Weave Chat AAC

Weave Chat, LLC

About this app

Weave Chat AAC is a free, dynamic, and completely customizable AAC app that is available to a variety of devices.

Weave Chat AAC offers a large variety of verbs (green), pronouns (yellow), questions (purple), nouns (tan/orange), adjectives (blue), and conversational words (pink). All color choices were made based on the Fitzgerald Key and new vocabulary is added weekly.

Users can add their own custom images and categories in Settings —> Manage Custom Images.

In addition, users can add their own custom phrases that can easily be accessed from their board; to add phrases, go to Settings —> Manage Phrases.

Users can select a synthetic voice (dependent on their device settings) from Settings —> Change Voice Settings - here you can select your voice, vocal pitch, and rate of speech.

Image and text size can be personalized from Settings —> Change Image & Text Size (select from default - small, medium, and large). Settings —> Configure Image Keyboard allows the user to turn on/off features that allow for the category text to be read aloud (synthetic voice for categories), to keep the user in the category after a image has been selected (stay on category after image selection), and disable the speech output for individual words so that it only reads aloud when the white text screen is touched (synthetic voice disabled for individual words).

The AAC board can be modified in Settings —> Manage Board Builder. Here, the user can select from the default board (you must make a copy to edit it - to do this select “Add new keyboard” and then select “Hide Images” for Type of Keyboard); grid position boards (ranging in size from 1x2 - 7x15 rows/columns); and Board Builder (gives you the option to build a board from scratch). All boards are completely editable and all custom images and categories can be used from all boards.

Lastly, Manage Pin Configuration allows the user to set a pin over all (or just some) aspects of customization to lock down features as needed.

Feature List:
- Dynamic, customizable, AAC boards
- Large variety of verbs, nouns, and adjectives with additional vocabulary added weekly
- Add custom images and custom categories
- Create and save phrases
- Select a synthetic voice (as available per your device settings)
- Copy & Paste AAC picture icon messages via “share”
- Create and/or modify AAC boards via 3 options: grid position boards (ranging from 1x2 - 7x15), hide images, and/or create a new board from scratch
- “Text” others who have the app using AAC picture icons
- Set a passcode to lock down features as needed
- Weave Chat AAC currently only has English buttons/images

Ratings and reviews

It's *so* close to perfection, but so ***so*** hard to customize your boards from the ground up. I can't find a reasonable alternative, though. For 3,000+ readily findable words on a free application, I really shouldn't complain. I still wish it was easier rearrange the default scrolling board, or so many other tiny things that are just slightly off...

It's okay but it could be better. It would be great if it didn't open the app to the support page. It should open straight to the image board or keyboard (and you should be able to choose which you want it to open to) as for languages it only seems to come in English which is a bit of a bummer since most people speak/type more than one language but again it's a free app so 🤷🏽‍♂️ Edit: Had to bring this down another star because the app keeps crashing when I try to open the phrase option.

I deleted the app immediately upon realising you have to sign up and give all your information. I cannot understand how difficult it is to find a decent app for people like myself with autism that need help with communication.

What's new

Added the ability to manage and copy shared categories / page sets.