Comparison

Seeing Assistant Home vs MBraille

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

MBraille

This app provides a mobile braille keyboard for typing, editing, and sending messages. It offers extensive braille support for various languages and allows interaction with other applications, making mobile devices more accessible.

Highlights
  • Mobile braille keyboard
  • Type, edit, and send messages
  • Support for contracted and uncontracted braille
  • Call contacts and send emails
  • Facebook status updates and calendar entries
  • Internet search queries
  • Third-party application interaction
Features
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MBraille: Braille-First Notetaker for iPhone and iPad MBraille turns your iPhone or iPad into a braille-first workspace for writing, editing, and everyday tasks. More than a keyboard, it combines fast touchscreen braille entry with navigation, editing, commands, and file tools for users who want an efficient eyes-free workflow. Write with a customizable 6-dot layout, hear immediate speech feedback, and control the app with short gestures. MBraille supports both contracted and uncontracted braille in many languages, so you can work the way you already know. Key features: - Fast touchscreen braille input with customizable dot positions - Designed for VoiceOver and supports self-voicing when VoiceOver is off - Rich editing with cursor movement, read-back, selection, copy, cut, paste, undo, erase, and search - Notes, saved files, bookmarks, command history, and quick navigation - Command mode for messages, phone calls, email, calendar events, web search, opening apps, file management, and help - On-device voice dictation - Aliases and gesture bindings for repeated phrases and frequent commands - Cloud sync for MBraille files with Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive - One-handed mode and external keyboard support - Speech feedback by character, word, sentence, and more MBraille is built for real daily use: taking notes, writing messages, managing files, launching actions, and staying in braille from start to finish. If you want a braille-first notetaker and Swiss army knife for iPhone or iPad, MBraille gives you speed, control, and flexibility in one app. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Seeing Assistant Home4 screens
MBraille1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Seeing Assistant Home at none against MBraille's 5. Seeing Assistant Home also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 70%). MBraille's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MBraille sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Seeing Assistant Home asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Seeing Assistant Home ships an update every 3 months, MBraille every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Seeing Assistant Home versus MBraille: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeeing Assistant HomeMBraille
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (43 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews — better70.0% of reviews
Number of ratings43 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTransition Technologies S.A.MPaja

Customer experience

Seeing Assistant Home

All ratings37 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral5.4%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral7.4%
Negative3.7%

MBraille

Written reviews60 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral3.3%
Negative26.7%

Bugs and requests

Seeing Assistant Home

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

MBraille

Reported bugs

25 issues
  • Subscription prompt for full version owners after update
  • App not working smoothly since iOS 26 update
  • Restore purchase not finding previous full version purchases
  • Multiple exclamation marks problem
  • Third-party MBraille Keyboard from within apps not working
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  • App no longer speaks after iOS 13.1 update
  • Typing not recognized correctly
  • Help function links not working
  • Cannot use delete whole word gesture
  • Standard virtual keyboard impossible to find in other apps
  • Three finger swipe gesture inconsistent
  • Clipboard functions hit and miss
  • Self-voicing mode has erratic touch behavior
  • App doesn't always recognize all fingers on screen
  • Fixed position of dots requires finger adjustment
  • Cannot correctly translate inputted braille to print
  • Does not use iOS braille tables
  • Clipboard is very difficult to clear
  • Feature that sends text directly from mBraille is inconsistent
  • Erratic touch behavior with VoiceOver on iOS 7
  • App not working at all
  • Black screen with white dots along the edge, no response
  • Not working for some users
  • Cannot use 6 dots to write 'for'
  • Accidental tapping on banner when notification comes through

Requested features

14 requests
  • Bring back working third-party MBraille Keyboard from within apps
  • Fix multiple exclamation marks problem
  • Lower the full price to about five dollars at the maximum
  • Fix beeps to clicks for key presses
  • Add sound similar to brailler embossing head for blank line command
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  • Add a gesture to send messages
  • Improve iPad support
  • Expand to a fully integrated notetaker
  • Implement braille properly on iPhone (developer suggestion)
  • Add switchable keyboard orientations to iPad version
  • Improve clipboard clearing functionality
  • Implement more braille contractions
  • Fix issues with pasting text to other apps
  • Make the feature that sends text directly from mBraille consistent

In-app purchases

None

Seeing Assistant Home

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

MBraille

Subscriptions2
  • MBraille Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • MBraille Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time3
  • MBraille Keyboard$9.99
  • MBraille Documents and Keyboard$14.99
  • MBraille Full Version$39.99

Questions

Is Seeing Assistant Home free?
Seeing Assistant Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MBraille free?
MBraille is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Seeing Assistant Home or MBraille have ads?
Neither Seeing Assistant Home nor MBraille shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Seeing Assistant Home or MBraille?
Seeing Assistant Home ships an update every 3 months, and MBraille every 3 weeks. Most recently, Seeing Assistant Home was updated on November 6, 2026 and MBraille on November 1, 2026.

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