Now and Next Lite

Show a child what is happening now, and what is happening next.

Now and Next takes the part of the day that is hardest to explain and makes it something a child can see. Put the current activity on one side of a card and the one that comes after it on the other, and “we're leaving the playground after this” stops being an argument and becomes a picture to point at. Teachers and therapists usually call it a first-then board. It is the same idea, and the app does both.

It was built by parents, and it is used at home, in preschool and elementary classrooms, and in therapy sessions: with autistic children, with children who have ADHD, with children whose speech and language is still developing, and with any young child whose day goes better when they can see it laid out.

Now and Next Lite is the free way to find out whether it works for your child before you spend anything.

WHAT LITE GIVES YOU
• Two Now and Next cards
• One prompt card, offering a choice of two or three pictures
• Three custom activities of your own
• All 60+ built-in activities, the Time Line, spoken activities and your own wording

NOW AND NEXT CARDS
Pick two activities and the card is made. Tap a picture to hear the activity read aloud. If your family or your classroom says something other than “Now” and “Next,” change the wording to the words you already use.

CHOICES, WITH TWO OR THREE PICTURES
Ask with pictures instead of words. A prompt card holds a question and two or three answers — milk or water, playground or backyard, which book at bedtime — so a child can answer by pointing.

TIME LINE
Put your cards in order and the Time Line runs the routine for you. Each card stays up for as long as you set, then moves on by itself, with an optional friendly sound as it changes.

60+ ACTIVITIES, AND ROOM FOR YOUR OWN
More than 60 illustrated activities come with the app, covering home and school from breakfast and brushing teeth to school, nap time and the dentist. Adding your own is just as easy: take a photo, choose one from your library, or create a picture with Image Playground on supported devices.

IN YOUR LANGUAGE
The app follows your device language in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian, including the names of the built-in activities. Anything you typed yourself stays exactly as you wrote it.

UNLOCKING THE FULL VERSION
One in-app purchase, with no subscription, lifts every limit: as many cards and prompt cards as you need, as many custom activities as you want to make, backing up and restoring what you have built, and no more ads. Everything you have already created stays exactly where it is.

ADS AND PRIVACY
Lite is paid for by ads, which appear while you use it. You are asked once whether you are willing to allow tracking so those ads can be personalized; saying no is a normal way to use the app, and you can change your answer later in Settings. Unlocking the full version removes the ads and that data collection altogether.

Whatever you create stays on your device. Your photos, activities and cards are not collected or shared, and there is no account to create and no sign-in.