ColoredEye vs Seeing Assistant Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ColoredEye
This app identifies colors from your camera or saved photos in real-time. Choose from different color databases to get precise color names for various applications.
- Real-time camera color identification
- Identify colors in saved photos
- Multiple color databases (Basic, Crayola, Detailed)
- Classify colors of specific objects
- Useful for color-impaired individuals
- Educational tool for learning colors
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**THE PERFECT APP FOR THE COLOR-IMPAIRED OR THE COLORBLIND!** ColoredEye will identify the colors from your camera in real-time! Or you have option to identify colors within a saved photo. Simply use your iPhone or iTouch to take a photo in good lighting, then pick an object or location within the photo for ColoredEye to classify, or use the live camera mode to find out colors instantly. Each color database has its own set of names for a range of colors. You can pick from: + BASIC - 16 fundamental colors (purple, green, blue, etc) + CRAYOLA - 134 fun pigments (burnt sienna, piggy pink, turquoise, etc) + DETAILED - 134 descriptive colors (dim gray, dark slate gray, gray, etc) ************ Never wear mismatched socks again! Learning colors can be fun for kids, too! Now you can identify the perfect paint color, sweater, car, anything! For support or suggestions, please email: support@mgsapps.com ************
Seeing Assistant Home
This utility app assists blind and visually impaired individuals with daily tasks. It offers features like barcode scanning, text recognition, a magnifying glass, and light detection, all designed with digital accessibility principles.
- Barcode scanning (EAN-13/UPC-A, AZTEC)
- QR code scanning and creation
- Offline text recognition (OCR)
- Electronic magnifying glass
- Light source and intensity detection
- Banknote recognition (Polish złoty)
- Voice and Siri command integration
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Seeing Assistant Home has been providing support to blind and visually impaired people in various aspects of daily life for many years. Since its inception, the app has been developed in close collaboration with visually impaired individuals. This ensures it is built in accordance with digital accessibility principles and precisely addresses the specific needs of this target group. Key Features: • barcode scanning, including EAN-13/UPC-A and AZTEC formats, • saving scanned barcodes with a custom description, • generating private barcodes in EAN format, • scanning and creating QR codes, • text detection – fast offline OCR, • document scanning – more accurate OCR, • electronic magnifying glass, • reading content stored on NFC tags, • detecting light source and intensity, • approximate color recognition, • banknote recognition – Polish złoty only, • Dropbox integration. Seeing Assistant Home has implemented many different solutions to streamline its use, including: • invoking functions using voice and Siri commands, • setting a default function to launch when the app is opened, • "Recognize and Speak" fast code recognition mode, • simultaneous recognition of texts and codes ("Detect Text" functionality), • recognition of codes from long distances – automatic camera zoom, • the ability to freeze the image in a magnifying glass view, • data archiving – EAN and QR codes, and much more. Download Seeing Assistant Home and see how the app can make your everyday life easier! Terms of use: https://seeingassistant.tt.com.pl/home/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Seeing Assistant Home at 4.6 against ColoredEye's 3.9. Seeing Assistant Home also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). ColoredEye's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and device support 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. ColoredEye sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Seeing Assistant Home asks for nothing beyond the download.
Seeing Assistant Home holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 37 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of ColoredEye's written reviews are positive against 89% of Seeing Assistant Home's.
ColoredEye ships an update every 4 months, Seeing Assistant Home every 3 months. Both last shipped on September 20, 2026.
| Parameter | ColoredEye | Seeing Assistant Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (14 ratings) | 4.6 (37 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.4% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 37 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 131 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MGS Technologies LLC | Transition Technologies S.A. |
Customer experience
ColoredEye
Seeing Assistant Home
In-app purchases
ColoredEye
- ColoredEye Ad Free$0.99
Seeing Assistant Home
No in-app purchases








