My World: Tap to Talk. A mother and child using a communication board built from the child's own world, on a tablet.

Most communication apps make a child learn abstract symbols before they can say anything. My World flips it: your child's actual food, toys, people, and home become their vocabulary, rendered in the style they love. Tap a tile, it talks.

Create your child’s board — free 🧩 Try the board live See how it works

No card, no code, no waiting — a working board in about five minutes. Launching first on iPhone & iPad; Android is next. Exact-photo tiles are always free. Styled art is part of the $9.99/month membership.

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How it works

Three steps. The vocabulary belongs to your child.

No clinical-looking icons your child has to memorize. No six-month insurance battle. Just photographs of their world, transformed into a style they want to look at.

Step 01

Photograph it.

Snap a photo of anything your child uses every day: a favorite snack, their bear, Grandma. One tap from the app; the photo is saved the moment it uploads, and a Pending tile marks where it will land.

Step 02

We transform it.

The photo is redrawn in the art style your child loves, or kept as the exact photo, free, if that's what works. Same object, recognizable, beautiful, and consistent across their whole board.

Step 03

They communicate.

The tile lands on their tablet in the spot you chose, and stays there. They tap. It speaks in the voice you picked. The world they recognize is the words they have.

The same two children's real faces shown redrawn in computer-animated, anime, and puppet styles, always recognizably them. A real apple and a real toy train redrawn in computer-animated, anime, and puppet styles, the same recognizable objects.

Their face stays their face. Their apple stays their apple. The style changes; the world doesn't. See a whole board live →

Create your child’s board — free

Free to start. Have an invite code from a friend? It works on the signup page.

Try the look

Pick your child's style.

During onboarding, you choose the style your child responds to. Every tile in their world is rendered that way, with your child as the recognizable anchor. Here are real examples in five of the styles families can pick.

Example tiles rendered in the selected style
3D Animated: bright, dimensional characters, like a still from an animated film.
Create your child’s board — free

Setting up an account is free. Styled boards are part of the $9.99/month membership. Have an invite code? Create your child's account →

Inside the app

Four ways in: talking, listening, learning, playing.

Listening mode

Your speech becomes their pictures.

Ask a question out loud, like "apple or banana?", and the words you say appear as picture tiles on your child's board, live, so they can see the choice and answer it. Every heard word that matches a tile is tappable; a built-in filter keeps anything you wouldn't want on screen off it, on by default.

Listening mode: a parent asks 'apple or banana?' and the spoken words appear as picture tiles on the child's board.
Teaching mode: a child taps a word and hears friendly facts about it; a parent's phone shows which words were explored.
Teaching mode

Tap a word. Learn what it means.

With tap-to-learn on, a tap speaks the word, and quick taps after it teach a fact about it, up to three, in your child's board voice. "Teach me" turns the folder they were just exploring into a short, friendly lesson. You choose whether their board pronounces or teaches; both are one toggle.

Sentence constructor

From single words to whole sentences.

When your child is ready, the sentence builder lets them stage tiles into a strip, like "I love you mom", and play the whole thing back as one utterance. It stays hidden until you turn it on, so the board grows with them instead of overwhelming them on day one.

Sentence constructor: a child builds 'I love you mom' from tiles and plays it back as one sentence.
Quiz mode: the board speaks a word and the child taps the matching picture; a parent's phone shows accuracy over time.
Quiz mode

Hear a word. Tap the right picture.

The 🙋 button starts a short, self-paced quiz about whatever your child was just exploring: ten questions, never a marathon. Wrong answers gently re-teach; progress lands in your parent view so you can see what's mastered and what's next.

Built for trust

Your child's photos stay your family's.

Every photo and picture is stored privately and can only be viewed by the people you've invited to your child's board. No other family can ever reach them. No advertising, no data sold, and everything you make is archived, never deleted: swap a picture and the old one waits in the album, one tap from coming back.

Working with a speech therapist? Invite them. They can review the board and run activities, and you keep control.

Grown-up tools

You can talk back, from your phone.

Respond in your child's own vocabulary from your phone: tiles light up on their screen in sequence, then the sentence speaks aloud. And when something needs attention, like a picture that missed or a tile that failed, the app tells you and offers a one-tap fix, instead of leaving you to wonder.

Pricing

Simple pricing. No insurance battles.

Creating an account and building a board from your exact photos is free. One membership adds the personalized art, automatic teaching, and progress tracking: $9.99 a month, cancel anytime. See the full pricing breakdown →

$9.99/month

My World Plus — the membership

  • Enrollment gift: your child's whole starter board personalized up front: 100+ tiles and two family portraits, a ⭐120+ value on your first ⭐50
  • ⭐50 image credits every month after (use within 30 days)
  • Automatic teaching mode: walks your child through every topic and keeps going until they've mastered it
  • Progress tracking & shareable reports
  • Sentences spoken as one natural phrase, not word-by-word
  • Words your child hears in listening join the board with one tap
$49.99 one time

The Basic Board

  • For the earliest communicators: giant tiles, a two-page needs strip of the twenty words they need most, six simple folders, single-tap speech
  • $24.99 with the membership · includes ⭐50 image credits to add their people, foods, and toys
  • Grows into the full board anytime: same pictures, nothing re-bought
  • See it live on the demo board →

Try it with a real safety net: enrollment builds the full board right away, so you can see it working for your child in the first week, and you're free to cancel anytime. Everything you've made is yours to keep, forever, including every personalized picture, on the free plan.

Bespoke art styles, tiles that speak in your cloned voice, and personalized behavior books are coming later — join the waitlist and tell us which you'd want.

Always included, on every plan, free

  • Listening mode: words spoken around your child light up as tiles, in real time
  • The sentence builder: drag tiles up top to build an utterance that speaks
  • The full vocabulary: ~1,200 of the most common words, numbers 1–100, and the alphabet
  • Add anything and it matches: parent-added pictures are styled to fit the board, so it stays coherent after fifty additions
  • Pictures of your child and family are always original renders, never stock, on every plan
  • The parent app: message your child from your phone, use it as a remote for the device, and schedule the day (including auto-teach sessions)
  • Unlimited tiles from your exact photos (no restyle, no credits)
  • Natural voices to pick from, or record your own voice on any tile
  • Invite your child's speech therapist to review the board and run activities
  • Everything you make is archived, never deleted: old pictures are one tap from coming back

1 credit = one styled picture · family-member portraits use 5 · credit top-up packs from $4.99 stack on the membership; pack credits never expire. The membership renews monthly until cancelled; manage or cancel anytime in the store.

Create your child’s board — free

No card needed to start.

Open to every family

Build your child's world today.

Create an account, add a few photos, and your child has a talking board — in about five minutes, free. The app launches first on iPhone & iPad (plus the full web board on any computer) — Android and Kindle Fire are next. Styled art is part of the $9.99/month membership.

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The waitlist: what's coming next.

A one-of-a-kind art style drawn for your child alone. Tiles that speak in your own cloned voice. Personalized behavior books. New languages and styles. Tell us what you'd want, and we'll email you the moment it opens — no commitment.

What are you interested in? (pick any)

Wondering why we built this? Read the founder's letter →

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