Tap AAC, the AAC app for Android
A talking picture board for children and adults who can’t rely on speech. Tap pictures to build a sentence, and Bella, the app’s own voice, says it out loud. It works offline, with no account needed.
How it works
Tap AAC is AAC (augmentative and alternative communication): pictures that talk, for people who can’t rely on speech, and for the parents, teachers and speech therapists who set it up.
Every button has a picture and a word. Tap one and Tap AAC says it.
Tap a few in a row and they line up in the sentence bar. After each word, the next likely words come up, so a sentence takes fewer taps.
Each word is spoken as it’s tapped, and play says the whole sentence. Bella, the app’s own voice, needs no internet. Prefer another voice, or your own? Both are a setting away.
Word Guesses
Word Guesses is a calm talking screen of the words most likely to come next, each with a small picture. Tap one and the screen fills with what can follow it, so a sentence grows one guess at a time.
What’s inside
Ready-made words for day one, and room to make every page their own.
Ready-made vocabularies, from 48 core words on one page (Tap Core, with the Vocabulary Builder to show a few at a time) to whole vocabularies in one book (Tap Chatter and Tap Core 60). The most useful words stay in the same place, so the hand learns where they are, and in Tap Chatter “I want” brings up “to go”, “to eat” and “a break”.
All drawn in one clear style for Tap AAC. Search by word, or put a photo of the real cup, the real dog or the real teacher on a button.
+s ed ing turns “sandwich” into “sandwiches” and “play” into “played”, so a sentence comes out the way it’s meant.
When a word isn’t on a button, a full typing screen opens from the sentence bar, with word guesses that learn the person’s own words, quick phrases, letters spoken or quiet, and numbers one key away.
A picture of a real place: touch the swings and they speak. 20 ready-made scenes, from the kitchen to the zoo, or make your own from a photo of your own room.
41 ready-made boards, and 139 printable pages that talk: the free printables from this site, in the app, with every printed button speaking. Any page prints as a paper copy, too.
Meet Bella
Bella is Tap AAC’s own voice. She’s built into the app, so she speaks with no internet connection, on a plane, in a basement classroom or at the hospital bedside.
Made for every hand
Settings for the way each person moves, sees and touches, built in, not extra.
Who it’s for
Sharing, only if you want it
Talking and editing never need an account. Without one, everything stays on the tablet. Sign in with Google only when you want to share the book, or use it on more than one tablet.
On a computer, tapaac.com/app lets the team edit the book, track goals with session data and keep notes. Signing in there is free. A child’s book belongs to a parent’s account; a child never signs in.
Free, no sign-up
Print a board tonight, plan a core word for the week, or read a plain-language guide. No app needed.
Our free Thanksgiving board has the words for the big meal, like please, more, too loud and I need a break, plus a page of thankful cards so the person gets a real turn at the table. Three new worksheets help you practice before the day: set the table, an “I want” sentence strip and find it on the board.
From yes and no to the dentist, a plane trip and the hospital. US Letter and A4 PDFs.
Choose a layout, search the pictures or add your own photos, then print. There’s a visual schedule maker too.
Word cards, a modeling handout for parents and a core word of the week plan.
What AAC is, choosing an app, school, autism, aphasia and more, in plain language.
Price
Everything in the app, with no limits, from the first time Tap AAC opens. After that, one payment through Google Play keeps it working. No subscription, no ads.
First 30 days
Free
Every feature, counted from the first time Tap AAC is opened on the tablet.
After that
$29.99 once
The purchase belongs to your Google account, so a new tablet gets it back with Restore purchase.
Nothing is ever deleted. If the trial runs out, the book waits on the tablet and opens just as it was once Tap AAC is unlocked, and a backup can still be saved in the meantime.
Questions
No. Talking, Bella, the pictures and editing all work offline. The internet is used for the purchase and, only if you sign in, for keeping the book in your account and sharing it.
No. Tap AAC works fully on the tablet with no account. Signing in with Google is optional: it keeps the book in your account, so you can use it on more than one tablet and share it with a speech therapist, teacher or family member.
The book’s pages, buttons, photos and recordings, so the people you invite can see them. Settings, quick phrases, saved buttons and phrases, videos and recorded messages stay on each tablet. The word diary never goes into the shared book. See the privacy policy.
Android phones, tablets, foldables and Chromebooks with Android 8.0 or later, upright or on their side. It works with touch, a keyboard (Enter speaks the sentence, Esc closes a menu) or a mouse, and a page’s buttons never change places when the screen turns or the window changes size.
Only the unlock screen opens until Tap AAC is bought, for $29.99 once through Google Play. Nothing is deleted: the book, photos and recordings wait on the tablet, and unlocking opens everything just as it was.
Yes. Take a photo with the tablet’s camera or pick one from the photo library, and record your own voice on any button, quick phrase or talking spot.
Yes. Tap AAC opens Open Board files (.obf and .obz), including the “Add to Tap AAC” files on our free boards, and adds them as new pages. It can also share a page back out as an .obz file for other AAC apps.
Settings, Backup & reset saves one file with every page, button, picture and recording, plus the word diary. Restore it on any tablet with Tap AAC. The support page has the steps.
Tap AAC is on Google Play now. Try everything free for 30 days, then pay $29.99 once. No subscription, no ads.
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