Created By: Jim Zucker(LinkedIn), Cathy DeMarco, Tricia Zucker(LinkedIn)

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Available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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Image of Version 2.0

Screenshot is from version 2.x; the v3.1 UI looks similar but adds the three-mode picker and Customize editor described below. A refreshed screenshot is on the to-do list.

What’s new in 3.1

New to iInteract? Read the Parent’s Guide — a friendly, screenshot-by-screenshot walk-through of everything below.

You choose how the app behaves. Open Settings → iInteract → Mode:

Mode What you can do
Default The seven built-in panels behave exactly like 1.x. Pick a boy or girl voice and that’s it.
Configurable Hide or reorder any built-in panel. No new content.
Customize Everything Configurable does, and create your own panels with your own photos and recorded voices (up to 6 items per page).

When Configurable or Customize is on, the main screen shows a gear button. Tap it to manage your panels — toggle visibility, drag to reorder, or (in Customize) add a new one with a name, color, photo, and a boy + girl voice you record yourself. Photo selection uses the standard iOS photo picker; voice recording uses the same pattern as Messages voice notes.

Optional PIN protection. From the editor’s Security section you can set a 4-digit PIN that’s required before the editor opens. Five wrong attempts trigger a one-minute lockout. If you ever forget the PIN you can answer the security question you set when creating it.

Lock the app for your child with Guided Access. v3.1 adds an iInteract-specific Lock Editor toggle to iOS’s Guided Access Options sheet — flip it on and the configuration gear stops responding to taps for the duration of the Guided Access session. See the Parent’s Guide for the full setup walk-through.

End-to-end iCloud sync. v3.1 brings full CloudKit-backed sync: custom photos, voice recordings, panel titles, layouts, and your PIN all sync between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your personal iCloud account. (v2.x and v3.0 only synced titles + layouts via key-value storage; photos and audio stayed local.) Nothing is ever sent to us or any third party. See PrivacyPolicy.md.

Apple Watch. Built-in panels mirror to your watch in the order set on iPhone, with hidden ones respected. v3.1 lowered the watchOS floor from 11.4 to 9.0 — about three years of additional Apple Watch coverage.

Clear All My Data. A one-toggle wipe in iOS Settings → iInteract removes every custom panel, picture, recording, trashed item, and PIN — locally, from iCloud KVS, AND from CloudKit, so the same iCloud account on a second device sees the cleared state too. PIN-gated.

Overview

iInteract: i Feel, i Speak app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad is used by parents, therapists and special education teachers to promote basic communication skills.

iInteract is a portable basic communication board that a child can utilize to communicate their wants and needs on the go. Our app provides visual pictures paired with audio feedback. In the iInteract menu you can select a boy/girl voice so that your child can relate to the auditory response.

There are seven communication board choices that a child/caregiver or teacher can utilize to identify wants and needs as well as feelings. Each communication board has three to four picture choices that once touched enlarge and speak, sharing what the child has requested. A must have app for emerging communicators!

Background

The application is based on the widely used practice to create communication boards that are used to help the children interact on a daily basis.

This application is a being developed jointly with my wife and her close friend who both have 20+ years helping children with special needs learn the skills necessary to live independent lives.

Our concept is to provide visual and audio feedback to the child’s selection on the screen. In the future our thinking is to make it highly customizable and easy to navigate for daily activities and allow it to grow with the child.

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