What is Widgit?
Widgit Symbols help people read, understand and communicate.
For over 40 years, Widgit Symbols have been used to support language development, literacy, access to text and communication.
Our symbols and software are used in over 10,000 schools, 1,000s of homes and numerous healthcare settings. Additionally with an increasing focus on accessible information, our symbols are used by key public services, leading attractions and sporting venues.
Our core software products Widgit Online and InPrint 3 give you access to the complete Widgit Symbol Library, so you can create your own symbol materials for use in school, at home, and in the wider community.
Widgit Online lets you create visual, communication and learning supports in your web browser using over 20,000 Widgit Symbols and 100s of easy-to-use templates. No installation or updating required!
InPrint 3 is a desktop based solution with access to over 20,000 Widgit Symbols, 100s of editable templates and a range of powerful design features, InPrint 3 is the perfect tool to create visual supports and learning materials.
At Widgit we desire to be better tomorrow than today. We take pride in providing the most innovative technology solutions, as well as a personalised service to help provide the best results and advice.
Recommended Usage
No minimum amount of usage, impact can be seen from first symbol resources created.
Educational Impact
Awards
The EdTech Impact Awards are based on independent, verified customer feedback, and recognise the top 10 solutions across each of our 13 impact metrics.
Top Student Wellbeing Tool
2025
Top Student Collaboration Tool
2025
 Company | Business Name: Widgit Software Ltd HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 1983 |
| Age Range | 0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19+ |
 Features | Editable Templates Symbolised ResourcesComprehensive VocabularyVisual TimetablesCurriculum ResourcesCommunication AidsLiteracy AidsDual LanguageEarly YearsKs1Ks2Ks3SenEalMflWeb-based Editing20,000 SymbolsReady-made ResourcesSocial StoriesSignageLabellingWorksheetsColourful SemanticsAutism PacksBack To School ResourcesMakatonBsl Support Dual Coding |
 Languages | Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latvian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan, Spanish; Castilian, Swedish |
 Accessibility | Robust features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Available OfflineInternet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPad |
 Set Up | Less than 30 Minutes |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support |
| Home Learning | Parent Access We provide a separate Home version of our software which is used by parents for their own children and not in collaboration with a school account. |
 Tags | symbolswidgitwidgitonlineEALSENDSENCOSENautisticinprintautismcommunicationliteracySLTinclusionpre-verbalnon-verballanguagevocaburlaryliteracyspeech |
Widgit PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Widgit pricing starts from £90 / year Home user account for parents - £90 pa Standard account for schools - £295 pa Larger accounts available. Multi Subscription accounts available for MATs and Academies  Optimised for a quick response | |
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andrew green
Speech and Language Therapist
Used Widgit daily for 5 years+
Nov 2024
Works really well and is quick to support learning
andrew green found Widgit:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Moderately increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Use in Social Stories, visual timetables, reward charts”
Nov 2024
Widgit is an amazing resource that can be used to create so many resources for all students, not just SEN or EAL. The ability to create a bank of resources which are safely stored online and accessible from anywhere with an internet connection is really helpful in a busy school.
Jacqueline Paton found Widgit:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Resources can be created and saved. They can then be translated to various languages quickly and easily. Previously created resources can be quickly adjusted for different languages, or changes to key vocabulary for a specific subject.”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Children with little English can use the images to help them engage with other students.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“We used Widgit symbols to create cards for a group of students to carry with them. Other students were able to communicate using the images and this meant that non-English speakers could let us know they were unwell, upset, angry etc which led to more positive outcomes for those children than if they had been unable to let us know how they felt.”
Nov 2024
Every teacher should use it. It is efficient and really useful
Kelly found Widgit:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“time to make resources, find symbols/ pictures, differentiation.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Use of symbols for writing, colourful semantics, communication support, misconceptions and generalisation skills.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Independent skills are greatly improved, students can demonstrate skills without the need for speech.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“easier to show modelled examples and link to colourful semantics.”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Allows pupils to communicate and understand feelings”
Nov 2024
It supports pupils and is quick and easy to use
Ruth found Widgit:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Able to create resources for my ALN class in minutes. Saving time on searching for images.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“It enables visuals to be created and learners are able to understand what is expected of them.”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“The visuals support expectations and less able pupils are given the chance to communicate.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“They enable learners a chance to understand, to know routines and achieve.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“When dysregulated learners can use the visuals, they don't need to worry about finding their words.”
Nov 2024
I would be lost without it. I rely on it to visualise so much in my teaching
Karen Jense found Widgit:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It creates visual word banks and text maps quickly”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“Not measurable”
- Slightly increases student collaboration“None”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“It’s much easier to show a picture than explain”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing“I don’t use it in that way”
Nov 2024
I can easily make stuff that is perfect for my kid and the things I make change and grow with him
Suzanne Brown
Supply Teacher, freelance childrens yoga teacher and Signalong Tutor
Used Widgit weekly for 5 years+
Nov 2024
It is an easy online way of producing symbolised schedules or documents.
Suzanne Brown found Widgit:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Means I can make schedules and alter these quickly.”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“It helps with understanding of what my sessions include.”
- Slightly increases student collaboration
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Decreases anxiety of what is coming next.”
Nov 2024
I find ways to use it in every aspect of school life. I am SENCO and also a Speech and language therapist and visuals are crucial for all.
Francesca Miller found Widgit:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Precision Teaching templates Vocab for working walls and displays Adaptive Teaching scaffolds”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Using symbols to manipulate can reduce the reading & writing load on children and allow them to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding despite specific difficulties”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Used it for school council elections so every pupil could vote. Can be used so even children with speech and language or processing difficulties can contribute”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Can allow pupils to be more independent. Can reduce need for constant repetition of instructions”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Used in a Reflect and repair book to focus engagement in restorative practice. Constant visual reminders of school rules. Can use sticker templates to produce targeted feedback”
Nov 2024
Don't know how we ever managed without widgit!
Wendy found Widgit:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Supporting adaptation of lessons. The widgits being a permanent clue as to what to do rather than verbal instructions needing to be repeated over and over, leaving the teaching team more time to teach all pupils.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Supporting our dyslexic learners to access tasks independantly and to then be able to get started, meaning that they have work that can be assessed. SEND children use widgit to access the same learning as their peers, which is helping them to close the attainment gap.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Widgit is used across the curriculum, so for example, in Science the pupils use widgits to sort cards into caroll and venn diagrams. In PSHE to sort cards for discussion.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Making our pupils with SEND more independent learners”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Widgit is used throughout our school for pastoral and behaviour support to remind the pupils of expectations as well as to let the teachers know how they are feeling. This impacts in building consistent and restorative relationships with staff and by reducing the time spent away from academic teaching. Feelings scales are in every class alongside a scale of sensations. School rules and corridor rules are displayed in widgit too, adding an inclusive aspect to the school.”
Sam
Speech and Language Therapist
Used Widgit daily for 5 years+
Nov 2024
8/10 - It's a great resource and really makes vocabulary accessible. Although I understand that some elements of Widgit Online need to be under the premium memberships, I would like to see additional languages being provided as standard so that cost of the service isn't a barrier for EAL and bilingual speakers from getting the support they need. This feels at odds with Widgit's ethos.
Sam found Widgit:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Creating resources quickly using the symbol systems that are understood by our students enables me to quickly make information accessible to students. I can be responsive to their needs as quickly as my time allows.”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“The students I work with tend to have severe SLCN needs, so I tend to work on a person-centred basis rather than measuring to attainment and academic outcomes”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“I support students I work with to edit symbol colours, or choose symbols that best represent vocabulary for them to personalise their experience”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“I think once a symbol system is established, yes. I find often teachers forget the need to explain the symbol and teach its meaning (which can take longer initially). I think there is an assumption that providing the symbol is the only support needed, rather than it being used a resource to aid you to make things accessible”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“I think its interesting to put these two ideas together. However, I do think that when a child can access vocabulary around emotions in a way they understand these two things can be impacted positively.”
Nov 2024
Amazing resource! We love it!
Rachel found Widgit:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Quick creation of resources uses the templates”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Slightly increases student collaboration
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Being able to use widgit symbols to unpick behaviours”
Antonia
Year 1 class teacher
Used Widgit daily for 1-2 years
Nov 2024
Antonia found Widgit:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Rather than searching for a resource, I can quickly make one exactly how I want to using their templates.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“It supports my EAL learners hugely by providing visuals.”
- Slightly increases student collaboration
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I can type, children can see instantly and begin to process.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“I have made social stories, checklists, charts, zones of regulation resources all supporting children’s behaviour.”
Nov 2024
I find widget really helpful and useful, i like the way you send updates and notification, I love the way it reads back. I really like the way it can be personalised for individuals and groups as well as been used across the school. However some staff who do not know it well think it is "too hard" to learn" and they can get it off twinkle.
Carol found Widgit:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“new labels, social stories, sets of instructions of task cards”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Slightly increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“small maths group working with ta WITH WIDGET HELP CARDS MEANT THEY ALL COMPLETED TASKDS”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing
Nov 2024
The score of seven was reached by clicking between the 6 and the 8.
Al found Widgit:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“unknown”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“unknown - I'm a tech, not a UI specialist”
- Slightly increases student collaboration“unknown - I'm a tech, not a UI specialist”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“unknown - I'm a tech, not a UI specialist”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing“unknown - I'm a tech, not a UI specialist”
Nov 2024
Miriam found Widgit:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“It's nice to have templates or share resources from website”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Overall better understanding of vocabulary and picture symbols, although there are many symbols still missing or could show better description through design”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The use of picture curs to support language development and communication barriers”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Pupils are able to use symbols to support and regulate behaviours or wellbeing”
Nov 2024
I couldn’t be without it. It makes resources so accessible. Differentiation easy. All pupils can join in. We’ve added it to all aspects of curriculum and classroom environments
Kayleigh found Widgit:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Makes resources so quickly and easily. We have bought several resource bundles too”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Children with literacy difficulties are able to access curriculum learning through the use of Widgit”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Students able to join in a lesson they previously may have missed aspects of”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Makes differentiation easy!”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Pupils can join in with lessons without feeling overwhelmed from literacy difficulties”
Nov 2024
Sep 2024
The customer service at Widgit is incredible, which is why I took time to complete this survey. Charlie Fowler in particular has been a tremendous help - his email efficiency was amazing and he went over and above to resolve my query, more than I had perhaps anticipated. Thank you :-)
Molly found Widgit:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“I feel like it eases SENCo workload but perhaps not teachers but that is because I am the only one using the login!”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“We haven't explored this side yet and tend to use it for task plans and timetables but may explore this in future”
- Significantly increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“It gives predictability to SEND learners, which in turn improves and maintains their wellbeing”
Aug 2024
Our son is autistic and struggles to understand spoken communication or anything other than simple text. The Widgit InPrint software and symbols effectively unlock even complex social stories for him. The symbols and ability to add images enable him to understand the meaning, almost immediately. The InPrint 3 social stories make it possible to navigate stressful situations, such as travelling (airports security / passport control, etc) that he would otherwise be unable to tolerate. As an occasional user, it's also good to know that, if required, the technical support provided is also excellent.
May 2024
It is an invaluable resource to have in school. We absolutely could not manage without it. We use Widget throughout school for all our children as an inclusive tool eg for Neurodivergent children who really value accessing the visual timetables and labels etc. If children do not need it, then they ignore it. It is there for all to use and enables access and inclusion in every aspect of school. Our school is fully labelled and will continue to be so.
Lynne Clegg found Widgit :
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Widget enables children who find reading difficult to access the curriculum and the task with more independence. The children become more self-confident and less reliant on constant adult support.”
- Does not significantly reduce attainment gap“Children who need to use Widget on a daily basis to access the learning are always significantly behind age-related peers, therefore the impact of Widget on the attainment gap is minimal, but it is there. The impact of Widget is most significant with independence and self-esteem because it enables children to work alongside peers without an adult needing to be there every minute.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Children can access the learning and therefore know what is happening and can discuss their learning with adults and peers eg in a science lesson the instructions and all labels were in Widget, enabling a small group of children (who would otherwise have had to work with an adult) to work alongside their peers. These children then recorded their work using Widget labels for sorting and sticking - they achieved the same learning objective (about conductors and insulators) but just through a visual medium.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Teachers have a consistent tool (with many resources) to help them plan and make appropriate tasks for children to access learning with their peers. Widget has excellent templates and a wealth of resources. It is very quick and easy to use - effective inclusion with no fuss or lengthy preparation.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Children who struggle to read lengthy texts or who struggle to read even simple instructions can access Widget through the visual symbols (or photos if the teacher chooses) and this makes them much more confident, raising self-esteem. When children feel safe and included and they know what to do and what is expected of them, their behaviour automatically improves.”
Loise
SENCO, Teacher, Thrive Practitioner
Used Widgit weekly for 1-2 years
May 2024
Has so many capabilities, which is constantly growing. It does take you more time initially to explore, discover and get used to what it can do. We have used links on instagram of others shared ideas too
Loise found Widgit :
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Once explored and familiar with what it can offer the impact on workload is more significant as many resources are either already prepared or made easier to make than previously. Support with differentiation and work that is accessible to all children is vastly supported using Widgit.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“One of our 1:1 TAs has used Widgit to create personalised learning opportunities for the child she is supporting. This is both actual lessons and/ or tools to help him access the learning. Since doing this he is accessing more of his learning than he had done previously, is communicating more readily and is showing bigger steps of progress.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“It helps with differentiation and planning ahead for children who need additional visual prompts”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Support for regulation scales, reward charts, etc. Complements and adds to our behaviour and well being practice”
- Moderately improves attainment“Attainment is enhanced by the support Widgit provides in helping children access learning”
Katy
Speech & Language Therapist
Used Widgit weekly for 3-4 years
May 2024
Feel like there could be easier editing features, does not feel as easy to use as boardmaker
Katy found Widgit :
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“social stories using widget, visual timetables, choosing boards”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“helping young person understand the question easier”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“N/A”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“social stories, visual helpers”
- Slightly improves attainment“N/A”
May 2024
Its so useful in a wide range of situations in both mainstream and SEN classrooms
Amanda found Widgit :
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“I can quickly create resources, set up activities etc”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“More children can access vocabulary etc when widgits are added.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I can tailor tasks the child in different ways quickly”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Children can communicate how they are feeling”
- Significantly improves attainment“For my SEN learners they can communicate and therefore express what they have learnt more easily”
Kerry
ELA teacher
Used Widgit daily for 5 years+
May 2024
I often give trainings within my school to ensure many colleagues use it. It is great for ELA students, which is my job, so I want them to use it in their own lessons too.
Kerry found Widgit :
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Quick visuals to make word lists; schedules with symbols for the lesson schedules; flashcards, bingo games etc”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“You can make written materials accessible to students who are not yet so fluent in reading but can understand the task well when written materials are put into Widgit; students for whom English is not their first language don't need to waste time translating unknown vocabulary when they can see a little picture next to the word.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I don't have to explain all the new words to students who are new to English when there are symbols with written material. The translate tool helps easily and quickly to make dual language word lists to help pre-teach new topic vocabulary.”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“For students who struggle with reading, frustration may lead to acting out. However, with Widgit documents, the students can more easily access the lesson materials and this helps them to stay engaged for longer. Also, visual timetables helps the students who need these to stay on-task.”
- Significantly improves attainment“I can give easy and accessible word lists or vocab charts that help the students to use a more varied vocabulary.”
May 2024
I have been using Widgit Products for nearly 14 years on a daily basis. It’s been an absolute pleasure to watch their products evolve, their database of symbols to grow and, all the additional resources and tools they provide expand overtime. Customer service is absolutely fantastic. They are very responsive and very helpful as well as kind and caring. I would highly recommend their products to other people and encourage them to look through the website and attend any webinars because, there is so much you can get from their products and, they never stop adding new features and new resources which means there’s always something new and exciting to look at or try.
