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
Price
App Description
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
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Price
App Description
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
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Price
App Description
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
Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Activity timeline categories: sleep, moods, food, meltdowns, therapy
- Stores info on medications, doctors, therapists
App
Epic Win
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Add your tasks and assign dates
- Choose an avatar
- Complete chores and your character improves & levels up
App
Tantrum Tracker
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Track tantrums – locations, types
- Track diet and medication
- Record videos
- Export data
App
Time Timer
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- 3 modes: 60 min, custom, clock
- View up to 4 timers at once
App
Wait Timer
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Color coded timer
- Changeable wait time
- Easy settings
Communication
App
AAC Speech Buddy
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Can share content with teachers and parents
- Can create profiles for speech sets
App
NEW! Let me Talk
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Price
App Description
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
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Grows with user – different grid
configurations - Customize grids and buttons
- Customize vocabulary
- Switch accessible
- Natural sounding voices
App
Talking Larry
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
App
Touch Chat HD – AAC
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Fully customizable grid layout, pages, buttons & messages
- Includes various page sets
App
VAST Autism 1 – Core
Vendor
Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Five categories beginning with syllables and ending with sentences
- Uses concrete words, phrases and sentences
Creativity/Art
App
Doodle Buddy
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Creativity
- Fine motor
- Imagination
- Writing
App
Nick Jr. Draw and Play
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Creativity
- Fine motor
- Imagination
- Writing
App
Paint My Cat
Vendor
Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Develop eye/hand coordination
- Fine motor skill development
App
NEW! Sand Draw
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Allows you to save your art to a gallery or share on social networks
Learning
App
Agnitus
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Price
App Description
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
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Simple user interface
- Track child’s progress
- Parents can personalize
App
Intro to Letters
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Develop fine motor skills
- Move from pre-writing to writing
App
Intro to Math
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
App
Math Bingo
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Saves player information
- Rewards given for high score and/or beginning switch skills
App
Pop Math (Lite)
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Encouraging words
- Full version of app (0.99) includes subtraction, multiplication & division
App
Starfall ABC/Learn to Read
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Price
App Description
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
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Plays music and animation when button is tapped
- Button gets progressively smaller
- Opens door to a multitude of apps
App
Word Wagon
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Price
App Description
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
Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Simple intuitive interface
- Create schedule on iPad or iPhone
App
Choiceworks
Vendor
Price
App Description
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
Price
App Description
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
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Supports organizational skills
- Sets performance expectations
- Subtle supports and reminders
App
Visual Schedule Planner
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Price
App Description
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
Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Improve sleep initiation and duration
- Reduce night waking
- Improve daytime behavior
App
Electra
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Electra responds to taps and up to 3 finger simultaneous touch movements
App
Fireworks Arcade
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Three games
- Every firework is unique
- Dozens of colorful firework shapes and effects
App
Gravitarium
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Ten relaxing sound tracks
- Multiple animation options
- Beginning switch skills
App
Magna
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Change direction flow with a tap
- Hold to change color
- Change sizes of blob with a pinch
App
NEW!
Miracle Modus
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Easily change lights by tapping any corner and arrows to change modes
App
Pocket Pond HD
Vendor
Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Interactive water
- Feed fish by double tapping
- Customize lily pads
App
UZU
Vendor
Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Thousands of possible combinations
- Customize color, speed, size
App
Zen Bound 2
Vendor
Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- 100 levels
- Tactile game
Social Skills
App
ABA Flash Cards – Emotions
Vendor
Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- 200+ photographs
- 8 different play modes
- Customized speed
- Audio, voice and written words
App
Autism Emotion
Vendor
Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Teaches happy, sad, proud, calm and more. Part of social skills training series for children & teenagers with Autism.
App
Conversation Builder
Vendor
Price
App Description
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
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Teaches social skills, communication and language
App
Find Me (Autism)
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Suitable for 18 mos+
- Doesn’t require any language or reading
App
NEW!
I Can Have Conversations With
You
Vendor
Price
App Description
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
Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- 12 story templates
- Create custom stories with own images & text
- Share stories via email
App
Learning with Rufus
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Price
App Description
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
Price
App Description
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
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Easy to use
- Audio and descriptive text for each photo
App
Pictello
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Teach social skills or recall events
- Share memories
- Non-speakers can share their news & interests
App
Social Stories
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Customizable text, audio and pictures
- Multi-page stories
- Easy to use edit screen
App
Special Stories
Vendor
Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- Teach positive behavior
- User-friendly
- 30 seconds of recording time
- 1-2 switch accessible
- Visual instructions & guidance
App
The Social Express
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Price
App Description
Features/Skills
- 81 interactive episodes
- 3 skill levels
- Reporting tools
- Visual instructions & guidance
App
Toca Boca