Supersense - helps blind and visually impaired
Supersense uses the power of AI to not only describe things but actually solve problems for blind and visually impaired users. Users can independently:
- Read texts, documents and handwriting quickly using our unique auto camera guidance system
- Locate specific objects such as a chair, door, trashcan, or person around by scanning the environment with the camera
- Explore new and unfamiliar environments and hear about the objects that are around
Every single feature works without an internet connection so that they can be used in any situation.
The app has full TalkBack accessibility support and is available in multiple languages.
Supersense is developed by Mediate, an MIT-spinoff AI start-up based in Boston. Mediate develops innovative computer vision systems with the support of the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Veterans Affairs. This app is just the first step in our mission to develop groundbreaking AI solutions for people with visual disabilities. We have developed the app with principles of human-centered design and with the assistance of blind and visually impaired users. We also partnered with many organizations that help the blind and low vision community.
If you would like any assistance or help, please email us at [email protected]. We always love to hear ideas and feedback from the blind and visually impaired community.
Category : Productivity
Reviews (26)
Worse app I ever use. Doesn't even work on my phone. When the app opens, I cannot navigate the screen with TalkBack, thus I have to forcebly closing the app from the recent apps. $50.00 wasted. It doesn't help the blind as advertised. This app needs to be removed from Play Store already.
Beautiful app very easy to use and very powerful in reading all the text
It is not just there yet. The technology behind in this app, is quite not ready to give the blind community, it's true, Supersense! The app at the time of this writing, is barely, usable. I have to update this review because for the past four months or so, each and every time that I tried to open the app, it would only give me, no response, except for some error messages, application freezes, and unwanted reboots! And for these reasons, I have to uninstall.
I would like to use this app to help me read, but I am having some technical issues. My app is updated and I have space on my phone, I have talkback activated. When I open the app, all that appears is a blank white screen. How do I fix this please?
The free version is really cool. You really just have to learn how to place the camera in the right places. I use this app for work. My hand does get tired after a while though. I use it to read text on my screen that I cannot use my screen reader for. For me, if it could just start reading automatically when I open the app that would be great. Also, if the app could tell you when you're too far or too close to what you're trying to read that would be very helpful.
Supersense is a really nice app that helps locate objects in my environment. It has helped me find my trashcan as well as a door in a basement in pitch-black conditions. I think the AI does a good job to find and identify objects as I was able to use the application in an environment where I didn't have cell or internet service. I look forward to the progress and improvement of this application.
Doesn't work on Samsung Galaxy Note 10+. Just get an intro screen for 10 seconds and then it crashes.
This app is great, I'm so happy I found it. I would describe it as a must have for anyone with a visual impairment who struggles with things like reading. The latest update where you can now ask it to read the text from an image on your phone is brilliant, but the cherry on top of the cake would be if you could share images directly from social media posts, instead of having to save them to your device first
No longer working. Get start screen then closes after 10 to 20 seconds.
The reader is the best feature, except for recipes. It doesn't do fractions and that is very important when measuring. Did not think the find and explore features were accurate. My iron was identified as a car.
Well, it read one piece of black printed text on white background and pretty much nothing else. Didn't recognise a door or a chair I was pointing the camera at. Not really useful for practical purposes. Lucky for this app, none of the competition is any better.
The shop is very good I enjoyed it for a long time but when I open the app freezes in my Android screen goes black and there's nothing to read on spiritually when I try to open it it keeps on crashing this app weighs doing very good except now when I open the app it crashes could you please fix this think this app is wonderful I personally recommend it to anyone out there who are visually impaired to have an Android device
this is an excellent app for the blinds. I like it very much because it's every features works in a single click. but there is some possibility to improve it's latency and accuracy.
It is a great application. just one important option is missing. Can you please add one option to extract text from the inaccessible PDF? It Will be really helpful for the visually impaired students.
0 yes I would like to say I really love this app. This is the first day I've tried it and so far it has read me my credit card numbers the customer service number on my credit card and the expiration date. I've also found chairs in my room table in my room and are also said a gas stove which it actually was. I find this app so far to be very accurate and I'm very excited to go outside and see what else it can show me. I will post future updates. Thank you so very much inventors of this app it is
it stopped working app is now broken on my Samsung a70 used to work now it doesn't glad I didn't pay for it nice try guys good luck in the future
Brilliant app. More accurate and faster object recognition than Google Lookout. Keeps working when phone is rotated portrait/landscape whereas Lookout stops working for about 5 seconds.
Well it reads well other than the fact that I was kicked out of it two or three times and the dog if it has if it had something in there where it tells you whether you're reading it sideways or upside down that'll be that that'll be really great too and the options I don't let it reads really well and it's worth paying for optional supercenter
I had super sense downloaded for a while. At first it just did videos, and told me what was in them. Now it won't do anything; the app won't even make a sound when I touch the screen.
This app does not work. The explore feature just shouts random words. While pointing it at a bed and desk I got "car, vehicle, bird, airplane, person" without changing the focal point of the camera.
This is a useful app but there is little that distinguishes this app from EyeDPro and Envision AI which also perform similar tasks. Unlike on IOS, the Android version could leverage some more of the operating system's capabilities, such as being able to run as a service in order to describe photos automatically in the photo gallery or anywhere where graphics appear.
Please bring OCr which will support many languages including hindi in the reading mode. Also kindly bring a feature to read pdf files in multiple languages. More importantly I wish to scan multiple pages and convert them all into single file.
We appreciate your efforts that you took from Building and making this wonderful application The improvement I can say make it even better by adding a screenshot to read each and every time we take it not by going to their application always For an example you take a screenshot and it automatically read and explain what a text
Hi good morning sir I am Mohammed Imran from state Telangana India I am so happy that you are developing this app FIR us. Thank you for developing the new features. I would like to share my thoughts with you. We are facing problem while travelling in city by busses.. What is their around us we don't know about that for example hotels, hospitals bus stops etc. We are facing difficulty while reading hot coppy for example any written document and any printed document etc.
A brilliant concept and helping me a lot in reading small things. The best thing about it is the camera and voice guidance to adjust the angle
Supersense is a daily goto for me. They offer a monthly, yearly, and lifetime sub. It's well worth the price, is very helpful, and has very good quality OCR. Continues to innovate. I could have gone with lifetime sub, but I decided to pay yearly to ensure these guys have the financial means to keep funding their work.