A communication app that uses pictures to facilitate two-way conversations for nonverbal individuals.

AAC isn't an accessory. It's everything.

CherryChat is one web-based system for every user in every setting. It was built by a teacher who wanted AAC to be the focus, not an afterthought.

One board, every access method. Make a board once, and each AAC user accesses it with touch, scanning, dwell, text or high contrast.
Model without touching their device. Tap a word on your screen and it lights up on theirs, whether you're a parent, teacher or SLP.
See messages as they're built. Prompt or correct at the right moment, and share progress across home, school and therapy.

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Works in your web browser on iPad, Chromebook, Windows and Mac. Needs an internet connection.

A teacher and a student laughing together over a tablet in a classroom

If AAC is part of your day, CherryChat is for you.

A teenager uses her AAC tablet to communicate about a snack with her father in the kitchen.

AAC users and families

AAC users of any age, from students to adults, plus their parents, family and friends. The Core 48 board is ready on day one. Edit it to fit you or your child, share it with school, and invite family and friends to chat.

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School teams

Teachers, co-teachers, TAs and school-based SLPs. Make one board for the whole class, and each student accesses it the way that works for them. Model on their screens, and see everyone's progress in one place.

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A speech-language pathologist sits at a table with four children using AAC tablets, several in wheelchairs, in a clinical setting.

Clinical SLPs

SLPs in private practice and clinics. Add your clients, choose a board and start a session. See what each client says on their own, after a model or after a correction, and draft SOAP notes you review and edit.

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Explore what makes CherryChat different from the rest.

Model on their screen.

Tap a word on your screen and it lights up on theirs. You never have to take their device, and they choose what to do next.

Teacher models — words appear on the student's screen

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Teacher

Modeling…

Modeling:

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Student

Watching…

🎓Teacher is showing you

My words:

Tap a word below

I couldn't find a single commercial AAC system that matched the different needs of all of my students. So I built it.

Portrait of Jenna Cherry, creator of CherryChat AAC

I'm Jenna Cherry, and I've worked with AAC users for over 15 years. In my own classroom, I kept running into the same four problems.

I couldn't support a message until it was already sent.

I couldn't see what a student was typing until they hit send, so I couldn't help while they were still building it. Modeling required me to use their device and be in close proximity. Communication breakdowns were happening daily. Additionally, I couldn't collect the data I needed to help my students learn how to communicate with AAC.

Students weren't getting to speak for themselves.

The caring adults in their world were talking for them, so the value of independent communication felt lost. Behavior replaced communication in so many scenarios. Peer interaction using AAC wasn't happening. Students on different devices couldn't talk to each other without being in the same place. On video chats with family across the country, the student ended up being spoken to instead of being spoken with.

AAC didn't travel, and collaboration became nonexistent.

Physical AAC systems didn't make the move from school to home. Parents couldn't see what we were working on in the classroom except at IEP progress report time, and there was no good way to share the words used at home with the classroom. Private therapists had no access to what happened at school, and the school team had no access to therapy.

Individualizing AAC took more time than I had.

Modeling couldn't be consistent because every student's AAC was different. Supporting different devices felt overwhelming, and building boards for different learners, some on a 9-button grid and others on 64, was slow and hard to keep up. I had to choose: try to model 12 different AAC systems, or not focus on AAC at all. I needed AAC to be part of my class, so for my sanity I made the choice to stop individualizing and use a one-size-fits-all system instead.

In CherryChat, you can:

See a message as it's built, and help before it's sent

Model by tapping or by speaking

Make one board that every AAC user accesses their own way

Let AAC users message their classmates and peers, on any device, from anywhere

Invite family and friends to chat, near or far

Share boards and progress between home, school and therapy

See what each person communicates on their own, in one place

Want to know more about the story behind CherryChat and how it can help eliminate the common barriers to AAC use? Read here.

Three plans. Families and adult AAC users: $9.99 a month or $99 a year for one AAC user, with each extra AAC user $4.99 a month or $49 a year. Classrooms: $399 a year for up to 12 students, each student beyond 12 is $30 a year, with co-teachers, TAs, school SLPs and home use included. Private SLPs: $49 a month or $490 a year for up to 20 clients, each client beyond 20 is $25 a year, with SOAP note drafting for credential-verified SLPs. Every plan includes the Literacy Library and a free 30-day trial.

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Common questions

Yes. It can be their everyday communication system at school and at home. Start with the Core 48 board, build your own, or upload a PDF or PNG of a board you already use and CherryChat builds it for you to edit.

More questions? See all questions on the Help page.

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