silentcare is an app for a clinic's shared phone in Ghana. Patients answer with pictures and see the doctor's questions in Ghanaian Sign Language. Staff speech becomes captions, and the patient's typed replies are spoken aloud.
Coming soon toGoogle Play
No internet needed, apart from captions on older phones.
Open the app and start a visit. Nothing to sign up for.
End visit clears everything for the next patient.
No ads, no fees and nothing to buy.
A nurse or doctor leads each visit on the clinic's phone. Full-screen pages show when to hand the phone over, so everyone knows whose turn it is.
The patient shows how they communicate: sign language, reading, writing, lip-reading, or with someone who signs. A staff card tells each desk how to talk with them.
The patient taps where it hurts, how much, and what else they feel, all with pictures. Then they hand the phone back.
The clinician sees the patient's answers as plain sentences. Then they ask questions with sign language videos, and talk with captions.
Check the instructions were understood, and give the patient a card that shows where to go next. End visit clears everything for the next patient.
Five tabs: Home, Symptoms, Questions, Talk and Settings. Home runs the visit, and the others are the tools a visit uses.
Home shows the four steps of a visit and what to do next. Full-screen pages show who should hold the phone, and a staff card tells each desk that the patient is Deaf and how to talk with them.
A body map, a pain scale with faces, and symptom cards in groups. The patient taps their answers, and the app turns them into plain sentences for the clinician.
53 questions that nurses and doctors often ask. Each one has a video of the question signed in Ghanaian Sign Language, and the patient answers with pictures, yes or no, or the pain scale.
Search by what a question says, its group, or everyday words such as “tablet” or “ANC”. A bar of group chips stays pinned at the top, and Favourites keeps the questions your clinic asks most.
The clinician's speech shows as live captions. The patient replies by typing or tapping a quick phrase, and the phone speaks it aloud. Both sides show as chat bubbles.
Before the patient leaves, the nurse taps the places they go next, in order: pay, lab, scan, pharmacy, the doctor or home. The patient gets a picture card to show at each desk, and the route goes in the recap.
A short welcome guide shows staff how a visit works the first time the app opens. Settings is for the person who looks after the phone.
Calm, clear and quick, for patients who may be unwell and staff who have little time.
Many Deaf adults in Ghana learned Ghanaian Sign Language first and read English as a second language. Every step works with pictures and taps.
The main action on each screen is at most two taps away.
Everything that makes a sound also shows on the screen and gives a small vibration.
Large text, large buttons and plain English. Labels are never in capitals.
Made for older and smaller Android phones, poor internet, large text and dark mode.
No points or streaks. Things you can press look pressable, and a chosen answer shows a tick, not only a colour.
So silentcare keeps nothing about them.
There is nothing to sign up for, and silentcare has no server of its own.
A visit lives only in the phone’s memory. End visit clears it, and a visit ends itself after 2 hours in the background.
Everything works without internet. The one exception: on Android 12 and older, captions use Google's online speech service, and only after the user agrees.
Which questions are pinned in Favourites, and how often each question is asked. Never who answered or what they said. Settings can clear it.