Babies can sign months before they can speak. A handful of signs turns a lot of crying into conversation.
Start signing — it’s freeYour baby understands you long before their mouth catches up. Their hands catch up first.
“More”, “all done” and “help” give a pre-verbal baby a way to tell you what they want that isn’t a scream at the highchair.
Signing alongside speech doesn’t replace words — you say the word every single time you make the sign, so the two grow together.
The first time they sign “dog” at a window you weren’t even looking at, you learn something about your baby you had no way of knowing.
Not thirty. The app picks three that suit your baby’s age and keeps them there until they land, each shown as two pictures: where your hand starts, and where it ends up.
“Milk” as the bottle appears. Tap I showed it. Meaning comes from timing, and the app keeps the streak so it stays a habit.
After three goes on three different days, the app calls it known and quietly swaps in the next sign. You end up with a dated record of your baby’s first vocabulary.
A sign is a movement, not a pose — so you get the start and the finish as two labelled pictures, matched to the two things you have to do. Tap any of them to watch it move.
Mealtime, needs, people, feelings, manners, play, animals, the world and daily routines — each sign with two numbered steps, a memory hook and a note on when in the day to use it. Plus a short guide to teaching signs that’s worth reading once before you start. Everything is stored on your phone: no account, no upload, and it works with no signal at all. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like an app.
It takes about a minute to start, and the first one is usually milk.
Open Baby SignsThese are real American Sign Language signs, drawn simply. ASL is a full language with its own grammar, and it belongs to the Deaf community — it isn’t a baby product. Using a few of its signs with your hearing baby is a lovely thing to do, and if it becomes something your family enjoys, the right next step is to learn it properly from Deaf teachers.
Baby Signs