Cardzilla

I have used the Notes to type (or papers and pens to write) the questions, comments, or orders before communicating with the hearing people. The problem with Notes is tiny font and occasional freezing up during the sync. Not useful for time-sensitive communication. A friend told me about this app so I downloaded it. Zowie! It‘s worth every cent many times over! So ridiculous easy to use!!! I can swipe to the left to erase the whole message and start anew. What‘s awesome is all of messages is stored for later use! I can also delete the old messages if I choose to. Ehat‘s more, I can modify the old messages. Wow! I am getting the equivalent of brain freeze, thinking about how easy the app is! I feel so comfortable using this app and have pushed my deaf friends to get this app.

I recommended this app to my family after my sister experienced hearing loss and loss of speech from brain trauma earlier in the year. This app has been invaluable in helping my sister communicate with family, friends, and therapists as she works toward recovery. In particular, the therapists at the rehab center love this app because it allows them to speak instructions and questions that my sister can read, and because my sister can still write/type, she is able to respond and ask questions. Thanks so much for developing such an easy and useful app to help hearing folks communicate more easily with deaf folks as well as folks with permanent or temporary hearing loss.

I use this every single day. It's so ridiculously simple, but goes a really long way in making my needs met. I've met the designer a couple of times many years ago. He's a really cool guy but the important thing is, he's deaf. He gets it. He designed this app to make it easy and purposeful - and it works. I love how the font automatically resizes depending on the character count. I've had people ask me about this app - and a nurse in the ER immediately downloaded it onto her phone because she could see how beneficial this is for those who don't want to use their voices for whatever reason.

My only feedback is that I can’t change the background color. I much prefer black background and white text or cyan if available. Not deafblind/low-vision friendly as not many can use white background and I don’t want to use the iPhone setting for that feature across all platforms only on specific apps. Seems no way to contact customer care of the developers within the app? Seems not welcoming of feedback? With those two items I will give this a 5 star review but for now 4 stars. :)

Feedback: app doesn’t launch the help section at first use. I was lost and didn’t know how to use the app’s features. I did not know that I can swipe to save, shake to clear, and swipe to the right to see the star/history/more screen. I had to go back to App Store to figure it out. Then when I discovered that I can swipe to the right to see the history. I love the instruction in the more section and I wished that it pop up at first use or help icon with “?” somewhere on the app.