Built with families · grounded in research

A calmer way to care for your autistic child, and for yourself.

Spectrelle brings behaviour insight, daily structure, and your own wellbeing into one gentle, private place. Built to understand and accommodate your child, never to “fix” them.

For our son, and every family like ours.

If this sounds familiar

You’re holding so much, often alone

The patterns caregivers describe again and again in the research. Spectrelle is shaped around them.

The hardest moments go unrecorded

You mean to note what set off a meltdown — but you’re in the middle of one. By bedtime the detail a clinician needs is gone.
Six apps that don’t talk to each other

A schedule here, a sleep log there, notes in your phone. Nothing connects — and cost is the most common complaint of all.
No one asks how you are

Burnout is common among caregivers, yet your wellbeing is the part every other tool forgets.
It’s all in your head

Appointments, medications, therapy and IEP goals, school notes — held together by memory, on no sleep.

What Spectrelle does

Everything that matters, in one calm place

Not another single-purpose app. Spectrelle brings together the pieces caregivers juggle: behaviour, daily structure, your own wellbeing, and the whole support team.

Understand behaviour

See what’s really behind the hard moments

Capture what happened in one tap, even mid-meltdown. It’s the Antecedent-Behaviour-Consequence method clinicians use, in a form you can keep up with — and it’s what the patterns further down are built from.

One-tap quick-capture. log a moment in seconds — what came before, what happened, what helped — for when your hands are full.
A journal of your moments. every capture lands in a day-by-day journal you can add to, retime, or clear.
Meltdown isn’t tantrum. tag the kind of moment and get a calm response card focused on easing demands and sensory load.
What actually helped. note the strategy you tried and whether it landed, so next time you aren’t starting from scratch.

Spectrelle is a data-collection aid to use alongside your clinician — not a treatment, and not a diagnosis.

Daily structure

Predictable days, gentler transitions

Visual schedules, step-by-step routines, and stories that prepare a child for what’s coming — with the warnings that make transitions easier.

Visual schedules & first-then boards. customisable daily plans with transition warnings and countdown timers.
Step-by-step routines. break dressing, brushing, or chores into picture steps — run them one at a time, or print a card for the fridge.
Personalised social stories. prepare for dentist visits, haircuts, or a new school with short stories built from your own photos — read together, or print as a little storybook.
Choice boards & waiting boards. offer a few calm options instead of a demand, and make “not yet” visible while a wait plays out.

Schedules and stories print, so a support still works when the phone is away — on the fridge, in a school bag, in someone else’s hands.

Your wellbeing

Because you matter here, too

Your wellbeing is part of the picture, not an afterthought — brief check-ins, gentle nudges, and short, evidence-informed support made for caregivers.

Brief, validated check-ins. quick questions (PHQ-2 and GAD-2) track how you’re really doing — about a minute, on your terms.
Yours alone — never shared. your check-ins stay in your own space, never in your child’s record, reports, or exports.
Gentle nudges, never guilt. if things dip, Spectrelle quietly points you toward support, at your pace — with quiet hours it always respects.
Short self-care sessions. mindfulness-based micro-sessions, among the better-studied approaches for easing caregiver stress.
Help beyond the app. crisis lines and respite options a tap away — because sometimes what you need isn’t an app at all.

Some wellbeing measures (such as the PSI) are licensed instruments, so we’ll only ever use them properly licensed.

Coordinate & connect

One home for the whole support team

Keep every child, every appointment, and every person who helps in a single shared view.

Per-child & multi-child profiles. deep personalisation with your own photos, voice, and symbols, for one child or several.
Care-team coordination. appointments, medications, and therapy or IEP goals in a single shared view.
Support that isn’t lonely. a moderated community of other parents, plus a directory of local respite and resources.

Spectrelle doesn’t build its own communication device. Instead, it connects with established AAC apps rather than trying to replace them.

Body & health

Sometimes the hard moment starts in the body

A child who can’t yet say “my tummy hurts” or “I barely slept” still tells you — in the day that follows. Body & health holds sleep, food and drink, bowel movements, comfort and off days in one calm place, so those signals stop being invisible.

Five logs in one place, each showing when you last recorded it — so you’re never guessing what’s already down.

Start the night at bedtime, finish it in the morning.

A diary of meals and drinks — no calories, no scores.

Sleep: Bedtime, how long it took to settle, wake-ups in the night, and the mood they woke in. Two short moments, evening and morning.
Bowel movements: Texture, straining, and the gaps in between — the detail that’s awkward to remember and hard to describe, kept as a record instead.
Food & drink: What was eaten and drunk, and roughly how much. A new food tried is noted as an exposure worth celebrating, never a target to hit.
Body & pain: A gentle check-in for hurt a child can’t put into words. “Not sure where” is a valid answer — and so is “no pain today”.
Feeling unwell: Symptoms and temperature on an off day, so a difficult week has a record behind it you can show someone.

These are observations, not tests. Spectrelle doesn’t diagnose, score, or judge — and it never gives dosing advice. Anything medical routes to “discuss with your clinician”.

Patterns & sharing

Weeks of small notes, one clear picture

Nobody can hold six weeks of hard mornings in their head, and “it’s been a rough month” is difficult for a clinician to act on. Spectrelle turns what you’ve already captured into something you can look at together — and lets you decide how much of it each person sees.

See what keeps coming up

Choose a window — the last 30 days, or since your last clinic visit — and the moments you captured sort themselves: what was happening just before, the time of day, the setting, and the difference between a meltdown and a tantrum.
The body and the day, side by side

Sleep, food, hydration, bowel, pain and illness roll up next to behaviour. Where there’s enough logged to say something, Spectrelle says it plainly — and where there isn’t, it says “nothing notable” rather than inventing a pattern.
Send only what that person needs

Say who the report is for and Spectrelle scopes it — full food detail for the feeding specialist, behaviour and what-helped for the school, everything for a new specialist. One last screen shows exactly what’s going and what isn’t, before anything leaves your phone.

What leaves your phone — and what never does

You choose

Which topics go in — behaviour, sleep, food, hydration, bowel, pain, illness, what helped, medication names.
How much detail — food, sleep, drinks and bowel movements can go as a summary, or entry by entry when that’s the point of the visit.
A note for the recipient, in your own words.
Whether the personal notes you’ve written travel with it.

Always true

Your wellbeing check-ins and self-care are never part of a child’s report — they can’t be added.
The report names the topics you left out, so nothing is silently missing.
Medication names carry no doses, and Spectrelle adds no medical advice of its own.
Nothing is shared automatically. A report only exists because you made one.

The report is a PDF you can print, email or hand across a desk. A plain CSV of your raw logs is always available too — on the free tier, without asking us.

Patterns are observations, not conclusions. Spectrelle won’t tell you what a pattern means or what to do about it — it gives you and your child’s clinician the same picture to talk through.

Grounded in research

We grade our own evidence — out loud

Spectrelle’s building blocks are named evidence-based practices, mapped to the two US reference reviews of autism intervention. Where the evidence is strong we say so; where it’s thin, we say that too.

Visual schedules & routines Strong

A named evidence-based practice — and graded among the highest-quality evidence for easing emotion dysregulation and challenging behaviour.

Knight et al. 2015 · Nuske et al. 2024
One-tap behaviour capture Established method

The antecedent–behaviour–consequence record underneath Antecedent-Based Intervention and self-monitoring, both recognised practices.

NCAEP 2020
Social stories Modest & mixed

Recognised, but the effects are soft: the largest randomised trial found no group-level benefit on social responsiveness. Genuinely useful for preparing a child for a specific situation — not a social-skills cure.

Wright et al. (ASSSIST2) 2024
Feelings check-ins Supportive, not proven

Emotion regulation is a well-evidenced target, but the Zones of Regulation framework itself is not an evidence-based practice — so we call it supportive, never “evidence-based”.

Mason et al. 2024

Reference frameworks: Wong et al. (2015) and the National Clearinghouse on Autism Evidence and Practice (Steinbrenner et al., 2020). One caveat we never hide: these practices were validated when delivered by trained practitioners. Spectrelle puts them in a caregiver’s hands — it operationalises the evidence, it isn’t itself a validated clinical treatment, and it’s meant to be used alongside your clinician, never instead of one.

What we stand for

Built to understand your child, never to “fix” them

Spectrelle is neurodiversity-affirming. We track behaviour to understand and accommodate — to spot triggers, unmet needs, and what genuinely helps a child feel settled — not to make them “less autistic”. A child’s assent comes before compliance, always; we won’t build anything that rewards masking.

And we’re approach-neutral: Spectrelle works alongside whatever therapy path your family chooses, and alongside your clinician — never in place of one.

Your family’s data

Privacy promises, in plain words

Spectrelle holds some of the most sensitive information a family has. These aren’t policy fine print — they’re product decisions.

Never sold. Never shared with advertisers.

No ads, no trackers, no data brokers — in the app or on this site. Even our own usage analytics are structure-only: counts and taps, never your words or your child’s details — and you can switch them off.

You own every record.

Export everything as JSON or CSV, and delete your account and all of its data, in the app, any time — on the free plan too. No emails to write, no retention games.

Each family is sealed off.

Access is enforced per-account on our servers — one family can never read, change, or delete another family’s data.

Your own check-ins stay yours.

Caregiver wellbeing check-ins are private to you. They never appear in your child’s record, in reports, or in anything you share with the care team.

Sharing is yours to scope.

Reports share only what you choose — pick the topics for each audience, and the report itself says what you left out. Nothing is shared with anyone unless you send it.

Children’s data, held to the strictest bar.

We build to COPPA-grade standards for children’s information and HIPAA-aware practices throughout — even though Spectrelle is a wellness support tool, not a medical provider. What you capture offline is encrypted on your device until it syncs.

The long version, in the same plain language: our full privacy promise.

Our story

Built by a family on the spectrum

We’re parents of a wonderful son on the autism spectrum. Spectrelle grew out of our own day-to-day: the small wins, the hard moments, and the long search for tools that understand a child rather than trying to “fix” them.

The name says it plainly: the spectrum. Every autistic child is their own full spectrum of strengths, needs, and ways of being, and every caregiver deserves support that meets them there.

We’re building Spectrelle to help caregivers feel a little less alone, and to give back to the community that has helped us, honestly and with care.

“For our son, and every family like ours.”

Be first in when Spectrelle opens

We’re building carefully, with families and the research. Leave your email and we’ll let you know the moment there’s something to try. No spam in between.

Questions

Honest answers

Is Spectrelle a medical or diagnostic tool?

No. Spectrelle helps you understand and manage day-to-day life and share clear information with professionals. It doesn’t diagnose anything and isn’t a substitute for clinical care. Anything medical (like medication) we route to your clinician.

Will it work with our therapy approach (ABA, speech, OT…)?

Yes. Spectrelle is a support and tracking tool, not a therapy in itself, so it works alongside whatever approach you and your clinicians choose, whether that’s ABA, speech therapy, occupational therapy, or something else. It helps you capture what’s happening day to day and share clear, useful information with your child’s team.

How is our data handled?

Your family’s data is sensitive, and it belongs to you. Every account is sealed off on our servers, what you capture offline is encrypted on your device until it syncs, and you can export everything or delete it all at any time — on the free plan too. We’re explicit about what’s stored, how it’s shared, and the consent behind it, and you can withdraw access at any time.

Can I control what a therapist or school sees in a report?

Yes. When you export a report you choose who it’s for and exactly which topics it covers — a feeding specialist can get food and digestion detail while a school copy leaves medical logs out. You can add a note for the recipient, and the report itself states what you chose not to include, so nothing is silently missing. Your own wellbeing check-ins are never part of any child report.

When does it launch?

We’re in active development and building deliberately, with families and the research. Join the waitlist and you’ll be among the first to try it.

What will it cost?

We haven’t set final pricing yet, but we’ve heard caregivers clearly: cost and real value are the top concerns. We’re committed to fair, transparent pricing and a genuinely low-cost way in.

Does it replace my child’s communication (AAC) app?

No. If your child uses a communication app, keep it. Spectrelle connects with and points to established AAC tools rather than trying to replace them.