Kya Baat is an Urdu medical communication app I developed and released in 2021 at the age of thirteen. It’s intended for patients with conditions which limit their movement and verbal communication.

The app features large buttons which the user can press to communicate needs, feelings, and other general phrases to their caregiver by playing pre-recorded audio messages. It also includes settings for male or female audio, a whiteboard to write on and an option to play an alarm upon shaking the device.

Perhaps my most unexpected accomplishment was giving an interview live on television on SAMAA TV’s Morning Show regarding the app!

I made the decision to keep the app completely ad-free, unlike others of its kind. I wanted the user experience to be completely distraction free and for the app to use the entire phone’s screen which advertisements would otherwise take up, allowing the buttons to be larger and easier to interact with. After all, this is an app which is still actively used by over 300 people, and I do not intend to bring any inconvenience for a quick profit.

I’ve received many comments on how people’s loved ones have greatly benefited from Kya Baat. One of my favourite ones was someone telling me that it helped multiple non-verbal children in a special needs school communicate easier. It’s stories like these which I find to be far more valuable than any amount of money I might have made by including advertisements in the app!

Five years later, I continue to keep the app up to date to work with the latest devices and Android updates, and I intend to do so for the coming future. I never expected this app to gain as much publicity or downloads as it did, however it allowed for more people who could benefit from its use to know of its existence, so I see it as a huge plus.

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