Grid Player vs Speak Up Too

From 1 December 2026, Grid Player will no longer be available for new users to download from the App Store. If you already have Grid Player, you can keep using it, and you can download it again using the same Apple Account if it is removed from your device. Grid Player is built on old technology and we are no longer able to guarantee it will continue to work in the future. We want everyone who uses to have the best possible experience, and we can do that most effectively by focusing our time and care on Grid 3 and Grid for iPad. We have not developed new features or content for Grid Player for many years, and we want to direct our efforts towards the apps that can continue to grow with the people who use them. We recommend switching to Grid for iPad, our full AAC app. You can find full details and answers to frequently asked questions on the Smartbox Hub: https://hub.thinksmartbox.com/knowledgebase/grid-player-update-2026/ --- Grid Player is an Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) App that helps people who cannot speak or who have unclear speech to communicate. Sentences that you create are spoken out loud. Grid Player is suitable for a wide range of people with communication difficulties, including those who use symbols. Grid Player is designed for use with Grid 3 and The Grid 2, allowing you to play your grids on iPad. If you don't have Grid 3 or The Grid 2, you can use Grid Player with four complete grid sets: Symbol Talker A, Symbol Talker B, Talking Photographs and Text Talker Phrasebook. Please note that you need a Online Grids account to use Grid Player. You can create an account for free within the Grid Player app, or sign in to an existing account. GRID PLAYER FEATURES • Over 12,000 Widgit Symbols • Over 12,000 SymbolStix Symbols • High-quality male and female voices • “TouchType” word prediction for faster typing • Prediction suggestions with symbols to help with word recognition • Word list grids for large topics • Copy sentences to use with Twitter, Facebook, etc SYMBOL TALKER A and B • Dynamic screen AAC • Uses Widgit symbols • Over 2,000 unique words in over 50 topics • Two vocabulary sizes (levels A and B) TALKING PHOTOGRAPHS • Over 1000 vivid photographs • 42 categories • Inspirational for education and communication TEXT TALKER PHRASEBOOK • Over 100 instant phrases • 10 topics to discuss • Quick response buttons for answering questions Grid Player is suitable for people with a wide range of disabilities, including cerebral palsy, motor-neurone disease (ALS), autism, apraxia, traumatic brain injury, stroke and deafness. It can also be used in education for people with learning difficulties or special needs, and with young children. All over the world, thousands of people are communicating with Grid 3 and The Grid 2 from Smartbox. Install Grid Player and you can join the conversation today!

Sensory Speak Up Too is a visually stimulating simple game style app that responds to sounds. Speak Up Too can be used to encourage children to vocalize and make sounds, either through the internal microphone or via an external microphone. Designed to assist with speech therapy, the louder the voice sound, the bigger the animal shape or pattern becomes. Lots of fun animal characters and balloons to move or grow by voice. The sound threshold for a visual response can be adjusted easily. Instructions for using the Speak Up Too app: 1. Ensure SpeakUpToo has access to the iPad or iPhone microphone (iOS Settings, Privacy) 2. Set the minimum and maximum microphone levels on the home page of the Speak Up Too app. Minimum sound threshold is the top slider, maximum sound threshold is the lower slider. 3. Choose the effect window and make a sound! To join our enews list, see videos and more Sensory Apps visit www.sensoryapphouse.com