Kyros — Visual Communication & Schedule App for Autism

Kyros is an Android app for autistic and other neurodivergent people who find a day easier to navigate when it can be seen, and for the parents, carers, teachers and support workers who help plan it. It puts two tools that usually live apart — a communication board and a visual schedule — into one place, so the picture someone taps to say what they need is the same picture that shows up in their routine later. For anyone who has juggled a paper timetable, a symbol board and a phone calendar at once, that is the practical point of difference.

The building block is the action tile: a card made from an image, icon, photo, label and colour. Tapping a tile shows it full screen and reads the label aloud with text-to-speech, giving a direct way to express a need, a choice or an action without spoken words. The same tiles can be dropped into routines and viewed by day, week or month, or followed as a checklist. The home screen shows only what is happening now, what comes next and the rest of today's plan — which keeps the load of reading a schedule low. Reminders flag scheduled items, and a panic button offers calming support when a moment tips into overwhelm. Photos of real places and people can replace generic symbols, so a routine looks like the person's own life.

Kyros is made by Binapani Ltd, a UK company building neuro-inclusive apps and learning tools, which also works with Kingston University on research and development. The app runs on the device without an account, a login or cloud sync, so routine data stays on the phone or tablet and works without a signal. At the time of writing it is on Google Play only; there is no iOS version. Schedules can also be exported as PDFs for printing, which helps where a device is not practical, such as some classrooms or therapy rooms.