What's new at ExpressAgain: Summer 2026 update.

It has been a busy season. Here is an honest tour of what is live in ExpressAgain right now — what each piece does, and the family moments that pushed us to build it. As always, everything below is shipped and usable today; anything still in progress stays on the roadmap until it is real.

The Family Circle feed

The Family Circle is a private feed where invited family members share photos, audio, and video with their loved one, who can react and comment with simple taps. We built it because staying connected is communication practice in disguise — and because the person recovering should get the grandchild's soccer video the same day everyone else does, not a summary of it next weekend. Alongside the feed, family members can send private voice messages for their loved one to play anytime.

Speaking in your own voice

Tap-to-speak phrases have always spoken in clear, natural voices. Now, with a voice sample, ExpressAgain can speak in a cloned version of the person's own voice. Families tell us this one is emotional in a way we did not fully anticipate: hearing "I love you" in Mom's voice, chosen and played by Mom, is very different from hearing it in a stranger's. The cloned voice works across phrases and the sentence builder.

Therapist access: SLPs, PTs, and OTs on the team

Therapists can now be invited into a member's care with their own access. A speech-language pathologist, physical therapist, or occupational therapist can assign exercises for the person to work on between visits and keep session notes in one place. The goal is carryover — making the week between appointments part of therapy instead of a gap in it.

The care journal and the Care Team Report

The journal lets a person or their caregiver record mood and daily notes, and log blood pressure and blood sugar readings. To be clear about what this is and isn't: ExpressAgain records and organizes; it never interprets readings, scores health, or offers medical conclusions. The new printable Care Team Report compiles what you've logged into a clean summary you can hand to a doctor or nurse — so appointments start from real information instead of memory under pressure.

Lessons, now with narrated videos

Our guided lessons now include narrated videos, so learners can watch and listen instead of reading their way through. For many people with aphasia, listening comes easier than reading — and practice, as always in ExpressAgain, is never graded, scored, or timed.

Inviting family and friends

Nobody joins a circle without an invitation. To invite someone, open My People and tap Invite family and friends. Choose a role, type the person's name and email (and a cell number, if they would like texts), and ExpressAgain makes a personal link that works exactly once. Copy it, text it or email it. Each invitation is tied to its role:

• Caregiver: full access, for the people who help run care. Only the account owner can hand out this role.
• Family: the Love Bucket, photos and updates.
• Extended: the Love Bucket only.

The owner and caregiver-role accounts can send invitations. The person opens the link, creates their own account (or accepts with one they already have) and lands on the right page for their role. If the invitation carried their cell number, they can switch on Circle Updates texts right there. That box starts unticked, because texting is always their own choice. Invite family and friends walks through it step by step.

For the wider circle, from church, school or work, Tell more friends in the family's menu copies a friends link to drop into a group chat. Whoever opens it types their own name and email, creates a password and joins as a friend. Friends see the friends feed, never the family feed, so a post the family keeps for immediate family stays with them.

If an invitation reaches the wrong person, open the invitations on My People and tap Revoke. A link nobody has used yet is deleted and stops working. For someone who already joined, Revoke removes them from the circle and their access ends; if their login was created from that invitation and belongs to no other circle, the login is deleted too. Only the owner can revoke a caregiver. Then send the right person a fresh invitation.

The quieter improvements

Around these headline features, the everyday core kept getting steadier: the phrase library, the sentence builder, the medical words dictionary, guided practice, the private vault, the emergency screen with one-tap 911, and the accessibility preferences that shape all of it — adjustable text size, high contrast, large buttons, reduced motion, read-aloud, and simple language. None of these make for dramatic announcements, but they are what people touch a hundred times a day, so they get our attention every single week.

What's next

We keep a public list of what is real today on the features page, with anything still waiting marked plainly, and we will keep marking future work honestly rather than announcing it early. If you have a request or a story about how a feature is working for your family, our contact page reaches the team directly — and yes, we read all of it. Thank you for building this with us.