My Eye: Unlock the World Through AI-Powered Vision
Step into a world of possibilities with My Eye, an innovative app crafted to empower blind and visually impaired users by delivering detailed, real-time visual information. Harnessing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, My Eye transforms your smartphone into a powerful tool for exploring and understanding your surroundings like never before.
Instant Image Analysis
Point your camera at anything—a bustling street, a favorite object, or printed text—and My Eye will instantly generate rich, audio-based descriptions.
Detailed Descriptions
Experience more than just object recognition. Discover colors, textures, spatial relationships, and even emotions captured within an image for a holistic understanding of the scene.
Advanced Text Recognition
Encounter text on signs, books, or packaging? Let My Eye read it out loud with clarity and precision, granting you seamless access to written content.
SOS Alerts for Safety
Need help quickly? Send an SOS alert to your chosen contact—directly from the app—without requiring contact permissions. Everything happens securely on-device, ensuring privacy and reliability without third-party services.
Privacy You Can Trust
Your data stays yours. Images are processed on the cloud with enhanced security, and you have full control over your account, including the option for instant deletion whenever you choose.
The free version is ad-supported and comes with some limitations. To benefit from all the features, such as document analysis and instant OCR recognition, the user must purchase the pro version.
View on Google Play StoreFree or paid:
- Free with in-app purchase
Accessibility and User Comments:
The app is built by screen reader users for screen reader users. The UI is accessible, and I haven't encountered any unlabeled elements.
The app supports both video and image descriptions, with the ability to ask additional questions about images only. The descriptions can be viewed directly by the screen reader. Video duration for free users is limited to 2 minutes, whereas it extends to 10 minutes for pro users. The description is provided without syncing with the video's audio. The AI model analyzes the video and gives a description, including its interpretation of the video audio, if present.
Images and videos can be shared to the app from other apps, and when recognizing images, the user is asked whether they want a detailed description or OCR recognition of the image.
The app also features an AI assistant called Insight AI that accepts prompts and analyzes images. It is easily accessible from any tab because it is a main item on the home UI.
The main tabs of the UI, found at the bottom, are: image recognition, text scanner, and tools. Selecting any of these reveals the related features.
The document scanner does not include any guidance. It simply opens the camera interface for the user to capture a photo, which the app then uses to perform OCR on the captured image. There is an instant reading feature, but I have not had the chance to see how it works.
Actions are not supported at the moment. To get more options, like copy or share, you need to tap the show menu or long-press the description.
Free users should be prepared to encounter full-screen ads, which help cover costs since the development team consists of blind, independent individuals who are not funded by any entity. I don't recall being unable to close an ad with the screen reader, but, as with this type of ad, you need to wait before you can close it and continue your work. There are also ads on certain screens, but they shouldn't interfere with performing the app's tasks.
Since this is not meant to be a detailed review, I won't comment on the accuracy and quality of descriptions or responses, leaving it to people who want to test the app to decide if it meets their needs.
The waiting sound during uploads and analysis can be changed or disabled from settings > notifications.
Despite there being no shortage of image and OCR apps, having another app is advantageous as it provides users with more utilities to choose from. Additionally, this app remains one of the very few that currently support video descriptions.
Last Tested App version and Android version:
App version: 1.8.21, Android 14
What was in the head of the devs when choosing this weird processing music? Also no unlabeled buttons? The buttons to take a photo with the camera, selecting a photo, selecting a video, or also more options for the profile are not labeled.
It just looks redicolously cheap. “Certainly, here is a description of the image”… They didn’t even botter to write a good promt. Could also download Chat GPT or Gemini, would get more out of it.
Can you specify exactly where are the unlabeled buttons? I am unable to find them.
Thanks for the review. I’m not quite sure why I’d try this when practically everything it offers is already covered by SeeingAI. And SeeingAI doesn’t have ads or encourage me to purchase a premium subscription. As far as video description goes between SeeingAI and piccybot I don’t see how this adds anything there. I haven’t tried this app yet, but based on your review I’m not motivated to spend the time and effort.
Thank you for your comment.
I am one of those who believe that it is important to highlight the presence of different apps in different categories so people have the choice. Being a PiccyBot user who reviewed the app and compared it with Seeing AI, I know that it is still unique in what it offers in certain aspects, but this doesn’t mean that I don’t consider the potential of other apps or at least tell people that they are there for anyone who likes to give them a try. Seeing AI is created and maintained by a big company that is well-funded, so I don’t think that it is fair to compare it to an app that is created by an independent small team.
While I fully agree that it is not easy to convince people to choose this app over popular apps, I want to emphasize the fact that I didn’t have this intention anyway. The whole idea is to give more apps a chance, whether they are the best in their categories or not.
Thank you for this beautiful app. Actually all the buttons are not spoken in the app with TalkBack, but only with Jieshuo.
Thank you for pointing out the issue. I can also reproduce it on my phone using the most recent version. I will include this in the accessibility notes until it is fixed.
Thank you all for the information!! Knowledge is helpful and i am new to this world and i appreciate all of the information I can read!
Thanks BOV
The app has been updated and all buttons are labeled.
I downloaded this app and really like it. However twice I tried upgrading to the premium edition but I couldn’t. Both times after purchasing this app I received a refund from the PlayStore which I didn’t want. I am not receiving unwanted refunds for other apps.