Now and Next: Visual Schedule
First/Then boards & choices
$6.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now and Next speaks your language. The app and every built-in activity now follow your device language in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.
Show a child what is happening now, and what is happening next.
Now and Next takes the part of the day that is hardest to explain and makes it something a child can see. Put the current activity on one side of a card and the one that comes after it on the other, and “we're leaving the playground after this” stops being an argument and becomes a picture to point at. Teachers and therapists usually call it a first-then board. It is the same idea, and the app does both.
It was built by parents, and it is used at home, in preschool and elementary classrooms, and in therapy sessions: with autistic children, with children who have ADHD, with children whose speech and language is still developing, and with any young child whose day goes better when they can see it laid out.
NOW AND NEXT CARDS
Pick two activities and the card is made. Tap a picture to hear the activity read aloud. If your family or your classroom says something other than “Now” and “Next,” change the wording to the words you already use.
CHOICES, WITH TWO OR THREE PICTURES
Ask with pictures instead of words. A prompt card holds a question and two or three answers — milk or water, playground or backyard, which book at bedtime — so a child can answer by pointing.
TIME LINE
Put your cards in order and the Time Line runs the routine for you: a morning, the hour after school, a whole school day. Each card stays up for as long as you set, then moves on by itself, with an optional friendly sound as it changes.
60+ ACTIVITIES, AND ROOM FOR YOUR OWN
More than 60 illustrated activities come with the app, covering home and school from breakfast and brushing teeth to school, nap time and the dentist. Your own are just as easy to add: take a photo, choose one from your library, or create a picture with Image Playground on supported devices. Name them in your own words, and organize them into categories that match your day.
ACTIVITIES THAT SPEAK
Activities and prompts can be read aloud when they are tapped, in the voice you pick, so a card works for listening as well as looking.
IN YOUR LANGUAGE
The app follows your device language in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian, including the names of the built-in activities. Anything you typed yourself stays exactly as you wrote it.
BACKUP AND RESTORE
Export everything you have built — activities, cards, prompt cards, categories and the Time Line — and restore it on another iPhone or iPad, or on a new device.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no sign-in and no ads. Your photos, activities and cards are kept on your device; nothing about them is collected or shared. A backup goes only where you choose to send it.
ONE PURCHASE
Now and Next is bought once. There is no subscription and nothing else to unlock, it works on both iPhone and iPad, and Family Sharing lets up to six family members use it.
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Now and Next in your language
The app follows your device language in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian, including the names of the built-in activities. Activities, cards and categories you created keep the words you typed.
Also in this update
• Backing up and restoring is more dependable, and a restore brings back your custom activities, categories and Time Line exactly as they were.
• Clearer headings and better contrast in Settings and when choosing a voice.
• Small fixes throughout.
The developer, Peter Stanley, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Peter Stanley
- Size
- 16.8 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 5 more
- English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2018 - 2026 Peter Stanley

