Seeing AI

What Seeing AI is

Seeing AI is a free app designed with and for blind and low vision people. It uses audio to describe information captured by a phone camera or shared from other apps. The app reads text in front of the camera and provides audio cues for aligning and capturing printed documents while retaining their formatting. It describes photos, answers questions about them, and lets users explore object locations by touch. Barcode and accessible QR-code scanning includes audio guidance and can provide product or package information when available. Other features include recognizing saved friends and coworkers, estimating age, gender, and expression, recognizing currency notes, identifying colors, and signaling light brightness with a tone. Photos and videos can be shared from apps such as Mail, Photos, and WhatsApp for description. Seeing AI is available on Android and iOS, and its Android listing describes TalkBack-oriented interface changes. The World audio augmented reality feature requires LiDAR and iOS 14 or later. The app’s Android data-safety statement says data is not encrypted and cannot be deleted.