Speech is never switched off
A voice you already had is never held hostage to a payment. If a subscription lapses, Sayella degrades to local-only on your device. It does not go silent.
Our mission
Made so everyone can be understood
Sayella builds inclusive communication and learning tools for nonverbal and minimally-verbal people, their families, therapists and schools, on whatever device they already own, without a subscription standing between a person and their voice. Sayella AAC is our first app.
Why Sayella exists
Sayella is personal. Our founder Adam’s daughter Isla is nonverbal and autistic. When she was diagnosed at four, the family learned fast what communication really costs: the most respected apps run £250 to £550, funded routes come with waits long enough for a child to outgrow the assessment, and a growing number of apps now switch off a child’s voice unless you keep paying.
We think that is the wrong way round. Communication is a basic human right, not a premium upgrade, and the same is true of learning. Adam builds software for a living, so he built the thing his family needed and could not find, and Sayella exists so every other family can have it too: affordable, honest about your data, with speech that is never switched off. It was built for one little girl, and priced for everyone else’s.
The incumbents are expensive, often two hundred and fifty pounds or more, and the leading UK desktop software runs far higher. Many are locked to iPhone and iPad, which pushes families on Android, or schools issuing Chromebooks, toward older and clunkier tools. Several have drifted to subscriptions, in some cases disabling speech on a nonverbal person’s device until the next payment clears. And the work a parent pours into a vocabulary is too often trapped in a format they cannot take with them.
Sayella AAC, our first app, answers each of those on purpose. One app and one account, built for iPhone, iPad, Android and the web: iPhone and iPad are available now, with Android and a web app (any browser, including on Windows) coming soon. A genuine one-off Lifetime path so no family, school or charity is ever locked out by a recurring fee. Speech that works offline and is never switched off. And open, standard export so your words are always yours. The same promises carry to every app we build next.
We are an early-stage UK team building in the open, for the families and schools who have been priced out or locked in. This page is where our social proof will come from honestly, as real families join us. We would rather show you an empty space we intend to fill than invent a quote.
The promises we hold ourselves to
A non-subscription path always exists
There is always a one-off, lifetime way to own a Sayella app, so families, schools and charities that cannot pay recurring fees are never locked out.
Your data is portable
Export your vocabulary in an open, standard format any time. If you ever leave Sayella, you take your words with you. No lock-in, ever.
Accessibility is first-class
VoiceOver and TalkBack, a configurable high-contrast highlight and colour that is never the only signal are designed in from the start, not bolted on. Switch scanning and auditory scanning are on our roadmap.
Warm, never babyish, never clinical
We write to a person at the kitchen table, not a procurement form. Age-tiered themes mean a teenager or adult is never made to feel like a child when they speak.
Colour is never the only signal
Every button pairs a symbol with the printed word, so the system reads for colour-blind and CVI users too. Colour supports meaning, it never carries it alone.
We are live
Sayella AAC is here, and more is coming
Sayella AAC, our first app, is launching now, free to start on iPhone and iPad, with Android and the web coming soon. More inclusive communication and learning tools are in development. Family stories will live here too, only ever real ones.
Want to help shape what we build? Reach us at hello@sayella.com.
Honest about how Sayella is made
Our symbols
Sayella’s symbol set is built on the Mulberry Symbols, used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence (CC BY-SA), with an owned AI house style layered on top so symbols stay clear and consistent. We name our sources because trust matters more than mystique, and because your right to portable, open data starts with being honest about what is inside the app.
Two pages put our promises in writing: our group accessibility commitment, and exactly what Sayella AAC costs.