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 8 categories: General, Assessment, Behavior Management, Communication, Language/Writing/Math, Schedulers/Organizers, Sensory/Relaxation and Social Skills
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*This chart contains a sampling of apps for individuals on the Autism Spectrum. 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 iTunes Store for detailed
information about the apps.
General
App
Autismate
Vendor
Special Needs Ware LLC
Price
$149.99
App Description
Enables users to develop communication and life skills. App allows you to create contextual environments. Includes: Visual scene displays, sentence builder, video modeling, visual schedules, visual stories and content library.
Features/Skills
- Accommodates a wide range of ability levels
- Easy to use
- Can create personal visual supports in seconds
Assessment
App
Preference & Reinforcer Assessment – Autism and Special Education
Vendor
Touch Autism
Price
$9.99
App Description
Designed by a BCBA (board certified behavior analyst). Effectively and scientifically determines a child's preferences. This determination is key to any behavior change program.
Features/Skills
- Easy set up
- Times length of trial and how long each item was engaged with
- Automatically calculates results and displays results
Behavior Management
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
NEW! Birdhouse for Autism
Vendor
Birdhouse LLC
Price
Free
App Description
Enables caregivers to keep track of behaviors, health and daily living activities. Help to determine patterns of behavior to problem solve and create better strategies.
Features/Skills
- Activity timeline categories: sleep, moods, food, meltdowns, therapy
- Stores info on medications, doctors, therapists
App
Epic Win
Vendor
Epic Win
Price
$1.99
App Description
A to-do list in a role-playing format. Earn points and rewards for completing each task. Destroy your chores in animated battles.
Features/Skills
- Add your tasks and assign dates
- Choose an avatar
- Complete chores and your character improves & levels up
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
$2.99
App Description
Displays a red dish 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
App
Wait Timer
Vendor
Touch Autism
Price
$2.99
App Description
Visual and audio tool to help teach good waiting behavior. Has social story about waiting and an audio/visual timer.
Features/Skills
- Color coded timer
- Changeable wait time
- Easy settings
Communication
App
AAC Speech Buddy
Vendor
Code Dimensions
Price
$27.99
App Description
Quickly and easily create custom speech sets online using your own photos and images.
Features/Skills
- Can share content with teachers and parents
- Can create profiles for speech sets
App
NEW! 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
Talking Larry
Vendor
Out Fit 7 Ltd
Price
$0.99
App Description
Silly, fun app encourages your child to speak. Talk to Larry and he repeats what you say in his own hilarious voice. Also whistles along to music you play.
Features/Skills
App
Touch Chat HD – AAC
Vendor
Silver Kite
Price
$149.99
App Description
Full featured communication solution. Words, messages and phrases are spoken with a built in voice.
Features/Skills
- Fully customizable grid layout, pages, buttons & messages
- Includes various page sets
App
VAST Autism 1 – Core
Vendor
Speak in Motion
Price
$4.99
App Description
Combines video modeling with written words and auditory cues to help individuals acquire relevant words, phrases & sentences so they can speak themselves.
Features/Skills
- Five categories beginning with syllables and ending with sentences
- Uses concrete words, phrases and sentences
Creativity/Art
App
Doodle Buddy
Vendor
Pringer Inc.
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
Nick Jr. Draw and Play
Vendor
By Nickelodeon
Price
$2.99
App Description
Create own artwork with Nickelodeon characters. Includes coloring tools, special effects & animated stickers.
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
NEW! 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
Agnitus
Vendor
Agnitus Inc.
Price
$6.99/month
App Description
60+ curriculum based educational games – phonics, language arts, math skills, foundational skills and measurement.
Features/Skills
- Personalized learning based on skill level
- Detailed reports show child’s progress
- Teaches controls to manage child’s learning
App
Autism Learning Games: Camp Discovery
Vendor
Center for Autism (CARD)
Price
Free
App Description
Suite of therapeutic learning games based on CARD’s comprehensive curriculum. Learning games include objects, colors, shapes, emotions and more
Features/Skills
- Simple user interface
- Track child’s progress
- Parents can personalize
App
Intro to Letters
Vendor
Montessorium
Price
$3.99
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
Intro to Math
Vendor
Montessorium
Price
$4.99
App Description
Learn to read, write and understand numbers from zero to nine, through a series of interactive, guided and challenging activities.
Features/Skills
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
Pop Math (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 ABC/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
NEW!
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
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
NEW! Children with Autism: A Visual Schedule
Vendor
Enuma Inc
Price
$12.99
App Description
Wearable picture based scheduler designed for adults and children with autism. Schedule sent to wearer’s Apple watch to alert them to scheduled tasks.
Features/Skills
- Simple intuitive interface
- Create schedule on iPad or iPhone
App
Choiceworks
Vendor
Bee Visual
Price
$4.99
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
FTVA HD —
First/Then Visual Schedule
Vendor
Good Karma Applications, Inc.
Price
$14.99
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
- 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
iPrompts
Vendor
Handhold Adaptive LLC
Price
$49.99
App Description
Create and modify visual schedules as well as use a countdown timer with picture supports.
Features/Skills
- Supports organizational skills
- Sets performance expectations
- Subtle supports and reminders
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
Dreampad sLEEP
Vendor
Dreampad
Price
Free
App Description
App uses a pillow with embedded transducers to play relaxing music through vibration to induce relaxation & sleep.
Features/Skills
- Improve sleep initiation and duration
- Reduce night waking
- Improve daytime behavior
App
Electra
Vendor
Sensory Apphouse
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
Q Apps 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 Apphouse
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
NEW!
Miracle Modus
Vendor
Seebs LLC
Price
Free
App Description
Hypnotic rainbows and soft bells.
Features/Skills
- Easily change lights by tapping any corner and arrows to change modes
App
Pocket Pond HD
Vendor
Trigger Wave LLC
Price
Free
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 Bound 2
Vendor
Secret Exit Ltd.
Price
$2.99
App Description
Meditative puzzle game of wrapping rope around wooden structures by tilting iPad and rotating screen with your fingers. Soothing atmosphere with beautiful visuals and down - tempo soundtrack.
Features/Skills
- 100 levels
- Tactile game
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
Conversation Builder
Vendor
Mobile Education Store
Price
$19.99
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
Emotions and Feelings – Autism
Vendor
Touchautism.com
Price
$2.99
App Description
Uses social stories and simple illustrations to show what different feelings look like.
Features/Skills
- Teaches social skills, communication and language
App
Find Me (Autism)
Vendor
Tigerface Games
Price
Free
App Description
Designed to help young children with autism practice social skills. The purpose of the game is to find the person in the scene and tap them. Increasingly difficult levels.
Features/Skills
- Suitable for 18 mos+
- Doesn’t require any language or reading
App
NEW!
I Can Have Conversations With
You
Vendor
Autism Breakthrough Solutions LLC
Price
$9.99
App Description
Assists with conversation and social skills. Helps child initiate, understand and participate in conversations.
Features/Skills
- Video of an interaction followed by a series of activities about the interactions
- App designed for ages 6 and up who are able to speak in sentences, are able to read and can use ipad
App
Kid in Story Book Maker
Vendor
Locomotive Labs
Price
$6.99
App Description
App makes it easy and fun to create visual stories with your child as the star character. Teaches social skills through a variety of topics including exploration of emotions and facial expressions, promoting good hygiene, travel and holidays.
Features/Skills
- 12 story templates
- Create custom stories with own images & text
- Share stories via email
App
Learning with Rufus
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
Look in My Eyes: Train Engineer
Vendor
Fizzbrain LLC
Price
$2.99
App Description
A fun way to practice eye contact skills. Interactive app where you can explore 5 different train sections as they work on train parts and travel around the world. Users earn train rides by practicing eye contact.
Features/Skills
- Visit 16 countries
- Dozens of train activities — shovel coal, fix air brakes, signal morse code, signal with whistles, etc.
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
Social Stories
Vendor
Proteon Software
Price
$3.99
App Description
Designed to help users understand social situations and give them tools to respond correctly to their environment.
Features/Skills
- Customizable text, audio and pictures
- Multi-page stories
- Easy to use edit screen
App
Special Stories
Vendor
Special iApps CIC
Price
$12.99
App Description
Create stories using text, pictures and sound. So many ways to use: teach social skills, show steps in a task, create storybooks, etc.
Features/Skills
- Teach positive behavior
- User-friendly
- 30 seconds of recording time
- 1-2 switch accessible
- Visual instructions & guidance
App
The Social Express
Vendor
The Social Express
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
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
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