Talking Cards: AAC for Kids

Plapl Games

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About this app

Every child has something to say. Talking Cards helps them say it.

Tap a picture and the word is spoken aloud, clearly and warmly. Tap card after card and the board builds a real sentence, then speaks the whole thing. It is a gentle talking picture board — AAC — for children who find words hard, and it is made to be used alongside a child's own talking, never instead of it.

Made by a dad whose own child struggled to speak.

THE BOARD
• 1,673 picture words across 68 everyday categories: food, feelings, family, places and play
• Tap cards to build sentences, with the grammar sorted out for them
• The board offers the words that usually come next
• Every word is narrated in a warm, natural voice
• Big, clear cards, with adjustable card size and speaking speed
• An emergency board, always one tap away, for the words that cannot wait

FIVE LANGUAGES, ONE TAP
• English, Arabic, Spanish, French and Turkish
• The pictures stay where they are when the language changes, so a child never has to learn where their words live all over again
• A bilingual mode for families raising two languages

FAMILY VOICES
• Record your own voice for a card, so a child can hear mum, dad or grandma say the word
• Those recordings never leave the device

STORIES, GAMES AND PRACTICE
• 72 illustrated storybooks, written natively in all five languages — tap any word to hear it
• Twelve calm games: spelling, matching, sorting, counting, put-in-order, listening, a sing-along piano, and one that plays a child's own voice back
• Errorless by design — a wrong tap is never marked wrong, and the round simply carries on
• "Say it with me" practice that waits, and never rushes a child
• An alphabet you can hear

LET'S TALK
• A buddy asks about your child's day and they answer by tapping cards — about food, feelings, school, who helps them, what they want to do now
• Four little stories the child steers: the park, bedtime, a picnic, and a lost teddy
• A counting round built from the child's own cards, and a letter round for spelling
• A wrong answer is coached, never scored — the buddy counts along and asks again
• Written in each language, not translated: an Arabic child is offered dates, a Turkish child a simit

FOR GROWN-UPS
• A quick check keeps little hands out of the settings, with an optional PIN
• Add photo cards of your own: a favourite cup, a toy, a person
• Hide cards, pin favourites, and print a paper board for days out
• First–Then routines to picture the day
• Back everything up to a file and restore it on a new device

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• The board works fully offline. No account, no sign-in
• No ads. No tracking. No usage analytics. No profile of your child
• Photos and recordings stay on the device and are never uploaded
• The internet is used only to complete a purchase or redeem a code

FREE AND FULL
Free to use with 194 core picture words, the emergency board and Family Voices. A one-time unlock opens the full vocabulary, the 72 storybooks, the twelve games, your own photo cards and routines. A grown-up can also open everything for a free week — three weeks in all — and for a short preview every day.

Made with love, for the children who are still finding their words.

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Ratings and reviews

Great idea and my kid really likes the app. Simple and useful. My only issue is that some cards images are a little to small, and sometimes I have to explain what the picture means. Bigger cards would make it even better.

Really nice app for teaching your kid a language with pictures and spoken words. One thing that needs fixing is that I could not open the settings.

This is a very well made app for kids. clear pronounciations and pictures, and safety features for parents to monitor settings. I wish this goes mainstream. very wholesome

What’s new

Let's Talk now speaks every language. Arabic, Spanish, French and Turkish each have their own conversations — twelve everyday chats, four little stories the child steers, and a counting round built from their own cards. Written in each language, not translated.

Also new: a free week to try everything (three of them), bigger pictures in the games on tablets, and counting by pointing — tap each picture and it takes the next number.