# Seeing AI

> Talking Camera for the Blind

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id999062298](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id999062298)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id999062298`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Microsoft Corporation
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.30 / 5 (631 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.6.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-04
- **First published:** 2017-07-12
- **Size:** 309 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seeing-ai/id999062298)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/](https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #68,563 — Overall

## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id999062298)