iSmart is an inclusive education app designed for learning difficulties. It gives back confidence to students struggling to read and write. 
 
iSmart is a young startup company based in Malta, which brings together 6 founders that have worked on this concept for around 5 years now. iSmart initially started as an EU project, where this team and other partners applied for funds to test out a first assistive software aimed for dyslexic children. We developed and piloted with around 100 children from Sweden, Turkey and the Czech Republic. After the end of the project, and seeing the need for such product on the market, we have been working on the redesigning of the new iSmart. We have now registered the company as a limited liability business in Malta and we started launching our first products this year.

Our solution has been guided by psychologists, parents and dyslexics themselves and combines several different features in one single app. iSmart comes with a simple-to-use interface having nifty ideas like the reading ruler or the 'karaoke' text making it much simpler for children to read. Other functions include text-to-speech, speech-to-text, mind mapping, letter colouring, special text formatting and many others. The multilingual versions also help students in different countries or when they are learning a foreign language. 
 
Our platform has versions for parents, psychologists, teachers and learning support assistants that together work in tandem with the student version giving both support and reporting. iSmart exists in three versions: iSmart Home, iSmart Class and iSmart School. 
 
Students can access all these great features from any mobile device, being a smartphone or a tablet. 
 
We will be delivering iSmart via all the app stores - Android, iOS and Windows - and we are building a reseller network in different countries to help us distribute and support iSmart in the local language.
 
When it comes to what value will be created, iSmart has these wonderful benefits:

• Links the timetable with the materials and homework shared by the teachers
• Makes students enjoy going to school again
• Helps them during the day, and even in the evening at home
• Teaches them how to study using visual aids like mindmapping 
• Assists with reading and writing large chunks of texts 
• Makes it easier for them to communicate their feelings using emoticons
• Eases the students’ memory overload
• Gives teachers a method they can use with students having learning difficulties
• Helps parents communicate more with the learning support teacher about their child
• Gives better feedback and reporting to psychologists and other support teachers