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24 alternatives to BlindTool

Image recognition app for the visually impaired

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. BlindTool launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
TapTapSee▲73
Helping visually impaired people identify objects
2015 · taptapseeapp.com · its alternatives →
2
Toolwiz Eyes▲75
A tool for blind and visually impaired
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
3
Lenka▲78
A black & white camera app for iOS and Android
2014 · getlenka.com · its alternatives →
4
KNFB Reader App▲62
Text to audio converter camera app for visually impaired
2014 · knfbreader.com · its alternatives →
5
OrCam▲99
Artificial Vision Wearable for the Blind
2014 · orcam.com · its alternatives →
6
Seeing AI▲421
Talking camera for the blind, by Microsoft
2017 · seeingai.com · its alternatives →
7
Braille Cube▲96
Rubiks Cube for the blind
2015 · braillecube.com · its alternatives →
8
YOLO▲175
Real-time object detection
2017 · pjreddie.com · its alternatives →
9
Blindly - Visual Assistant for Blinds▲4
An app that can see the world for blind people
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
10
SwiftBraille▲67
Keyboard for blind and visually impaired - Connect the dots
2016 · en.swiftbraille.com · its alternatives →
11
CloudSight▲128
Image Recognition API
2015 · its alternatives →
12
Supersense▲132
Computer vision for the blind from an MIT-spinoff startup
2020 · its alternatives →
13
Camera FV-5▲97
A camera app with DSLR-like manual controls for Android
2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
14
Attensee▲69
An eye tracking alternative that actually works
2014 · attensee.com · its alternatives →
15
Wayfindr▲158
Empowering blind people to navigate the world independently
2017 · its alternatives →
16
Google Lookout▲125
An app that identifies objects for the visually impaired
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
17
tota11y▲102
An accessibility visualization toolkit from Khan Academy
2015 · khan.github.io · its alternatives →
18
Pixel Winch▲92
An osx screen measurement app
2014 · ricciadams.com · its alternatives →
19
MSQRD for Android▲131
Animated video-selfie filters, now on Android
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
20
I created a PoC for live descriptions of the surroundings for the blind▲73
The difference in cost between products that are developed as accessibility tools compared to consumer products is huge. One example is camera glasses where the accessibility product costs ~$3000 (Envision Glasses), and the consumer product costs ~$300 (Ray-Ban Meta). In this case the Ray-Ban Meta is getting accessibility features. The functionality is promising according to reviews, but requires the user to say "Hey meta what am I looking at" every time a scene is to be described. The battery life seem underwhelming as well. It would be nice to have an cheap and open source alternative to…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
21
Pastec▲87
Open Source Image Recognition Platform for your mobile apps.
2014 · sunwinc.co.com · its alternatives →
22
LLaVaVision: An AI "Be My Eyes"-like web app with a llama.cpp backend▲154
A simple mobile web app inspired by Fuzzy-Search/realtime-bakllava that uses llama.cpp server backend with multimodal mode to describe and narrate what the phone camera sees. I built this thing in a few hours using a single ChatGPT thread to generate most things for me and iterate on this project. Here's the workflow: https://chat.openai.com/share/ea84ec69-5617-45e8-8772-ac2dcf...
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
23
Peek Retina▲69
Smartphone adapter enabling eye exams worldwide(indiegogo)
2014 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
24
Upsense▲69
Touch screen typing for the visually impaired
2014 · its alternatives →

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