Features

Designed from AAC first principles — and past them.

Everything a communicator needs, free and offline — with the professional tools carers and clinicians ask for, one tap away.

Free & offline

Installs on any phone, tablet, Chromebook or computer and works with no internet. Cost is the biggest barrier to communication — we removed it for the communicator.

Private insights

See which words are used most, and how vocabulary grows over time in tap-through trend charts — to guide vocabulary, never to test the person. Always calculated on the device.

One-tap NDIS report

Generate a plan-ready usage report for AT assessments and plan reviews — turning everyday use into funding evidence.

Your words & language

Add family names, foods and places — and words in your home language, First Nations or CALD vernacular, with custom pronunciation.

Thousands of symbols

Choose how words look — a hand-drawn built-in set, the 212-symbol Anan Classic set, or the 2,903-symbol open Mulberry library — and switch the look any time without a single tile moving.

Grammar that grows

Press and hold a word for its forms — eat → eating / ate, dog → dogs, big → bigger / biggest / very big. Single words become real sentences, with only the forms Anan is sure of.

Made for access

Large error-tolerant targets, high-contrast and reduced-motion modes, switch scanning, and a real Australian voice.

Built-in learning

Gentle, errorless literacy and communication practice — letters, sounds, reading and sentence-building. No tests, every try encouraged.

Speak it or show it big

Say the message aloud in a natural voice — or show it full-screen in large text for a partner to read in a noisy room. Plus a fast word search across every board.

Four DRINK communication tiles fanned out in four symbol styles, a fingertip choosing between them

Same words. Your style.

Switch symbol looks any time — hand-drawn, high-contrast, sketch or photo-real. The library adapts to the communicator, and no tile ever moves.

Two tablets showing the same Anan board as a 4-tile starter grid and a dense 64-tile grid

From 4 tiles to 64. The grid grows with you.

Start with a handful of big, confident targets and grow to a full core vocabulary — every word keeping its place at every step.

Rows of colourful symbol tiles labelled Core words, Food & drink, Feelings, School and I need, with the Anan lemur carrying a tile

A library for every life.

Ready-made pages for home, school and everywhere between — plus your own words, photos and home-language vocabulary.

The Anan lemur holding a speech bubble reading “Your voice never locks — free for communicators, forever”, with an open padlock

Your voice never locks.

Communicating with Anan is free forever. If a plan ever lapses, only the carer & clinician toolset pauses — the voice keeps speaking.

The real interface

The Core board — fixed positions, colour-coded categories, one big Speak button.
The Core board — fixed positions, colour-coded categories, one big Speak button.
Themed boards for food, people, feelings, places and more — a tap away.
Themed boards for food, people, feelings, places and more — a tap away.
The Symbol Library — browse and search thousands of symbols, and switch the look.
The Symbol Library — browse and search thousands of symbols, and switch the look.
Learn — gentle, errorless literacy and communication practice.
Learn — gentle, errorless literacy and communication practice.

Real screenshots of the live app. Try a live board →

Calm, your way

Six gentle themes — including a dark Midnight mode and sensory-minimal options. Word colours and tile positions never change between themes, so switching is always safe and familiar.

Madagascar theme — warm baobab beach
Madagascar · warm baobab beach
Ocean theme — calm turquoise water
Ocean · calm turquoise water
Sunset theme — warm peach sky
Sunset · warm peach sky
Midnight theme — calm starry night (dark)
Midnight · calm starry night (dark)

Ready to give it a go?

Free for the communicator, works offline, private on the device. Best set up with the communicator and their speech pathologist.