Apps for Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities
The following is an extensive and meticulously organized list of apps that may be helpful to individuals with dyslexia, parents of dyslexics, or the professionals who work with dyslexics (teachers, tutors, reading specialists, etc.). We carefully consider each app before we add it, ensuring that it claims to help dyslexics in ways that are in line with the evidence on how to help dyslexics. In other words, we add apps that aid with the cognitive processes used in speaking, reading, spelling, and writing, but we do not add apps that are visual aids for reading, because evidence shows that dyslexia is not a visual disability. If you are looking for a specific app, please type its name in the search bar above. If you have questions about our apps list or would like to suggest we add or remove an app, please email us at dyslexiahelp@umich.edu.
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Compatible with Android devices 4.0 and up.
Use this fun flash card app to learn new words and new languages—all while having fun. Available languages are English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Hindi, Arabic, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Turkish, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, and Thai.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.playlearn.languages&hl=en -
Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app teaches advanced reading and spelling skills to children and adults who struggle in those areas.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-to-read-write-and-spell/id658169485?ls=1&mt=8 -
Compatible with Android devices 4.0 and up.
This app helps with spelling and promotes faster learning in the early school years. Uppercase and lowercase letters are shown on the same key on the keyboard, and vowels and consonants are differentiated by red and blue keys, respectively.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tsa.inputmethod.latin -
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app introduces letter/sound relationships to help kids with reading.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reading-intro-by-oz-phonics/id564753775?mt=8 -
Requirements vary.
Hemingway is an advanced text editor. It edits documents such as essays, reports, letters, and email messages for grammar mistakes, hard-to-read sentences, uses of passive voice, and much more.
http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ -
Compatible with Android devices 3.0 and up.
This app helps keep all of your files as organized as possible so you can find what you need quickly.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tomitools.filemanager -
Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app provides a unique and fun way to learn and practice math. Join Jack on his epic adventure of mathematical proportions as it unfolds one step at a time.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jack-beanstalk-mathematical/id682232291?ls=1&mt=8 -
Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 6.1 or later.
This app is a powerful, easy-to-use, and fully customizable digital teaching platform for multisensory reading and spelling instruction.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whizzimo/id841631893?mt=8 -
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
LockBox lets you store and protect sensitive information such as credit card numbers, bank accounts, passwords, PINs, and more.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lockbox/id285681310?mt=8 -
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This personal organizer enables teachers to organize classes and track attendance, grades, and behavior of students.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teacherpal/id389584618?mt=8http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storykit/i -
Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Use Sling Note to pair a web browser or calculator with a notepad. Annotate web clips with highlighters and other tools, cut web clips and drop them into the notepad, and much more.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sling-note/id385068849?mt=8 -
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
iVocAudio provides a fun and easy way to memorize things quickly using your own recorded voice.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ivocaudio-your-memory-chum!/id404446774?mt=8 -
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Use this flash card app to study essential Latin and Greek root words, prefixes, and suffixes. It can help with exam preparation as well as vocabulary building.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/latin-and-greek-root-words/id393692879?mt=8 -
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Groupboard turns your device into a collaborative whiteboard, allowing you to draw and chat in real time with other people anywhere on the Internet, even with users using a web browser. Use it for online tutoring, collaborative design, or just for fun.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/groupboard/id364049817?mt=8 -
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app provides a fun, mobile way to practice vocabulary, articulation, language, and rhyming.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pcs-vocabulary-bingo/id453920859?mt=8 -
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app helps teach the proper use of irregular verbs using illustrated flash cards. You can track correct and incorrect responses, receive feedback for these responses, and even print/email/share results.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/irregular-verbs-fun-deck/id468156647?mt=8 -
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app contains an American English dictionary and thesaurus with 70,000 audio pronunciations.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audio-dictionary-wordweb-american/id308587200?mt=8 -
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
The Idioms app can help users successfully utilize native level expressions.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/idioms/id323375078?mt=8 -
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app can help improve grammar skills with over 1000 questions, 750 flashcards, and 100 games. You can also track your progress.
https://itunes.apple.com/kz/app/practice-english-grammar-2/id490759167?mt=8 -
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
This app allows teachers to randomly call on students in their classrooms.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teacher-tools-whos-next/id387183927?mt=8