LisNav vs Visionauta
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LisNav
This navigation app uses voice guidance and object detection to enhance awareness and independence for users. It offers route support, live exploration, and safety reporting to make travel more informed and confident.
- Voice guidance
- Live object detection
- Route planning and support
- Safety reporting tools
- Customizable audio settings
- Exploration of surroundings
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LisNav is an accessibility-first navigation companion designed to help people move through the world with more confidence, awareness, and independence. By combining voice guidance, live exploration, object detection, route support, and safety reporting, LisNav turns everyday travel into a more informed and supported experience. Use LisNav to explore your surroundings, search for destinations, preview routes, and receive spoken guidance tailored to your preferences. Live perception features help identify nearby objects and points of interest, while customizable voice settings and audio verbosity make the experience feel personal and easy to follow. Safety tools add another layer of reassurance by helping users stay aware of hazards and share important information about the environment around them. Whether you're navigating to a destination, exploring an unfamiliar area, or simply looking for a smarter audio-guided mobility experience, LisNav is built to make movement feel clearer, safer, and more empowering.
Visionauta
This AI-powered assistant helps blind and low-vision users navigate their environment. It can read text aloud, identify currency, locate objects, and describe surroundings through voice interaction. Designed with accessibility at its core, it integrates seamlessly with VoiceOver.
- Real-time AI conversation
- Read text aloud (offline)
- Identify banknotes
- Find lost objects
- Electronic magnifier
- Describe scenes
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Visionauta is your portable visual assistant. Point your iPhone's camera to read text aloud, identify banknotes, find lost objects, or simply ask questions about the world around you. Built from the ground up for blind and low-vision users, with a free tier and an optional Visionauta Plus subscription. No Visionauta account is required to subscribe. REAL-TIME CONVERSATION Talk to an AI by voice, naturally and continuously, while it describes your surroundings and answers your questions instantly — as if a sighted assistant were right beside you. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Read any text aloud, even offline • Recognize banknotes in several currencies (Brazilian Real, US Dollar, Euro, Mexican Peso, Japanese Yen, Canadian and Australian Dollar) • Find lost objects with voice commands • Electronic magnifier with high-contrast modes • Ask the AI assistant to describe scenes and answer questions IN 16 LANGUAGES Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Korean, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese, Hindi, Indonesian and Bengali. The interface, AI, commands, OCR and online voices adapt to your language. The on-device Natural Voice remains available in the five languages supported by its model. BUILT FOR ACCESSIBILITY Fully integrated with VoiceOver and the iPhone's accessibility features, so every function is reachable by touch and voice. Visionauta was created by Jonathan Santos, a blind software engineer who worked at Google and Samsung, with one goal: to bring more independence to people with visual impairments. The free tier has no ads; Visionauta Plus is available as an optional in-app subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.tensorial.com.br/visionauta/termos-de-uso/en Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Visionauta at 5.0 against LisNav's 4.0. Visionauta also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). LisNav's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Visionauta holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LisNav has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LisNav ships an update monthly, Visionauta every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LisNav | Visionauta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KALEIDOSCOP REALITY, S.L. | Jonathan Santos |
Customer experience
LisNav
Visionauta
In-app purchases
LisNav
No in-app purchases
Visionauta
No in-app purchases






