Despite smartphones being a huge part in our everyday lives not a lot of people realize that there are a ton of helpful apps for the visually impaired. With that being said here’s our list of the 10 best IOS apps for the visually impaired.
10. Vhista
Seller: Juan David Cruz Serrano
Price: Free (In-App Purchases)
Stars: 5/5
What It Does: Vhista is an object Identification app that uses machine learning and your phones camera to narrate your surroundings. The app is also capable of describing other peoples appearances and can even predict emotions.
9. Color Inspector
Seller: Aaron L’Heureux
Price: Free (In-App Purchases)
Stars: 3.8/5
What It Does: Color Inspector is a color identification app meant to help those who are color blind differentiate between different colors.
8. Prizmo Pro Scanner
Seller: Creaceed SPRL
Price: $9.99 (In-App Purchases)
Stars: 3.6/5
What It Does: Prizmo is a document scanner app capable of scanning and recognizing text based documents, business cards, and images. The app uses voice guidance to help those who are visually impaired properly position their phone to scan the document. Once scanned the app is capable of recognizing the text and reading it back to you.
7. AIpoly Vision
Seller: AIpoly Inc
Price: Free (In-App Purchases)
Stars: 3.6/5
What It Does: AIpoly is an object and color recognition app that identifies and narrates objects in the environment to those who are visually impaired. AIpoly can recognize over 1,000 items without the subscription and does not require an internet connection to function.
6. Talkler
Seller: Talkler Labs, LLC
Price: Free (In-App Purchases)
Stars: 4.5/5
What It Does: Talkler is a free app that lets you control your email via voice commands. The app can read your email to you, mark emails as unread, record a response, and delete emails.
5. TapTapSee
Seller: Cloudsight, Inc
Price: Free
Stars: 4.3/5
What It Does: Taptapsee is an object identification app where you tap anywhere on the screen to take a picture and then the app’s AI will recognize the object and speak the identification back to you.
4. Be My Eyes
Seller: S/I Be My Eyes
Price: Free
Stars: 4.8/5
What It Does: Be My Eyes connects those who are visually impaired and volunteers via video call, where the volunteer can provide assistance in completing simple tasks.
3. NantMobile Money Reader
Seller: IPPLEX Holdings Corporation
Price: Free
Stars: 3.7/5
What It Does: Nant is a currency identification app that is capable of identifying 21 different currencies and then speaks the denomination back to the user.
2. Seeing AI
Seller: Microsoft
Price: Free
Stars: 4.5/5
What It Does: Seeing AI is an identification app that utilizes AI to narrate the world around you. The app is also capable of recognizing text and people.
1. BARD
Seller: Library Of Congress
Price: Free
Stars: 3.6/5
What It Does: BARD is the national library service for the blind and physically handicapped, which provides over 100.000 free, downloadable books and magazines, as well as musical scores to those who qualify.
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