There are hundreds of apps available for people with autism. Each individual will benefit from different apps for different reasons. We recommend that you search for the skills you are trying to address. We have divided our chart into 7 categories: Behavior Management, Communication, Creativity/Art, Learning, Schedulers/Organizers, Sensory/Relaxation and Social Skills
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*This chart contains a sampling of apps for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. It does not list every app available. New apps are developed every day. No warranty is made about the accuracy or completeness of the information on this chart. Customers should consult the Apple App Store for detailed information about the apps.
Updated 7/27/2023
Behavior Management
App
Autism Toolbox – Behavior
Vendor
Behavior Toolbox Inc.
Price
$3.99
App Description
Provides strategies for managing challenging behaviors. Twenty specific types of behaviors are dealt with, including anxiety, meltdowns, repetitive behaviors and more. Users can generate a customized list of strategies, website links, articles and books that address their issues.
Features/Skills
- Addresses ages 3-12
- User can create notes in the app for other caregivers
- Report can be saved to a PDF, printed in book format or sent as an attachment
App
Autism Tracker Pro
Vendor
Track & Share Apps, LLC
Price
$9.99 (Lite Version - free)
App Description
Track what matters to you and your family. Identify and discuss patterns of behavior. Each screen represents a different domain of autism: mood, behavior, food and health.
Features/Skills
- Can share with your team using iCloud, Dropbox, email
- Daily, weekly & monthly graphs
- Analysis with statistics and comparison graphs
App
Pic2 Calm
Vendor
Gal Blank
Price
Free
App Description
The app uses pictures to help the user identify emotions and use techniques to calm down. Users can earn Calm Coins as incentives for appropriate behavior.
Features/Skills
- Developed ABAs, BCBAs, OTs and other professionals
- Emotion pictures help communication
- Aids stressful situations
App
Tantrum Tracker
Vendor
Scott Grant
Price
$2.99
App Description
Makes tracking tantrums for children in autism spectrum easy. Helps to gain a better understanding of child’s behavior – what precipitated it, when, severity and response taken.
Features/Skills
- Track tantrums – locations, types
- Track diet and medication
- Record videos
- Export data
App
Time Timer
Vendor
Time Timer LLC
Price
Free
App Description
Displays a red disk that gets smaller as time elapses. Great as a visual tool for accomplishing tasks or for transitioning.
Features/Skills
- 3 modes: 60 min, custom, clock
- View up to 4 timers at once
Communication
App
ChatterBoards AAC
Vendor
Paul Popiel
Price
Free
App Description
Create customized vocabulary boards for sentence creation or for short phrases. Over 4,00 provided symbols or upload your own. Full iOS text to speech language support, including multiple voices. Or use your microphone to record your own voice.
Features/Skills
- Share board with other ChatterBoards users
- Lock boards to prevent accidental edits
- Supports multiple users
App
Let Me Talk
Vendor
AppNotize UG
Price
Free
App Description
Enables user to line up images in a meaningful way to read the row of images as a sentence.
Features/Skills
- Database of more than 9000 easy to understand images
- Can add photos from your camera
- Pre-configured for kids with ASD
App
Proloquo2Go
Vendor
AssistiveWare
Price
$249.99
App Description
Symbol supported communication apps. More than 14,000 symbols. Speak in words or phrases by tapping buttons.
Features/Skills
- Grows with user – different grid
configurations - Customize grids and buttons
- Customize vocabulary
- Switch accessible
- Natural sounding voices
App
Touch Chat HD – AAC
Vendor
Prentke Romich Co.
Price
$149.99
App Description
Full featured communication solution. Words, messages and phrases are spoken with a built in voice. Upgrade to include WordPower suite of AAC vocabularies is available for $299.99.
Features/Skills
- Fully customizable grid layout, pages, buttons & messages
- Includes various page sets
Creativity/Art
App
Doodle Buddy
Vendor
Doodle Buddy Labs
Price
Free
App Description
Draw on blank canvas & upload photos. Games and a variety of backgrounds are included.
Features/Skills
- Creativity
- Fine motor
- Imagination
- Writing
App
Paint My Cat!
Vendor
Nanu Interactive
Price
Free
App Description
Color a cat and his play things. Extensive paint palette. 2D to 3D imaging. Can play with cat in his virtual playroom.
Features/Skills
- Develop eye/hand coordination
- Fine motor skill development
App
Sand Draw
Vendor
Kalrom Systems LTD
Price
Free
App Description
Fun app lets you draw on realistic sand. Just shake your devices to clear the screen for a new drawing.
Features/Skills
- Allows you to save your art to a gallery or share on social networks
Learning
App
Montessorium: Intro to Letters
Vendor
Higher Ground Education Inc.
Price
Free
App Description
Learn to trace, read, write and record letter sounds. Based on proven methodology of Montessorium.
Features/Skills
- Develop fine motor skills
- Move from pre-writing to writing
App
Montessorium: Intro to Math
Vendor
Higher Ground Education Inc.
Price
Free
App Description
Learn to read, write and understand numbers from zero to nine, through a series of interactive, guided and challenging activities.
Features/Skills
- Introduces basic numbers
- Prepares for more complex mathematical tasks
App
Math Bingo
Vendor
ABCya.com
Price
$2.99
App Description
Five Bingo games: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and mixed. Three levels of difficulty. Score is based on the time to complete the game.
Features/Skills
- Saves player information
- Rewards given for high score and/or beginning switch skills
App
PopMath Lite
Vendor
AppBlit LLC
Price
Free
App Description
Introduces basic addition. Six pairs of colored bubbles float on screen & kids pop the correct pairs.
Features/Skills
- Encouraging words
- Full version of app (0.99) includes subtraction, multiplication & division
App
Starfall Learn to Read
Vendor
Starfall Education
Price
Free
App Description
Teaches the alphabet by helping kids sound out the letters — basically interactive alphabet flash cards.
Features/Skills
- After mastering letters & sounds, move on to Learn to Read app with simple sentence stories
- Develops language, reading and vocabulary
App
Touch Trainer
Vendor
Touch Autism
Price
$4.99
App Description
Teaches how to use touch screen technology. Teaches single finger fine motor skills and cause and effect.
Features/Skills
- Plays music and animation when button is tapped
- Button gets progressively smaller
- Opens door to a multitude of apps
App
Word Wagon
Vendor
Duck Duck Moose LLC
Price
Free
App Description
Teaches letters, phonics and spelling. Based on Common Core standards.
Features/Skills
- Teaches more than 100 words
- 4 levels of learning
- Collect stickers and earn stars
Schedules/Organizers
App
Choiceworks
Vendor
Bee Visual. LLC
Price
$19.99
App Description
Learning tool to help children complete daily routines, understand and control their feelings and improve their waiting skills.
Features/Skills
- Three boards: Schedule, waiting, feelings
- 180 images library or add own images
- Unlimited number of boards
- Customizable for a classroom setting
App
First Then Visual Schedule
Vendor
Good Karma Applications, Inc.
Price
$9.99
App Description
Visual schedules increase independence and lower anxiety during transitions. Images show daily activities (e.g. morning routine) or steps needed to complete a specific activity (e.g. using the restroom).
Features/Skills
- Easy to create, customize and share schedules
- Add your own images or use Internet stock images or 10,000 Smarty Ears Symbols
- View single image, two images, checklist or columns with drag and drop once step is complete
App
Visual Schedule Planner
Vendor
Good Karma Applications, Inc.
Price
$14.99
App Description
Visual schedules designed to give individuals an audio/visual representation of the “events in their day.”
Features/Skills
- Daily, weekly and monthly views
- Checklist and timer
- Custom images – from photos on your iPad, Internet or 1,500 icons in app
- Video modeling
Sensory/Relaxation
App
Electra
Vendor
Sensory App House
Price
Free
App Description
Simply stimulating app for people with special/complex needs.
Features/Skills
- Electra responds to taps and up to 3 finger simultaneous touch movements
App
Fireworks Arcade
Vendor
Big Duck Games LLC
Price
Free
App Description
Tap or drag to create brilliant displays of light and sound or just watch a generated show.
Features/Skills
- Three games
- Every firework is unique
- Dozens of colorful firework shapes and effects
App
Gravitarium
Vendor
Best Free and Fun Games, LLC
Price
Free
App Description
Combines music, art and science in one relaxing experience. Create up to 10 different animations using each of your fingers as pressure points on the screen (e.g. rocket, sparkle, vortex, etc.).
Features/Skills
- Ten relaxing sound tracks
- Multiple animation options
- Beginning switch skills
App
Magna
Vendor
Sensory App House
Price
Free
App Description
Simple, calming and relaxing visual lava lamp.
Features/Skills
- Change direction flow with a tap
- Hold to change color
- Change sizes of blob with a pinch
App
Pocket Pond HD
Vendor
Trigger Wave LLC
Price
Free; in-app purchases
App Description
Create relaxing ripples through touches and swipes while enjoying the sounds of nature. Interact with the fish.
Features/Skills
- Interactive water
- Feed fish by double tapping
- Customize lily pads
App
UZU
Vendor
Colordodge Labs
Price
$1.99
App Description
Points of light shoot across the screen at your touch. Switch between 10 different modes of animation by simply changing the number of touches you’re using.
Features/Skills
- Thousands of possible combinations
- Customize color, speed, size
App
Zen Pond
Vendor
Trigger Wave LLC
Price
Free; in-app purchases
App Description
Relax by dragging your finger through the water of the koi pond. Feed the frogs and tutles and draw in the sand. Nature sounds complete the experience.
Features/Skills
- Interactive water
- Features koi fish, butterflies, fireflies,
birds, turtles, frogs and more
Social Skills
App
ABA Flash Cards – Emotions
Vendor
Innovative Mobile Apps
Price
$0.99
App Description
20 different emotions shown in full color via flash cards and interactive games.
Features/Skills
- 200+ photographs
- 8 different play modes
- Customized speed
- Audio, voice and written words
App
Autism Emotion
Vendor
Model Me Kids, LLC
Price
Free
App Description
Uses music and a photo slideshow to help teach different emotions.
Features/Skills
- Teaches happy, sad, proud, calm and more.
- Part of social skills training series for children & teenagers with Autism.
App
Autism Toolbox – Social Skills
Vendor
Behavior Toolbox, Inc.
Price
$2.99
App Description
The Social Skills Edition of the Autism Behavior Toolbox consists of strategies necessary in getting along with others. Detailed strategies are presented in 21 areas including making friends, dealing with bullying and teasing, getting a hair cut, riding in a school bus, social problem solving, traveling and going on vacation, and more.
Features/Skills
- They help children become more
comfortable and competent in
social situations - Strategies are classified by age level
from 3-12 - Strategies can be downloaded
and shared with teachers and
caregivers
App
Conversation Builder
Vendor
Mobile Education Store LLC
Price
$24.99
App Description
Conversation stimulator designed to help children learn how to have multiexchange conversations with peers in various social settings
Features/Skills
- Visual interface
- Records child’s half of conversation
- Group and 1-on-1 conversations
- Conversation 4-8 exchanges long
- 160 distinct conversations
App
Learning with Rufus: Emotions
Vendor
Rufus Robot, Inc.
Price
$4.99
App Description
Helps children learn facial expressions – happy, sad, afraid, etc.
Features/Skills
- Highly customizable
- Meets the needs of children with varying skills, ability levels and learning styles
App
Model Me Going Places 2
Vendor
Model Me Kids, LLC
Price
Free
App Description
Visual teaching tool to help children learn to navigate challenging locations in the community: barber, mall, doctor, playground, procery store and restaurant. Photo slide show for each location showing children modeling appropriate behavior.
Features/Skills
- Easy to use
- Audio and descriptive text for each photo
App
Pictello
Vendor
AssistiveWare
Price
$19.99
App Description
Create visual stories and talking books. Each page in a story can contain a picture, a short video, up to 10 lines of text and a recorded sound.
Features/Skills
- Teach social skills or recall events
- Share memories
- Non-speakers can share their news & interests
App
The Social Express II
Vendor
The Language Express, Inc.
Price
Free
App Description
Teaches social and emotional skills. Animated interactive lessons encourage users to practice real-life social situations.
Features/Skills
- 81 interactive episodes
- 3 skill levels
- Reporting tools
- Visual instructions & guidance
App
Toca Boca Apps
Vendor
Toca Boca AB
Price
Free to $3.99
App Description
25 different apps: Hair Salon, House, Doctor, Kitchen, Store and Birthday Party to name a few. Fun interactive games teach users about each subject making them more familiar and less threatening.
Features/Skills
- Familiarizes user with new situations
- Encourages creativity
