Smartphone apps that help make it easier to live in a world where we can’t see as well as others.
Ability
Ability is an app that helps people with any type of disability successfully navigate public places and search for accessible features at any public space (example: store, restaurant, park, etc.)
Access Note
AccessNote is a sophisticated note-taking app designed to support visually impaired students and working professionals. AccessNote is compatible with VoiceOver.
Availability: iOS
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.
Availability: Android, iOS
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.
Availability: Android, iOS
Audible
Audible provides a wide selection of audible books, including recent popular titles, classics, and academic text.
Availability: Android, iOS
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.
Availability: Android, iOS
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.
Availability: Android, iOS
A Blind Legend
A Blind Legend is one of the first audio-only mobile video games available to both sighted and non-sighted players. Using three-dimensional sound, the game features a blind knight who must journey to the High Castle Kingdom to rescue his wife with his daughter Louise’s help. Players navigate and interact with the game using the touchscreen.
Blind Square
Blind Square is a highly accessible GPS app designed for the visually impaired. It describes the surrounding terrain and announces street intersections.
Availability: iOS
Color ID
Color ID assists the visually impaired by distinguishing the colors in various items around them. Color ID works by identifying colors around the user and speaking those colors aloud. A visually impaired user could use this app when making clothing selections or tell if the fruit is ripe.
Availability: iOS
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 labels for household items.
Availability: iOS
Envision AI
Envision App offers a range of visual recognition features that enables blind and visually impaired users to access visual information around them independently.
Availability: iOS and Android
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.
Availability: Android, iOS
KNFB Reader
KNFB Reader translates written words into speech or Braille. This app also allows users to send and share documents easily.
Availability: Android, iOS
Light Detector
Light Detector helps blind users hear light rather than seeing it. Users will gauge the intensity of light based on how high or low the correlating sound is.
Availability: iOS
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.
Availability: Android, iOS
LookTel Money Reader
LookTel Money Reader allows visually impaired users to count their money accurately. LookTel works to identify currency and speaks the denomination. This is an excellent app for blind users who wish to practice independence financially.
Availability: iOS
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.
Availability: iOS
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.
Availability: iOS
Seeing AI
Seeing AI is an artificial intelligence application developed by Microsoft for iOS. Seeing AI uses the device camera to identify people and objects, and then the app audibly describes those objects for people with visual impairment.
Availability: iOS
Talking Calculator
Talking Calculator provides voiceover support to add audibly, subtract, multiply, and divide. This app is useful to both the sighted and the visually impaired and is appropriate for all ages.
Availability: Android iOS
Talking Tags
Talking Tags is designed to help blind users create labels or tags for everyday items. These coded tags can help users select which box to fill when moving or which jar to take out of the fridge.
Availability: Android iOS
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 aloud for the user.
Availability: Android, iOS
Transit
Transit is a mobile app providing real-time public transit data—the app functions in over 175 metropolitan areas worldwide. Transit was designed to aggregate and map real-time public transit data, crowdsourcing user data to determine buses and trains’ actual location.
Availability: Android, iOS
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.
Availability: iOS
Viz Wiz
Viz Wiz allows low-vision users to take a photo of an object and ask a question answered through a series of algorithms. For example, a user might photograph two cans of vegetables and utilize the app to determine corn and carrots.
Availability: Android, iOS
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