what are the best iphone apps for aspie adults

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i'm getting an iphone soon. while it already has a lot of useful apps for me built in (calender, reminders, notes, calculator, maps) as well as an ipod, internet, phone, and camera. i'm wondering what other apps i can install to make it more useful for me besides games.

I find evernote and skitch to be invaluable. I use them both rather a lot.

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I don't know if you need to write or create presentations, but Apple's iWork apps have been very helpful for me. I can access all of my documents on icloud.com from anywhere and print them out if I forget them. I don't know if you need to print our documents a lot, but the iWork apps and iCloud have been very helpful in staying organised for me.

Out of curiosity, which iPhone model are you getting?

Instead of evernote I use google keep (and instead of an iPhone I have an android phone), but I highly recommend something of that sort. Google keep is smaller and less bloated, and what I'd prefer, and I can put something on a homescreen to quickly look at notes and take notes with it, and I really like that part of it. But, look in that category of apps and decide which you prefer.

I keep a TTS app on my phone always in case I'm nonverbal, or minimally verbal. I'd recommend this for anyone who has this issue. Presaved phrases are useful too, so look for one where you can do that if you're getting one. (I've saved for example a sentence with the ideas "I'm autistic, I'm safe, I'm overloaded, leave me alone so I can get better")

White noise generator - I like Simply Noise for that.

Google Voice is amazingly useful (to make the getting messages better). I highly recommend google voice. Highly highly recommend it.

I do a lot on my phone. I use it a lot. But a lot of what I use it for I don't know if it'd be useful for others. Those are things I'd generally put out as a recommendations for everyone on here.

ghost radar (lets you detect ghosts how cool is that?)

flashlight pro

shazam, if you hear a song you like you use the app and it tells you what the song is.

The iPhone app I find most useful is "Reminders." If I have a list of things to do, especially if they are things my wife asks me to do, I can easily get distracted by projects I am interested in and forget to do them, with disastrous results. So I can set up a reminder to take out the garbage on my phone that will alert me when I leave the house, so I can go back and do it. Or I can set up a reminder to do something on a particular day or time. Also, I can make lists of things to go shopping for, to do, etc. Without that I would be completely lost. Absent minded me, "Reminders" to the rescue. It has saved my bacon more than once.

I use an app alled Due. You program it to give you alerts throughout the day. What I like most about it is that it has a snooze function, which a lot of calendar apps don't have.

Wonder how long it will be before someone tells you not to buy an iPhone I've been looking at iPhone / iPad apps recently myself, both for me and for my autistic son.

I'm still researching a lot, but one app I've found that might be very useful for a lot of people is Grid Player, which is an IOS communication app like proloquogo (is that a TTS? not sure what TTS stands for) and is completely free, well the iPhone / iPad version is, the mac/pc version (Grid 2) is about £400. I'm not sure if you can save pre-made phrases on it - I'm still exploring the app with my son, but so far it looks really good My 7 year old son loves the app because it helps him to organise his speech and communicate better.

Grid Player

If you search for autism on the app store you will get literally hundreds of apps come up, not all of them will be relevant to you (most are aimed at smaller children) but there is plenty of choice. I quite like some of the sensory apps too, but they are more relaxation toys than anything productive

Having an iPhone, iPad and Mac makes for a very comprehensive ecosystem for me. What I put on my IOS calendar follows me on my phone / tablet so I'm never out of touch, and I have the calendars set up to give me alerts at set times before and at the time of the events so that I'm prepared for them and don't forget (I even have a reminder on my calendar for brushing my teeth - something I'm terrible at forgetting to do). The built in calendar is probably my most used to-go app when it comes to being ASD, it keeps my life in some kind of order

For note taking etc I also tend to stick with the inbuilt apps, ie 'notes' and 'reminders' they seem to work well enough for me. But then I don't ask a lot of them, I write a note on my iPhone, and it's there on my mac or iPad

It could be interesting to see what other apps people suggest, as I'm always looking for new stuff anyway, and it might help others too

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Autistic dad to an autistic boy and loving it - its always fun in our house

I have Autism. My communication difficulties mean that I sometimes get words wrong, that what I mean is not what comes out.

Wonder how long it will be before someone tells you not to buy an iPhone I've been looking at iPhone / iPad apps recently myself, both for me and for my autistic son.

I'm still researching a lot, but one app I've found that might be very useful for a lot of people is Grid Player, which is an IOS communication app like proloquogo (is that a TTS? not sure what TTS stands for) and is completely free, well the iPhone / iPad version is, the mac/pc version (Grid 2) is about £400. I'm not sure if you can save pre-made phrases on it - I'm still exploring the app with my son, but so far it looks really good My 7 year old son loves the app because it helps him to organise his speech and communicate better.

Grid Player

If you search for autism on the app store you will get literally hundreds of apps come up, not all of them will be relevant to you (most are aimed at smaller children) but there is plenty of choice. I quite like some of the sensory apps too, but they are more relaxation toys than anything productive

Having an iPhone, iPad and Mac makes for a very comprehensive ecosystem for me. What I put on my IOS calendar follows me on my phone / tablet so I'm never out of touch, and I have the calendars set up to give me alerts at set times before and at the time of the events so that I'm prepared for them and don't forget (I even have a reminder on my calendar for brushing my teeth - something I'm terrible at forgetting to do). The built in calendar is probably my most used to-go app when it comes to being ASD, it keeps my life in some kind of order

For note taking etc I also tend to stick with the inbuilt apps, ie 'notes' and 'reminders' they seem to work well enough for me. But then I don't ask a lot of them, I write a note on my iPhone, and it's there on my mac or iPad

It could be interesting to see what other apps people suggest, as I'm always looking for new stuff anyway, and it might help others too

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Autistic dad to an autistic boy and loving it - its always fun in our house

I have Autism. My communication difficulties mean that I sometimes get words wrong, that what I mean is not what comes out.