Search List

The apps and software listed here were not designed for people with aphasia but they may help some people to improve their communication, and/or help in every day life. It is not a definitive list, but it is a selection that could be useful.

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A+ spelling test

Practise spelling your own, personalised word lists

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Active Reading

Software for practise reading longer passages

Learn topic based vocabulary

Practise listening to topic based vocabulary

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • Internet Required
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • MAC
  • PC
  • American English
AlphaTopics - AAC

Cueing app

Keyboard and topics list to help cue a conversation partner into context of spoken conversation

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • UK English
  • American English
AudioMemos

Voice recorder

Use to record your own speech, record reminders, record conversations

Can send recordings via email

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Bitsboard

App for creating customised therapy exercises (spelling, semantics, sequencing)

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • UK English
  • American English
CanPlan

Visual calendar & personalised step by step instructions for daily tasks

  • iPad
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
  • Other Languages Available
Choiceworks calendar

Visual calendar which speaks the events. Alarms can also be set

  • iPad
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Claro ScanPen

Screen reader software

Speaks written text aloud for those who find reading difficult

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • MAC
  • PC
  • UK English
Claro ScanPen

Screen reader software

Speaks written text aloud for those who find reading difficult

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • MAC
  • PC
  • UK English
ClaroMagX

Use a smartphone or tablet as a magnifier 

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
ClaroSpeak

Text to speech. Reads text aloud as you type

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • MAC
  • PC
  • UK English
ClaroSpeak

Text to speech. Reads text aloud as you type

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • MAC
  • PC
  • UK English
Clicker Writer

Reading & writing tool

Word prediction (can be personalised)

Word & phrase banks (can be personalised)

  • iPad
  • MAC
  • PC
  • UK English
Co:Writer

App and software to help with spelling

Predicts words, hear the words and your sentence before you select

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • PC
  • UK English
  • American English
Co:Writer

App and software to help with spelling

Predicts words, hear the words and your sentence before you select

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • PC
  • UK English
  • American English
CommunicAide

AAC app for speaking out words and phrases. Photo based.

  • iPad
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Conversation builder Teen

Practise spoken conversations & record them

  • iPad
  • American English
Conversation coach

Practising conversations

Use your own words and topics

Need someone to program in your words and topics

 

  • iPad
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Dial Safe Pro

For practising the dialling of phone numbers and also phone conversations/leaving a message

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • American English
Dragon Anywhere

Speech recognition app

Speak your text or email messages instead of typing them

 

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • Internet Required
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Dragon Naturally Speaking

Speech recognition program

As you speak into the microphone, the speech is automatically turned into text

  • iPad
  • MAC
  • PC
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Envision AI

This app describes the world around you . Point the camera at objects, people, text (typed or hand written) & it will speak aloud the writing or the scene it can see

  • Android Phone
  • iPhone
  • UK English
First Keys 3

Exercises for finding letters and spelling words

  • PC
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Fotobabble

Attach voice recordings to your photos

When you touch a photo, it speaks out so you can explain your photos and use them in conversation if your speech is affected

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
i get it my daily schedules

Photo planner

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • UK English
  • American English
i see-quence

Design your own visual daily planners

Use photos, text and voice recordings

  • break down an activity into steps (e.g. making tea)
  • design an activity planner for each day

Useful if you forget how to do things or find it difficult to follow written instructions

 

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
icommunicate

For designing visual schedules, story boards, flashcards etc.

Use your own photos and sound recordings

 

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Inference Pics

Explain what is happening in a photo and why (inferences)

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • UK English
  • American English
Interactive telling time lite

Games for working on telling the time on an analogue clock

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Australian English
iprompts

For creating visual schedules, visual timers and symbol choices

No audio prompts or voice output

  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
iprompts XL

For creating visual schedules, visual timers and symbol choices

No audio prompts or voice output

  • iPad
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
iSpeech

Text to speech 

You can save your messages to use again

Useful if you struggle to speak but can type what you want to say

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • UK English
  • American English
JABtalk

An AAC app

Click on a photo to speak out your message

Use your own photos and words

Create sentences

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Just Say It!

Explain a word without using the 6 associated words on the card

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Lexico cognition

Exercises for listen & remember or read and remember

Listen to or read describing words

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • American English
Main Street Memory

Exercises for following auditory instructions within real-life scenarios

  • iPad
  • American English
Memorado


Games for working on memory, concentration, attention and reaction times

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Memory Exercises

Exercises for working on short-term memory, attention, processing and working memory using spoken responses

  • iPad
  • American English
Memory Lane Games

Create quiz style games/ word finding activities, based around personal memories.

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
MemoryBlock

Memory & sequencing game

Watch the coloured squares and sounds and then repeat the pattern

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Minimal Pair Pack

Practise listening to the difference between similar speech sounds

20 different speech sounds to practise

Pictures, words or pictures & words together

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
Musatcha color filter

A screen filter to make text easier to read

  • PC
NaturalReader 10

Free text to speech program

Works in Microsoft programs, webpages, PDF files and emails

Can magnify text to aid reading

  • PC
  • UK English
  • American English
NeuronUP

Web based exercises for working on listening, sequencing, emotions, attention

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • MAC
  • PC
  • American English
Our Story2

App for creating personalised photo stories

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • UK English
  • Other Languages Available
  • American English
  • Australian English
Oxford Picture Dictionary

Picture dictionary with opportunities to practise simple conversations

Unit 1 is free

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • American English
Penfriend XL

Word prediction

On screen keyboard

Hear the words before selection

Screen magnification

  • PC
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
PhotoMind

Calendar/reminders with photo and written text

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Pictello

Attach speech to your photos

When you press on a photo, it speaks out. You can explain your photos and use them in conversation

You can  use it to tell stories

You can also make visual schedulers to remind you how to carry out tasks (e.g. baking a cake)

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Popplet


Communication organisation

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Proloquo2go

AAC app using symbols, photos and keyboard with word prediction

Ready made vocabularies

Create or personalise your own vocabularies

 

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
RubyRepeat

A memory game like the 80's game of 'Simon'

Repeat the sequence of colours by touching the rubies on the screen

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Say it: English Pronunciation

Practise speaking words and comparing to a model. Rate your own attempts

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • UK English
Seeing AI

This free app describes the world around you . Point the camera at objects, people, text (typed or hand written) & it will speak aloud the writing or the scene it can see

  • iPhone
  • UK English
Sentence builder teen

Exercises for building sentences

  • iPad
  • American English
Sentence Maker

Anagram sentences to put in the correct order

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • American English
SmallTalk Common Phrases

34 speech exercise videos for phrases (e.g. call back later, can you write that for me?, speak slowly etc)

Videos and voice recordings to copy

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • American English
SmallTalk conversational phrases

66 basic spoken phrases with symbols

For use when out & about

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • American English
SmallTalk daily activities

85 spoken phrases with symbols for talking about daily tasks

For use in conversations

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • American English
SmallTalk Letters, Numbers, Colors

Speech exercises for letters of the alphabet, numbers 1-20 and 12 colours

Videos and voice recordings to copy

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • American English
SmallTalk Pain Scale

Symbols showing different levels of pain, different types of pain and parts of the body

Press on a symbol and it will speak

 

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • American English
SMS/Talk Text Enlarger

Makes your text messages bigger & easier to read

  • Android Phone
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
spacedretrievaltherapy

To work on memory

Not for independent use

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Speech Assistant AAC

A basic AAC app

Click on a word to speak it out

Lists of words to choose from and add your own

You need to be able to read single words to use this app

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Speech Tutor

Exercises for practising 20 speech sounds

Videos of mouth movements

Can record own attempts

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
Speechify

Speechify is a text to speech tool.

 

 

  • Android Tablet
  • Internet Required
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • MAC
  • PC
  • UK English
  • American English
SpeechJournal

Attach voice recordings to your photos to tell people about yourself and what you've been doing

 

  • iPad
  • American English
Spell Better

Gives spelling suggestions as you type

Could be useful if you can spell the first few letters of a word before getting stuck

Also speaks the words

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
Talk with Me

Basic AAC app designed for people with aphasia

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • UK English
Talking Mats

App for SLTs to discuss issues pictorally with people who have communication difficulties

It is the digital version of the low-tech Talking Mats

  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • MAC
  • PC
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
TippyTalk EDU

App to enable non-verbal and non-literate users to communicate via texting technology

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
TouchChat HD

An AAC app with vocabulary specifically for people with aphasia & keyboard with word prediction

Click on a symbol/photo to  speak out your message

Use your own photos, phrases & voice recordings

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • American English
Unus Tactus

Photo based phone app

Attach photos to your contacts. To call them, just click on their photo

Useful for people who struggle to read names

  • iPhone
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Verbal Reasoning

Exercises for practise speaking at a sentence or conversation level

Exercises to work on problem solving

  • iPad
  • American English
Verbally

Keyboard, word banks, phrase banks and word prediction

Type your message and speak it out

Voice is robotic

  • iPad
  • American English
Visual Attention Therapy

Therapy exercises for visual neglect (i.e. when you can only see one side of the screen)

Encourages you to look at the whole screen and develop a normal 'looking' pattern

  • iPad
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Voice dream reader

Reads text aloud, word & line highlighting. Option to reduce text area to improve focus. Option to use large font size.  Supports PDF documents, ebooks, web pages. Free trial available.

  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • iPod
  • American English
Vu Bar

A reading bar

Helps you read one line of text at a time

  • PC
Word Domino

Put 2 dominoes together to make a word

5 categories of words to choose from

  • Android Phone
  • Android Tablet
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
Word Q Speak Q

Help with spelling: word prediction, speech recognition & screen reader

Guesses what you want to say, reads aloud text on the screen and types the words you say aloud

  • iPad
  • MAC
  • PC
  • UK English
  • American English
  • Australian English
WordTalk

Free text to speech program

Only works in Microsoft Word

  • PC
  • American English
Write Outloud

Talking word processor

Talking spell checker

Talking dictionary

Homophone checker

  • MAC
  • PC
  • UK English
  • American English