Finley on the sofa with his iPad, holding up a hand-drawn sign that reads finley, a heart, play.talk

this is Finley. this is his voice.

biscuit mummy love dinosaurs

every child has plenty to say

play.talk is an AAC app that turns talking into child's play. Built by one family, for a boy with no speech but a lot to say.

no grids. no programming. just words that stick.

try the demo read our story

how it happened

a true story, still being written.

the grids weren't working

Hundreds of cells, nested pages, and every new word meant a grown-up sitting down to program it. Finley could spell. So why was he hunting through folders?

so his dad built him a talker

One screen. He types, each word becomes a bright picture, and the sentence is spoken in a real child's voice. Everything he's ever said stays on screen, one tap from being said again.

then it started looking after itself

Pictures draw themselves. New words learn their colours. "Fire engine" snaps into one picture. Suggestions come from his favourite sentences. Nobody programs anything, ever.

and it became the family's

Grandma's photo became her picture. "Wolves" learned it means the football team here. The iPad and the phone keep each other in step. now it's ready for your family too →

a voice that goes everywhere

not locked inside one precious iPad that has to be carried, charged and never dropped. play.talk runs in any browser, on every screen in the house.

same words, same pictures, same voice on every one. they all keep each other in step. forgot the iPad? borrow any phone. their voice is never left at home.

the magic trick

any photo can become a word picture. one tap redraws it to match his other pictures, and it's still completely, recognisably him.

a real photo of Finley smiling — the real finley

one tap

the same photo of Finley redrawn as a friendly cartoon picture — finley as a picture!

it works for grandma, the dog, a favourite teddy. the people he loves become the pictures he talks with.

play

say it by playing

not every word wants typing. behind the play button are play pages: little pages made for your child, by you, in plain words, where choosing a word is something to tap, pop, feed or find. a word picked in play is a word said: in their voice, ready for their sentence. no downloads, no coding, no adverts.

matching pairs

his own word pictures as the cards. every pair found is a word spoken

"matching pairs with his word pictures"

pop the balloons

balloons drift up wearing his words. pop one to say it

"balloons float up and he pops them"

who says moo?

the app says an animal, he taps the right one, and has the word to say back

"it says an animal and finley taps it"

what's the time?

pages that teach, too: a clock to practise telling the time, in his own words

"a clock to practise telling the time"

describe it → the app builds it → polish it in plain words ("bigger cards", "a bit slower") → keep it. kept play pages land on every device, work offline, and can even ask for their own drawings: a friendly dragon, drawn once, his forever. not a separate app, not a toy box: it's the talker, played. the same words, the same pictures, the same voice, reached another way. words, chosen by playing

the clever bits

each feature carefully crafted with a human touch.

words

Iwantabiscuit

typing that talks

words become colour-coded pictures as they type; 'say' speaks the sentence out loud.

pictures

pictures draw themselves

an AI illustrator draws every word in one friendly style. once drawn, it's kept forever.

family

"wolves" =
the football team, obviously

your family's meanings

tell it what a word means in your house and the picture follows. names get pictures too.

snap

fire engine

words that snap together

"fire engine" becomes one picture as he types.

lists

a picture book of words

every word sorted into friendly categories automatically. tap a picture, hear it spoken.

voices

"Harry"
a cheeky British boy

"Olivia"
a cool American girl

choose your child's voice

a large selection of included children's voices to choose from, or add your own!

offline

works up a mountain

keeps working offline

anything said before still plays with no internet: in the car, on a plane, up a hill.

settings

press & hold
grown-ups only!

settings out of reach

the grown-ups screen hides behind a long-press. voices, meanings and pictures live there.

personalise

it won't say finley on yours

everything you've seen rebuilds itself around your child. their words, their pictures, their people, their voice. even the name on the front. go on, try it:

type your child's name →

harry.talk

their app, their name on the home screen, and even their own web address. personalised web address available as a paid extra

finley

see it in real life

don't just read about it. watch finley using play.talk every day on his TikTok channel. real sentences, real opinions, real laughs.

finley orders
his own tea

the picture trick
on grandma's photo

morning chat
on the school run

♪ follow @finley.talk on TikTok ♪