Mobile Apps

Sullivan+

Sullivan+ is a visual-aid app provided by TUAT Inc. to enhance the accessibility of the visually impaired and low vision users and informs users who need visual aids about information perceived via the smartphone camera.

Seeing AI

Seeing AI is a scanner app for the visually impaired developed by Microsoft for the IOS app store. The app uses an AI to narrate the world to mixed results.  The app includes nine scanner modes Short Text, Handwriting, Document, Product (bar-code), Person, Currency, Scene, Color, and Light scan.

TapTapSee

Take a photo and it will tell you what the item is and what color. TapTapSee utilizes your device’s camera and VoiceOver functions to take a picture or video of anything and identify it out loud for you.

Voice Dream Reader

Voice Dream Reader supports reading PDF and Word documents, DRM-free EPUB and DAISY eBooks, Web pages and more. It's directly integrated with Bookshare, Dropbox, G-Drive, Evernote, Pocket, Instapaper, and Gutenberg. It is of the popular apps that read text from any document. 

BlindSquare

BlindSquare uses GPS and the compass to locate you. It then gathers information about the surrounding environment from FourSquare. BlindSquare has some unique algorithms to decide what information is the most relevant and then speaks it to you with high-quality speech synthesis.

Be My Eyes

Be My Eyes is an app that connects visually impaired people with sighted volunteers who provide virtual assistance through a live video call. Be My Eyes is available in 180 languages.

Aipoly Vision

Aipoly Vision utilizes artificial intelligence to help low-vision people better understand what’s around them. Users point the app at an object and simply press a recognition button.

Ariadne GPS

Ariadne GPS allows visually impaired users to navigate directions using talking maps and an innovative interface. Ariadne works anywhere accessible by Google Maps.

Audible

Audible provides a wide selection of audible books, including recent popular titles, classics, and academic text.

BeSpecular

Using the BeSpecular app, the visually impaired person takes a photo of what he or she needs help with and attaches a voice message. The visually impaired person’s photo & question are sent to our BeSpecular community of sighted. Those sighted who are available can reply to the visually impaired person via the BeSpecular app with a voice or text message. Within minutes, a visually impaired person receives a reply and then rates out of 5 stars the helpfulness of the sighted.

Big Digital Clock

Big Digital Clock is the perfect time-telling app for the visually impaired! This app tells digital time using the entire phone screen; brightness and colors can be adjusted according to the user’s preference.

Blind Bargains

Blind Bargains assists the visually impaired community by providing the latest deals in one place. Users can purchase Braille printers, screen readers, and other accessible products.

Blind Square

Blind Square is a highly accessible GPS app designed for the visually impaired. It describes the surrounding terrain and announces street intersections.

Digit Eyes

Digit Eyes was created with the visually impaired shopper in mind. This app reads a manufacturer’s barcode and audibly the name of the product. Users can also record their own labels for household items.

Facing Emotions

Facing Emotions is an app that translates seven major emotions on the human face: anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, surprise, contempt into corresponding sounds, allowing visually impaired users to have a deeper connection with the person they are talking to.

Envision

Envision is a smartphone app that empowers blind and low vision users to be independent by speaking out the visual world around them. Read all kinds of text. Know what’s around you. Find what you’re looking for.

iDentifi

iDentifi is an app that allows for visually impaired individuals to gain more independence in daily tasks like grocery shopping, self-navigating in indoor environments, and reading. It uses artificial intelligence to enable a visually impaired user to click a photo and is able to recognize virtually any object, brand, color, facial expression, handwriting, and text, and subsequently deliver an audible description of the image’s contents to the user.

Intersection Explorer

Intersection Explorer speaks the layout of the streets and intersections in neighborhoods as you touch and drag your finger around the map. This helps blind and low vision users get an understanding of a neighborhood both before venturing out and while on the go.

Greta

Greta is an app that enables people with sight or hearing loss to experience fully accessible cinema. It also includes foreign language subtitles and audio versions for an international audience. Greta is a special app: it plays the existing audio description (AD) or subtitles for hard-of-hearing individuals and people with hearing loss (SDH) at any time, place, or screening – in indoor and outdoor cinemas, at home, at school, etc. – simply, using one’s own smart device. Greta whispers audio descriptions or plays subtitles.

Kindle

Kindle is an app that allows users to download books from Amazon. Kindle offers accommodations for the visually impaired, including large print and narrators.

KNFB Reader

KNFB Reader translates written words into speech or Braille. This app also allows users to easily send and share documents.

Lazarillo GPS for Blind

The intelligent guide application for blind people and visually impaired, who guides you by voice messages in the city

Lazzus: blind GPS assistant

Lazzus is an accessible application for mobile devices, designed for blind and visual impaired people, which allows to obtain in real-time the points of interest within the visual field of each user among other functions like:

• Knowing your current location (Street & number).
• Adding favorite places.
• Browse a nearby places list.

Light Detector

Light Detector helps blind users hear light rather than seeing it. Users will be able to gage the intensity of light based on how high or low the correlating sound is.

Learning Ally

Learning Ally is designed for K-12 students who learn best by listening; this app provides audible grade-level content and is appropriate for both sighted and visually impaired users.

Magnifying Glass with Light

Magnifying Glass with Light is designed for low vision users. This app allows users to magnify text or other objects up to ten times their natural size. This app is perfect for someone with a mild visual impairment who wishes to read a menu, a recipe, etc.

Smart Magnifier

This app turns your device into a Magnifying Glass with camera zoom, auto-focus and LED flash.

Navilens

NaviLens, an app that makes it easier for visually impaired people to access information through QR codes of colors, has a new functionality available for users to download tags for their own personal use. Until now these tags were available in public spaces such as train stations. In this new functionality, the codes provided are blank for users to record any information about the objects in their environment. The developers have created tags of different sizes that can be adjusted to the needs of remote reading. In addition, they are printable and easily separated.

Prizmo

Prizmo is a photo-based app that allows users to scan documents to PDF using advanced text-to-speech features. Prizmo utilizes OCR (Optimal Calendar Recognition) and is available in 23 languages.

Seeing AI

Seeing AI can “see” and describe the world around you, including short text, documents, products, currency, colors, and environmental scenes. The app can even read handwriting—sticky notes or a sweet missive from someone you love. Here’s a little known fact: the post office has been using the same kind of technology for years to scan and direct mail quickly—a great example of existing technology being leveraged to support those living with vision issues.

Smart Braille

Smart Braille allows Android users to communicate via an app-version of braille. Smart Braille features two majors, one that allows users to write text in braille and the other that allows them to translate text into braille.

Microsoft Soundscape

Microsoft Soundscape is a research project that explores the use of innovative audio-based technology to enable people, particularly those with blindness or low vision, to build a richer awareness of their surroundings, thus becoming more confident and empowered to get around. Unlike step-by-step navigation apps, Soundscape uses 3D audio cues to enrich ambient awareness and provide a new way to relate to the environment. It allows you to build a mental map and make personal route choices while being more comfortable within unfamiliar spaces.

Talking Calculator

Talking Calculator provides voiceover support to audibly add, subtract, multiply, and divide. This app is useful to both the sighted and the visually impaired and is appropriate for all ages.

Tap Tap See

Tap Tap See is a mobile camera app designed with the visually impaired user in mind. Tap Tap See uses a voiceover function to take photos of any object, identifying it out loud for the user.

ViaOpta Hello

The mobile app uses the Smartphones’s camera to take pictures of objects or people and then uses the back-end cognitive services to provide a description. The desktop app can provide a description of the content of pictures from any available document library, and if the picture contains a known contact, the app will identify them by name. ViaOpta Hello is available in twelve languages including English, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Greek, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and Hungarian.

Visual Braille

Visual Braille is an easy way to learn braille, making this a useful app both for the blind and the sighted. Visual Braille allows for self-paced instruction.

WayAround

The WayAround app features a tag-and-scan functionality that lets smartphones read a tag you might add to anything in your environment. For example, you can tag the clothes in your closet with descriptions and color information. Your phone both creates and reads the tag descriptions. You can order the postage sized tags at the WayAround website, and your Apple or Android phone does the rest of the work.

Audm

With Audm, you get to listen to stories from the most prestigious publishers including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, WIRED, Vanity Fair, and many more. Even if you don’t already subscribe to them.

ThirdEye

ThirdEye restores autonomy to visually impaired persons’ lives by enabling them to recognize everyday objects. All the user has to do is touch one button and our technology verbally returns back whatever object the user is looking at within seconds (for example a “5 US Dollar Bill” or an “Ibuprofen bottle”).

FAR Vision

FAR Vision is designed to work with or without TalkBack. With TalkBack enabled, FAR Vision provides audio prompts that will help guide you accurately to FAR Accessible business entrances, emergency exits, bathrooms, and other important points of interest within a business. If you have low vision and do not have TalkBack enabled, FAR Vision has large text and high contrast to make it easier to read.

Supersense

Supersense is the smartest assistive app that helps blind and visually impaired users to read, find objects, and explore places independently. It provides a set of digital eyes to make the physical world more accessible for the blind and low vision community.

Eye Exercises & Training Plans

Download and try Eye Care Plus now and relax your tired eyes, fight double vision, improve peripheral vision, improve eye focus speed, fight shortsightedness and longsightedness. 3 million installs strong, Eye Care Plus is the #1 eye training, testing, and learning app on mobile. Eye Care Plus is all about giving you better vision and having fun.

Games for visually impaired

All the most popular crossword, codewords and other logic puzzles from magazines and journals are finally gathered together in one convenient application adapted for the requirements of visually impaired, blind and elderly people. These puzzles and games can be used to train your brain, improve the vocabulary, and develop cognitive skills and imagination without becoming boring and cloying. Cognitive games slow down dementia and help the brain stay toned.

A Blind Legend

Live the adventures of Edward Blake, the famous blind knight! Guided by your daughter Louise, you must find your way and avoid the many traps that lie in store in the High Castle Kingdom, while confronting dangerous enemies!

Low Vision Tip Calculator

This app is specifically designed for visually impaired users. It can be used with or without Talkback and its verbal prompts. This app can be used for one or multiple payers as a tip and split calculator. Large print and large keys are helpful to see and type correct numbers. Voice assistance makes it easy to navigate through the app for users with visual impairment (low vision).

Kibo

Kibo provides an end-to-end content accessibility platform and makes reading-learning inclusive for all (including the blind, low-vision and visually-impaired people) while supporting 60+ international languages and 11 file-formats including PDF, TXT, EPUB, Daisy, DOCX, JPG, JPEG, PNG, MP3, OPUS, OGG. Not just that, you can use it as an audio player and even access over 1 Million+ books from our digital library partners.

Visor - low vision magnifier

Enlarge difficult to read text by 3 magnification levels and change contrast to 5 different viewing modes. Optionally, turn on the LED flash of your device to help you see better in low-light conditions. Visor supports VoiceOver with TalkBack in German and English.