Revolutionary apps for simplifying everyday life with brain injury.
AccessNow app - search for a restaurant, hotel or store on the app, and the app will tell you if that place is accessible for people with disabilities.
Android Accessibility Suite - phone vibration, speech, spoken instructions, spoken and audible feedback.
Be My Eyes - live video app where the blind person points their camera at something, and a sighted volunteer tells the blind person what the object is.
Behaviour Tracker Pro - allows carers, teachers, therapists and therapy aides to record and video a person’s behaviours, and graph behaviour improvement.
Best Suite app - costs $10. It helps people with brain injuries set goals, reminds them to take breaks, shows how to boost energy and reminds you of appointments in your mobile phone calendar.
Concussion and recognition response - free app. Helps parents know if their child is showing signs of a concussion and explains if children need to see a doctor.
Breathe 2 relax app - deep breathing exercises for ptsd, anxiety, and depression.
Clear Record Pro - records conversations clearly by deleting background noise. Great for deaf people.
Corkulus pro - share photos, contact details, ideas and appointments on a cork board.
Cozi Family Organiser - Shared family shopping lists, calendar, to do list, family journal. Free. You’ll have to pay money for advanced features.
dictate 2 us transcription app - free app. Text to speech converter. You can dictate to the app, and it saves and types what you said.
Dial Safe Pro app - fun games that teach you how to use your phone safely.
Evernote app - take photos, keep to do lists, and voice reminders on what to do.
Find my iPhone - location app that tracks your phone if your phone is lost or stolen.
Flashcards deluxe - for learning and memory.
Google Maps - for finding the quickest route to your destination.
ICE medical standard - for putting your carers contact details and your diagnosis on your mobile phone lock screen.
IFTTT - for reading your text messages out loud and turning your house lights on and off.
Penultimate - handwriting app.
Inspiration Maps - for storing ideas, charts, diagrams and maps for brainstorming. For getting organised, writing stories, work, study and school.
Pictello app - Create text to speech stories and videos.
Proloquo2go app - Cost: $250. Has text to speech, and word predictions and conjugations. For people with speech difficulties and non verbal people.
PTSD coach app - for war veterans with PTSD.
Quick Talk app - for non verbal people and people with speech difficulties.
Red Panic Button app - if you’re unsafe, in an emergency or injured, this app sends a text message to contact people like your carer, police, ambulance, hospitals with a Google Maps link to your location. Includes notifications for twitter and emails.
Speak Write Recorder app - for dictation. Speech to text documents. Free.
Spaced Retrieval Therapy - sends you the answers to problems every few minutes, to help your memory.
Verbally app - free. For non verbal people.
Visual Schedule Planner app
JAB talk - for helping non verbal children and stroke patients communicate with people.
Learning Ally Link - for audio books to learn any subject. Includes speed control of reading, highlighting text that is read out loud, bookmarking and note taking.
Notability- helps people take notes, for work and study. You can record teachers via the app microphone, and enlarge your notes. You can take notes quickly in real time. Cost: $10.
MakeChange app - cost is $4. This app helps you count your money, so you use the least amount of change.
Matrix Game - Games to help you build up spatial recognition skills.
Naming Therapy app - word finding app. Costs $25.
Voice 4 U app - picture based communication. Cost: $60.
Voice Access app - control your phone with spoken commands.
Week calendar - includes travel times to appointments and color coding for your calendar.
Wheel Map app - helps you find wheelchair accessible places around the world.
Where am I? App - tells you the town, country and postcode you’re in.
Word warp app - create words from a word, to build up your brain’s memory and grammar.
