# Pointalk: Communication Board — Point to talk at the bedside

> Point to talk at the bedside (iPhone/iPad app by Bumjoon Lee.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pointalk-communication-board/id6815899549 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Bumjoon Lee](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801095554)
- Category: Utilities, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 6 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-09-25
- Data updated: 2026-10-15

## What is Pointalk?

Pointalk is a bedside communication board for people who cannot speak and the people caring for them. Use it when a patient is intubated, after a stroke or surgery, or when patient and staff do not share a language. It is designed for iPad in landscape and also runs on iPhone.

Two languages on one screen
The patient's language is shown large on top and the staff language small underneath. Choose each from Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish and French.

Speak board
Cards such as Water please, I need the toilet, It hurts and I'm scared. Tap a card to show it big and read it aloud with the device voice. Often used cards gather at the top.

Pain
Pick a level from 0 to 10, then tap where it hurts on the front or back of a body figure. Location and level are summarized in one line.

Question sets
Four built-in sets, Rounds, Needs, Before meals and Feelings, and you can write your own. The patient taps Yes or No and the next question appears. A Yes can lead to follow-ups such as how much it hurts and where.

Bed rounds
Register room and bed numbers, then ask bed by bed in order. Answers are saved automatically to each bed's records. When the round is done you get a per-bed summary you can share as text. Names are never entered.

Board
A screen to stand beside the bed: a large clock and date, hospital name and logo, today's schedule, visiting hours, how to call the nurse and short notes, all in the patient's language. When a scheduled time arrives a large popup announces it.

Letter board
Write with a finger on the handwriting board, or tap letters one at a time.

For unsteady hands
Turn on press and hold to select so brushing fingers do nothing. Flip the screen 180 degrees to show it to someone sitting across.

Records and privacy
Everything stays on the device and is never sent anywhere. No personal identifiers such as patient names are stored. You can erase everything in Settings, and export hospital settings and question sets as a file to move to another device.

Ads appear only on the staff screens for choosing a set and editing, never on the screens the patient sees. This app is a communication aid and does not replace diagnosis or treatment.

Contact: mall77@naver.com

## Is Pointalk safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Pointalk.

## Is Pointalk legit?

Pointalk: Communication Board appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pointalk is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.5 — 2026-10-15

Fixed: with a long question or a large text size, the question card could grow taller than the screen and push the Close and Skip buttons and the Yes and No buttons off the screen. Now the text gets a little smaller when a question is long, and if it still does not fit you can scroll inside the card. The buttons always stay on screen. Also, as a precaution for when the app is left open for a long time, an ad that was loaded long ago is now replaced with a newly loaded one. Settings now has a row in Info that shows more apps from the same developer.

### 1.0.4 — 2026-10-09

The body figure on the pain screen and in questions now faces the same way as the body charts used in hospitals. The front view shows the patient facing you, so the left side of the screen is the patient's right. The back view shows the patient from behind, so the left side of the screen is the patient's left. Until the last version both views were the other way round, so if you used the app before, please note that the place to tap has switched. To avoid confusion, Right and Left labels now appear above both figures. Each arm and leg is also marked R or L. The name shown and spoken after a tap is always from the patient's point of view, and results you already kept are not changed. Arms and legs are also a little easier to tap.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-10-07

The app has a new icon. Fixed: tapping Yes or No twice quickly recorded the same answer twice and skipped the next question. Fixed: copying a built-in set to edit it lost the follow-up questions and showed Korean text in other languages. The Japanese letter board has new keys for voiced marks, small kana and the long vowel, so words like みず and だいじょうぶ can be written, and the Simplified Chinese letter board now uses the alphabet for pinyin. On iPhone, text in the board editor is no longer cut off on the left and the schedule alert is no longer wider than the screen. An existing photo is no longer removed when a new one cannot be loaded, and small buttons are easier to tap. In Europe, an ad privacy consent window appears on first launch and can be changed anytime in Settings.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-29

The Korean letter board can now make every syllable. Compound vowels and double final consonants are combined automatically as you type, and a new key adds tense consonants. Korean patients can now write words such as restroom, I'm okay, doctor and I don't have it. Small buttons such as the remove buttons are also easier to tap.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-26

Settings now has Rate on the App Store. Now and then, a small window may ask you to leave a rating. Every rating helps a lot. We also fixed the Next button being pushed off the screen when several body parts were chosen in the pain question.

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