BlindSquare - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

BlindSquare is pioneering accessible navigation both indoors and outdoors. Know where you are, know where you're going, travel with confidence.

BlindSquare is a new solution that combines the latest technology to help the blind with their daily lives. It has been developed in collaboration with blind people and carefully field tested. You need either an iPhone or an iPad to get started. It also supports some additional accessories to enhance the experience.

How does it work?

BlindSquare uses GPS and the compass to locate you. It then gathers information about the surrounding environment from FourSquare. BlindSquare has some unique algorithms to decide what information is the most relevant and then speaks it to you with high quality speech synthesis.
“What's the most popular café within 200 meters radius? Where is the post office or the library?”

You can control BlindSquare also through voice commands. The Voice Command feature is a premium service requiring purchase of credits for continuous use. Voice Command Credits are available as an in-app purchase on the App Store.

Using BlindSquare as a GPS solution:

When you start the app, it will start telling you the interesting places and street crossings around you. By changing the radius, you can limit the area you are interested in. You can also search by search term or by category. You can select an interesting place from the search results and perform the following tasks:

1) Get contact info (address, phone number)
2) Open twitter feed or restaurant menu (if provided)
3) Make a phone call
4) Start tracking the place (BlindSquare will assist you by repeating the distance and the clock face direction)
5) Start your favourite navigator for turn-by-turn instructions (TomTom, Navigon or Apple Maps)

BlindSquare is aware of when you travel by car, bus or train and starts to report interesting places in front of you (for example, the next stops) and street crossings when you are passing them.

You can also save your own private places to iCloud so they will be found with your every device.

Using BlindSquare as a Foursquare client:

If you like to play Foursquare, you can do the following with BlindSquare:

1) Get a list of nearby FourSquare venues
2) When you are in a place, you can check in by shaking your device
3) Do a check in with commenting and twitter/facebook sharing
4) Correct the location of the place

BlindSquare supports the following languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean (South Korea), Norwegian, Polish, Portugues, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

VoiceOver usage is supported but it also includes higher quality additional speech synthesis by Acapela Text-To-Speech from Acapela Group.

Instructions in English: https://www.blindsquare.com/user-guide/ and https://www.blindsquare.com/faq/

Please note: This app retrieves data in real time from Foursquare and Open Street Map. Use of a flat rate data plan is highly recommended.

Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Having only been released in May 2012, BlindSquare has already received several prizes and awards:

- GSMA: Global Mobile Awards 2013, Best Mobile Health Product or Service
- Apps4Finland 2012
- OpenCities App Challenge 2012
- The Finnish Information Processing Association: Best Product 2012

Please note: To use BlindSquare, your iCloud account has to be active so BlindSquare can access it to save your settings and places.

Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

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User Rating

4.25 out of 5

8 ratings in Canada

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Absolute garbage

This APP is NOT worth the 55USD! It does not do what they say and the APP does not even work properly. The App has the wrong bus numbers and does not give door to door directions nor does it give turn by turn directions. The mute speech does not even work. The shake gestures will not give you closest transit stop. I really regret purchasing this app!

Superb

This app will give you lots of information of how to get to where you want to go whether it be by Transit or some other method it is very versatile very easy to use and a pleasure dear

Dart

Great app only thing it doesn't do is indicate actual type of intersection. Eg 3 way, on your left etc

Best Accessible GPS App

This app may be a tad pricy for those who are very careful spending money, but it's worth every sent. I've been using this app a lot lately, and I'm finding it very useful as it helps me find places neer me I've never knew about. I really like how you can hand off turn by turn to another app, and still keep BlindSquare running in the background while it tracks you on your route, and tells you about street information as you go. I'd have given a fifth star if it had detailed intersection information that could be turned on for those like me who want it, and turned off for those that don't. Can't wait to see what comes in the future.

Blind Square Review

Great app. The only problem I'm having is when I go to switch to another language, the voice changes, but the text itself does not.

Very accurate and fun to use

I have several navigational apps on my device,however this is by far my favourite. Great work guys!

Blindsquare rocks

This application provides a travel freedom for blind folks hitherto unknown in the total history of blindness. And it's all provided by one person who before the developing blind Square had no experience with blind folks. This is truly amazing!

Blind square is a great app

I think blind square is great I love it

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Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Paid	Austria Navigation	9
Top Paid	South Korea Navigation	19
Top Paid	Hungary Navigation	22
Top Paid	Netherlands Navigation	22
Top Paid	Canada Navigation	24

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