Name: TD Snap® Lite
Rating: 4.21917 (219 reviews)

User Reviews for TD Snap® Lite

4.22 out of 5

219 Ratings

6 years ago, AutismServiceDog

I have suggestions for improvement

It is cumbersome to model correct grammar due to the fact that a separate grammar button had to be pressed. Please follow Assistiveware and make it possible to long press a button to activate the grammar function. When this update is made this will be the best AAC app out there!

3 years ago, alicat1978

Junk app

This is the single worst purchase I have ever made as far as apps are concerned. I have purchased this app TWICE for my daughter with special needs (it deletes my purchase history when updates occur). The latest problem is it is AGAIN trying to make me purchase the program in order to activate the speak feature. It is extremely frustrating because she has been using this program for 5 years and we are constantly encountering problems with it. I feel like it is too late in the game, so to speak, for her to learn a different program. Otherwise, I would immediately find a different effective AAC program and happily never look back.

2 years ago, StopTakingAdvantage

Speak Issues

I’ve purchased this app so my son can speak but it continues to try to make me purchase again. There is no info to contact anyone. I’ve seen other complaints about the same issue. I’m refuse to pay again. It was a struggle enough to purchase an iPad just for the use of him to talk and now the app is useless. Frustrated! I purchased the feature inside of the app and tried everything to unlock it. Guess I’ll have to refuse the charge at my bank. So many Autism families get taken advantage of because people know we would move the earth for our kids. Just feels like another rabbit hole ASD parents get sent down.

6 years ago, Eye77

Great for classroom use

I use Snap + Core in a classroom based setting. I love the ease of programming and how quickly you can customize it to meet individualize students needs. Tobii Dynavox offers Pathways (another app) free to help set up lesson planning that may be applicable for students who are learning to use Snap + Core. I find that you can seamlessly integrate with Boardmaker Online which is helpful in the classroom as well as for students at home.

4 months ago, Special Needs Helper

Tobii Dynavox Greed at Needy Families’ Expense

Without warning, Tobii Dynavox has changed this application from a one-time purchase price of $100 to a subscription-based model of $10/month. This means all new users of this system will be milked for money FOREVER, as long as they need this application to communicate. Families with special needs will often require an application for that person's entire life, and if one used the app for even 5 short years, they would pay $600. If you were lucky enough to purchase it before this change, good luck. Otherwise, steer clear of this money pit. Other apps such as LAMP and Touch Chat are still one time purchases, but they are expensive. Wait for a sale in May or Black Friday if you can. TD, please revert this money-grubbing scummy practice and make communication affordable again.

7 years ago, estoban540

not in the least intuitive!

Surely a big co. like tobii dynavox can do better than what feels like a total bait and switch. Download and first step is to pick a voice when it asks you 'which do you like the sound of', only there is NO SOUND! Oh i have to pay for that, hmm ok. So we move on to the words. Oh whats that there are none in the layout i chose? I have to manually add them 1 at a time?! Free or not - and it's really not - this isn't anything like your claim to be the easiest to use or most intuitive when compared to other aac choices. Very disappointing.

5 years ago, SLP4URAAC

App glitch with iPad Pro don’t buy

When I bought this app, I did not know it would not work with my iPad Pro. It crashes. There went my 49 dollars. The app would get 5 stars if the developer changes this glitch on iPad pros. I met with a representative this week and said the app has not being fixed of such glitch because it only occurs in less than 1% of buyers. It is too bad that the developers don’t see it was a child’s communication opportunities which were affected and not a simple statist in their app development. Shame...

6 months ago, Next time maybe

Won’t use text to voice over a FaceTime call

I purchased this for my wife who has lost her voice due to ALS. The rep was able to demonstrate the functionality using her iPhone and iPad. For unknown reasons and hours and hours of trying to make it work with our devices, we both agreed it does not work for us. Too bad, because the program is pretty feature rich but this is a “must work” so we will have to find something else.

5 years ago, DJUncleK

Latest version stole my voice

While I like some of the new options in the latest version. I did have to uninstall and reinstall the app to get access to the voices I had already paid for, so that was kind of a pain.

7 years ago, TheAyKay

LOVE LOVE LOVE

This is an amazing program, and paired with Pathways it is invaluable. As a speech therapist, I have been working with a child who uses this system for a couple months and only now just discovered how useful the topic pages and supports are. I am so impressed and grateful for such a great app!

4 months ago, Look4anotheroption

Money hungry, please do research & find another AAC app

Like everything else in the USA this inflation is ridiculous, and these developers are on board with taking every cent from families who need the help. My son is nonverbal and he uses this app but it constantly signs him out requiring me to troubleshoot. On top of that they FORCED USERS INTO A SUBSCRIPTION, why not sell the app like before? All these reviews & comments all saying the same. Shame on you.

7 years ago, JendyLope

Amazing!

Great app for non verbal children! Teaching them how to use it can be a bit of a challenge and takes months and dedication but the rewards are giving children who can't speak a voice!

7 years ago, MummyTattoo

Well worth the cost

We purchased this app for my son, who is autistic, after his speech therapist recommended it. I am so happy we did!

7 years ago, SilkasSilly

Great App!

Snap + Core has helped my daughter continued to be movitated to communicate. With her limited verbal ability it has helped her to better explain what she is trying to say if we or others don't understand her.

7 years ago, maradaluiz

We love this app!

This app open the door for my autistic son to be able to express himself better! No more frustration when trying to communicate. Thank you so much!!

7 years ago, RinnaiSaku

Great for my boy

So far so good. I love that I can use pictures instead of icons. Simple to use, easy to creat new boards, folders and icons. I use dropbox to keep all our devices the same.

6 years ago, Elaine964

So intuitive!

I love the flexibility of this app and the word search capability. Communication partners can be proficient in minutes to support device users. Thank you thank you!!

7 years ago, Helsinkens

Easy to use communication app for a nonverbal child

My autistic nonverbal son has been using this app for over a year now and it's worked out great.

2 years ago, alyssathedestroyer

Not good

I can’t figure out the speech. It hasn’t upgraded anything since paying fifty bucks to unlock speech. I have downloaded the voices, reinstalled the app, turned off my iPad, turned my volume up on the iPad and inside the app. What else can I do? $50 is way too much for an app that people can’t figure out. Please help!!

7 years ago, LukeLuckk

Best communication app

Highly customizable, easy to use and learn, easy to grow to very complex from very simple. With Snap + Core First my daughter has learned to communicate.

7 years ago, zHurricanez

Highly recommended!

I've had very good results with this App. I have a handful of Apps my son uses, but he keeps coming back to this one.

2 weeks ago, Fudnnsmsmfkslwldkcnc

Why this app is nice

Frist you can learn things. Next it fun to learn to words. Family you can drew write

7 years ago, PoolsLedder

Non-verbal son can finally communicate

This app has opened up my son's world. Now he can communicate with the world. I am so grateful for this technology.

3 years ago, Goldtiger16

I bought the full version

Now how can I get the "Lite" off of my icon?

7 years ago, kukkychip

Love this app!

I have a 7 y/o nonverbal autistic son. With this app he is now able to comminicate his needs and wants. It has been such a frustration saver!!!!

3 years ago, GG McBee

Constantly crashes on launch

Since the early October 2021 update,the app is crashing on launch every single tune and is completely unusable. I deleted and reinstalled the app and now we’ve lost everything!

6 years ago, Branden32150416

Awesome communication app

Love snap + core! I really enjoy the core word focus. It is also so easy to modify. The supports are also very handy.

3 years ago, Godslove690

Extremely disappointing

I purchased the gateway pageset today and all it does is crash my app and I can’t edit it at all because every time I do it crashes I want to refund it I don’t know how to get it

2 years ago, TAS542

Ty Smith

I haven’t use it but short time.

4 years ago, EmTheDoggo127

Amazing app!

Really love this app. Like that has sexuality section. Empowering for autistic adults like me!

5 months ago, Jeremy7866

Horrible subscription model

Subscribing to allow special needs children access to communication? Seriously….

5 months ago, Marz the Jester

Horrible app

I payed for the full 50 dollars only for them to try and make me buy the stupid subscription. It’s shady and dumb that they would do this to people who already payed.

2 years ago, uuunnnhhhaaapppyyy

Horrible

I’m trying to set this up for my mom who had a stroke. If using it is as hard as setting it up, this is garbage.

2 years ago, Eliz_andr

Not happy

I bought this to help my kiddos in my classroom, and I bought it thinking it was going to speak. But no it does not. I want me money back

4 months ago, tsovtos

Not worth it

I had to reset my son iPad. It’s now requiring me to pay monthly to use the talk function.

9 months ago, Joshbig4x4

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2 years ago, Isaac Rie

Junk

Doesn’t work. Forces me to repurchase every update and audio doesn’t work. Ridiculous!

5 years ago, teechkidzkate

A poor option in AAC for those seeking a research supported app.

This AAC app is disappointing. The most important part of the app, the core vocabulary, clearly took a back seat to the extras like behavior supports. That is to say the behavior supports and similar features are well done, but the actual language piece is so poorly designed as to make it unusable. Editing is easy if you seek to make small changes, but if you seek to essentially redesign the vocabulary to fix the flaws in the core word system editing is cumbersome. There is no way to set the age if the user so that, for example, a toddler doesn’t have sex related vocabulary and an adolescent doesn’t have vocabulary more suited for a young child. The topic pages use full sentences paired with a single symbol, often times the same symbol that is used elsewhere in the device for a single word, making learning what a button with that symbol will say very difficult. Additionally, there seems to have been no research into what sentences will be used on these topic pages, clearly no one took and analyzed language samples of what people say in these settings. Adding to the mess is the fact that phrase and full sentence buttons are typically understood as something that should only be used in emergency and fast moving social situations, and should be co-planned with the AAC user. These full sentence buttons allow a user to avoid the vital tsk of learning to create spontaneous novel utterances and instead say something they may not actually mean by tapping a pre-programmed sentence that might not have a symbol that makes it clear what the button will say. There are also so many little things, like the inability to change the symbols used for active content on a button. A button might be set to show the day of the week, but since the end user cannot change the symbol that shows up it might not be understandable to the AAC user. Sometimes it feels like the designers of the app forgot these are supposed to be communication symbols, not decorative symbols! Additionally the inability to arrange scan groups for those using a switch makes the program hard to use for those needing alternative access. Long story short, if you are picking an AAC app for early, emergent or progressing communicators you may want to pick something else.

5 months ago, Julia Tuttle

Extremely poor value as a subscription

Back when Snap was a one-time purchase, it filled a unique niche in the market: a full-featured, somewhat robust, symbol-based AAC app at a relatively approachable price -- $50, relative to the $250-$400 that other apps cost. It was actually my own first iPad-based AAC app, and one I frequently recommended -- with reservations about the lack of robustness -- because it was financially accessible. The main downside to Snap is that even the newer Motor Plan vocabulary is sorely lacking in abstract concepts and shades of meaning. As a literate, semi-speaking AAC user, this is irritating and dysregulating; to younger AAC users, it could be a serious impediment to language and literacy development. Today, I use the new Proloquo, which has a vocabulary that simply beats the pants off every other symbol-based app, and is comfortably usable out of the box -- with some compromises in word choice -- by a literate user for a wide range of conversations. It is a subscription -- $10/month or $100/year -- but well worth the money to me. Having tried both apps, I find it downright *laughable* that Snap would think their app is worth the same monthly cost as Proloquo. It is also rather cruel that they gave zero notice of this change, sending potential new users back to square one if they had budgeted, fundraised, or arranged with school or insurance to cover the original price. There are other options here: If $50/user truly wasn't paying the bills, they could've doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled the price and remained an affordable choice. If a subscription was truly necessary for sustainable development, they could've charged $5/month and still earned the old price in subscription fees in less than a year. Please, TD, show your users some compassion. If your devices are truly as good as you say, you don't need to jack up the app cost for iPad users.

6 years ago, Puppydawg8972

Horrible

I am in rage because my boy needs this app and I was so exited when it turned out to be free but then the speech function costs 180.00$

7 years ago, Amberasadisawewsome

Bad

You have to pay $999.99 in order to get the speech function which is a waste of money because the Indi dynavox also costs $999.99 and it has a longer battery life and louder speakers than the iPad. So you should just get the device instead.

Description

This lite version of TD Snap® is for: - Those who want to try TD Snap® first, free of charge. This TD Snap® Lite version comes without speech output. It’s possible to unlock the speech functionality through an in-app purchase at any time. - Those who have purchased a Tobii Dynavox device and are looking to activate their companion TD Snap® license (included with device purchases) on an iOS device. TD Snap® is a flexible communication software for those with speech and language disabilities such as autism, Down syndrome, Rett syndrome, cerebral palsy and aphasia. It offers professionals and families a choice of AAC solutions to meet different communication needs and preferences. TD Snap® is accessible via touch, eye gaze or switch, offering clear speech output. TD Snap® Page Sets include: •Core First: A symbol-supported page set enabling a path to literacy at any stage of language development •Motor Plan: A symbol-supported page set enabling efficient language acquisition at any age, custom designed for both touch and eye gaze. •Text: A page set for those who are literate or transitioning from symbol supports to literacy •Scanning: A page set for those who use scanning as their primary access method •Aphasia: A page set to help adults with aphasia communicate while also supporting language recovery •*PODD: A page set based on the Pragmatic Organization Dynamic Display vocabulary strategy, developed by AAC expert Gayle Porter •*Gateway: A page set based on the Gateway vocabulary strategy, developed by Joan Bruno *Denotes in-app purchase, developed by a third party. Each page set comes with a powerful set of integrated tools to help simplify use and help communicators, caregivers and professionals succeed. TD Snap® Tools: •Editing: An intuitive editing tool to help customize buttons to meet a communicator’s unique needs •Diversity: •The Diverse Tone setting randomly applies a mixed selection of skin tones/hair color at the page set level (this is our new default option) •The Single Tone setting applies your favorite choice from a selection of skin tones and/or hair colors to all people symbols at the page set level, with the click of a button •The Symbol Editor lets you color individual symbols including skin tone, hair shades and more •Search: A search bar to locate words and symbols with an easy-to-follow path to find them •Behavior supports: A set of behavioral supports like visual schedules, timers and scripts •Google Assistant: An integrated tool enabling symbol-supported access to Google Assistant •QuickFires: A set of commonly used pre-programmed phrases to make communication smoother •MyTobiiDynavox: A cloud-based resource for backing up, sharing and managing your apps TD Snap® also has complementary resources, including support and training materials, to help communicators, caregivers, and professionals succeed with communication. These resources can be found by visiting myTobiiDynavox.com or tobiidynavox.com. Tobii Dynavox cannot guarantee the compatibility of TD Snap® with any other brand of hardware, and as such, Tobii Dynavox will not offer technical support for hardware compatibility issues related to TD Snap® installed on non-Tobii Dynavox approved hardware, by non-licensed resellers. Downloads by individuals of TD Snap® for individual use on personal devices is permitted pursuant to the TD Snap® License Agreement for Download. TD Snap® may only be downloaded for re-sale and re-distribution by Tobii Dynavox resellers with a specific license to do so. To download TD Snap® for commercial use, re-sale, and re-distribution on non-Tobii Dynavox devices contact Tobii Dynavox directly at [email protected] in North America and [email protected] in all other countries.