digital Scribbler, Inc. Available now in the Android App Market.
thanks!
Sorry for the delay. I’ve been very busy these days changing the look and feel of the blog.
I’ve added Quick Talk. It seems a nice app.
Thanks for providing this list. Your reviews are a great help to parents and support persons helping people with disabilities.
I’d like to allow reviewers access to our AgileAssyst cognitive support system so that independent reviews can be conducted. To review the entire system, you will need an Android handset 2.2, access to the web, and optionally an iPhone or iPod Touch/iPad2 to review the coach portion of the system (AgileCoach). The Android app can be reviewed by downloading it from the Android Market and entering the code “11111″. This will download some content onto the user device, however the handset can not be changed in the demo. The premiss of our system is that everything is manipulated from the portal and synced to the handset in real time. The demo code will not give you access to the portal to try those functions out. Reviewers wishing more information and a free way to try it out should contact me directly via email at robert@agileassyst.com. We also give codes to university professors wishing to teach the system. This was developed at Bowling Green State University and is now being offered to the public though exclusive license agreement between Agile Disability Solutions LLC and BGSU.
Thanks, Robert. We will contact you by e-mail and test your app as soon as possible.
Already sent a copy to info, but wanted to say a big thank you for listing our app on your site. We developed Quick Talk, and were excited to discover your incredible website. This is a tremendous resource – the best I have seen with your focus on tablets, phones, and technology. I have a blog and several other opportunities to help and inform families with autism…I will be recommending your site. I would also like to give you updates on our software and efforts, but am uncertain who I should be talking to–for instance, this weekend we are going to be adding 11,000 very cool images to our software, as well as pictures (a variety of ways to get your own pictures in the app), and finally…voice recording. We are so excited about it. We have a made these and other improvements based on customer feedback.
We welcome more input any time, and would love to get a top rating from you if that is possible. We will do whatever it takes.
Hi Russ,
Thank you very much for your comments on our website. They encourage us to continue working hard.
I’ll contact you by email. We’ll try to test your app soon so we can publish a complete review.
Francesc
Thank you so much for compiling this list of Droid Apps! When our cell contract expired, we opted for Droids (including one for my daughter with Autism) rather than iPhone, and we’ve been wondering what apps might be out there that would be of use for her. This is such a comprehensive list! Keep up the excellent work!!! I’ll be sure to share this on Facebook and elsewhere.
Thanks Nicole!
These days I’ve added some more apps.
Hi
Need a help.
My son is autistic and non-verbal (14 years old). We were recently gifted a HP Touchpad. Do you all have any applications that run on HP Touchpad please. I see most applications on iPhone/iPad and I see here on Android too. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Sumantra
Hi Sumantra,
I’m afraid the list of apps for webOS (the operating system that runs on the HP Touchpad) is quite limited. As far as I know, only Behavior Tracker Pro (http://www.iautism.info/en/2010/11/27/review-behavior-tracker-pro/) and some apps for managing flashcards (see http://www.iautism.info/en/2011/01/08/review-talking-flashcards/) are available for webOS.
Flashcard apps can be used as AAC, but to be honest, I would try to exchange the device for another one. Right now, iPhone/iPad are probably the best for special needs, but any device with Android has a broad range of valid apps and can be also a useful tool.
Regards,
Francesc
Thanks Francesc.
Hello Sumantra,
I see that Francesc got back to you on your question. Since I don’t have experience with the HP, I have nothing to add there. However, I wanted to bring something else up. There are videos from the Autism Treatment Center of America about the Son-Rise Program’s approach to learning to speak. At this year’s AutismOne Conference, the Son-Rise Program was awarded Best Autism Therapy Tool. Our daughter was non-verbal before Son-Rise, now she speaks some spontaneous sentences. Son-Rise has been a blessing to our family…and it is never too late for verbal language to come…they’ve had autistic individuals in their 30′s and 40′s start to speak.
If you go to:
http://www.youtube.com/user/autismtreatment
and look at Uploads on the right, and click “see all”, a search option will appear and you can type in “language”, or “verbal” or “communication” to find videos that may be of use.
Also, if you go to:
http://www.autismtreatmentcenter.org/contents/other_sections/autism-treatment-webcasts.php and scroll down, item #8 is a 60 minute free webinar called “Get Your Child Talking”.
One more thing that just occurred to me, if your son makes any sounds, maybe you could use a recorder to play them back to him and he might get excited hearing himself and do more.
Peace be with you!—Nicole
Sumantra,
Francesc is right. I could check with the Hacking Autism effort to see if any of their apps will become WebOS. Everything developed there is going to be available for all platforms, but at this point I know of nothing either.
http://www.hackingautism.org/
This is my post on Hacking Autism details…http://digitalscribbler.com/2011/10/15/reflections-on-hacking-autism/
Yes, Hacking Autism is a great initiative. Just that we need to wait a bit.
By the way, perhaps there are no many specific apps for webOS, but even a generic picture organizing app can be useful as an AAC. My little daughter uses the Photo app included in every iPhone as a first AAC app.
Thanks Russ and Francesc – all the applications in http://www.hackingautism.org/ takes it to an iPad application. From some other discussion threads and friends feedback, I think I will be heading for a change in OS to Android since I see there are a couple of applications available on Android. However, the port of Android on HP Touchpad has not been bug free yet and not all the features are working. Hence, I presume I will have to wait for a little….
Thanks guys for this wonderful forum…..at least I know that there are some people who are there morally to support me….
Regards
Sumantra
Sure we are! Tablets are still in their infancy. I’m sure the situation will improve rapidly. A year ago, the list of apps for the iPad was shorter that the current list of Android apps. I’m sure in another year there will be many other apps, better OS, …
Thanks Nicole.
Are there any “do it yourself” AAC apps for free?
I can and want to create my own media for the menus, but all i need is the most basic of program to use. Price is of a concern to us, which of these would be the most cost effective if i only want to make my own images/audio/menus? My daughter is quite the individual, and i need AAC to be custom tailored to her specific intents. I wont be using any of their pre-made content. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!
No as far as I know. You can always use a generic (and free) photo app. JABTalk is perhaps the cheapest app that is quite complete at the same time, but I haven’t tested it.
Austin…we created our Quick Talk app for the purpose you are describing. It is on Android and costs only 99 cents. The iOS version is on the way. We intend to keep the price low…I am a parent of a an autistic child who faces verbal challenges, and work with great engineers here in Silicon Valley. You can add your own pictures, record your own voice, etc. It also comes with 11,000 pictures to create your own pecs environment.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.digitalscribbler.quicktalk
I should have thought on your app. I haven’t had time to see it in detail. I hope to change it soon.
Do any of the AAC apps use Android interface called Tecla (now in a Beta version) which gives scanning access to menus and most functions on an Android platform.
Any comments would be highly appreciated.
Regards
Karthik
Hi,
Thanks for adding iToucan Talk app to your list. It is beta at the moment for people to try out and comment on with the release version is due in the next two weeks.
Just wanted to point out that the app is in 12 Languages, not just English and Spanish although the menus are in English only in the beta, the full version will have menus in all 12 languages.
Thanks for a useful resource to the community!
There is a great website for apps, http://www.educationalappstore.com, which specialises in educational apps for young kids, parents, students and teachers. They also have a very good selection of Special Needs apps.
Although this list is good, you may want to add apps that provide more than basic autism help, like games (for eye hand co-ordination or fine motor skills etc.)
You may want to add an app called as Kytephone https://www.kytephone.com/android-apps-for-autism, pretty neat app for grown up kids with autism.
And finally, there are a lot of responses here that do not add anything to the discussion. Would you mind deleting all those. A reader just spends time going through them (in a hope that they add something)
I want to add “My PlayHome” to the list It’s an app that is well worth the few dollars that it costs. My son with PDD and my other daughters play it all the time on our Nexus 7. http://www.myplayhomeapp.com/
All the suggested apps have been added. Thanks!
This is a wonderful list of apps! Thank you so much for posting this, I am a speech-language pathologist and I am always looking for the best apps to use with my clients as well as to provide to my parents. I have a blog at TheAndroidSLP.blogspot.com that is dedicated to providing apps and app reviews for speech pathologists and parents who don’t have iPads. I hope that this might be helpful as well!
We have a son who loves Autism myVoice on android.
http://bit.ly/13wEXUM
Thanks! I have added it to the list.