Turn the phone, tablet, or computer you already own into a real AAC system — free. Snap a photo or describe a topic and AI drafts a board you edit and teach with, start from 326+ templates, or bring boards you already own. Share to any phone with a QR code. No app to install. No account needed to build.
Any device. Any time.
One simple QR code or link opens your boards on any phone, tablet, or computer — a school Chromebook, a grandparent's laptop, a borrowed phone. No app to install, no account to make. Scan it or tap the link, and you're communicating in seconds.
And once a board is open, it speaks offline once it's open — tap a tile and it talks, even with no connection.
🛠️ Open the Builder to get startedEvery fall a child is handed a $5,000–$15,000 AAC device. Every summer the school reclaims it — and the family goes home with a paper printout of the boards. The talking stops. It doesn't have to. Take a photo of each printed page and rebuild the whole system — free, on a device you already own.
Home board first, then every folder page. Your phone camera is all you need.
Home board and every drill-down folder, linked back together — with fresh free symbols drawn in for the printed pictures.
Open it on any phone, tablet or Chromebook and share by QR. No school, no $10k tablet, no permission needed.
How it really works: rebuilding the whole system into one linked, drill-down board is a free-account feature — a guest can keep one board and it times out, so create a free account (a few seconds) and your boards are kept and editable to come back to. Photo rebuild is powered by Google Gemini and uses your own free Gemini key (the Builder walks you through it — a Google account is free). It reads the labels and layout off your photos and re-draws every symbol from the free ARASAAC library — it never copies the original device's artwork. Every rebuild lands in an editable preview so you can fix anything the camera misread before you save. Accuracy depends on the photo (glare, angle, tiny text), so treat it as a fast first draft you tidy up — not a perfect scan.
A teacher snaps a printout and it comes alive — tap to hear it, drill into folders, share to every tablet by QR.
Every board you build — even one you photographed and rebuilt in 30 seconds — quietly records the real taps. Not a guess, not a tally sheet from memory: what was actually said.
That usage is encrypted and sealed to a single key — yours. Only the people you explicitly grant (your SLP, your child's teacher) can open it. Not another clinician. Not us — by design.
For SLPs, it's the end of hand-counting. Every other system asks you to reconstruct a child's progress from memory and write the IEP note from a guess. TinkySeal turns the real taps into a draft progress report — session-by-session evidence you review, confirm, and sign. You make the clinical call; we just stop the numbers from being a guess.
Photograph a child's existing paper board, rebuild it free in seconds, and from that moment it's gathering real evidence — something the $5,000 device they already own can't do.
Pilot: the encryption is solid; the goal-scoring is a draft for SLP review, not a validated clinical assessment. Tracking is per-device (best for 1:1).
For thirty years, a voice has been something you had to qualify for, wait for, and pay for. A $5,000–$15,000 price tag. Insurance approvals and months-long waitlists before a person gets a single word. Boards trapped inside one company's app, on one company's hardware. We tore those gates down. The right to be heard was never theirs to ration — it belongs to you, and you can take it anywhere.
No price tag. No subscription. No account needed to build. It runs in any browser on a device you already own — while traditional AAC devices still cost $5,000–$15,000.
Point your camera at a menu, a room, a shelf — and a draft board is generated from what's actually there. It's a starting point you edit and teach with, not a finished AAC system. No vendor, no order form, no wait.
Free with a daily fair-use cap.
Import any board exported as Open Board Format (.obf / .obz) — the standard Proloquo2Go, TouchChat, CoughDrop and Tobii all export — and rebuild it here, free. Your work was never theirs to trap.
Share a board as a QR code. Scan it and the board opens and speaks on any phone — no app to install, no account to make. Once it's open, it speaks with no internet at all.
Speaks offline once a board is open.
No more lock-ins. No more lock-downs. Your voice belongs to you.
🛠️ Open the Builder — FreeTraditional AAC software was built for institutions, billed through insurance, and locked behind paid licenses. The result: most people who need a custom board can't get one quickly. We rebuilt the board editor from zero — in the browser, free to build.
"Animals with letter S." "Bedtime." "Hospital." A board appears, color-coded by Fitzgerald Key, ready to edit. Free with a daily fair-use cap — or add your own free Gemini key.
326+ templates across Classics, Activities, Care, Food and more. Open one, then make it yours — drag, rename, recolor, add folders.
Already have boards exported as Open Board Format (.obf / .obz) — from Proloquo2Go, TouchChat, CoughDrop, Tobii and others? Drop the file in and keep editing here.
No marketing fog. Here's exactly what you get when you open the Builder.
What you see is the board. Move a tile and it stays. Every tile is an emoji or photo, a label, the spoken text, and a color category from the Fitzgerald Key.
Describe what you need and a draft board is generated for you to edit. It tries an on-device builder first (so it's free), and falls back to an LLM when it needs to.
Don't start from a blank grid. Pick a ready-made board across Classics, Activities, Care, Food and more categories, then customize every tile to fit the person using it.
If you've exported boards as Open Board Format — the open .obf / .obz standard — you can import them and keep editing here. That covers exports from Proloquo2Go, TouchChat, CoughDrop, Tobii and others.
Give every tile the right picture. Pull from five free symbol sets, or upload your own photos so a tile shows the real person, place or object it means.
Build in one language, speak in another. A tile can read "agua" on screen and say "water" out loud, or the reverse — exactly what bilingual homes and classrooms need.
Preview your board inside phone and tablet frames and rotate to check both orientations — so it looks right before it ever reaches the person using it.
Reorder tiles, resize spans, resizable columns, drill-down folders.
Step back any change, then lock a finished board so it can't shift.
Select many tiles to recolor or recategorize them all at once.
Topic in, draft board out. On-device first; free with a daily cap.
Start from a ready-made board across many categories.
Bring Open Board Format exports from other AAC tools.
ARASAAC, Mulberry, Sclera, OpenMoji, OpenSymbols — plus your photos.
Tiles in one language, spoken in another.
Generate a printable worksheet or a quick game from a board.
Preview on phone and tablet frames and rotate before sharing.
One tap to a QR; scan to open. Speaks offline once a board is open.
Build for free with no login. Save and sync are there when you want them.
Illustrative examples of the build → edit → share flow — not customer reviews.
"My 5-year-old has autism. We're at the doctor for an ear infection. I open the Builder, type 'pain locations on body,' edit a couple of tiles, and share it to my phone with a QR. He taps RIGHT EAR. The exam starts."
"I need a vocab board for tomorrow — animals starting with S. I describe it, the editor makes a draft, I drag a few tiles and recolor them, then push to my client's tablet with a QR. Minutes, not the half hour it used to take."
"Our budget bought ONE paid AAC license. Several nonverbal students. With the Builder I start from a template for each unit, customize it, and share the same board to all their tablets with one QR. This is the first year all of them have a board."
"We speak Spanish at home and English at school. I set the tiles to show Spanish labels but speak English, so the same board works in both worlds. One board, two languages, no retyping."
A starting menu of what people build first. Click any to open the Builder.
"I want pizza." "No onions." "Check please." Quick-phrase tiles for fast ordering, in any language.
Pain locations, symptoms, "I need water," yes/no for procedures.
Subjects, breaks, "I need help," "I'm finished," social phrases.
Wake, eat, brush teeth, school, dinner, bed. A visual schedule.
"Mom." "Dad." "Brother." "I love you." "I'm hungry." Home talk.
"Happy." "Sad." "Tired." "Frustrated." Name it, then tap it.
Turn a board into a quick game, or print it as a worksheet.
Adults at jobs. "Break time," "I have a question," "I finished."
No company is named. We're not throwing shade — we're showing the structural change. The teams that pioneered AAC saved a lot of voices. They also priced many people out. We're closing that gap with an open tool that runs free on any device you already own.
No signup. No credit card. No download. Describe a board or start from a template, drag a few tiles, and share it to a phone with a QR. You'll have a working board before you finish your coffee.