About

A small team, trying to do this the right way.

Simple ASL is an independent, self-funded project. We're not a big tech company. We don't have VC money breathing down our neck. We're building slowly, publicly, and with one central question in front of us: does this respect the community it's meant to serve?

Why this exists

American Sign Language is a full language carried by a real community. The internet is full of apps that either lock ASL learning behind a subscription, scrape other people's teaching work, or flatten regional variation into one "standard" sign. We don't want to be any of those. We want to be the dictionary that links out to the people who know, pays them when we record original content, and ships honest labels on every piece of media.

How we work

• Reference-first. We don't copy Lifeprint lessons or embed restricted third-party videos. Every entry links out to Deaf-led sources — Lifeprint, ASL Signbank, ASLCORE, DeafTEC, and more.
• Deaf-led content. When we commission original video, we pay Deaf signers as licensed performers. They keep credit. They can request removal at any time.
• Honest labels. Every video carries a performer role (Deaf native / Deaf fluent / learner-created) and a review status. No guessing.
• Regional variation valued. We want to ship variants, not erase them.

What we're not doing

• We are not scraping YouTube signers to train AI avatars.
• We are not selling your browsing data or building a behaviour-advertising product.
• We are not claiming to be the "definitive" ASL source. The Deaf community is the authority. We just help people find them.

Talk to us

If you see something wrong, please tell us. Corrections are always welcome and we'll document every change in the release notes.

Email: hello@simpleasl.com
Signers interested in paid recording work: the partner program.