WayAround vs Eggleton

Tap your phone to a WayTag, and the shirt tells you it's the navy polo. The bottle tells you it's the antibiotic, twice daily, finish the course. The can tells you it's black beans, expires next March. WayAround turns everyday objects into things that can speak for themselves, giving blind and low-vision users a faster, more independent way to identify and organize the items around them. "Information is power, and WayAround takes it to the next level." Neva Fairchild, retired, American Foundation for the Blind HOW IT WORKS Stick, clip, or pin a WayTag (sold separately) onto anything: clothing, medication, pantry items, files, appliances, cables, plants. Use the app to write whatever info you want onto the tag. From then on, a quick tap of your phone reads it back instantly through VoiceOver or your preferred accessibility settings. No camera. No aiming. No barcode hunting. Just tap and know. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IT Identify things in a second. Tap a tag and hear the description immediately. Swipe for more detail when you want it. Store real information, not just labels. Unlimited characters per tag allows for full washing instructions, dosage schedules, ingredient lists, or links to other resources like a user manual. Rewrite tags as often as you like. Work the way you already work. WayAround is built around VoiceOver, high-contrast visuals, large type, braille displays, and voice dictation. Whatever accessibility setup you use on your iPhone, the app fits into it. Stay organized offline. Your tags work without an internet connection, and your data backs up automatically to the cloud when you reconnect. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING "WayAround is a simple and cost-effective solution for labeling just about anything." J.J. Meddaugh, AT Guys "I love it. So much easier than a barcode reader or anything you have to focus with a camera." Melissa Wagner, user FOR BUSINESSES AND BRANDS WayAround's patented public-tag solution lets any business add accessible information that anyone can read with a tap, improving the experience for customers with disabilities and beyond. Learn more at wayaround.com/public. GETTING STARTED WayTags come as stickers, magnets, buttons, and clips. Buy them at wayaround.com/shop or through an assistive technology distributor. COMPATIBILITY WayAround works with the built-in NFC on iPhone 7 and later. For iPad users or older iPhones, the WayLink Scanner (sold separately) connects via Bluetooth and sends tag info to the app.

A timer you actually want to watch — and something to keep when it ends. Set a duration and an egg starts to warm. As the minutes pass the shell cracks, one crack at a time, so you can see how much time is left without reading a number. Near the end a beak breaks through. At zero the shell gives way and an animal steps out — and that animal is yours to keep. There are 84 of them, from a chick and a duckling to a dragon, a seaserpent, and a phoenix. Longer timers have better odds of something rare, so a 5-minute tea steep and a 2-hour deep work block feel genuinely different. WHY IT WORKS Most timers ask you to interpret a shrinking bar or a running number. Eggleton gives you countable cracks — a glance tells you "three left" instead of "somewhere past halfway." It is the same information, in the form your eye reads fastest. And it gives you a reason to let the timer finish. Cancel at minute 22 of 25 and nothing hatches. That small pull is the whole point. WHAT YOU GET • A hand-drawn hatching scene that escalates as the deadline nears • 84 collectible animals across four rarities, with a collection you fill over time • Sound synthesised in real time — shell taps, a heartbeat, a first cheep — never a sample loop • Haptics tuned to each crack, so you feel the countdown without looking • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus Live Activity and Dynamic Island support • Notifications when the egg hatches, and an optional "10 seconds left" warning • Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with a Mac menu bar timer • Pause, resume, or add a minute — the timer keeps correct time in the background BUILT FOR Pomodoro sessions and study sprints. Tea, coffee, and eggs. Workout intervals. Screen-time limits and "five more minutes" for kids. Anything where the finish deserves a moment. QUIET BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. No network requests of any kind — the app never sends anything anywhere, because it has nothing to send. Your collection lives on your device. Reduce Motion, Reduce Flashing, and VoiceOver labels are built in, not bolted on. FREE, AND OPTIONAL Twelve animals — three of every rarity, legendaries included — are free forever. If you want the whole roster, one purchase opens the other seventy-two, permanently, on every device you own. No subscription, no currency, no timers you can pay to speed up. The odds never change.