Apps for Everyone!
Compiled By: Douglas Walker
The Hadley School for the Blind
Cooking
Applecation: All Recipes
By: All Recipes Inc.
Cost: Free
Description: Your Kitchen Inspiration for iPad is the cooking app you have been waiting
for!
Applecation: Big Oven
By: BigOver.com
Cost: Free
Description: Take 250,000+ recipes (including all your own and recipes from friends),
your grocery list and menus anywhere on your iPhone! With over eight million
downloads, BigOven is the most complete cooking tool for getting inspired and
organized in the kitchen and on-the-go. BigOven was named "Readers’ Choice, Best
Recipe App" in 2013, 2012 and 2011 on About.com, and chosen one of the "Best Apps
for Foodies", "Best Apps for New Moms" and "Best App for Eating In" by well-known
publications.
Entertainment
Application: Amazon Mobile
By: Amazon Mobile, LLC.
Cost: Free
Description: Browse, search, get product details, read reviews and purchase millions of
products available from Amazon.com and other merchants.
Application: iBlink Radio
By: Serotek Corperation
Cost: Free
Description: The iBlink Radio application from Serotek Corporation is the world's first
application for the visually impaired for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad! Radio
stations, podcasts and reading services of special interest to
blind and visually impaired persons; as well as their friends, family, caregivers and
those wanting to know what life is like without eyesight.
Application: Pandora Radio
By: Pandora Media, Inc,
Cost: Free
Description: Pandora Radio is free personalized radio that only plays music you’ll love.
Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers
and Pandora will create a custom "station" that plays similar music.
Application: TuneIn Radio
By: TuneIn
Cost: Free
Description: TuneIn lets you listen to the world’s radio with music, sports, news, talk,
and comedy streaming from every continent. Enjoy 70,000 live radio stations and 2
million podcasts, concerts or shows on your iPhone, iPad and iPod, all for free.
Appleication: Words With Friends
By: Zynga Inc.
Cost: Free
Description: Play the free version of Words With Friends -- the game more of your
friends are playing than any other word game!
Experience for yourself why more than 20 million people are addicted to the word
building, triple score seeking, chat bubble sending goodness of Words With Friends.
Application: YouPlayer - YouTube Player
By: Homegrown Software Ltd.
Cost: Free
Description: YouPlayer is an accessible YouTube browser and player for iOS 7.
Application: YouTube
By: Google Inc.
Cost: Free
Description: Watch the world’s videos and keep up with your favorite YouTube channels
with the official YouTube app for iOS. Sign in to access your subscriptions, playlists,
uploads and more.
Magnification
Application: Lumin
By: Mahbound Zabetian
Cost: $1.99
Description: Lumin is an electronic magnifying glass for your iPhone or iPod. Not only
does it magnify items, it can also keep a running history of images and can save or
share these images with your friends via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Locked images can be magnified 10 times, or even more with ideal lighting, and can
also be automatically mirrored to your Dropbox account.
Application: Over 40 Magnifier and Flashlight
By: TLA Investments LLC
Cost: $1.99
Description: Flashlight and Magnifier in One App PLUS Mirror Mode
Application: Ultra Magnifier
By: ZapDroid
Cost: Free
Description: Turn your IPhone into an FlashLight Ultra Magnifying Glass with fullscreen
by using camera zoom and auto-focus.
With this Magnificent Magnifier will Help to magnify read tiny print and words. You can
even use it at book study, news papper reading, restaurants menu, movie theaters, or
anywhere else with low light.
Productivity
Application: Bank of America
By: Band of America
Cost: Free
Description: TuneIn lets you listen to the world’s radio with music, sports, news, talk,
and comedy streaming from every continent. Enjoy 70,000 live radio stations and 2
million podcasts, concerts or shows on your iPhone, iPad and iPod, all for free.
Application: BigBrowser
By: Braille Institute
Cost: Free
Description: BigBrowser is an Internet browsing application designed to help Low Vision
users more easily navigate the web on their iPads. It’s extra large keyboard and
controls, expanded pinch zooming, and multiple color themes make content easy to
read.
Application: Dropbox
By, Dropbox
Cost: Free
Description: Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and
share them easily. Access any file you save to your Dropbox from all your computers,
iPhone, iPad and even the Dropbox website!
Application: Fantastical 2 – Calendar and Reminders
By: Flexibits Inc.
Cost: $2.99
Description: The award-winning, best-selling calendar app has been redesigned and
reimagined for iOS 7, including new features such as reminders, a new week view, and
much more!
Application: Fleksy - Happy Typing
By: Syntellia
Cost: Free
Description: Fleksy is a state-of-the-art text input system so powerful that you can type
without even looking at the screen.
For the first time ever, sighted, visually impaired and blind people are able to quickly
and easily type on touch screen phones and tablets.
Application: Look Tel Money Reader
By: IPPLEX
Cost: $9;99
Description: LookTel Money Reader instantly recognizes currency and speaks the
denomination, enabling people with visual impairments or blindness to quickly and
easily identify and count bills. Simply point your iPhone’s camera at a bill and the
application will tell you the denomination in real-time. Several currencies are supported
including the US Dollar, Euro, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, and Australian Dollar.
Application: Pimp Your Screen
By: Apalon
Cost: $0.99
Description: Pimp Your Screen is an award-winning app that helps you customize the
look of your device by giving you an exclusive selection of specially designed
backgrounds, icon skins, app shelves, neon combos and many other eye candies.
Application: Prismo - Scannong, OCR, and Speech
By: Creaceed
Cost: $9.99
Description: Prizmo lets you scan and recognize text documents, business cards, bills,
and whiteboards, then share the results across your computers and with other people
through the Cloud. Prizmo uses state of the art technologies, it has highly accurate
OCR, has speech-operated shooting, and has intelligent document interpretation to
achieve these goals. All of this in an elegant and intuitive user experience.
Application: ViA
By: Braille Institute
Cost: Free
Description: Braille Institute is proud to introduce ViA (Visually Impaired Apps), a fully
accessible app for iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad. ViA has been designed to help
identify apps that are useful for adults and children who are blind or have low vision,
including those with additional disabilities. Users can easily sort through the 500,000+
apps in the App Store and locate those that were built specifically for, or provide
functionality to, the user with a visual impairment.
Application: Tipa PDF
By:Tiflotecnica
Cost: $2.99
Description: TIPA PDF is a very simple and accessible PDF reader for iPhone, iPad and
iPod touch. Containing a simple and familiar user interface, it just goes out of your way,
allowing you to concentrate on what really matters: reading. It also takes full advantage
of VoiceOver screen reader along with PDF accessibility standards, to provide blind and
visual impaired people an accessible and pleasant PDF reading experience.
Application: Vision Sim
By: Braille Institute
Cost: Free
Description: Braille Institute's VisionSim app for iPhone and iPad was developed to
allow people with healthy vision to see the world through the eyes of a person
experiencing one of nine degenerative eye diseases. The eye diseases that are
simulated are: macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, retinitis
pigmentosa, cataracts, macular hemorrhage, retinal detachment, hemonymous
hemianopia, and Charles Bonnet syndrome.
Application: VO Calendar
By: Devista B.V.
Cost: $9.99
Description: NOTE: Can only be used together with VoiceOver (for blind and partially
sighted people).
VO Calendar is a weekly calendar specifically designed to be used with VoiceOver.
Application: ZoomContacts
By: Ai Squared
Cost: $4.99
Description: ZoomContacts is the perfect “Large Print” contact application for iPad users
who have difficulty seeing the small text on their screen. ZoomContacts uses Apple’s
internal Contacts database to store and manage information but presents it using
multiple font size / color combination choices. This makes it easier on the eyes for those
folks who could use a little visual assistance.
Reading/News
Application: Audiobooks from Audible
By: Audible, Inc.
Cost: Free
Description: Immerse yourself in a great story anytime, anywhere, by downloading from
a breathtaking range of 100,000+ titles to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad—from best
sellers to classics, and everything in-between.
Application: BARD Mobile
By: Library of Congress
Cost: Free
Description: The BARD Mobile app provides access to braille and talking books directly
from the NLS Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD). BARD contains nearly
50,000 books, magazines, and music scores in audio and braille formats, with new
selections added daily.
Application: iBooks
By: Apple
Cost: Free
Description: iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes
the iBookstore, where you can download the latest bestselling books
or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap
a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a
tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.
Application: Learning Ally Audio
By: Learning Ally
Cost: Free
Description: Learning Ally, formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, is committed to
making reading accessible for all who learn differently. We provide over 75,000
audiobooks, audio textbooks, and other recorded books to help anyone who
experiences difficulty in reading print material succeed. Learning Ally Membership is
required to use this app.
Application: NFB-NEWSLINE® Mobile
By National Federation of the Blind
Cost: Free
Description: With an easy-to-use interface, coupled with Apple's built-in Voice Over®
software, NFB Newsline subscribers can get all of their newspaper and magazine
content, as well as television listings and local weather alerts.
Application: Read2go
By: Bookshare
Cost: $19.99
Description: As featured in the iTunes Special Education section, Read2Go is the most
accessible DAISY ebook reader for iOS.
From within Read2Go, you can browse, search, download, and read books directly from
Bookshare using your Bookshare membership, as well as read DAISY books from other
sources. The app gives you full control over visual choices for font size and color,
background and highlighting color, and text-to-speech preferences. Read2Go features
word-by-word highlighting for multi-modal reading.
Application: Voice Dream Reader - Text to Speech
By: Voice Dream LLC
Cost: $9.99
Description: With high quality text-to-speech and a configurable user interface, Voice
Dream Reader makes written text accessible to everyone. Control how text sounds in
speech and how text looks on screen to suit every reading style from completely
auditory to completely visual, plus synchronized combination of both. Load PDF and
Word documents, DRM-free eBooks, articles, and Web pages. Connect to Dropbox, GDrive, Evernote, Pocket, Instapaper, Gutenberg and Bookshare. 78 high quality voices
in 20 languages from Acapela and NeoSpeech.
Travel
Application: NAVIGON North America
By: Garmin
Cost: $59.99
Description: With NAVIGON you can turn your iPhone or iPad into a fully functional
mobile navigation system. Thanks to a faithful adaptation of the menu functions, the app
fits in seamlessly with the iOS operating concept and can be installed on any iPhone
3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 or iPad (the navigation function is only available on
the iPad WiFi+Cellular).
Application: Seeing Eye GPS
By: Sendero Group, LLC.
Cost: Annual Subscription
Description: The Seeing Eye, the pioneer in guide dogs, and Sendero Group, the
pioneers of accessible GPS, have teamed up to create The Seeing Eye GPS™. Almost
20 years of user feedback and feature requests are behind the design of all Sendero
GPS products. The accessible features in The Seeing Eye GPS™ are only the
beginning of what is yet to come as users help in evolving this first fully accessible GPS
product for the iPhone. The Seeing Eye GPS™ is a fully accessible turn-by-turn GPS
iPhone app with all the normal navigation features plus features unique to blind users.
Application: Sendero GPS Look Around
By: Sendero Group, LLC.
Cost: $4.99
Description: Sendero GPS LookAround for the iPhone, with Voice Over, announces the
current street, city, cross street, heading and nearby points of interest. Unlike Sendero's
other applications, there is no turn-by-turn navigation on the iPhone yet. No ads are
displayed in LookAround. For more information on the other Sendero navigation
devices, visit http://www.AccessibleGPS.com
Application: Taxi Magic
By: Ride Charge, Inc.
Cost: Free
Description: Free electronic taxi booking nationwide with the award-winning Taxi Magic
app.
Taxi Magic is revolutionizing the taxi industry with the first online taxi booking service
directly integrated into taxi dispatch systems, so no phone call is needed.
Application: Walk Score
By: Walk Score
Cost: Free
Description: Get your Walk Score, discover nearby places, and find walkable
apartments and rentals.
Walk Score instantly calculates the walkability of any location and shows you a map and
photos of neighborhood gems, parks, restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores, public
art, and more.
Walk Score also helps you find apartments and rentals near the places you love. It's the
only app that lets you search by commute time or near public transit. We help you find a
place where you can drive less and live more.