ChatterBoards AAC2.5.0 - App Store

The cheapest AAC app compared to others offering the same features.
Chatterboards was professionally developed, in collaboration with Speech Therapists and end users, with the aim of providing people in need with an AAC app that doesn't cost hundreds of dollars or require monthly subscriptions.

ChatterBoards is an easy to use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) aid for people of any age who have speech or language difficulties. This can include people with autism, aphasia, apraxia, stroke, downs syndrome, or any other disability that causes the individual to have difficulties in communicating or expressing their needs.

Continually updated with new features and enhancements. All suggestions and/or requests are considered.

Full feature list:

- Create and use vocabulary boards, including multiple paged vocabularies, for forming sentences.
- Board levels. Levels provide a way to progressively build up a user's vocabulary. A limited set of words can be displayed at each level, progressively building up the number of words shown until the full board is used. Words/Tiles do not move position between boards, allowing users to remember and learn a number of words at a time without them moving.
- Create and use basic phrase boards which associate a basic full phrase/sentence to an individual button, providing quick responses or questions for basic communication needs.
- Ability to create and switch between different profiles, each with their own set of boards and settings. Ideal for households with multiple users, or specialists with multiple clients.
- All board dimensions supported up to and included 16x16 (rows x columns) per page.
- Fully customisable buttons. Change their text, colour (border and background), image and audio playback
- Change a buttons image from either your devices photo library, camera, or from over 4000 sample symbols.
- Includes over 3500 symbols provided by Mulberry Symbols (https://mulberrysymbols.org/)
- Includes over 500 symbols designed by Freepik and distributed by Flaticon.
- Save images from the internet, or from your own symbol libraries, into your photo library for use.
- Supports text-only and image-only buttons.
- Fully customisable button audio. Use the Text to Speech synthesiser or record your own voice(s) using your devices microphone.
- Keyboard input mode. Alternatively to using symbols, manually enter desired vocabulary with keyboard input.
- Text to Speech supports all iOS packaged languages (over 50 languages/dialects). Includes multiple male and female voices for English.
- Change rate, pitch and/or volume of Text to Speech synthesiser.
- Set App wide voice/language, rate, pitch and volume default values for the Text to Speech synthesiser.
- Fully customisable boards. Change dimensions anytime, add, delete and move buttons as desired.
- Copy existing boards to create new permutations
- Copy/paste individual tiles
- Share boards with other users of ChatterBoards. Use Apple AirDrop, Mail, Message, or any other valid installed application on your device.
- The ability to lock controls, e.g. editing. Like a parental control.
- Supports both iPhone and iPad

Also a number of Arasaac Symbols are included as samples (approx. 20).
These pictograms used are property of Aragon Goberment and have been created by Sergio Palao to ARASAAC (http://arasaac.org) which distribute them under Creative Commons License (BY-NC-SA)

Version History Updates to ensure support for latest iOS versions. 2.5.0 11/15/2020 New feature: Keyboard Input Mode!
Alternatively to using symbols to form sentences, manually enter words using a keyboard. Switch easily between symbol based input and keyboard input.

This update also includes improvements to the sentence bar. Text is now more clearly displayed. 2.4.0 01/27/2020 New Feature: Board Levels!
Board levels provide a way to progressively build up a user's vocabulary. A limited number of Tiles/words on a board can be displayed at different levels, without the grid size changing. The words therefore remain in the same position between levels, allowing end users to remember and learn the positions. Levels can be set up in such a way that users are initially introduced to a smaller set of words and then as they become more comfortable with the app slowly build up to higher levels where more words are displayed.

This update also includes some extra improvements:
- Maximum possible grid size increased from 8x8 to 16x16.
- Double-tap the delete button in the sentence builder to clear the whole sentence. 2.3.1 01/12/2020 New Feature: Board Levels!
Board levels provide a way to progressively build up a user's vocabulary. A limited number of Tiles/words on a board can be displayed at different levels, without the grid size changing. The words therefore remain in the same position between levels, allowing end users to remember and learn the positions. Levels can be set up in such a way that users are initially introduced to a smaller set of words and then as they become more comfortable with the app slowly build up to higher levels where more words are displayed.

This update also includes some extra improvements:
- Maximum possible grid size increased from 8x8 to 16x16.
- Double-tap the delete button in the sentence builder to clear the whole sentence. 2.3.0 01/09/2020 You ask, we listen! Two new features requested by our users:
- The ability to lock controls, e.g. editing. Like a parental control, setup and create your boards and then lock any editing capabilities before passing the app to your end user.
- Copy/paste feature for tiles. Before you could only copy a whole board, now you can copy individual tiles. Find the corresponding controls/button in the bottom left of the toolbar in the edit tile screen.

We would also like to introduce our new website:
www.chatterboards-aac.com 2.2.1 12/10/2019 You ask, we listen! Two new features requested by our users:
- The ability to lock controls, e.g. editing. Like a parental control, setup and create your boards and then lock any editing capabilities before passing the app to your end user.
- Copy/paste feature for tiles. Before you could only copy a whole board, now you can copy individual tiles. Find the corresponding controls/button in the button left of the toolbar in the edit tile screen. 2.2.0 11/21/2019 New feature: Profiles!
Create and manage profiles for different users, each with their own boards and settings (e.g. default voice settings).
Ideal for households with multiple users, or specialists with multiple clients!

We also keep the app up to date with the latest iOS changes, guaranteeing support for the latest versions. 2.1.0 10/19/2019 We are pleased to introduce the first major update to ChatterBoards. Users can now create fully customisable vocabulary boards. Create simple or complex vocabulary sets to use in forming sentences to communicate.
Other extra features as part of this update include:
- Boards on the home screen are now displayed as buttons (as opposed to a table/list), allowing images to be associated with them for easier recognition and access.
- Greatly improved storage and image optimisation, leading to better memory usage while also fixing some bugs.
- Ability to change button border colors.
- The color picker now includes tabs for tracking recently used colors, as well as providing some sample flat colors.
- Unlocked the ability to utilise the latest iOS text-to-speech voices. For instance each English dialect now contains a number of different voices (male and female).
- Ability to remove the image from a button, allowing for text only buttons.
- Ability to change the default language/voice to use for all buttons (as well as the existing rate, pitch and volume settings).
- Added over 3500 Mulberry AAC symbols.
- Number of general bug fixes and improvements. 2.0.1 12/13/2018 We are pleased to introduce the first major update to ChatterBoards. Users can now create fully customisable Sentence Builder boards. Create simple or complex vocabulary sets to use in forming sentences to communicate.

Other extra features as part of this update include:
- Boards on the home screen are now displayed as tiles (as opposed to a table/list), allowing images to be associated with them for easier recognition and access.
- Greatly improved storage and image optimisation, leading to better memory usage while also fixing some bugs.
- Ability to change tile border colors.
- The color picker now includes tabs for tracking recently used colors, as well as providing some sample flat colors.
- Unlocked the ability to utilise the latest iOS text-to-speech voices. For instance each English dialect now contains a number of different voices (male and female).
- Ability to remove the image from a tile, allowing for text only tiles.
- Ability to change the default language/voice to use for all tiles (as well as the existing rate, pitch and volume settings).
- Added over 3500 Mulberry AAC symbols.
- Number of general bug fixes and improvements. 2.0.0 11/25/2018 NEW FEATURE: Share Boards!
You can now share your created boards with family, friends or clients. Use Apple AirDrop, Mail, Message or any other valid application on your device to send a copy of any of your boards to another Chatterboard users device. 1.4.1 06/23/2017 NEW FEATURE: Share Boards!
You can now share your created boards with family, friends or clients. Use Apple AirDrop, Mail, Message or any other valid application on your device to send a copy of any of your boards to another Chatterboard users device. 1.4.0 06/19/2017 - Fixed a major issue were data saved in previous versions (prior to iOS 10.0 migration) was not being decoded properly on app load. Apologies for the inconvenience. 1.3.1 10/07/2016 - Added the global default voice settings feature. Manage the default voice settings (rate, pitch and volume for voice synthesis) from the config menu on the home screen. Tiles in any given board can then be configured to use these defaults, subsequently allowing you to change these defaults and the changes to be reflected throughout your boards. This allows you the potential to change voice settings for different clients or family members without having to edit all your boards.
- Added support for iOS 10 and the new Apple Swift 3.0 programming language. 1.3.0 09/29/2016 - Added ability to copy boards. Can now copy an existing board and create a new permutation of it (without affecting the original). 1.2.0 08/18/2016 - Added advanced options to Text to Speech synthesis. Can now adjust rate, pitch and volume. 1.1.0 08/10/2016 - Added support for lower iOS versions.
- Minor UI adjustments. 1.0.1 07/16/2016 1.0 07/15/2016