Oko - Cross streets and Maps

You will regret not putting this amazing app on your devices. Way better than any competitor, try it for yourself

The update made it completely unusable for those of us who are blind, and hearing impaired. Now it doesn’t automatically open to the cross street function. It opens to a map when you can’t hear on the go and use a braille display you can’t get it to where you can open the cross street function. It’s completely unusable now. I shouldn’t have to pair my braille display. Take it with me and do 30 functions every time. I’m at a street corner trying to cross the street. There are 80 apps out there that do point by point directions. I don’t need another one. Oko Was good because it was simple and it did one thing no other app did. now that is ruined. ETA: from your response, I can’t tell if you are a bot or if you just don’t understand anything about Deafblind folks and how we use tech. First of all, although I, personally can voice, many DB people can’t. So a Siri shortcut isn’t going to work for many. It can also be hard even if you can voice in very noisy situations. Second, the button on the first screen than comes up when you open the app is in (or next to) the search field. It still takes a few steps to get there, instead of just opening the app and having it work. If you are DB and can’t hear voiceover and use braille display, or even if you are blind and at a loud intersection and can’t hear voiceover, this makes it difficult to impossible at every intersection to have to do this. No one wants to stand there and struggle at every intersection for 5 minutes screwing around with an app that used to just work upon opening and pointing. Third, I know how maps with turn by turn directions work. They’ve been around for decades. There’s the seeing eye app, find nearby, blind square and even just google among others. This feature does not enhance your product. You don’t need directions for every route you walk. You do get an advantage from getting intersection help. You are trying too hard. You took an innovative product that was elegant in its simplicity and ruined it. You can fix it by making an option, at least, to get the ped signal function immediately upon opening. Until then, the app is still unusable for many people and more difficult for everyone. Until it’s fixed, I would still give it 0 stars and that award you just won should really be revoked if you are going to screw the DB out of the app among many others. Yes, I am mad. You response was a condescending “sighted-splain.” Do better.

I love that this app can help me cross a street at the right time! I’m currently in training to learn to walk confidently and independently safely as a visually impaired person with albinism and crossing streets alone has never been something I was fond of or still am. My O&M instructor has been a very good teacher and I have successfully crossed streets and finished routes without too much of an issue, though there has been one or two times I’ve crossed when it actually wasn’t my time and having this app to let me know the signal has allowed me to cross at the right time more easily. Response to devs: I don’t know why, but I’m up to date and the app keeps telling me Maps is not available in my region. I’m in the United States in Iowa, so I don’t know if that has something to do with it but I also am not seeing any settings button like there used to be to adjust things like seeing the camera have view. Second response to devs: My phone must have just not activated the new update right away because I went back in after writing my last response and now maps is working and the redesign is there. I appreciate it that y’all take the time to respond to reviews! Few devs do that.

UPDATE: This is sadly no longer a usable app for me, now that navigation features have been added that prevent me from using it as a pedestrian crosswalk signal. Now when the app opens it is in a map view prompting you to enter a destination. It WILL NOT FUNCTION AS A PEDESTRIAN SIGNAL until you activate that feature. If you are a low vision user, it’s not prominent or obvious. If you are a VoiceOver user, good luck trying to get there while at a noisy intersection. I can’t open the app in advance because it drains battery really fast. I previously had given this app a 5 star review. The developers had solicited the review, but it was an honest one. I’ll leave it below for reference of how great the app used to be, and I’m still giving it 2 stars in the hopes that it might become usable again someday. PREVIOUS REVIEW: More reliable and easy to use than an APS. I’ve been so impressed with this app! It’s so easy to use even when the environment is too loud to hear VoiceOver speech — I can just say “Hey Siri, open OKO” and it immediately jumps into action with haptics and sounds giving me my own accessible pedestrian signal. I love the haptics because I can still get the crosswalk signal information while simultaneously focusing on the traffic sounds. It also saves me time because (1) I can get the visible pedestrian signal status as I’m approaching the intersection and (2) if I want to cross kitty corner and don’t have the walk signal in front of me I can quickly turn my phone to check if I already have the walk signal to cross in the other direction. It has given me a lot more confidence and independence navigating my city after vision loss and makes crossing the street much more analogous to how I could when I was fully-sighted.

As a person with Albinism with 20/200 vision, I love this app. Moving into a city downtown area is intimidating in itself, but this app really helps.

This app is still under development and does not work in the states of California or Arizona and Nevada you will not be able to get directions to and from anywhere as the app literally says maps is unavailable in every city that I’ve traveled through this app needs a major overhaul to make it as great and ambitious as the fake reviewers claim they get I can honestly say from trying to use this app it’s a complete waste of your space on your personal devices instead use your preferred navigation app this app will not work for you as much as you see the pictures of the app they are completely A.I Generated pictures.

i’ve been using this app for quite some time and even had a mobility instructor approach me in the field to kind of see it in action that was quite fun

Amazing application! So helpful!

This app was recommended to me by my mobility trainer after a really scary intersection, crossing in the middle of a big city with a crosswalk that did not make any sound when it was time to cross. I love having this when I have to cross intersections that are not disability friendly. My only complaint is that different lighting situations are not reliable, and if there are more than a few lanes, the app sometimes just continuously says it’s not safe to Cross? instead of simply telling me that it’s not workin

In a world where many apps try to be all things to all people, OKOh is delightfully simple. It does what it says it does. It accurately and quickly identifies the state of traffic lights. In my experience, it was able to do this from a great distance, which can often be helpful when you are approaching an intersection. I am very picky when it comes to my apps, and I am usually very quickly disappointed by the trendy and new. In this case, though, I was delighted by my first experience with OKO and it has now become a permanent fixture in my travel toolbox. Great work!