WayAround - Tag and Scan

Name: WayAround - Tag and Scan
Rating: 4.1 (33 reviews)
Author: Blind InSites, LLC

By: Blind InSites, LLC

Accessible Labels for Anything

Features & Capabilities

Tap your phone to a WayTag, and the shirt tells you it's the navy polo. The bottle tells you it's the antibiotic, twice daily, finish the course. The can tells you it's black beans, expires next March.

WayAround turns everyday objects into things that can speak for themselves, giving blind and low-vision users a faster, more independent way to identify and organize the items around them.

"Information is power, and WayAround takes it to the next level." Neva Fairchild, retired, American Foundation for the Blind

HOW IT WORKS

Stick, clip, or pin a WayTag (sold separately) onto anything: clothing, medication, pantry items, files, appliances, cables, plants. Use the app to write whatever info you want onto the tag. From then on, a quick tap of your phone reads it back instantly through VoiceOver or your preferred accessibility settings.

No camera. No aiming. No barcode hunting. Just tap and know.

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IT

Identify things in a second. Tap a tag and hear the description immediately. Swipe for more detail when you want it.

Store real information, not just labels. Unlimited characters per tag allows for full washing instructions, dosage schedules, ingredient lists, or links to other resources like a user manual. Rewrite tags as often as you like.

Work the way you already work. WayAround is built around VoiceOver, high-contrast visuals, large type, braille displays, and voice dictation. Whatever accessibility setup you use on your iPhone, the app fits into it.

Stay organized offline. Your tags work without an internet connection, and your data backs up automatically to the cloud when you reconnect.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

"WayAround is a simple and cost-effective solution for labeling just about anything." J.J. Meddaugh, AT Guys

"I love it. So much easier than a barcode reader or anything you have to focus with a camera." Melissa Wagner, user

FOR BUSINESSES AND BRANDS

WayAround's patented public-tag solution lets any business add accessible information that anyone can read with a tap, improving the experience for customers with disabilities and beyond. Learn more at wayaround.com/public.

GETTING STARTED

WayTags come as stickers, magnets, buttons, and clips. Buy them at wayaround.com/shop or through an assistive technology distributor.

COMPATIBILITY

WayAround works with the built-in NFC on iPhone 7 and later. For iPad users or older iPhones, the WayLink Scanner (sold separately) connects via Bluetooth and sends tag info to the app.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Blind InSites, LLC

Rating:

4.10

(33)

Version:

4.6.0 Last updated: 2026-04-24

Version code:

886900479

Creation date:

2018-01-09

Compatible devices:

Size:

43.36MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-13

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 241,096 ▼ 762

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Contact the developer

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Developed by:

Blind InSites, LLC

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wayaround-tag-and-scan/id1294361140

Website:

https://www.wayaround.com/solution/

User Reviews

WayAround is praised for accessibility and versatility, enabling easy labeling across clothes, kitchen, garden, and home items with VoiceOver support and read-aloud features. Reviewers highlight strong support, tutorials, and a broad tag ecosystem that boosts independence. A recurring drawback is hardware dependence: older iPhones may not function without a WayLink scanner, and marketing materials don’t clearly spell out these requirements. Overall, the app offers meaningful accessibility and practicality, but hardware prerequisites can pose a barrier for some users.

Pros

Excellent accessibility: the app is 100% VoiceOver accessible with a read-aloud feature that helps users access tag information.
Very user-friendly and versatile: labels can be used across clothing, kitchen, pantry, garden, and home items with multiple tag types and detailed descriptions.
Promotes independence and organization: helps both visually impaired and sighted users identify and manage items quickly, reducing dependence on others.
Strong support and resources: responsive customer service, helpful staff, extensive tutorials/videos, and suggestions to try a sample pack.
Broad ecosystem and compatibility: works with iPhone and Android, supports WayLink scanner, and accommodates various WayAround tags for faster scanning.

Cons

Hardware compatibility limitations: older iPhone models (e.g., iPhone 6s) may not work without the WayLink scanner, and such hardware requirements are not clearly disclosed in marketing materials.

Recent reviews

I love using waytags—very fast and convenient. The app usually works pretty well, although I wish they would make the date pickers more accessibility friendly. Maybe with separate month, day, year selectors, instead of the large calendar view that doesn’t even open if you tap on a date. The biggest problem though, is the Waycloud syncing. When you first open the app, it takes between 20 45 seconds to connect to their cloud. The app doesn’t bother to beep or otherwise indicate that it is not connected, or let you know when it has connected, you just have to keep checking the graphical indicator Manually (if you are using the screen reader, as most people are, you can’t just glance at it until it changes). The issue with this, is that if you scan a tag, especially if you create a new tag, before it has connected, The contents of that tag may change after it reaches out to the cloud. So through trial and error, and having several tags that I know were correct originally, become incorrect later, I have learned that the only way for the app to be reliable is to wait until it has the cloud connection. So it would be much more useful if they would block out app usage until the cloud is connected, or at least give you some audible indicator that they are trying to connect to the cloud and you’ll just have to be patient until they do. Otherwise the app becomes unreliable and Even the opposite of useful, because tags get erroneous information.