Seeing AI is a free Microsoft app designed to assist blind and low-vision users by using the phone’s camera to read text, identify objects, recognize faces, and describe surroundings.
The app features multiple ‘channels’ for different tasks like document reading, photo descriptions, face recognition, product identification, color detection, and light measurement.
It emphasizes detailed context and formatting in its descriptions, making it useful for tasks like paperwork, image exploration, and understanding surroundings.
Seeing AI is primarily available on iOS devices and functions best on newer hardware; an Android version exists but has limited features and poorer user feedback.
Alternatives include Be My Eyes, which connects users to human volunteers via video, and Google’s Lookout for Android, which offers faster, task-specific assistance with less detail.
Mark SMiller is a digital accessibility consultant who helps organizations build accessible, inclusive digital experiences. He speaks regularly at industry conferences,, CSUN, CVENt and apperes on many webinars and podace. , He trains teams on practical, sustainable accessibility workflows.
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