Sensory App House
Accessible Apps for Therapy and Early Learning - iPad, Chromebook, Windows, Mac & Android
Featured New Sensory Apps
A selection of the new Sensory apps for 2021 - for Windows, Chromebook, Android, iOS and Mac.Apps for speech development & therapy
Speak Up – develop speech
Sensory Speak Up is a visually stimulating simple speech therapy app that responds to sounds. ….More
Mica – speech fricatives
Sensory Mica can be used to encourage sounds. Effects change with the pitch of sounds.
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Switch Accessible Games & Activities
The new Sensory accessible game and activity range is underway! fun activities for early learners and others who may struggle with more complex games or activities.Apps for digital painting
Apps for visual development, stimulation, fun and relaxation
Electra – touch lightning!
Electrique – Touch Spark
NEW-Electrique is a pure sensory stimulation app generating a lively engaging spark.
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Splodge – tap and splat!
Splodge and splatter paint effects, fish, butterflies and balloons. Great touch tap fun.
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Sensory Abstract – relaxing visual effects apps
Sensory Live! web apps
Sensory Live! brings together the popular and new Sensory Apps to be run from the cloud, on any of your computers or tablets.
If you are run different devices and computers across your school or organization, Sensory Live! apps can be downloaded and installed.
Each app is a full screen activity and supports touch, mouse, keyboard, switch access, XBox and Microsoft Adaptive controllers.
Share screens and apps with your family, students and clients.
We have three Sensory Live! options available, plus free samplers, providing Sensory Apps and Installers .
Apps work on Windows, iOS, Android, Chromebook and Apple Mac
30 day Free Trial Membership period.
FREE
Free
- Access to a range of Sensory Live! full screen web apps
- Apps can be installed on personal device
- Windows PC, Chromebooks, Macs, Tablets
- Full Videos to guide on installation
- Videos to show use of Adaptive Controller & Switches
Pro Share Member
US $49.00
- A "Pro Share" membership for Sensory Live! allowsfor access to all the full screen Sensory Apps available on Sensory Live! and includes the install links too, for sharing. You can install the Sensory Apps on your own computers (Windows PC, Chromebook, Mac) and also distribute the links to your individual clients / students you are working with.
- Access to Sensory Live! full screen web apps
- Apps can be installed - share to students/clients
- All your family, individual students/clients computers
- Windows PC, Chromebooks, Macs, Tablets
- Email Support included
- 30 day free trial period
Site License Member
US $99.00
- The Site License membership of Sensory Live! allows you to access and use all the apps within Sensory Apps live across your school or hospital site. This includes the license to install the apps, and we can provide additional links and installers (along with a site license certificate) for this purpose. If you have multiple sites, we can tailor a membership for your district or county.
- Site Access to Sensory Live! full screen web apps
- Apps can be installed - share to all computers
- All your school, individual student and staff computers
- Windows PC, Chromebooks, Macs, Tablets
- Email Support included
- 30 days full refund period
sensory app house
Contact Us - [email protected]
Sensory App House creates apps for stimulation, early learning coordination ,relaxation, fun, art, communication and speech therapy. Our apps can be used by therapists and educators to help younger people with visual and speech development and sensory issues.
Our apps have been mostly for free, and we are delighted to have had close to 4 million downloads.
We have a strong understanding of disabilities and difficulties, and make apps to help assist, even in the smallest of ways. Many of the cause and effect apps are also switch accessible.
We develop for many platforms - iPads, Chromebooks, Android, Web Apps, Windows, Mac and Apple TV. Please contact us about licensing and partnerships.
Sensory App House was founded by Professor Paul Blenkhorn and Dave Stevens, who also both co-founded reading and writing assistive software specialist Claro Software.
EASE OF USE
We try to design the apps to be easy to use - simple settings, no adverts or data collection
FREE & LOW COST
Many of our apps have been free for end users from the main app stores. We aim to keep our apps free or low cost
Innovative
We try to innovate in creating accessible Sensory apps, exploring the new possibilities and supporting all access hardware devices
Flexible
We aim to listen and understand, and are flexible in our partnerships. Please contact us with any feedback or queries.
App Reviews
Here are a few of our app reviews
Speak Up Too 5 Stars
The gauge is very sensitive. It is perfect for working the voice in Parkinson’s disease.
News & Resources
Articles, Videos, help and more
How to Install Sensory Web Apps
The Sensory Web Apps from Sensory Live can be installed on most devices, and will run full screen after launching from the app icon. First thing you need to do is make sure your Windows PC, or Apple Mac has either the Google Chrome Browser or new Microsoft Edge Chromium Browser installed. Your Chromebook will
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Alternative Access Control for Sensory Apps – Updated
Many of the Sensory Apps can be controlled via keyboard access and bluetooth or wired switches that output numbers 1,2,3,4,Space,Enter (or ~1,2,3,4). The access details can vary per app, as the functions are different. We also accept that some apps (for example speech therapy or creative art apps) will be used by a teacher with
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Sensory apps for early learners with complex needs
Many of the Sensory apps are designed for early visual engagement, tracking & vocal development for early learners with complex needs. There are several ways Sensory Apps can help individuals with complex needs. For example, they can help with initial stimulation and engagement of the user. Just to get their attention and focus. Many of
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Switch Accessible Games – new releases
Sensory App House have just released 4 new switch accessible games. Switch Pong is a switch accessible version of the classic table tennis, ping pong, paddle, tennis ball game. Switch Pong allows the game to be controlled by touch/tap, pointing device, bluetooth access switches, external bluetooth keyboard, Microsoft Adaptive Controller or XBox Controller. This app
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New Sensory SandBox – a realistic, colorful sandy app for freehand
Sensory SandBox. Well, it’s not a real sandbox, but this app is full of colorful sand and realistic textures. Explore writing letters, words, numbers, symbols and creating unusual sandy drawings. Enjoy the many shades and colors. Writing and drawing by touch, with the finger or any stylus may be helpful and certainly can be a
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New for 2021 – Sensory Flocking, simple to use, looks great!
Another fresh app for Sensory App House called Flocking. Flocking is an easy to use app for early learners or special access situations. Touch and move around the screen slowly, and the fish will follow. You can also use a mouse/pointer device to lead the fish. In fact there are 8 different types of digital
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Just Touch Too – New Release for 2021
Our first release of 2021 on the Apple and Windows app stores! It is also inside Sensory Live! Just Touch Too from Sensory is an engaging and relaxing touch effects app. Fully accessible with external switches and keyboard, it can be used in a sensory room or anytime. You can experience the live demo on
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Sensory Live! is now available for 2021
Sensory Live! brings together the popular and new Sensory Apps to be run from the cloud, on any of your computers or tablets. Each app is a full screen experience and allows touch, mouse, keyboard, XBox, switch access or Microsoft Adaptive controller. Advantages of Sensory Live! Access and install most of the Sensory App House
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Alternative Access Control for Sensory Apps
Many of the Sensory Apps can be controlled via keyboard access and bluetooth or wired switches that output numbers 1,2,3,4,Space,Enter (or ~1,2,3,4). The access details can vary per app, as the functions are different. We also accept that some apps (for example speech therapy or creative art apps) will be used by a teacher with
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iOS 14.2 and Sensory apps mic or camera permission
It has been observed that since the recent update to iOS14.2 that some of the Sensory Apps requiring camera and microphone access might not be launching. We believe this is due to a privacy change in this iOS update. In order to launch the Sensory apps that require microphone or camera, then delete the app
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Sensory Apps on Android Play Store – more releases
During May 2020 we started a process to replace and extend our Sensory Apps on the Android Play store. This is so that versions of our incredibly popular iOS Sensory Apps can be enjoyed on Android tablets and phones. Also, the same version of these Sensory apps on Android will available for Chromebooks through the
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Sensory Apps on Android Play Store – Tech Note
During May 2020 we started a process to replace and extend our Sensory Apps on the Android Play store. This is so that versions of our incredibly popular iOS Sensory Apps can be enjoyed on Android tablets and phones. Also, the same version of these Sensory apps on Android will available for Chromebooks through the
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Sensory Apps exceed 3 million downloads
We are delighted to recently achieve over 3m iOS downloads of the Sensory App House specialist education and speech therapy support app titles. Many thanks to the professionals around the world that have chosen an app or two for their student iPads, and maybe thanks for the great reviews and feedback. You can see our
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Reminder – all our apps are free with no adverts
If you have arrived at the Sensory App House website from the “Department for Education Guidance (UK), Coronavirus (COVID 19): list of online education resources for home education (SEND)” then we want to make it clear that all our Sensory apps are free. They contain no advertising at all and do not require user registration.
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Using iOS Switch Recipes for Sensory Apps
This is a slightly overdue post, but thought it could be helpful. Since release of the first Sensory Apps for iOS, they have mostly been switch accessible. This was prior to switch access support being available in iOS, so these switch accessible apps can be directly affected by a switch input. Given that the apps
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Music playlist with Magma App on iOS
Our Sensory Magma iOS app is great when accompanied by ambient background music. But the Magma app itself doesn’t contain the music, we thought you would have your own preferences and music services available on your iPhone. The good news is that you can select the music playlist you would like, and then open or
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Technical Support
If you require any technical support with any of our apps, please email us at [email protected] or contact us via Facebook at www.facebook.com/sensoryapphouse We will do our best to help.
New FotoFrez iOS major update released
Sensory App House is delighted to release a major iOS update the widely download FotoFrez camera fun app. We have included 100+ new FREE visual effects for your photos. FotoFrez is a fun photo camera app for all with 200+ amusing effects. […]
Chromebook – How to save a screenshot
Some of the Sensory Apps for Chromebook (especially the Paintings and Camera apps) don’t contain an image save button. This is because we recommend using the built in Chromebook screen capture functions. […]