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Seeing AI

October 17, 2025

More About Seeing AI

Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed with and for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world by describing nearby people, text and objects.
Seeing AI provides tools to assist with a variety of daily tasks:
• Read - Hear text as soon as it appears in front of the camera. Document alignment provides audio cues to capture a printed page and recognize the text along with its original formatting. Ask Seeing AI about the contents to easily find the information you need.
• Describe - Take photos to hear a rich description. Ask questions to focus on the information you care about. Explore photos by moving your finger over the screen to hear the location of different objects.
• Products - Scan barcodes and Accessible QR codes using audio beeps to guide you; hear the product name and package information when available.
• People - Save photos of friends and coworkers so you can recognize them later. Get an estimate of their age, gender, and expression.
• Currency - Recognize currency notes.
• Colors - Identify colors.
• Light - Hear an audible tone corresponding to the brightness of your surroundings.
• Photos and Videos in other apps - Just tap “Share” and “Recognize with Seeing AI” to describe media from Mail, Photos, WhatsApp, and more.

Seeing AI continues to evolve as we hear from the community, and AI research advances.

Questions, feedback or feature requests? Email us at SeeingAI@Microsoft.com.

Latest Version

Version
1.4.1
Update
October 17, 2025
Developer
Microsoft Corporation
Apps
IT Tools
Platforms
Android
Downloads
282,342
License
Free
Package Name
com.microsoft.seeingai
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User Reviews

कुशल अविरल

1 year ago

I really love this app.I am hopeful that the features available when using this app on iPhone, which are not currently available on Android, such as: Indore navigation, world, will also be available on Android soon. It would have been easier if Nepali language was also included in Language. for us

prasad ingalagi

2 months ago

Add kannada language support to recognise text document. Kannada is karnataka oficial Indian regional language. It's very old language. 2 thousand years history it has. so in next update consider my request

Tracy Charles

2 months ago

For the love of God fix the voice on this. it's high-pitched and annoying to listen to! The iPhone version of this app has voice choices. Why doesn't this one? I had to uninstall it. The pitch of the voice hurts my ears!

Lightsttn1 A

1 year ago

This APP SwiftKey KEYBOARD JUST ERASED ALL MY ENTERED TEXT, AND DID NOTHING TO RETURN MY TEXT. ALL TEXT LOST. THANKS MICROSOFT FOR NOT CARING ENOUGH TO MAKE TEXT I COMPOSE TO REMAIN COMPOSED UNLESS I UN-COMPOSE. SEEING AI ALSO FAILED, AND NEEDS A LOT OF IMPROVEMENT. CAN'T READ LABELS, AND THE Camera needs to be used with less brightness, so the APP might work better.

Anil Kumar Reddy

9 months ago

The apps functionality has to be improved. when I try to get a pdf described, the app always crashes for the first time. if i open it the second time, it manages to describe the same. When i try to share a bit larhge file, the app always crashes. It has not described in the case of large pdf documents

Kristijan Lazarev

1 year ago

So far this is the best recognition app for android I have tried in the past. I would only want that the buttons you have on screen, to make them tabs that will be in one or two rows in the bottom of the screen, and the take a photo button on the middle of the screen. So the interface would be more intuitive. Also, please make an option in settings to toggle off the automatical use of some tabs, like colour detection. I don't want any detection until I am ready to point the phone.

Andre Louis

1 year ago

So great to see this fine app here on Android. Fills out the space nicely, as there aren't enough apps like it over here. I've had this on my other phone since it's release I believe, and this is to my knowledge the *only* app with a light detector in it. Great when you're in an unfamiliar place overnight, such as a hotel for a gig and want to make sure your room is as dark as you expect it to be... I find the short-text feature very satisfactory as well, just as much as it is elsewhere.

William Richard Willans

6 months ago

I can't find the "browse photos" button..... I was hoping to use this app to read out documents/texts already on my phone, but I can't figure out how to do that! Then I thought I might take a screen shot of my Messages and have that read out to me.... no. Also, there is no Help Site, so I am stuck! (Yes, there is help info, but it's very limited and has no search function. One star for now, but if the developers can instruct me I will give more

Chris Cooke

1 year ago

Just as good as it's iOS counterpart. If you want to tell anybody about the app, be sure to let them know that it's mistakenly all one word as listed in the Play store. On the website, however, it is two words so that made it very, very difficult to find in the Play store. Really great app, though. Very snappy and responsive.

Big PAPA

1 month ago

it doesn't work at all just give you a blank black screen

Mark Colvin

5 months ago

used to work really well but these days I cannot get it to read a document, I keep getting something went wrong message every single time!! it will read basic thing just by pointing but it's virtually impossible to hold phone still for tge full duration of a letter and as soon as phone moves it starts from the beginning again. shame as I used to like this app but I've been using envision app for documents as its actually reliable

Charles Burke

1 month ago

Amazing app!! Does way more than I expected. A blessing for those with vision problems.

Naresh Kushmi

2 months ago

I shared a video to describe it on seeing ai. The description progress sound came on for a while and then crashed on its own after a while.

Dennis McMurtrey

1 month ago

Another great low vision app. I'm 70 yrs old, low vision. this app is a keeper. Play with it. it works so well , it will freak you out. I show this app to everybody.

Andrea Kennedy

1 month ago

Incredibly accurate! I snapped a picture of my very messy living room and it described everything perfectly with only one minor error. This blew my mind as I did not expect it yo be this accurate. What a fantastic tool for people with disabilites and without.

Magna Van Dyk

1 week ago

When I try to share a video, the app keeps stopping. I'm gonna try the uninstall and reinstall thing and see what happens.

Nasir Afaf

2 months ago

It used to work in taking pictures to read pages. Now the Android version at least has deteriorated to unusable and it no longer shows you whether the page edges are within the scope.

Michael Cox

2 months ago

I loved this app until the camera stopped working. The screen remains black for several seconds and then the flashlight comes on as if there isn't enough light in the room. I posted a Support request Twice And I've got no response. I later discovered Does this app opens on my cover screen But not in my open fold, I reported this to support Today Still waiting for a response.

Km Killerbeer

1 year ago

Thanks for the app! Wishlist for future versions: don't lock text recognition language to the device's system, allow for several packs to be downloaded and switching between languages in-app; ideally, make AI recognize the language used in scanned text and switch automatically or warn that the text's language doesn't match any installed pack. An integration with a translation service would be another step forward.

David Chien

1 year ago

For an initial release of an app that has OCR, color detection, people count and description, scene description, and more, very impressive! One break or make test of an OCR app is out of focus text that isn't perfectly straight. Holding a bag of candies and scanning the ingredients, out of focus and not aligned, did quite well! Impressed and will be quite useful for those with limited vision or aging eyes. Definitely fast enough to be used besides magnifying glasses. Fun, fast, useful!

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