Curious about the iPhone Apps I Use?

I’ve been asked to share a list of the apps I use on my iPhone. So here it is, divided into blindness-specific apps and those that you probably also use as a sighted person. I haven’t listed all the apps that come standard on an iPhone, only those that I’ve added to my phone.

But, be warned – it’s quite a long list!

Blindness-Specific Apps:

• Aipoly Vision – though it has other functionality, I use this mostly for colour identification.
• Be My Eyes – connects me to a sighted volunteer to interpret visual items.
• Clew – indoor navigation app. 
• iMove – GPS navigation app. Lazarillo – GPS navigation app. 
• Seeing AI – image/text to speech converter; barcode reader, other functionality but these are the ones I use most. 
• Voice Dream Reader – book and document reader of multiple formats. 
• Voice Dream Scanner – image/text to voice converter 
• Voice Dream Writer – document editor. Voice OCR – text to voice converter.

Other Apps:

• Clever Clues – a word game. 
• Currency – a currency converter. 
• Downcast – my podcast player of choice. 
• Dropbox Facebook 
• Facebook Messenger
• Internet Banking app. 
• GoodReads 
• Google Maps 
• LinkedIn 
• Load Shed CT – app to track scheduled power outages in Cape Town. 
• Otter AI – a voice to text transcriber. 
• SayHi – real-time language translator. 
• Seven Little Words – a word game. 
• Shazam Skype Speedtest – wi-fi speech checker. 
• Spotify 
• TripAdvisor 
• Twitter 
• Uber 
• WhatsApp 
• Woven Words – a word game. 
• YouTube 
• Yr – my weather app of choice. 
• Zoom

Of course, I also use many of the in-built apps that come with an iPhone. Just because I haven’t listed them doesn’t mean they are not accessible for me to use – they are. At least, for the most part.

You may see that I often have more than one app that does the same or similar things. Mostly that is so I can double-check the information that is being generated by an app using AI. Because I prefer for different apps to give me the same information as a process of double verification. Just to be sure.

If you’d like to know more about how I use the various apps and how I’m able to access them on my iPhone, please drop me a mail or leave a comment

I also talk a lot about the way in which apps help me accomplish tasks in my book A Different Way of Seeing, which is being published on Amazon on 28 October.