ReWrite: Handwriting Rehab
ReWrite is for handwriting and hand-dexterity practice, including the small, cramped writing of micrographia. It is designed for the person’s own pace, works entirely offline, collects no data, and comes in seventeen languages.
Handwriting is more than a skill. It’s your signature, a birthday card, a form filled in without asking for help — small acts of independence that a stroke or neurological condition can quietly take away. For many people with aphasia, getting writing back is part of getting language back. ReWrite helps you build it back, one stroke at a time, calmly and at your own pace, at home — alongside the speech and language therapy that works on the words themselves.
It guides your hand from single letters to words to whole sentences, with on-screen stroke-order prompts and real vocabulary in your own language; never translated menus. ReWrite is made for adults relearning to write after stroke, brain injury, aphasia, MS, Parkinson’s and other neurological conditions. It isn’t a children’s penmanship app.
When a loved one had to relearn a skill she’d had all their life, I wanted something patient, encouraging and available in our own language. So I built it. At home in the UK for adults rebuilding what illness or injury took, and for the people who care for them.
About the Creator:
My name is Liam Anstey, and I’m from South Wales in the United Kingdom. Earlier this year my partner had a significant stroke at the age of 35, which affected several areas of her recovery. What struck us in those early weeks was how little there was for her to practise with at home, between therapy sessions. That gap is what led me to build ReWrite: a handwriting and hand-dexterity practice app for adults relearning to write after stroke and other neurological conditions, designed to sit alongside speech and language therapy, not replace it.
By background, I have always worked in healthcare. I’m currently Director for Wales at the General Pharmaceutical Council, the pharmacy regulator (certification board) in Great Britain. I founded Ansteyapps Limited in April this year to build accessible, affordable apps for people recovering from stroke and neurological conditions, and for the families supporting them. My experience with aphasia and stroke is a personal and family one rather than a clinical one — which is exactly why making these tools patient, affordable, and available in people’s own language matters so much to me.
