AAC apps for Android: which suits whom, and what each costs

Start with the person

A speech-language pathologist matches the person’s skills and needs to an app’s features: the kind of symbols, the display, how they select, the voice, portability, room to grow, their own preference, and cost and upkeep.¹ Three questions narrow the list fast:

1. Can the person spell? If yes, a typing app with word prediction is usually fastest. If not, or not yet, they need picture buttons.
2. How can they touch the screen? A fingertip, a fist, a stylus, a switch, their eyes or their head.
3. What can you spend, once or every month, and for how long? See AAC apps without a subscription and free AAC apps for Android.

At a glance

AAC apps on Google Play: what they use, what they cost, and offline use (October 30, 2026)

Every app here is on Google Play and was updated there in the last twelve months.

For every AAC app with at least 50 ratings in either store, with prices, subscriptions and last updates, see our AAC App Price Guide.

If the person can type

Speech Assistant AAC

A plain, fast typing screen with phrase buttons you set up yourself. The basic version is free, the extra features are one payment, and the listing says it needs no internet connection.²

• Talks with Typing and phrase buttons²
• Runs on Android; iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch³
• Price (US) Basic version free; extra features $10.99 once on Google Play ($24.99 on the App Store)
• Without internet Yes: it “does not require an internet connection”
• Last update on Google Play Oct 23, 2026

Spoken

Typing with next-word prediction. Speaking is free for good; Premium adds saved phrases, lifelike voices and prediction that learns from how you talk.³⁰ Those voices need the internet; offline, Spoken uses the phone’s own voice.⁷

• Talks with Typing with word prediction⁴
• Runs on Android, iPhone, iPad and Apple Silicon Macs³¹
• Price (US) Free to speak; Premium $12.99 a month, $99 a year or $249 for life on Spoken’s website. Store prices differ: its in-app purchases on Google Play run $6.49 to $249.99⁵
• Without internet Partly: its high-quality voices need internet; offline it switches to the phone’s own voice⁶⁷
• Last update on Google Play Sep 24, 2026

Predictable

A typing app from Therapy Box, a single purchase with no free version. Its maker says some languages rely on online word prediction and online voices.⁸

• Talks with Typing with word prediction⁸
• Runs on Android phones and tablets, iPhone and iPad
• Price (US) $159.99 once (Google Play and the App Store)⁹¹⁰
• Without internet Partly: some languages use online word prediction and online voices
• Last update on Google Play Aug 11, 2026

If the person needs pictures

Cboard

A picture board that also runs in a web browser. It was free for almost six years; now some features, such as online voices, voice recordings on buttons and board sharing, need a monthly or yearly plan.¹²¹³

• Talks with Pictures¹¹
• Runs on Android, and a web app in a browser
• Price (US) Free version; a monthly or yearly plan for everything (in-app purchases $8.00 to $79.00 on Google Play)¹²
• Without internet Yes for boards (“content is cached for offline use”); its online voices need internet¹³
• Last update on Google Play Oct 13, 2026

Weave Chat AAC

Free, “and always will be”, on Android, Apple devices and Kindle; you create an account to start, and the paid parts are optional web tools for editing and sharing boards.¹⁵¹⁶

• Talks with Pictures¹⁴
• Runs on Android, iPhone, iPad and Kindle¹⁵
• Price (US) Free; optional paid web tools¹⁶
• Without internet Not stated by its maker
• Last update on Google Play Oct 19, 2026

Avaz AAC

Pictures and a keyboard, with a 14-day free trial. Its maker says that when a trial or subscription ends, the pictures and audio disappear from the app until you buy.¹⁸

• Talks with Pictures and typing¹⁷
• Runs on Android, iPhone and iPad³²
• Price (US) US Google Play listing: a 14-day trial, then in-app purchases of $1.99 to $299.99 (it names monthly, yearly and lifetime plans, not their prices). Avaz’s help centre lists $9.99 a month, $99.99 a year or $199.99 for life, with different prices by region¹⁸
• Without internet Yes for everyday use; its Expressive voices need internet¹⁹
• Last update on Google Play Apr 29, 2026

CoughDrop

Runs on almost anything, including Android, iPad, Chromebooks and web browsers, so a family can use the same boards on different devices. It needs an account and works offline once boards are synced.³³²²

• Talks with Pictures²⁰
• Runs on Android, iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Chromebooks, Windows and web browsers³³
• Price (US) $9 a month or $295 for life, after a free two-month trial²¹
• Without internet Yes, once boards are synced to the device; some features need internet²²
• Last update on Google Play May 21, 2026

Tap AAC (ours)

Pictures, a full-screen keyboard and Word Guesses (a page of the words most likely to come next) in one app. Its voice is built in, so it talks with no internet and no account, and core words stay in the same place as the vocabulary grows.²³ It is free for 30 days and then $29.99 once; after the trial it asks to be unlocked before it opens.²⁴ It is English only, and Android only.

• Talks with Pictures, typing and Word Guesses²³
• Runs on Android phones, tablets and Chromebooks, Android 8.0 or later; no iPhone or iPad version³⁴
• Price (US) Free for 30 days, then $29.99 once²⁴
• Without internet Yes: its voice, Bella, is part of the app
• Last update on Google Play Oct 24, 2026

If touching the screen is hard

• Look to Speak, a free app from Google, lets a person choose phrases and pictures with their eyes.²⁷
• Vocable AAC is free and follows head movements with the front camera on phones that support ARCore.²⁸
• Switches: some apps can be used with one or two switches instead of touch. Tap AAC has switch scanning, hold to speak and other touch settings.²³ Ask about switch access before you buy any app.

Eye gaze and switch set-ups are worth an assessment: a speech-language pathologist or an occupational therapist can test what works for the person’s body.

Not on Android

Some of the best-known AAC apps run only on Apple devices or Windows: Proloquo2Go, TouchChat, LAMP Words for Life, TD Snap and Speak for Yourself. None of them came up when we searched Google Play for their names.³⁵ See what to use on Android instead.

How we chose these apps

We started from our own count of every AAC app with at least 50 ratings in either store (October 18, 2026). From those on Google Play and updated there in the last year, we chose twelve to cover the main kinds of app (typing, full picture vocabularies, eyes and head) at every price. That is our choice, not a ranking, and it leaves out apps that may suit someone better. Apps not updated on Google Play for more than a year were left out; Leeloo AAC, for example, was last updated there on July 2, 2023.³⁶ On October 30, 2026 we read each chosen app’s Google Play listing and its maker’s help pages for the price, the plans, what works without internet and the last update. We haven’t tested every app with real users.

More help choosing

• Free AAC apps for AndroidWhich are free for good, which are free trials, and what the free versions leave out.
• AAC apps without a subscriptionApps you pay for once, what a subscription costs over three years, and what happens when you stop paying.
• Offline AAC appsApps that talk with no internet, the four kinds of “offline”, and a five-minute test.
• Proloquo2Go, TouchChat and LAMP on AndroidWell-known AAC apps that don’t run on Android tablets, and what to use instead.
• How to choose an AAC appThe questions to ask about any app, and how to run a fair trial before you pay.

Sources

Read on October 30, 2026. Google Play listings are named by app ID (the “id=” in their web address).

1. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Augmentative and Alternative Communication (Practice Portal). Professional guidance for speech-language pathologists. Accessed October 30, 2026.
2. Google Play. Speech Assistant AAC listing (nl.asoft.speechassistant). Price, in-app purchases, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
3. Apple App Store. Speech Assistant AAC. Price, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
4. Google Play. Spoken – Tap to Talk AAC listing (com.spoken.app). Price, in-app purchases, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
5. Spoken. Does Spoken cost anything?. The maker’s help page. Accessed October 30, 2026.
6. Spoken. Do I need to be connected to the internet to use Spoken?. The maker’s help page. Accessed October 30, 2026.
7. Spoken. What is a fallback voice?. The maker’s help page. Accessed October 30, 2026.
8. Therapy Box. Predictable. The maker’s product page. Accessed October 30, 2026.
9. Google Play. Predictable listing (com.tbox.predictable_4). Price, in-app purchases, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
10. Apple App Store. Predictable. Price, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
11. Cboard. Cboard: free AAC web application. The maker’s website. Accessed October 30, 2026.
12. Google Play. Cboard AAC listing (com.unicef.cboard). In-app purchases, last update, listing text and the developer’s reply about the paid plan (November 3, 2023), United States, checked October 30, 2026.
13. Cboard. The app’s English text, in its published source code (en-US.json). The list of subscription features and the offline messages. Accessed October 30, 2026.
14. Google Play. Weave Chat AAC listing (com.weavechat.weavechat). Price, in-app purchases, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
15. Weave Chat. Weave Chat AAC. The maker’s website. Accessed October 30, 2026.
16. Weave Chat. Weave Chat Connect. The maker’s page on its paid web tools. Accessed October 30, 2026.
17. Google Play. Avaz AAC listing (com.avazapp.international.lite). Price, in-app purchases, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
18. Avaz. Pricing of the Avaz AAC app (help centre). The maker’s help page. Accessed October 30, 2026.
19. Avaz. Do I need an internet connection to run Avaz?. The maker’s help page, modified June 12, 2025. Accessed October 30, 2026.
20. Google Play. CoughDrop AAC listing (com.mycoughdrop.coughdrop). Price, in-app purchases, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
21. CoughDrop. How much does CoughDrop cost?. The maker’s help page, updated March 19, 2024. Accessed October 30, 2026.
22. CoughDrop. How do I use my CoughDrop boards when offline?. The maker’s help page. Accessed October 30, 2026.
23. Tap AAC. Everything Tap AAC does. Our own feature list for the version on Google Play.
24. Google Play. Tap AAC listing (com.tapaac.app). Price, trial and listing text, checked October 30, 2026.
25. Google Play. CommBoards AAC listing (com.shmoontz.commboards.lite). Price, in-app purchases, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
26. Google Play. TalkTablet PRO Autism & Stroke listing (com.gusinc.talktableta). Price, in-app purchases, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
27. Google Play. Look to Speak listing (com.androidexperiments.looktospeak). Price, in-app purchases, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
28. Google Play. Vocable AAC listing (com.willowtree.vocable). Price, in-app purchases, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
29. WillowTree. Vocable. The maker’s website. Accessed October 30, 2026.
30. Spoken. Spoken Premium vs. free. The maker’s help page. Accessed October 30, 2026.
31. Spoken. Will Spoken work on my device?. The maker’s help page. Accessed October 30, 2026.
32. Apple App Store. Avaz AAC. Price, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.
33. CoughDrop. What devices will work with CoughDrop?. The maker’s help page. Accessed October 30, 2026.
34. Tap AAC. Support. Our own answers about devices, backups and the internet.
35. Google Play. Searches for Proloquo2Go, TouchChat AAC, LAMP Words for Life, TD Snap, Speak for Yourself AAC and Proloquo4Text. The top ten results of each search, United States, October 30, 2026; none of these apps was among them.
36. Google Play. Leeloo AAC listing (org.dreamoriented.leeloo). Price, in-app purchases, last update and listing text, United States, checked October 30, 2026.