Lazarillo Accessible GPS

LAZARILLO

About this app

The Lazarillo App is an accessible GPS designed for individuals who are blind or have low vision. It allows you to explore the world around you and create routes with audio guidance.

With a wide range of customizability options and a diverse array of mobility tools developed using active feedback from people who are blind, Lazarillo is the solution for anyone looking to navigate accessibly.

As you move, Lazarillo will inform you about nearby places, such as the street you’re walking on, nearby intersections, businesses, transit stops, and more. You can toggle announcements of specific locations on and off in the exploration menu.

Need to route to a specific location? No problem. With Lazarillo, you can browse through nearby locations or search for a specific place and receive turn-by-turn guidance to your destination. You can even save your favorite locations for easy access at any time.

If buildings or other indoor locations have been mapped by Lazarillo, you’ll be able to explore their interiors with audio guidance as well. For more information on getting your business mapped by Lazarillo, visit lazarillo.app/business.

With a host of customizable settings, Lazarillo allows you to build the perfect navigation assistant for your needs. Select a custom voice engine, choose your ideal units of measurement and direction, customize the layout of the exploration screen, and set your language of choice to get audible guidance on your terms.

Permission Usage:
1. Location Access:
• Outdoor Navigation: Utilizes GPS to provide accurate route guidance and contextual notifications based on your current position.
• Indoor Navigation: Employs Bluetooth to scan for beacons, offering precise instructions in environments where GPS is unreliable.
2. Foreground Services: Runs foreground services to deliver uninterrupted audio guidance and notifications, ensuring navigation features remain active and responsive, even when the app is running in the background or the device screen is off.
3. Automatic Activation of Exploration Feature: Upon launching the app, the exploration feature activates automatically, providing users with instant orientation and contextual information about their surroundings, enhancing mobility and safety.

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

The Lazarillo app and all its functionalities are free. All you need is a mobile data or Wi-Fi connection.

Our Mission

As an assistive technology tool, Lazarillo’s primary goal is to become a companion for users, providing essential information about one’s surroundings that allows for greater autonomy and safer travel. We work every day with people who are blind and have low vision to ensure that this solution is as effective as possible.

Features

The Lazarillo App contains the following features:
• Exploration: Announces your current position, nearby places, and street intersections while you are walking, on a bus, or traveling by car.
• Category Search: Allows you to find nearby places from specific categories such as banks, health, food, shopping, art, entertainment, etc.
• Specific Search: Enables you to create a route to any place using voice or keyboard to search for the location of your choosing.
• Favorites: Save your favorite locations to your favorites menu for easier access, or create custom locations using your GPS position.

To learn more, you can visit our website at lazarillo.app or email us at [e-mail].

You can also see a list of FAQs and view our full catalog of user tutorial videos at lazarillo.app/usersupport.

Ratings and reviews

I'm a sighted person who has been trying this app out because I'm helping a lady who has recently become blind. In general it seems excellent but it can seemingly forget the tracked destination sometimes; this has happened when on a bus journey of several miles I've set it to track the destination bus stop - after a few miles it stops giving updates on the distance to the tracked destination.

I would love to use Lazarillo again ! Being blind, I know the value of a good quality navigation app. However, it goes to a notice to change the voice; but no way is provided to do this, and I have to restart my phone just to get off of the noticed page. I gave 3 stars for this purpose, it worked great for years; but now it doesn't seem to. If a way is provided to get around this voice notice, I'll go to 5 stars; because I'll be able to use the app again, until then ? ? ?

So far I am very happy with this app. I am visually impaired and I use this app and more more it amazes me of how accurate it is. I like the ability to even correct some of the directions in the system and I was pleasantly surprised that they are doing better with locations of things inside airports.

What’s new

- Fixing login with Facebook
- Updating dependencies