BlindSquare
- Type: Navigation
- Accessibility: Mobile
- Developer: MIPsoft Oy
- Status: Paid
- Platform: iOS
- Language: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
- Rating: 8/10
BlindSquare is a popular GPS app specifically designed for blind and visually impaired users. It uses your phone’s GPS and other sensors to provide audio-based navigation and detailed location information about your surroundings.
Some key features of BlindSquare include:
- GPS-guided navigation with customizable voice prompts to help you navigate unfamiliar routes
- Detailed spoken descriptions of points of interest, intersections, businesses, etc. near your location
- Public transit support with information about nearby bus stops, subway stations, etc.
- Address lookup and directions to specific destinations
- Frequent destination management and custom point of interest filtering
- Support for international locations with text-to-speech in several languages
- Apple Watch app for accessing core navigation features from your wrist
BlindSquare has received praise from many blind users for its accuracy, customizability and usefulness for independent travel. The app uses data from Foursquare and OpenStreetMap to provide detailed location information about millions of places around the world. With its straightforward interface and extensive audio feedback, BlindSquare is considered a must-have app for improved mobility among the blind community.
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