# Folio AAC: Type to Speak — Private speech & communication > Private speech & communication (iPhone/iPad app by Mitaanshu Agarwal.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/folio-aac-type-to-speak/id6779754521 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Mitaanshu Agarwal](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896724075) - Category: Education, Utilities - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 5 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-08 - Data updated: 2026-08-13 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/folio-aac-type-to-speak/id6779754521/reviews.md ## What is Folio AAC? Folio is private text AAC for people who type to speak. Type a message, tap Speak, or reuse a saved phrase. There is no Folio account, no advertising, and no subscription. TYPE LESS. KEEP CONTROL. • On-device word prediction helps complete the message in front of you. • Private library suggestions surface phrases you chose to save. • On supported Apple Intelligence devices, Folio can offer additional replies using Apple's on-device model. • Suggestions never insert or speak themselves. You choose and can edit every word. COMMUNICATE YOUR WAY • Use Apple system voices and Personal Voice where supported. • Show a message full-screen with Big Display for noisy rooms or across a counter. • Reach a fixed emergency phrase board from its own tab, one tap away from anywhere in the app. • Add optional medical information — blood type, allergies, conditions, an emergency contact — that appears on the emergency board for someone helping you to read. It stays on your device, is never spoken aloud, and Folio does not contact anyone for you. • Search everything you have said, grouped by day, and say any line again with one tap. • Turn on Atkinson Hyperlegible, a typeface designed to make similar letters easier to tell apart, for your messages and phrases. • Organize saved phrases into categories and topic boards. • Expand abbreviations, review recent speech, and add pronunciation overrides for names or other important words. • Export a local backup file that you control. IS FOLIO THE RIGHT TOOL? Folio is for people who spell. It is a text composer with prediction, saved phrases and speech: it does not include a picture-symbol library or a symbol grid. If the person you are supporting communicates with symbols rather than letters, a symbol-based AAC app will serve them better, and we would rather you knew that before paying. CONVERSATION MODE, ON DEVICE With your permission, Listen uses Apple's on-device speech recognition to transcribe a conversation partner and suggest possible replies. Microphone and Speech Recognition permissions are optional. If Listen is unavailable or permission is denied, typing and speaking continue to work. Folio does not upload audio, transcripts, drafts, messages, phrase history, medical information or suggestions to KeenShift. Apart from Apple's own App Store purchase check, Folio makes no network requests at all. ACCESSIBILITY BUILT INTO COMMUNICATION Folio's own auto and step scanning covers the Talk and Emergency screens, with adjustable timing and optional spoken highlights. Select a highlighted item with a screen tap. Management screens such as Settings and phrase editing work with iOS Switch Control. Folio also supports VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, a high-contrast setting, dark appearance, large touch targets, and a Settings PIN. FREE CORE. ONE-TIME PRO. Typing, text-to-speech, Listen, Emergency, the medical card, built-in scanning, library suggestions, starter phrases, 20 custom phrases, and 2 topic boards are available without Folio Pro. Folio Pro Lifetime unlocks unlimited custom phrases and boards and, on supported devices, removes the 20-per-day Apple-model suggestion limit. It is one purchase, not a subscription, and supports Family Sharing. The App Store shows your regional price before payment. Folio is a communication tool, not a medical device or emergency service. Keep an appropriate backup way to communicate or seek help. Privacy Policy: https://folio.keenshift.ai/privacy Terms of Use: https://folio.keenshift.ai/terms ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Folio Pro Lifetime | $59.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.5 — 2026-08-11 Emergency is one tap away from everywhere now. EMERGENCY IS A TAB The emergency board used to be a sheet you opened from Talk, so reaching it meant getting out of whatever was in front of you first. Folio now has four permanent tabs — Talk, Phrases, History, Emergency — and the board is one tap away from any of them, mid-sentence included. A CALMER LOOK, AND A BIGGER SPEAK New colours, rounder cards and full-width buttons you can hit without aiming. Speak now runs the whole width of the screen at every text size, instead of sharing a row at ordinary sizes and going full width only at the largest ones. Clear, Undo, Save phrase and Show large kept their own row above it, all still at least 56 points. MORE OF YOUR OWN WORDS ON TALK Your quick words, your recent phrases and your topic boards are on the Talk screen itself, so the things you say most are not behind a tab. You can also save the message you just typed straight into your phrases without leaving what you were saying. PHRASES YOU CAN SEE INTO Boards are a card index that shows you some of what is inside each one before you open it, and a board opens as a grid of tiles rather than a list of rows. HISTORY WORTH KEEPING Star the lines you say often and filter down to just those, or narrow to today, the last 7 days, the last 30 days, or everything. A PHONE CALL NO LONGER TAKES YOUR VOICE Folio now handles calls, headphones being unplugged and audio resets. Before, a call arriving mid-sentence could leave Speak stuck and quietly swallow every tap after it. Speech also moved off the main thread, so the app stays responsive while it is talking. SCANNING THAT SURVIVES AN INTERRUPTION A switch scanning session now comes back after something interrupts it, like a call or an alert, and ends when you end it. ALSO FIXED White labels on the main action buttons now clear WCAG AA in dark appearance. The Continue button in the welcome screens is centred. A brief App Store outage no longer asks somebody who already owns Folio Pro to buy it again. ### 1.4 — 2026-08-08 The answers you can't say out loud. MEDICAL INFORMATION ON THE EMERGENCY BOARD Folio could already say "I am choking". It could not answer "are you allergic to anything?" — which is exactly the question a non-speaking person cannot answer. You can now add your name, blood type, allergies, conditions and medication, and an emergency contact in Settings, and they appear under the emergency phrases for somebody helping you to read, or full screen with Show large. Every field is optional, it all stays on this device, nothing is spoken aloud, and Folio does not contact anyone for you. HISTORY YOU CAN ACTUALLY USE Search everything you have said. Entries are grouped by day with the time, so "what did he ask for at lunch?" has an answer. Say any line again with one button, instead of loading it back into the composer. Save a line straight into your phrases, or delete your whole history in one action. HEAR A VOICE BEFORE YOU CHOOSE IT Every voice now has its own play button, so you can listen without changing how you sound. The speaking-speed slider finally tells you where it is set. BOARDS YOU CAN TELL APART New boards get an icon and a colour, with a live preview while you choose, and New board is now reachable from the Phrases toolbar instead of off the end of the category row. A HYPERLEGIBLE OPTION Settings › Appearance can draw your message, phrases and emergency cards in Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, a typeface from the Braille Institute that pulls apart letters people commonly confuse — capital I, lowercase l and the digit 1; O and 0. ALSO FIXED Stronger contrast on buttons and labels throughout, and text that no longer clips at the largest accessibility text sizes. ### 1.3 — 2026-08-03 Folio now looks and behaves like one app. Speak and Listen share a single calm colour, and the emergency board deliberately stays set apart so it is still the fastest thing to find. Fixes from your reports: - Onboarding has a Back button, visible step dots, and reads “Step 2 of 3”. - The voice list no longer shows the same voice twice, and the checkmark now follows the voice you actually picked. - History records everything you say out loud — including quick phrases and the emergency board, which were previously missed. - The same phrase can no longer be added to one board twice. - Folio can now ask for a rating, but never while you are listening, scanning, speaking, or mid-conversation. Typing, speaking, prediction, switch scanning and the emergency board remain free, forever. ### 1.2 — 2026-07-29 Folio Pro is now easier to find: a calm Unlock row on the Talk screen, with the free plan boundaries shown right where they apply. Safety first, always: typing, speaking, switch scanning and the Emergency board stay free, and scanning now resumes automatically if the upgrade sheet ever interrupts it. Folio also speaks with the highest-quality voice installed on your device from first launch, and this update includes accessibility refinements across Talk, Settings and the PIN lock. ### 1.1 — 2026-07-13 Folio 1.1 keeps communication private and makes daily AAC more dependable. • Removed the legacy cloud-suggestion path; predictions, learning, Listen transcripts, drafts, and phrase history stay on the device. • Added built-in auto and step scanning across Talk and Emergency, with adjustable timing and optional spoken highlights. • Made Listen permission, interruption, backgrounding, and audio-session recovery safer. • Added clearer saved-data recovery instead of silently opening an empty store. • Improved backup export and merge-safe import for phrases, boards, and shortcuts. • Added clearer Personal Voice status and Apple voice setup guidance. • Improved VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, contrast, large-target, Settings PIN, purchase, and restore flows. • Refined on-device suggestions and preserved the free communication core. ## More apps by Mitaanshu Agarwal - [Akros: Health & Lab Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/akros-health-and-lab-tracker/id6770206576) - [Sukta](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sukta/id6770299755) - [Joy by Morning](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/joy-by-morning/id6770300427) - [Falah: Salah Tracker & Adhan](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/falah-salah-tracker-and-adhan/id6770318208) - [Berean: Bible Study Sources](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/berean-bible-study-sources/id6770318820) - [MealLuma: AI Calorie Scanner](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mealluma-ai-calorie-scanner/id6771332217) All apps by Mitaanshu Agarwal: https://appshunter.io/developer/1896724075 ## Related topics [type to speak](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/type-to-speak) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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