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

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Available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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What is iInteract?

iInteract: i Feel, i Speak is a free communication board (AAC) app for children and adults with communication needs. Your child taps a colored panel, taps a picture, and the app speaks the word out loud — clear, simple, and built to grow with them.

It comes with seven ready-made panels covering feelings, needs, and everyday activities, in English, Spanish, or Chinese. You can rename any built-in panel or word to match the words your child uses — and reset to the original anytime. In Customize mode you can also add your own panels with your own photos and your own recorded voice, so the board can speak about grandparents, favorite snacks, or anything specific to your child. An optional PIN and a press-and-hold parent gesture keep the editor out of little hands.

Created by two longtime special-education teachers (20+ years each) working with a software engineer, iInteract has been used by parents, therapists, and classrooms for over a decade. It’s free — no accounts, no ads, no tracking, and nothing ever leaves your device or your private iCloud.

New to iInteract? The Parent’s Guide is a friendly, screenshot-by-screenshot walk-through.

What’s new in 4.0

What’s new in 3.5

What’s new in 3.4

Parent access

Cross-device

PIN safety

Quality of life

See the launch post or release notes for more.

What’s in the app

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 Rename, hide, or reorder any built-in panel (and its words). No new content.
Customize (default on fresh installs) 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 (or, in Long-Press Gesture mode, a long-press on the title opens parent settings). 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. iInteract adds a 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. Custom photos, voice recordings, panel titles, layouts, PIN, Mode, and Parent Access mode all sync between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your personal iCloud account. 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. Requires watchOS 10.4 or later.

Clear All My Data. A one-toggle wipe (in-app Settings or iOS Settings → iInteract) removes every custom panel, picture, recording, trashed item, and PIN — locally, from iCloud KVS, AND from CloudKit, and cascades to every other iCloud-signed-in device within seconds. PIN-gated.

Image of Version 2.0

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.

License

iInteract is proprietary software. Copyright © 2010 – 2026 Jim Zucker, Cathy DeMarco, Tricia Zucker. All rights reserved. See LICENSE for the full text.

Third-party software

The native iOS / Mac Catalyst / watchOS app has no third-party dependencies — no CocoaPods, no Swift Package Manager packages, no vendored libraries. The cross-platform Flutter port (Android, web, and Flutter-built iOS/macOS) uses pub.dev packages under permissive licenses (BSD-3-Clause / MIT / Apache-2.0); see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md for the full list, or open Settings → About → Open-source licenses inside the running Flutter app for the bundled license texts at runtime.

Release notes