Comparison

Seeing Assistant Home vs Be Your Eyes

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

Be Your Eyes

This app uses AI to identify objects and read text aloud, assisting visually impaired users. It also features real-time obstacle detection with customizable alerts and provides voice-broadcasted weather updates.

Highlights
  • AI object identification
  • Text recognition and voice broadcast
  • Real-time obstacle detection with alerts
  • Customizable obstacle avoidance settings
  • Voice-broadcasted weather information
Features
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[Function to identify objects] Using advanced artificial intelligence technology, it can identify thousands of common objects in life, allowing the visually impaired to explore the world and perceive life; [Function to recognize text] It can quickly and accurately recognize more than 50 different texts and broadcast them in voice form; [Obstacle avoidance function] It can monitor the distance of obstacles ahead in real time. If the distance is too close, it will send out an audible alarm and vibration alarm. The user can customize whether to turn it on; (The obstacle avoidance function requires iPhone12 Pro or above Pro models.) [Today Apple Weather] You can get voice broadcast of today's weather conditions, so you no longer have to worry about traveling; Legal Source Link: https://weatherkit.apple.com/legal-attribution.html [Hope to know] Please use the App in a safe environment, the developer does not bear any security responsibility; [Reminder] If you encounter any usage problems or have any suggestions, please send us an email: 947268652@qq.com We never stop optimizing the product and fixing bugs. Your feedback is the greatest help for us to improve our services! Privacy Policy: https://blastbricks.github.io/BeYourEyes/PrivacyPolicy.html User Agreement: https://blastbricks.github.io/BeYourEyes/Terms.html By downloading and using this App, users represent that they have read and agreed to our Privacy Agreement and User Agreement.

Screenshots

Seeing Assistant Home4 screens
Be Your Eyes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Be Your Eyes at 100% against Seeing Assistant Home's 89%. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Seeing Assistant Home ships an update every 3 months, Be Your Eyes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Seeing Assistant Home versus Be Your Eyes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeeing Assistant HomeBe Your Eyes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (43 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings43 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1514.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTransition Technologies S.A.祖铁 程

Customer experience

Seeing Assistant Home

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

Be Your Eyes

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Seeing Assistant Home

No in-app purchases

None

Be Your Eyes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Seeing Assistant Home free?
Seeing Assistant Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Be Your Eyes free?
Be Your Eyes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Seeing Assistant Home or Be Your Eyes have ads?
Neither Seeing Assistant Home nor Be Your Eyes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Seeing Assistant Home or Be Your Eyes?
Seeing Assistant Home ships an update every 3 months, and Be Your Eyes every 2 months. Most recently, Seeing Assistant Home was updated on November 6, 2026 and Be Your Eyes on November 4, 2026.

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