my visual schedule lite vs Now and Next Lite

important ------- To enter the application settings, press and hold the Settings button The application "my schedule" was developed to meet the needs of different children with special needs for auditory and visual support to their daily schedule and routine. The current application is for both educational frameworks which hold the iPad as a tool for everyday use, and for children using personal iPad for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. The application allows creating daily scheduales for several users, by adding photos or symbols and by adding an auditory output for each of them.

Show a child what is happening now, and what is happening next. Now and Next takes the part of the day that is hardest to explain and makes it something a child can see. Put the current activity on one side of a card and the one that comes after it on the other, and “we're leaving the playground after this” stops being an argument and becomes a picture to point at. Teachers and therapists usually call it a first-then board. It is the same idea, and the app does both. It was built by parents, and it is used at home, in preschool and elementary classrooms, and in therapy sessions: with autistic children, with children who have ADHD, with children whose speech and language is still developing, and with any young child whose day goes better when they can see it laid out. Now and Next Lite is free to use, with no ads, so you can find out whether it works for your child before you spend anything. WHAT LITE GIVES YOU • Two Now and Next cards • One choice card, offering two or three pictures to choose from • Three custom activities of your own • All 60+ built-in activities, the Time Line, spoken activities and your own wording • No ads NOW AND NEXT CARDS Pick two activities and the card is made. Tap a picture to hear the activity read aloud. If your family or your classroom says something other than “Now” and “Next,” change the wording to the words you already use. CHOICE CARDS, WITH TWO OR THREE PICTURES Ask with pictures instead of words. A choice card is a visual choice board: a question and two or three activities to choose from — milk or water, playground or backyard, which book at bedtime — so a child can pick one by pointing. TIME LINE Put your cards in order and the Time Line runs the routine for you. Each card stays up for as long as you set, then moves on by itself, with an optional friendly sound as it changes. 60+ ACTIVITIES, AND ROOM FOR YOUR OWN More than 60 illustrated activities come with the app, covering home and school from breakfast and brushing teeth to school, nap time and the dentist. Adding your own is just as easy: take a photo, choose one from your library, or create a picture with Image Playground on supported devices. IN YOUR LANGUAGE The app follows your device language in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian, including the names of the built-in activities. Anything you typed yourself stays exactly as you wrote it. UNLOCKING THE FULL VERSION One in-app purchase, with no subscription, lifts every limit: as many cards and choice cards as you need, as many custom activities as you want to make, and backing up and restoring what you have built. You never need it to remove ads: there are none. Everything you have already created stays exactly where it is. NO ADS, AND YOUR PRIVACY Lite shows no ads, whether or not you unlock the full version, and it never asks to track you. Whatever you create stays on your device. Your photos, activities and cards are not collected or shared, and there is no account to create and no sign-in. If you unlock the full version, Apple takes the payment, and the app checks your purchase with RevenueCat, our purchase service, using an anonymous identifier rather than your name.