The progress your clients make in session has to survive noisy restaurants, family gatherings, and open-plan offices. Hearing Buddy is the free, private captioning app you can send home with them — and everything on this page exists to make that easy. Nothing to buy, nothing to disclose.
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Therapy-room progress is one thing; Tuesday night at a loud restaurant is another. The listening environments that undo your clients' confidence are exactly the ones you can't be in.
Hearing Buddy backs your work up in the wild: live captions on the iPhone they already carry, for aural rehab carryover, cochlear implant adaptation, and late-deafened adults still finding their footing. It doesn't replace therapy — it gives your clients a bridge between sessions, and their families a way to stay in the conversation.
Built by Lilly Seay, who lives with hearing loss — for the moments that used to make her want to stay home.
No minute meters, no session caps, no account, no credit card. Captions are never paywalled.
Audio never leaves the phone — a therapy session stays in the room. Works fully offline.
A tap on the wrist when someone says their name or asks them a question — so they can stay present.
Caption Together shares live captions with the iPhones around the table — family dinner included, free.
Requires iOS 26 or later · iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac & Vision Pro · Optional Buddy+ upgrade is $59.99/year — captions stay free either way
The captions your clients need are free, forever. There's no commission, no kickback, no revenue share — recommending it costs them nothing and costs you nothing.
No accounts, no client data, no audio uploads. Clean under ASHA's conflict-of-interest guidance — nothing flows between your practice and us except a client who kept up at dinner.
It needs an iPhone on iOS 26 or later, it can't caption phone calls, and it's an assistive communication tool — a support for your therapy, never a substitute for it.
We kept it deliberately simple — no fees, no commissions, no quotas. Just tools for you and your clients.
You can't recommend what you haven't used. SLPs get every Buddy+ feature — Watch alerts, summaries, Speaker Labels, translation — free, for good. Request below; we'll email your code within a day.
A print-ready waiting-room poster and a one-page quick reference: when to recommend it, and how to demo it in 60 seconds. Download the PDF.
Optional: if you'd like your practice on our partner map, reply to our welcome note with your city and two sentences about your work, and we'll build your page.
We maintain twenty free hearing-health guides and tools on this site, and we want them clinically reviewed. If you'd like a "Reviewed by ___, CCC-SLP" byline — with a link to your practice — on content read by people actively researching their hearing and communication, we'd love to talk.
Thirty seconds, no sales call. We give every request a quick human look, then your lifetime Buddy+ access code lands in your inbox — usually within a day.
We'll send one welcome note, never a newsletter. The code unlocks Buddy+ on your personal device — clients just download the free app.
Hearing Buddy is an assistive communication tool. It is not a medical device, and it does not diagnose, treat, or replace speech-language therapy or professional hearing care. The partner program involves no payments to or from clinicians.