# Aloud AAC — Tap words. Choose. Speak.

> Tap words. Choose. Speak. (iPhone/iPad app by Anhad Singh.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aloud-aac/id6801345248 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Anhad Singh](https://appshunter.io/developer/6792382040)
- Category: Medical, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 78 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-16
- Data updated: 2026-09-21
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aloud-aac/id6801345248/reviews.md

## What is Aloud AAC?

Aloud is a talking aid for adults who lost their speech — after a stroke, with ALS or Parkinson's, or after head and neck cancer. It is not a children's symbol board. It is built for a person who still has their own thoughts and their own vocabulary, and needs to be understood at a doctor's desk, at a pharmacy counter, or across a kitchen table.

HOW IT WORKS

Tap a few word tiles — "help pain", "water cold", "call daughter" — then tap "Make a sentence". The phone proposes up to three complete sentences, built on the device by Apple's on-device models. You tap the one you meant, and only then is it spoken. Nothing is ever spoken automatically. The app proposes; you decide.

If none of the sentences is right, "Say my words" is always there: it speaks the exact words you tapped, word for word, with no AI involved. And whenever the phone is speaking, a single full-width Stop control is on screen — reachable by touch, by keyboard, and through VoiceOver, Switch Control and Assistive Access.

Every proposed sentence also passes through a set of on-device checks before you see it, written to catch changed meanings — for example, a dropped "not". The final safeguard is structural: the app never speaks a sentence you did not explicitly choose.

PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE

- No network. The app's code makes no network requests. It works fully in airplane mode.
- No account, no sign-in, no email address.
- No analytics, no tracking, no third-party code.
- Your words, phrases and profile stay on your iPhone or iPad.

BUILT FOR REAL HANDS AND REAL DAYS

- Large, fixed word tiles with picture symbols and color-coded word groups — both optional, so the board can be as visual or as text-forward as you like.
- Nothing moves, reorders itself, or times out.
- Dynamic Type up to the largest accessibility sizes, with nothing truncated.
- High-contrast design that holds up under Increase Contrast.
- Works with VoiceOver, Switch Control and Assistive Access.
- Speaks in any installed system voice, including your Apple Personal Voice.

WITHOUT AI, IT STILL WORKS

The three generated sentences need Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro and later). On other supported iPhones, a built-in rule-based expander offers sentence options instead, and everything else works the same. Speaking is never metered and is never switched off.

FREE, WITH NOTHING HELD BACK

Aloud is free. Every feature is included. There is no subscription, no account, and no cap on speaking — a person's voice is not something to meter.

FOR FAMILIES AND CLINICIANS

An optional usage log — off by default, always visible when on — supports a communication trial, with a report you export yourself from the share sheet. Nothing is transmitted anywhere.

Aloud is a communication aid, not a medical device. It does not diagnose or treat any condition.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.2 — 2026-09-16

Aloud now holds 543 words in nine colour-coded groups: People, Feelings, Body, Food and drink, Places, Actions, Things, Social and Time. Every word has a picture, and every group has its own colour so you can find a word by where it is and what it looks like.

The home screen keeps your four most-needed words in front of you, with the rest one tap away in My words.

New ways to say something:
• Point to the body. Tap where it hurts on a body map and Aloud builds the sentence.
• Spell. Type any sentence and have it spoken, for the words no board could hold.
• My card. A page you can turn round and show: who you are, how to talk with you, who to call. Nothing sensitive is ever shown.
• Right now. The phrases you need most for the time of day, first.

Ready-made sentences: 142 phrases in 11 packs, for the hospital, the pharmacy, mealtimes, hard conversations and more. Add a whole pack, or one sentence.

Make it yours:
• Hold and move any shortcut on the home screen. Take one off, put one back, change the order.
• Choose which words sit on your board, and pin any phrase to the top.
• Two colour palettes, three picture sizes, and everything works at the largest text sizes with Bold Text and Increase Contrast.
• Parent mode locks the editing screens with a code, and never locks anything you need to speak.

Help corner: 19 short articles, two guided tours you can replay, and a one-tap way to email us.

Back up and move: export everything, pictures included, to a file you can keep or move to a new iPhone or iPad.

Nothing leaves your device. No account, no network, no tracking.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-27

No release notes.

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