Visual supports made personal
Smarty Symbols Studio brings an inclusive symbol library, flexible templates, and intuitive creation tools together—so educators, therapists, specialists, and families can make meaningful materials around the people they support.
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More ways to represent ideasColor, outline, and expanding high-contrast formats
Search and discoverFind educationally relevant symbols and related meanings.
Personalize with easeBuild from a template or start with your own layout.
Create for real needsSupport communication, learning, routines, and participation.
Grow with the libraryNew images and resources are added regularly.
Built for communication and learning
Generic design tools make you adapt your work to their graphics. Smarty Symbols Studio starts with educationally relevant visuals and a workflow created for educators, therapists, specialists, and families.
See everything inside Studio
One connected workspaceMove from the right symbol to a finished, useful resource without switching tools.
From idea to finished support
Move from a learning or communication goal to a finished material without piecing together unrelated images across multiple tools.
Find the right visualSearch vocabulary, meanings, categories, and speech features.
Start your wayChoose a template, structured grid, or blank canvas.
Make it personalAdjust the layout, text, colors, and selected symbols.
Use it right awayPrint or download a support created for a real person and purpose.
30,000+ individual color symbols
Explore modern, inclusive, education-focused vocabulary with multiple characters and representations—not a small set of generic classroom clip art.
Search with educational intent
Go beyond filenames. Refine vocabulary through related meanings, categories, beginning, medial, or final sounds, and syllable count.
Create or start from a resource
Build inside the same platform where you find the symbols, or begin with a template or shared activity when time is short.
What makes Studio different?A connected workflow designed around communication, education, therapy, and participation.
Made for real life
Start with a template or a blank page, add the symbols that fit, and create personalized materials for communication, learning, routines, and independence.
Communication boards
Build focused vocabulary for home, school, therapy, community activities, and individual communication needs.
Learning and life skills
Create recipes, task directions, classroom activities, and independent-living supports.
Visual schedules
Social narratives
Language materials
Your person. Your goal. Your resource.
A smoother way to create
Start with a useful template, find the right visual, and finish directly on the page—without a complicated build process.
See Smarty Symbols Studio in action
Choose a Studio template, a community resource, a structured grid, or a blank canvas when you truly want one.
Search by words, related meanings, categories, sounds, and syllables instead of scrolling through endless folders.
Read
Drag, drop, resize, and organize each page, then save the project or create a print-ready PDF from the same workspace.
More than functional icons
Find your fit
Start with the same flexible Studio, then shape it around your setting, goals, and the people you support.
Explore all solutions
Speech-language professionals
Educators and school teams
Occupational therapists
BCBAs and behavior professionals
Assistive technology specialists
Families and caregivers
Real customer voices
The clearest proof is how Studio fits into a real day: less time preparing, easier customization, and visuals shaped around each learner.
It is by far my favorite image resource library… Smarty Symbols is so convenient and easy to use.
The software is very user friendly… There is no more sitting at my computer for hours.
Visuals that reflect my individual students and their needs.
Simple individual access
Pay annually or monthly. Both options unlock the same Studio tools, symbol library, templates, and ready-made resources.
Questions about Studio access?Annual access
Save compared with monthlyAbout $7.42 per month, billed annually
Monthly access
Flexible month to monthThe same complete Studio access, billed monthly
School & organization solutions
Equip educators, therapists, and support staff with an easier way to create—and add customized communication boards wherever students learn, play, and connect.
Equip your team
Give educators, SLPs, OTs, BCBAs, AT teams, and support staff a shared platform for creating personalized materials.
Expand communication access
Bring durable, setting-specific communication support to playgrounds, sensory spaces, cafeterias, libraries, clinics, and more.
Connect the whole system
Create a coordinated package around your goals—combining digital creation tools, staff access, training, and communication boards.
Communication Boards by Smarty Symbols
Bring accessible, setting-specific vocabulary into playgrounds, schools, parks, libraries, healthcare spaces, and other places people gather.
More than a sign
Plan words and messages around what people may need to say, ask, choose, and share in that specific space.
Explore languages, high-contrast visuals, and layouts that reflect the needs of your community.
Work with our team on design, customization, formats, purchasing, and project planning.
Physical board + free digital companion
Expressive Go includes free digital copies of our public-space boards, helping people move from an installed board to familiar vocabulary on a personal device.
Questions before you begin?
Whether you create resources independently or purchase for a team, there is a clear way to get started.
The complete Studio creation platform: Smarty Symbols, templates, advanced search tools, project saving, and print-ready PDF downloads.
Yes. Save projects for future editing, then download or print the finished visual supports you create for the people you support.
No. Individual access is available annually or month to month. Both options include the same complete Studio tools and symbol library.
No. Studio is used by the adult creating materials, so students do not need accounts or need to provide personal information.
Yes. School and organization solutions can include individual staff access, purchase-order support, onboarding, and training.
Yes. We can help plan a coordinated solution that combines staff creation tools, training, and communication support across shared campus spaces.
Start with the full Studio—symbols, templates, creation tools, saving, and print-ready downloads.
Plan staff access, purchasing, training, and visual support across classrooms and shared spaces.
View solutions for schools Request a school or group quote