The pricing shown below is just a guideline as the prices change on a regular basis.
eBook Readers
VOD - Voice of DAISY
The Voice of DAISY (VOD) is a player which plays and reads digital talking books created in the DAISY format.
The VOD is ideal for anyone who experiences difficulties with reading material, such as people with dyslexia or individuals with visual impairments.
The text is read aloud using text-to-speech with highlighting support. There are several functions available, such as: you can open with the last book played; you can go directly to a page by entering the page number and bookmarks can keep the actual time point.
- Requires: iOS 3.2 or later
- Device: iPhone 3G/3GS/4, iPod touch (2nd generation or later), iPad
- Price: Approx. £17.99
- Download: Voice of DAISY
Word Processing
Pages
Pages is a word processor for mobile devices. You can create, edit and view documents wherever you are. With 16 Apple-designed templates to choose from you can produce letters, reports, flyers, cards and posters and customise your documents with colours, fonts and textures.
You can view and edit Pages ‘09, Microsoft Word and plain text files, with the onscreen keyboard or a wireless keyboard with Bluetooth technology.
Pages works with iCloud so your documents stay up-to-date across all your iOS devices - automatically. You can also easily import files from Mail, the web, a WebDAV service, or your Mac or PC using iTunes
File Sharing.
- Requires: iOS 5.0 or later
- Device: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad Price: Approx. £6.99
- Download: Pages
Dictionaries
Oxford Deluxe - Oxford Dictionary of English and Oxford Thesaurus of English
Combining the entire Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) and the Oxford Thesaurus of English (OTE) plus 70,000 pre-recorded sound files from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary makes this an ideal application for anyone needing access to the English language with dictionary definitions and more.
Features of the Oxford Deluxe include wildcard search, complete off-line use, bookmarks with editable notations and hyperlinking between dictionary and thesaurus plus to and from appendices.
- Requires: iOS 3.1.3 or later
- Device: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
- Price: Approx. £37.99
- Download: Oxford Deluxe
Dictionary.com - Dictionary & Thesaurus
Dictionary.com App delivers reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com including nearly 1,000,000 words with definitions and 90,000 synonyms and antonyms. No Internet connection is needed to search words.
Features: alphabetical indexing, example sentences, custom backgrounds, favourite word lists and more.
When connected to the internet you can also access phonetic and audio pronunciation, spelling suggestions and word of the day.
- Requires: iOS 3.0 or later
- Device: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
- Price: Approx. £1.99
- Download: Dictionary.com
Oxford Medical Dictionary
The Oxford Medical Dictionary contains 12,500 terms and concepts used in medicine today. Written by distinguished practicing specialists and medical writers the entries are accessible and jargon-free.
Containing over 140 illustrations and diagrams, along with recommended web links this is ideal for anyone working in the paramedical fields: pharmacists, physiotherapists, speech therapists, social workers, hospital secretaries, administrators, technicians, and so on.
It will also be invaluable for medical students and practicing doctors.
- Requires: iOS 3.1 or later
- Device: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
- Price: Approx. £10.49
- Download: Oxford Medical Dictionary
Text-to-Speech
Speak it! Text To Speech
Speak it! has been designed for ease of use; simply enter the text you want to say and press the ‘Speak it!’ button. Features include: highlights word as they are spoken, ability to create audio files and email them, save phrases to have them repeated later, pause and resume speech playback, change the speech playback speed and much more.
Speak it! includes four quality voices: American Male, American Female, British Male, and British Female with the option of downloading other voices (which will incur an additional cost).
- Requires: iOS 3.0 or later
- Device: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
- Price: Approx. £1.49
- Download: Speak it!
OCR
ZoomReader (iPhone 4 only)
ZoomReader, from the makers of ZoomText, lets you magnify and read text. First take a picture with your in-built iPhone camera of an object, like a book, menu or even a medicine bottle before the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology will convert the image into text. ZoomReader will then read the text back to you using a natural sounding voice.
It is designed to be able to photograph an 8.5″ by 11″ document. ZoomReader includes colour filtering to make reading easier.
- Requires: iOS 4.2+ Only
- Device: iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S
- Price: Approx. £13.99
- Download: ZoomReader
Prizmo
Prizmo lets you scan and recognise text. Ideal for documents so you can share with other users and for business cards where the information can be extracted to create contacts on your phone.
Key feature of Prizmo is the highly accurate OCR technology in 10 languages: English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
- Requires: iOS 3.1 or later
- Device: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
- Price: Approx. £6.99
- Download: Prizmo
Note Taking
Notebooks for iPad
Notebooks allows you to conveniently write, capture and organize your ideas, notes, reminders, journals, diaries or details of life that you want to keep close at hand.
Notebooks for iPad allows you to easily create notes and documents and then file them away in notebooks or projects. Import and view PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and many other types of documents and file them with your notes.
You can manage your tasks using reminders and to-do lists and tick them off on completion.
Type your notes and texts, no matter how long they are. Draw with your finger or a dedicated stylus.
Select your favourite fonts, background colours and patterns. Quickly create new documents with the contents of the Clipboard or import web pages from Safari, Mail and other iPad apps.
Create as many nested books as you need with the ability to freely move, rename and restructure your documents and books. Full text search enables you to find notes quickly.
Protect your confidential documents with a passcode, Sync and back-up files via WebDAV and Dropbox.
- Requires: iOS 4 or later
- Device: iPad
- Price: Approx. £5.99
- Download: Notebooks for iPad
File Management and Annotations
GoodReader for iPad
GoodReader for iPad handles large PDF and TXT files, MS Office files including .doc and .ppt, iWorks, image manuals, large books video and audio with great speed. PDFs can be opened and annotated with typewritten text boxes, sticky notes, lines, arrows and freehand drawings. Annotations can be collated and exported via email.
You can create folders, move, copy and rename your files; zip, email, unzip and unrar them; plus send your files to other apps. Files can be synced to a number of file management services including DropBox, iDisk, Google Docs and WebDAV.
There is very limited VoiceOver support so this app cannot be used to read aloud files.
- Requires: iOS 4 or later
- Device: iPad
- Price: Approx. £2.99
- Download: GoodReader for iPad
Mind Mapping
iThoughtsHD
iThoughtsHD is a mind mapping tool for the iPad. Mind mapping enables you to visually organise your thoughts, ideas and information.
You can use iThoughtsHD for: tasking lists, brainstorming, project planning, goal setting, concept mapping, meeting notes; it’s also ideal for revision and course notes.
You can import and export to and from many desktop applications and Cloud synchronise with Dropbox, Box.net, MobileMe andWebDAV.
The mind map features of iThoughtHD includes: multiple topic options, over 90 built-in icon and 45 clipart images. You can attach notes with hyperlinks to topics; assign different colours and shapes to topics and much, much more.
- Requires: iOS 4.0 or later
- Device: iPad
- Price: Approx. £6.99
- Download: iThoughtsHD for iPad
Organisational
Pocket Informant for iPhone/iPod Touch
Pocket Informant is a fully integrated Calendar, Task, Contacts and Notes solution for your iPhone/iPod Touch that lets you focus on everything you do in a day - not just your Tasks list.
With this highly customizable tool, you have the power to change virtually every feature to suit your preferences. It comes with a full-featured Notes tab and complete Contact management system.
Features for the calendar include: customisable views for Month, Week, Day, List and Today; alarms and icons; photo and contact linking and more. With the swipe of a finger, or the touch of a button, you can add, edit, share or delete your information.
- Requires: iOS 4.2 or later
- Device: iPhone and iPod touch
- Price: Approx. £8.99
- Download: Pocket Informant for iPhone/iPod Touch
Augmented Alternative Communication
Proloquo2Go
Proloquo2Go provides a full-featured augmentative and alternative communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking.
It provides natural sounding text-to-speech voices (currently American, British, and Indian English Only), high resolution up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, and a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, advanced word prediction, full expandability and extreme ease of use.
Special Learning Practitioners, teachers and parents recommend it for children and adults with autism, cerebral palsy, Downs syndrome, developmental disabilities, dyspraxia, motor neurone disease, stroke or traumatic brain injury.
- Requires: iOS 4.2 or later
- Device: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
- Price: Approx. £129.99
- Download: Proloquo2Go
Calculator
Calculator for iPad
Calculator for iPad is a standard and scientific calculator which features: advanced mathematical/scientific buttons in landscape view; basic calculation buttons in portrait view; calculate with degrees or radials; percent button will behave just like the original calculator; memory buttons will also behave just like the original calculator; button sound is mutable; invisible backspace button by sliding/swiping the result screen with your finger.
Also features 7 different themes: standard, silver keyboard, retro grey, sticky notes, pink keyboard, happy pink, and wooden.
- Requires: iOS 4.0 or later
- Device: iPad
- Price: Approx. £0.69
- Download: Calculator for iPad
Recording
PureAudio Live Recorder for iPad
PureAudio is a full function digital voice and audio recording application with enhanced Andrea’s patented digital noise reduction microphone technology.
PureAudio digitally reduces background noise, while enhancing the recorded sound quality and intelligibility when making recordings in real-world noisy mobile environments.
It has an intuitive, simple to use interface with a user guide to all features and functions.
Some of the audio features include: digital noise reduction software to remove repetitive background noise from recordings; microphone sensitivity boost allows for far field recordings and three different recording formats: WAVE, CAF, AIFF.
There are various recording and playback functions to make your life easier including fast forward and fast reverse during playback using finger swipe gestures or by using the audio position slider.
File management for recordings is available so you can add, delete, rename and rearrange recording categories. You can also transfer recordings using iTunes File Sharing and more.
- Requires: iOS 3.2 or later
- Device: iPad
- Price: Approx. £1.99
- Download: PureAudio Live Recorder for iPad
Full Credit for assembling this excellent list of Apps goes to the people at Dyslexic.com
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