Seeing AI

Name: Seeing AI
Rating: 4.3 (630 reviews)
Author: Microsoft Corporation

By: Microsoft Corporation App

Talking Camera for the Blind

Overview

Version:

5.6.1

Last updated: 2025-09-04

Ranking

#68,589 ▼ 29

Overall

Features & Capabilities

Seeing AI is a free AI-powered app designed with and for the blind and low-vision community. It narrates the world around you by describing nearby people, text, and objects, turning visual input into audio guidance and supporting tasks like reading text aloud, describing photos, and identifying products.

Beyond reading, Seeing AI offers Describe for rich scene descriptions, Read with audio cues for text, Products for barcode and QR code recognition, People to help remember friends with age and expression estimates, Currency recognition, Find My Things to locate personal objects, World with Spatial Audio for exploring unfamiliar spaces, Colors and Light cues, and easy media sharing with Recognize in other apps. This is an ongoing research project that evolves with feedback from the community.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Accessibility AI Education

By:

Microsoft Corporation

Rating:

4.30

(630) 1 new ratings

Version:

5.6.1 Last updated: 2025-09-04

Version code:

877814393

Creation date:

2017-07-12

Compatible devices:

Size:

309.39MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-09-19

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 68,589 ▼ 29

Other platforms

Seeing AI (v1.4.1)

403,719 4.21

(1,132)

For Developers

Monetize with App Pass Boost with Extension Booster

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Developed by:

Microsoft Corporation

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seeing-ai/id999062298

User Reviews

Seeing AI is praised as a free, essential assistive tool with broad OCR/barcode/object-recognition capabilities and rich scene descriptions. However, recurring updates often disrupt the UI and remove or weaken key features like money scanning and quick text, while reliability issues in reading and describing persist. Overall, it remains highly valuable for daily tasks and caregiving, but users report usability and stability challenges.

Pros

Free and essential assistive app for blind/low-vision users; widely recommended and used at no cost.
Broad feature set supports daily tasks (OCR/text reading, barcode scanning, object identification, mail sorting).
Describe mode provides rich, actionable descriptions of scenes and objects, with helpful on-device feedback.
High real-world impact and caregiver usefulness; many users report it changes lives and supports independence.

Cons

Frequent updates/change the UI and features, which many users find make the app harder to use for visually impaired individuals.
Key features have been removed or degraded (e.g., money scanning and quick/instant text reading), making some workflows more cumbersome.
Reliability issues persist in reading and describing: slow or incomplete text reads, occasional failures in the describe tab, and inconsistent display readings.

Recent reviews

Well, this Seeing AI app, used to work fine. When trying to process the video description, it gives me an error message. Something went wrong, please try again in a few moments. It will be appreciated, if you can update the app? I’ve enjoyed using Seeing AI. Again, this app needs to be updated.

by Ke*****, 2026-08-29

I work for an Assistive Technology Program. We recommend this app to many with vision deficiencies and it’s great. However, the app continues to change with updates. I was initially told this is supposed to be for those who are visually impaired but for those that cannot see, the changes make this difficult to use. When I first learned of the app, it was very simple to use but has had so many changes since that I can no longer say that. This needs to stay simple & refrain from changing so much. I don’t see how anyone with visual impairments can use it. The scan/read feature used to allow jumping around but it no longer works that way. The layout of the options have changed so much that it’s difficult to use for those that are unable to see what they are doing.