Jason Rinn and Eric Sailers met in spring 2008 while training for a full marathon. As they did training runs, they began to discover a shared interest for mobile technologies. Eric was inspired by his childhood experience in speech-language therapy, and more recently, as a clinician who uses mobile apps as intervention tools. Meanwhile, Jason was interested in beginning a new career in mobile phone development. Eric and Jason ultimately decided to co-create iOS apps for children with special needs.

Jason started a company called RinnApps to create apps with Eric. The first app that they developed was Percentally. Working in the schools, Eric was eager to have an easy-to-use data collection tool for tracking progress on children’s educational goals. Once the app was completed, they decided to integrate detailed data collection in apps for children with speech sound difficulties. The result was ArtikPix for articulation, and PhonoPix for phonology.