I Cannot Speak
A Voice for Nonspeaking People
Only for iPhone
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
I Cannot Speak turns what you type into something you can hold up or hear out loud. Built for anyone who can't rely on speech — in a shop, a taxi, a hospital, or at home.
Two taps to be understood.
I Cannot Speak is for people who cannot rely on speech. Type or tap what you need to
say, then hold your phone up so the person in front of you can read it — or
let your phone say it out loud.
No setup. No sign-up. No learning a system of symbols.
SHOW IT, LARGE
Write a sentence and put the keyboard away. The words grow to fill the screen,
big enough to read across a counter, a hospital bed, or a noisy room. Turn the
phone around and you have been understood.
OR SPEAK IT
One tap reads your sentence aloud in a natural voice. Choose the voice you
want and how fast it speaks. It works with the ring switch off, so you are
heard even on silent.
READY FOR WHERE YOU ARE
Six situations — restaurant, medical, travel, transport, shopping and
emergency — each holding the phrases that place actually needs. Tap the
situation, tap the phrase. Edit any of them, or build situations of your own
for the places you go.
THE THINGS A GESTURE CANNOT SAY
A row of everyday icons along the bottom of the home screen: water, a
restroom, a charger, a pharmacy, a taxi. One tap shows the icon large with the
sentence underneath, ready to speak.
MY CARD
Your name, conditions, allergies, medications and emergency contacts on one
card you can hold up without typing anything. Useful in a waiting room, at a
pharmacy counter, or any moment when explaining is the hard part.
ACROSS LANGUAGES
Show the same sentence in another language, large and clear. Useful abroad,
and useful at home when the person in front of you speaks a different one.
HELP FINDING THE WORDS
Rough notes become a complete sentence. Type "water please" and get "Could I
have some water, please?" On iPhone 15 Pro and newer this runs on the device
itself. Everywhere else it uses a private connection — and if there is no
connection at all, I Cannot Speak falls back to built-in phrases so you are never left
with nothing.
PLAN A DAY
Describe what your day looks like and I Cannot Speak suggests the phrases it will need,
ready before you are standing there.
BUILT TO BE TRUSTED
Your saved phrases, your name and photo, and everything on My Card stay on
your phone. What you send to be reworded or translated is not kept — not by
us, and not by the company whose model does the work. No ads, no analytics,
no tracking, nothing sold.
WHO IT IS FOR
People living with ALS, aphasia, a stroke, Parkinson's, autism, selective
mutism, a laryngectomy, or a throat injury. People recovering from surgery.
Anyone whose voice has gone quiet, for a week or for good.
SUBSCRIPTION
I Cannot Speak is $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, and starts with a free trial. Every
feature is included in both plans — there is no cut-down version. Cancel any
time in Settings.
Privacy policy: https://icannotspeak.vercel.app/privacy
Support: https://icannotspeak.vercel.app/support
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The app is now called I Cannot Speak. Same features, new name and icon.
The developer, Sakib Shaikh, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Sakib Shaikh
- Size
- 19.4 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- I Cannot Speak Pro Yearly USD 29.99
- I Cannot Speak Pro Monthly USD 4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Sakib Shaikh