Apps for Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities

Inspiration Maps is an iPad app where users can create graphic organizers such as word webs or family trees, take notes, and import documents or audio clips from other platforms.

Kidspiration Maps is designed to help children ages 5–10 visually organize their thoughts to assist in learning vocabulary, math skills, writing and more.

MyTalkMobile is designed to allow for easy communication through multiple modalities including video, image, text-to-speech, audio and more. The user can customize the content, or download boards created by other users.

While playing Fun With Directions children practice following both auditory and text instructions in a colorful animated environment.

Dexteria Dots teaches basic arithmetic through simple interactive dot visuals. During gameplay, children are shown math problems and must combine or separate dots to solve those problems.

Leo the Lion teaches the basics of multiplication before putting them to the test. Compared to other multiplication apps, this puts a much greater emphasis on teaching the topic rather than just testing and practice.

Epic! is the leading digital library for kids, with access to over 25,000 resources, including ebooks, audiobooks, learning videos, and quizzes.

Storyboard That is an online tool that allows users to create engaging and creative storyboards, for both educational and entertainment purposes.

Teen and Adults Phonics is a Library of novels written for teenagers and adults with dyslexia and other learning disabilities.

The A+ Spelling Test is a free app that helps students master new vocabulary words that is catered to their own needs

With the overall goal of reducing frustration amongst readers, this app assists in the reading process by modeling how the letters and sounds in a word go together.

Root Words has all the important Latin and Greek root words along with explanations, examples and quizzes.

Action Words is an application for iPhone and iPad that teaches beginner readers over 100 action words using real photographs to increase their early vocabulary and improve their writing skills.

Given a mission find the letters you need to solve the word puzzles.

Easy Spelling Aid is a tool to help you spell problematic words. Simply touch the microphone button, say the word or phrase, and receive the correct spelling, displayed in your chosen writing style.

SightWords free and printable materials are designed to promote learning in the classroom and also at home.

Ghotit Real Writer assists people with dyslexia and dysgraphia in their English writing and text correction. The application corrects badly spelled words, confused words, homophones, grammar, and punctuation like no other writing assistance tool and offers advanced word prediction with grammar and phonetics awareness capabilities.

This multi-book adventure starts with a few simple words on each page. Gradually the simplistic cartoon façade falls away to reveal a thought-provoking plot that champions loyalty and determination.

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.

This app is a powerful, easy-to-use, and fully customizable digital teaching platform for multi-sensory reading and spelling instruction.

This personal organizer enables teachers to organize classes and track attendance, grades, and behavior of students.

This app helps teach the proper use of irregular verbs using illustrated flash cards.

This app contains an American English dictionary and thesaurus with 70,000 audio pronunciations.

Grammar Up can help improve grammar, word selection, and vocabulary skills. It was designed to replicate questions with a business focus commonly found in the popular TOEIC (TM) English proficiency test.

This multi-player game is designed to help kids learn how to answer and ask "WH" questions.

This app can be used to collect data regarding articulation skills, determine the presence of an articulation disorder, determine a follow-up therapy plan, and much more.

This app contains 12 fun and rigorous games to teach children how to read. The games teach letter-sound relationships, spelling, phonemic awareness, and much more.

This app features flash cards for 1,000 of the most common words used for teaching writing, reading, and spelling.

This app allows students to hear their test questions read aloud to them on their iPhone.

This app features a story method with colorful pictures to aid in letter formation.

This cloud-based tool lets students create mind maps to structure their thoughts, prepare reports, summarize books, study for exams, and much more.

This app teaches children letters, numbers, shapes, and colors with colorful fish and friendly sea life characters in eight educational activities.

This app acts as a virtual coloring book for your child. Your preschooler can create his own colors and draw on the screen without the mess.

This app provides a set of therapeutic hand exercises to improve fine motor skills and handwriting readiness in children and adults.

This app includes four different games for different stages of learning that include flashcards, identification, matching, and handwriting.

This app provides users with over 25,000 classic pieces of literature for free! Your reader is sure to find something enjoyable!

This app contains the complete words of Shakespeare and makes them easier to read with a searchable glossary, concordance, and more!

This app will give users access to millions of downloadable books, newspapers, magazines, and PDF’s that will encourage reading.

This fun, interactive game is a great way to teach kids the difference between different parts of speech.

This app helps users explore facts around the world. It features a spinning globe that spits out random fascinating facts.

This fun app teaches basic sight words and enhances spelling skills.

vBookz is an app that reads your PDF files aloud. An interactive cursor allows users to follow along, pause reading, or even repeat lines to ensure reading comprehension.

Montessori Crosswords can help you develop reading, writing, and spelling skills.

Use this app to remember all the tasks you need to do and make sure you get them done.

This app allows you to organize and manage your files and content such as pictures, music, or documents.

Skitch is a free app that helps you communicate visually with friends and co-workers. Annotate images with arrows, shapes, text, and more.

This app is a fun, effective phonics recognition game that provides a complete picture of the phonograms needed to read and spell.

This app is a fun puzzle game that asks you to guess a word based on the pictures you see.

Genius Scan turns your phone into a pocket scanner.

This ebook includes objects that literally pop out of the page, as well as a "read to me" feature with word highlighting to improve reading skills.

Zac the Rat helps your child hear, touch, read, and eventually master letter and sound relationships through a variety of engaging activities, movies, and songs.

This app aims to help kids learn all about letters and numbers including writing, counting, phonics and more.

CanPlan is a task management app that breaks tasks down into easy-to-follow steps in the form of photo sequences.

Dr. Seuss Treasury allows you to find all the Dr. Seuss book apps for your reading pleasure.

Writing Prompts helps make writing more fun. It provides a variety of scene elements, words, sketches, colors, genres, and writing types, allowing you to make your writing more imaginative.

This app can help you practice and improve your typing skills.

Story Builder is designed to help you improve paragraph formation, integration of ideas, and higher level language such as inferences. The app aims to improve auditory processing by using audio clips.

Sentence Builder can help you learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. It includes 100 distinct pictures to build sentences around.

Create your own audio photo books with Pictello.

This app allows you to create, edit, and view documents.

You can annotate PDF files, shrink text to fit on the screen, and customize how your notes are organized.

Create your own picture books, cookbooks, and more using the iPad. You can share them with friends, read them in iBooks, and even submit them to the iBookstore.

Writing Machine shows how one picture and one word go together, how to read text from left to right, and how to tell words from letters.

This app teaches words and spelling. You are able to set initial, medial, or final position in words.

This text-to-speech app imports content from various sources and reads it aloud (web pages, PDF files, Word documents, PowerPoints, and more). It integrates with Dropbox, Instapaper, and Pocket.

Recorded by children, Storytime is an interactive storytelling app. Each story has original graphics and voice, and also includes a game to help with reading comprehension.

Talking Scientific Calculator can read numbers, answers, and formulas aloud to you. It has two entry modes, and the entire app is accessible to VoiceOver users.

These apps are grade-specific, making it easy for students to practice math skills for grades 1-5. All content is aligned to the common core standards.

Shape Math uses pictures and shapes to help you do simple mathematic equations, calculate tips at a restaurant, or do mental math.

Park Math provides kids with a fun way to learn math. Learn to count, add, subtract, sort, and more, all while playing at the virtual park.

This app can help you master simple mathematical functions — addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It can also be customized to focus on a particular fact, such as multiplication by 1 or 0.

This multi-person app allows up to 50 students to practice simple mathematical functions. Each student’s questions are customized to their strengths and weaknesses, and progress reports are available.

This powerful free app has many robust features, including graphing multiple equations at once, labeling graphs, converting units of measurement, and more.

With the TED app, you can access hundreds of talks from some of the world’s biggest innovators.

CamScannerHD (tablets) and CamScanner (phone) turns your device into a document scanner. Scan any document and the app will convert it into a PDF.

Use this app for timing activities. As the time elapses, the red portion gets smaller, offering a visual aid. Time Timer also has an audible bell tone played when the time is up.

SoundNote records the audio of a lecture or meeting while you take notes.

Easily organize your thoughts into a mind map and customize it with SimpleMind+. You can share your mind map via the Internet, email, and your camera roll.

Remind101 allows for safe and easy communication between parents, students, and teachers.

This app allows you to record audio such as memos, class lectures and notes, meetings, and dictations of emails or text messages. It is ideal for professional, educational, and personal use.

Popplet allows you to create, organize, and sort all of your ideas.

Notability is a note-taking app that allows you to type, insert a figure, and insert a web clip or a picture. It also allows you to record a teacher’s lecture.

myHomework provides an easy way for you to keep track of homework, classes, tests, and projects.

The iStudiez Pro app is great for students. It can help you organize and summarize your schedule, manage your homework assignments, track your grade point average, and much more.

HomeWork keeps track of all of your due dates for you. See how much homework you’ve completed, when your next test date is, and much more.

Use this app to create flashcards to help you study.

Evernote allows you to easily create text, photo, and audio notes, which can be synchronized to any computer to help you remember important things.

With Dropbox, you can take files from your computer or phone wherever you go. You can even share your Dropbox with others, and vice versa.

Use this app when you want to jot down memos, emails, or a grocery list.

This app allows you to keep track of and remember chores.

This app can create to-do lists, memos, important information, and diary entries that can transfer easily to email, Google Docs, and Evernote. In addition, you can color code folders and icons to help you stay organized.

AudioNote records and syncs your notes. It combines the functionality of a notepad and voice recorder to create a powerful tool that will save you time while improving the quality of your notes.

Audio Class Notes is a helpful tool to record and keep track of class notes.

There are thousands of free flashcard decks available for download, or you can create your own, and it comes with text-to-speech capabilities.

Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more for free from your local library with Libby, the library reading app.

iWordQ helps struggling readers and writers through text-to-speech capabilities, text highlighting, and much more.

Download and read ebooks quickly and easily with iBooks.

With over 150,000 words, Howjsay is the world’s largest English pronunciation dictionary.

This app has flashcard and matching activities for individuals with speech-sound delays.

Phonics Genius is an easy way for children to learn to recognize, read, and speak words through letter sounds.

This phonics based application combines letter sounds, letter writing, and 170 first words to help teach reading.

ABC Magic Phonics teaches pronunciation of letters instead of letter names.

Word Wizard combines text-to-speech capabilities with spelling tasks to allow kids to hear each word and letter while spelling it.

This app teaches about letters, how letters relate to sounds, and how to spell words.

This app builds on Simplex Spelling Phonics 1, adding 650 more words in 54 different lists.

Simplex Spelling Phonics 1 contains 450 words divided into 42 different lists based on patterns and difficulty.

This app helps children master basic sight words so they can build a solid foundation in spelling.

This app offers voice search to let you look up a word without having to spell it.

iSpellBetter is a fun game with increasingly challenging levels and adjustable difficulty modes to help with spelling.

You can view definitions and synonyms with dictionary.com and thesaurus.com, with no internet connection required.

A1 Spelling App teaches kids to spell by letting them hear words aloud and by utilizing repetition to help them remember

This app introduces and teaches various literacy skills, such as the connection between letters and sounds, sounding out simple words, and spelling words you’ve read using a structured game format.

Audible's vast ebook library has over 100,000 titles for you to choose from. Download them to your device, listen with Whispersync, and enjoy.

AudioBooks allows you to listen to books. Some features include high-quality human recordings and access to all types of reading material.