EverSpeak vs Mela AAC

EverSpeak is a customizable AAC communication app designed to help users build and speak phrases quickly. The app starts with ready-to-use core vocabulary groups such as Core, Feelings, People, Places, and Verbs, and lets users tap cards to build a sentence and speak it aloud. Users can personalize the experience by adding or editing cards and groups, changing text, images, and pronunciations, adjusting voices and speech settings, choosing colors, changing the grid layout, and setting a PIN for protected changes. Built-in search helps users find words faster, and speech-to-text can help interpret spoken input into text. EverSpeak also supports optional account sign-in so users can sync settings and saved vocabulary across devices. Without signing in, the core communication features remain available locally on the device.

Mela is a free, fully on-device communication app (AAC) for people who don't speak — autistic children, and anyone who finds talking hard. Tap a picture, and Mela says it out loud. • 100% free — no ads, no accounts, no subscriptions, ever. • Private by design — nothing leaves the device. No tracking, no cloud. • A calm, fixed board that grows with your child, so buttons stay where muscle memory expects them. • Speak with Apple Personal Voice or built-in voices. • Add your own words and photos. • Visual scenes — tap parts of a real photo to talk about it. • Switch scanning for switch access. • A parent lock keeps settings safe from little hands. • Works fully offline. Mela was made to give every child a voice. Free, forever.