Taptic: d/Deaf Support
Micah Roberson
Formerly Taptic
Combines selectable sound alerts with live speech captions and typed replies that are displayed and spoken aloud.
What Taptic: d/Deaf Support does
Taptic combines sound awareness and face-to-face communication tools. Its Sound tab lets users select sounds and receive vibrating, visual or flashlight alerts. Its Text tab transcribes speech, saves transcripts and displays typed replies in a flipped orientation while speaking them aloud. The publisher advertises Bluetooth microphones and smartwatch connections, although exact supported models are not documented. Current pricing and contradictory transcript-privacy statements need clarification.
How it compares
Conversation tools as well as sound alerts
Taptic combines sound alerts with speech-to-text and typed replies. Android Sound Notifications and Apple Sound Recognition focus on alerting you to environmental sounds.
Spoken replies as well as Cardzilla-style display cards
Taptic can show a typed reply in a flipped orientation and speak it aloud. Big Text also combines typed messages with speech recognition, while Cardzilla focuses on displaying typed cards.
Features
Captions
- Supported: Live conversation captions
- Supported: Caption history
- Supported: Typed replies
- Supported: Spoken typed replies
Audio input & output
Sound alerts
- Supported: Environmental-sound alerts
- Supported: Visual sound alerts
- Supported: Vibration sound alerts
- Supported: Flash sound alerts
- Conditional: Watch notifications3
- The app uses the phone microphone and advertises Bluetooth microphone connections; exact microphone models and feature support are unverified.
- Sound alerts use vibration/visual notifications/flash; the Text tab displays transcripts and typed messages.
- The publisher advertises Bluetooth smartwatch connection/expanded alert range, but does not supply a verified watch-model or OS list.
App Store ratings & reviews
Praise
- An April 2025 reviewer reported a straightforward successful experience, without detailed testing or a version identifier.
Mixed reports
- 2024–2025 reviews valued the idea/text functions while requesting additional detectable sounds, clearer instructions, improved iPad text layout and two-sided typing. One May 2024 report said typed responses lacked speech output; the current store description advertises it, so this older report is not treated as the current feature specification.
- A July 2025 reviewer reported phone heating, repeated Bluetooth prompts, missing sensitivity controls and weak watch alerts during sleep. The watch-haptic concern may depend on hardware/settings and does not establish a certified safety failure.