App directory
Make It Big
An Trinh
Displays a typed message across the screen for communication without speaking.
What Make It Big does
Make It Big turns a typed message into a full-screen display on an iPhone or iPad. The text fits the screen in portrait or landscape. It works offline without an app account, and includes recent-message recall, styling and ways to open messages through widgets, Siri and Shortcuts. This profile covers the iOS app by An Trinh.
How it compares
Typed messages rather than Big Text’s speech input
Make It Big shows typed messages offline without an account. Cardzilla takes a similar screen-based approach, while Big Text also lets you display speech recognition.
Screen-based communication, like Cardzilla
Make It Big fits messages in portrait or landscape. Like Cardzilla, it is useful when you want someone nearby to read a message directly from your screen.
Features
Captions
- Supported: Typed replies
Audio input & output
- Supported: Live outputsOn-screen text
Availability & access
- Supported: Account requirementNone
- Not supported: Internet required
Accessibility
- Supported: Landscape display
Privacy & data
- Supported: Local-only mode
App Store ratings & reviews
Praise
- 2021–2026 reviewers describe useful large written messages for deaf/hearing communication, noisy or quiet settings, customer service, travel and visible signs. Other comments express general satisfaction with simplicity, saved messages or styling. Personal benefit and perceived no-cost access do not establish clinical efficacy or current entitlement.
Complaints
- June 2026 and December 2024 reviewers report unwanted flashing when the phone moves; a July 2022 reviewer objects to repeated review prompts and glitchy transitions. The flashing reports describe the app’s gesture behavior, without proving a medical event or a general safety rate.
Mixed reports
- 2021–2026 comments request easier multiline editing, larger input text, independent widget messages, rotation/right-to-left rendering improvements and clearer instructions. Some requests predate current features: a 2021 Shortcuts request is not evidence that it remains absent, and a November 2023 reviewer says developer guidance resolved initial confusion. Version identifiers are not captured.