The first thing that impresses me about Sosh is the app’s completeness. It’s meant to help people with Asperger’s Syndrome (high functioning autism) navigate social situations and Sosh gives you virtually every tool you could possibly have in one electronic iPhone toolbox. It’s the Swiss Army knife of apps!

Sosh revolves around five essential abilities for social skills development: Relate, Relax, Reason, Regulate, and Recognize.

What do you get in Sosh? A whole lot. Let me try to cover some of the bases here. You get a journal, a goals area, a to-do list, a rating scale that you can use to rate anything from Liz’s hairstyle to Herbert’s new motorcycle to how happy you are with your new dog. You also get a behavior tracking area, a voice meter, an interest log, and a shredder that you can use to get rid of any negative thought, feeling or situation. And there’s lots more but I don’t want to turn this review into a long list of features! Wow!

Some of my favorite parts of Sosh are the Shredder and the Facial Expressions gallery. Love the shredder! It’s visual, it’s audible, it’s brilliant! You just type your trouble and drag it into the shredder to see it vanquished! And the Facial Expressions gallery is a great spot within the app to brush up on recognizing emotions. And, of course, it’s visual too.

Another one of my personal favorites is the section of this incredible app called What Did That Mean? This section helps you understand many of the most common idioms in the English language such as “Made of money.” If someone is “made of money” it means they have a lot of money, not that they are literally constructed from money, right? Ever thought of how your thinking would change if someone tells you they are about to “make a killing” and you misunderstand that statement? You might be prompted to call the Police! Uh oh! This section of the app outlines these expressions in plain English.

Maybe you want to email somebody your goals for the day. Sosh does that. Maybe you want a timer to help you deal with an upcoming transition. Sosh does that too. In fact, it does SO many things that you won’t believe it. This autism app even provides you with a visual of a pump and a balloon for when you want to express your level of stress. Be careful, because if you inflate the stress balloon too much it will pop!

Fantastic as it is, Sosh has a couple quirks that keep it from 5 stars. During testing the app consistently crashed when I tried to email ratings after archiving them. A few other little criticisms are that some of the sounds in Block Out don’t loop seamlessly, the registration page on MySosh.com comes up tiny within the app, and somehow I was able to run two simultaneous Transition Timers without realizing it.

Nevertheless, Sosh is amazing. Most apps only attempt to cover a single base, but the developer of Sosh is trying to cover the whole infield… and they’re doing it quite well! I can see how this app could be a great tool for anyone with Asperger’s or high functioning autism from teens on up.