Comparison

Speakers assistant vs Visionauta

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

Head to head
About

Speakers assistant

Enhance your public speaking with tools for timing, notes, and delivery. This app helps you prepare and present with confidence, making every speech a success. Accessible and customizable for all skill levels.

Highlights
  • Smart Time Manager with custom alerts
  • Presenter Notes access on device or headphones
  • Cross-device compatibility (Apple Vision Pro, Mac, iPhone, Apple Watch)
  • Friendly and customizable interface
  • Presentation preparation and delivery improvement
  • Increased speaker confidence
Features
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Keep your notes close and your timing on track while you speak. Speakers assistant brings presenter notes, a talk timer and timed alerts to iPhone and iPad. PLAN YOUR TALK Create a presentation with notes and events at the moments you choose. Set spoken messages, sounds or vibrations to mark important points. FOLLOW YOUR NOTES Read each note on screen or hear it through your headphones. Navigate with configurable headphone controls and use the app with VoiceOver or a Braille display. POSITIONAL AUDIO Place a sound marker in the direction of your audience or recording camera to keep your bearings while you speak. Designed especially for blind or low vision speakers. Requires headphones that support head tracking. START FROM YOUR SLIDES Import .pptx, .key or .keynote presentations to create one note per slide, including slide text and presenter notes. You can also import notes from TXT, RTF or DOCX, then export them as TXT or Markdown. WORK ACROSS DEVICES Save talks locally or use optional iCloud storage. Send a presentation to Apple Watch, or connect to the Mac app to send next and previous commands from iPhone.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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 39 LANGUAGES Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Korean, German, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese, Hindi, Indonesian, Bangla, Czech, Greek, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Marathi, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Cantonese. 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/

Screenshots

Speakers assistant4 screens
Visionauta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Visionauta at Free against Speakers assistant's $2.99. Visionauta also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). Speakers assistant's advantage is device support (5 vs 1). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases 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

Visionauta is free to download; Speakers assistant costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Speakers assistant ships an update every 3 weeks, Visionauta every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Speakers assistant versus Visionauta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeakers assistantVisionauta
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJonathan Chacon BarberoJonathan Santos

Customer experience

Speakers assistant

Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Visionauta

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Speakers assistant

No in-app purchases

None

Visionauta

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Speakers assistant free?
Speakers assistant costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Visionauta free?
Visionauta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Speakers assistant or Visionauta have ads?
Neither Speakers assistant nor Visionauta shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Speakers assistant or Visionauta?
Speakers assistant ships an update every 3 weeks, and Visionauta every 3 days. Most recently, Speakers assistant was updated on October 13, 2026 and Visionauta on October 8, 2026.

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