3.5
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About this app

Envision is the fastest, most reliable and award-winning free OCR app that speaks out the visual world, helping people who are blind or have low vision to lead more independent lives.
Envision is developed for and together with our community. The app is simple, gets things done and brings the best assistive experience to blind and low vision users.
Simply use your phone camera to scan any piece of text, your surroundings, objects, people or products and everything will be read out to you thanks to Envision’s smart artificial intelligence (AI) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
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What Envision users say about the app:
“Incredibly easy to turn any kind of text into speech. It has improved my independence a lot. - Kimberly from USA. Easy going text recognition. Text recognition is outstanding. Good for independence. Ease of use is immaculate” - Noahis from Australia
“Amazing. I love it. I'm blind and I love how easy it is to use. Amazing job!!!!” - Matt from Canada
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With full talkback support, Envision enables you to:
Read all kinds of text:
• Instantly read any piece of text in over 60 different languages.
• Easily scan your paper documents (single or multiple pages) with the help of audio-guided edge detection. All content is spoken back to you and is ready for export and edit.
• Import PDFs and images to get a description of the image and recognition of all the text within it.
• Quickly read handwritten postcards, letters, lists and other paperwork.
Know what's around you:
• Effortlessly describe visual scenes around you.
• Detect colour on your clothes, walls, books, you name it.
• Swiftly scan barcodes to get extensive information about the products.
Find what you're looking for:
• Find people around you; the names of your family and friends are spoken out whenever they are in the frame.
• Find objects around you; selecting common objects from the in-app list to find them.
Share:
• Share images or documents from your phone or other apps like Twitter or WhatsApp by selecting ‘Envision It’ from the share sheet. Envision can then read and describe those images for you.
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Feedback, questions or feature requests?
We welcome everyone to provide their feedback about the Envision app, as we’re constantly improving.
Please email us at [email protected].
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Please read our Terms of Use & Privacy Policy: https://www.LetsEnvision.com/terms
If you're still reading all the way down here, we'd like to thank you for your diligence, attention to detail and general commitment to finishing something that you started. Just like all the team working at Envision!
Updated on
Dec 16, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Personal info and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.5
7.8K reviews
Mary Lea
August 29, 2024
Why does it expect a blind person to read the descriptions it makes of faces and scenes? If I could read without extra support I wouldn't be using a device for the blind. How do I get it to talk to me? Occasionally it barks out words, but inconsistently. I am so frustrated - and very confused. I hope there's a work around, but shouldn't the reader come as standard, rather than text in app? What's going on? Whats the point of an app for the blind that you need sighted companions to read?
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Envision Technologies B.V.
November 5, 2024
Thank you for your review Mary. To enable spoken descriptions, please ensure that auto-play is turned on when scanning text. As different features have unique settings, we’d be glad to guide you through these options to improve your experience. Feel free to reach out with details at [email protected], and we’ll be happy to assist further.
Stanley Yang
November 1, 2024
🚨 As of Nov 2024, the AI has deteriorated; very rude, inaccurate & unhelpful! With Meta's new VR glasses which is much more useful, & cost just US$299, everything EnvisionAi tries to sell is obsolete, useless & grossly overpriced at over 10 times! ChatGPT recommended Envision AI to me back in 2023. The dev need to do soul searching, as to how they were at the front-front of AI technology, but is now now a pale shadow & bad joke. A cautionary tale when a tech company puts profits over people!
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Envision Technologies B.V.
November 14, 2024
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Stanley. We strive to provide the best experience and are committed to ongoing improvements to meet user needs. We value all feedback and would like to understand your specific concerns in more detail. Please reach out at [email protected] so we can assist you and work toward a 5-star experience.
Michael Hartgrove
September 18, 2024
I really do love this app. This app has helped me from trying to read instructions at home to reading mail at home. To help me at work trying to read product names and barcodes identify products. It is also help me read documents at work. And when I couldn't tell what color things were it helped me there as well this app is a must for anyone from Grandpa and Grandma, legally blind, low vision. Thank you to the developers of this app this app has improved my life in so many ways.
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Envision Technologies B.V.
November 5, 2024
Thank you so much for your 5-star rating, Michael —We’re thrilled to hear that you love the app. Your support means a lot to us, and we’re committed to continuously improving to give you the best experience possible. We remain at your service at [email protected]

What’s new

- Envision Glasses 2025 Pass update
- Translation Fix