Cheat-Sheet: Our Top 7 Digital Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Apps of 2025

SimpiHere’s Top 7 AAC Apps of 2025

Hi SimpliHere fans!

It’s October again, and that means it’s Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month! Augmentative and alternative communication refers to any form of communication beyond speech, such as picture boards, sign language, or speech tablets and, throughout October, across the country, various organizations are hosting events, webinars, and virtual conferences to raise awareness and provide resources for people who use AAC methods and technologies.

The theme for this year’s AAC Awareness Month is “Innovation, Inclusion, and Advocacy,” and it’s time, once again, to share SimpliHere’s annual roundup: our Top 7 AAC Apps of 2025 — all of which are innovative and inclusive, and which also advocate for their users’ needs.

See the Top 7 list AAC Apps of 2025 (in order of price — low to high):

1- Visuals2Go – Free with in-app upgrade purchase options

Founded by a Special Education teacher and developed in collaboration with speech pathologists and parents, Visuals2Go is a user-friendly, accessible, all-in-one educational tool for people who are non-verbal or have difficulties with speech. Focused on versatility, Visuals2Go supports people with high support needs, who need a one-button, single message or image-based communication system, to those who can build sentences to extend their vocabulary.

The app allows users to export and print their customized visuals, from a library of thousands, on a range of different templates. Visuals2Go can also be used as a photo album with text and voice, storing albums of family members and friends, favorite objects, etc. The app is consistently updated with new images and albums, and users can upgrade to add features through in-app purchases or with a subscription.

2- The Voice Keeper AAC – Free 30-day trial with Apple subscription post-trial

This app helps you personalize and customize your AAC device through voice banking and AI-supported voice creation. A simple and powerful app, The Voice Keeper preserves or establishes nonverbal users’ identities, making AAC communication feel familiar, authentic, and meaningful. The app incorporates voice contributions from people close to the user to create a voice that captures the essence of the user. It embraces users of all ages, from young children to teens to elders, and incorporates elements of the user’s cultural background, ensuring each voice is as authentic and relatable as possible. The Voice Keeper integrates easily with iOS, complementing your most-used AAC apps for seamless communication.

3- SimpliHere – $4.99 – but free through the end of 2025!

OK, we know that SimpliHere is our own app, and not exactly an AAC app, but it is the very best AAC-adjacent app. If you’ve used SimpliHere, you already know that it is a truly essential addition to your toolbox for living with (or caring for someone living with) stroke, aphasia, ALS, autism and other neurological conditions that negatively affect speech and mobility. Of course, with SimpliHere, other AACs can be enabled using built-in and custom buttons, but the main goal of our app is to support and streamline communication between the person living with neurological condition and their caregivers — each on their own devices.

SimpliHere provides a one-touch communication menu to easily convey the patient’s needs and wants to caregivers; a simple tracking system for caregivers to manage daily tasks, along with requests from patients and loved ones; a complete and connected care circle of professional caregivers, including home health aides, assisted living facility or nursing home staff, family members, and other healthcare providers (speech therapists, physical therapists, and occupational therapists), all in a single app. The app also links to communities, resources, and support for self-care and daily living. And our app was recently relaunched with additional features and enhancements — and is free until the end of calendar year 2025, so don’t wait to download!

4- Speech Assistant AAC – $23.99 – one-time payment, no subscription required

Speech Assistant AAC is an award-winning, easy-to-use, fully customizable text-to-speech app that integrates with phone and video calls; email, social media, and text messaging apps; and that leverages user-created categories and subcategories as well as saved phrase buttons for quick access and easy communication (users can also type messages using the iOS keyboard). Helpful features include autocomplete and history to quickly access recently or commonly used phrases, tabs for multiple conversations, cloud backup, fullscreen/large font and large button options, high volume for noisy environments, and the option to incorporate emojis.

The app is compatible with Apple devices, including Apple Watch, and incorporates digital voices from a range of sources, including Apple’s Personal Voice and ElevenLabs, as well as the option to create or import voice recordings. Many other additional functionalities make Speech Assistant AAC one of the very best comprehensive AAC apps out there again this year.

5- Speak for Yourself – $149.99 with in-app upgrade purchase options

Speak for Yourself, designed by two speech language pathologists specializing in AAC, is unique in that it is backed by research findings and designed to be consistent with motor learning principles. This means it contains features important to the development of automaticity, or the ability to use language skills with minimal conscious effort, allowing for effortless fluency. Users can build their language skills starting with one single word but build to fluency with almost 14,000 words, 11,000 for which the app provides its trademarked “Smarty Symbols®.” This means that users can speak any word with only two screen touches.

Speak for Yourself eliminates complex page navigation and scanning to allow fast, consistent access to language, and the app leverages CereProc’s speech system to give its voices character, emotion, and personality. Users can multitask with a split-view screen (with the option of portrait mode), is backed by the cloud and incorporates AirDrop or email to share progress with pathologists, and a recent upgrade added features like auto-complete, integration with phone and FaceTime, and others. Speak for Yourself supports Apple devices and iOS 16 or above.

6- LAMP Words for Life® – $149.99 with in-app upgrade purchase options

LAMP Words For Life® also offers evidence-based design with foundations in neurological and motor learning principles. This robust AAC app combines the power of Minspeak, the Unity® language system, and Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP™) principles and strategies, provides a consistent motor pattern per word to develop automaticity, or the ability to use language skills with minimal conscious effort, allowing for effortless fluency.

This symbol-based AAC app leverages a library of thousands of frequently used words and allows users to create and store a customized vocabulary. It incorporates high-quality Acapela and Almagu voices and your own unique voice created through The VoiceKeeper; offers English, Spanish, and French vocabulary files, data logging and auto sync for pathologists working with the user and is appropriate for users of all ages.

7- Proloquo2Go – $249.99 with in-app upgrade purchase options

Perhaps considered the “gold standard” of AAC apps, Proloquo is one of the most popular and most comprehensive AAC apps on the market. This app is also symbol-based and designed around the concept of 7,000 “core words,” which make up 80% of our natural vocabulary. But the app is extremely customizable, and users can create their own words, type to speak instead of using symbol buttons, and the app offers automatic conjugation.

Proloquo offers more than 100 text-to-speech voices that sound authentic and natural. For users with fine-motor challenges and vision impairments, Proloquo offers options like 23 pre-programmed grid sizes and accessibility settings that support switch scanning and Apple’s VoiceOver screen reader. Everything from appearance to access is customizable so you can make it your own. Proloquo can be used on several devices, includes comprehensive training for users and caregivers, and allows users to switch easily between English, Spanish, French, and Dutch, and also supports bilingual use.

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If you want to review SimpliHere’s Top 7 AAC apps blogs from prior years, click here!

2024 Top 7 AAC Apps – https://simplihere.com/2024-top-7-augmentative-alt-communication-aac-apps/

2023 Top 7 AAC Apps – https://simplihere.com/top-7-augmentative-and-alternative-communication/

About SimpliHere

The mission of SimpliHere is to ensure efficient care and peace of mind for caregivers and their patients with neurological conditions that impact communication and mobility. Joanna Rosenberg founded SimpliHere to address communication gaps between caregivers and patients. Her personal experience when her mother lived with ALS exposed the challenges of communicating and understanding basic needs, as well as managing daily tasks. Download SimpliHere today!