Sight Buddy

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About this app

Sight Buddy is a free, open-source vision assistant for people who are blind or have low vision. Point your phone and it tells you what's there — no account, no subscription, no data sent anywhere unless you choose to.

WHAT RUNS ON YOUR PHONE (always, no setup needed)
• Discover Objects — camera scans your surroundings for people, obstacles, and everyday items
• Find Objects — say what you're looking for and get guided toward it, matched on-device
• Text reading — point at a page, label, or sign and hear it read aloud
• Colour and light detection
• Voice commands and speech output

OPTIONAL: BRING YOUR OWN AI
Want richer answers? Add your own OpenAI API key in Settings and unlock:
• Image Chat — ask questions about what the camera sees
• Text Chat — ask questions about text you've scanned
• Find Objects fallback — if what you asked for isn't on the on-device list, your spoken phrase (never an image) is sent to OpenAI to work out what you meant
Your key stays encrypted on your device. Requests go straight from your phone to OpenAI — never through us. No key, no AI calls, no charges from us. You're billed only by OpenAI, only for what you use.

WHY IT'S DIFFERENT
No accounts. No ads. No behavioural tracking. We don't run a backend, so we can't collect your photos, audio, or text even if we wanted to. The only thing that ever reaches us is an anonymous crash report — and you can turn that off too.

Sight Buddy is free software, open source under the MIT licence. Inspect it, fork it, improve it.

A NOTE ON SAFETY
Sight Buddy is an assistive tool, not a substitute for careful judgement. Don't rely on it as your only way to detect hazards or navigate dangerous situations.

Feedback, bugs, or ideas: [e-mail]

What’s new

Features:
Image Chat: Chat with an AI assistant about your images.
Text Chat: Scan printed documents locally and ask questions about the text.
Discover Objects: Identify general objects in your immediate surroundings.
Find Objects: Locate specific items from our predefined tracking list.
To use chat features: BYOK (Bring your own API key).
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