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Beamfy
AI vision assistant for blind people, live in 74 languages
21 followers
AI vision assistant for blind people, live in 74 languages
21 followers
Beamfy is an AI vision assistant for blind and low-vision people. Tap once and it describes what is in front of you as you walk, speaking only what changes, hazards first, until you stop it. It reads printed text aloud, tells you what you are holding, finds a place by voice with walking directions, and SOS texts your emergency contact with your location. Built for VoiceOver and TalkBack, in 74 languages. Photos are not stored. Free to start on iPhone and Android.
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Beamfy started from a simple question: what if a blind person could just point their phone and hear what is in front of them, in their own language, without waiting for a volunteer to pick up?
Here is what it does today:
👁️ Live description: one tap and Beamfy keeps describing your surroundings as you walk. It speaks only what changes, hazards first (steps, curbs, vehicles, poles), and never tells you the way is "safe": a photo only shows part of the street. Tap again to stop. The screen stays awake while it runs.
📄 Read: point at a letter, sign, menu or label and hear it read aloud. Ask for a translation when you need one.
🏷️ Scan: hear what product or package you are holding.
🧭 Navigate: say where you want to go, hear the nearest matches and step-by-step walking directions in your language.
🆘 SOS: a 10-second countdown with one-tap cancel, then a text to your emergency contact with your location. Free for everyone, always.
🌍 74 languages: the app and every AI answer in your language, spoken with your phone's own voice.
♿ Built for VoiceOver and TalkBack from the start: clear labels, every result spoken, large text and high contrast.
🔒 Your photos are not stored; they are used only to answer you.
Under the hood, Beamfy runs on Claude's vision models with prompts tuned for walking: short sentences, direction words (ahead, left, right), and it says when it is not sure instead of guessing.
Free to start: 7 days of full access, then free descriptions every day. Premium (monthly or yearly) removes the daily limit. iPhone and Android.
I'd love your feedback, especially from blind and low-vision users and the people around them: what should Beamfy describe better next? 🙏
🌐 Website: https://beamfy.ai
🍏 App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758889134
🤖 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beamfy.app
Describing only what changes with hazards first is the detail that makes this usable while walking, since a feature by feature readout of every parked car would be worse than useless.
speaking only when something changes sounds much easier to follow than a constant description
i'm glad the launch notes are clear that spotting a hazard in a photo isn't the same as knowing the whole path is safe