Description of App
What it does:
HearLight transforms brightness, saturation and hue into sound.
It lets you explore light, colors, and far-away spaces by hearing how they change.
Switch between camera input and a color picker for getting familiar with the mapping between colors and sounds.
HearLight was developed specially for blind users, but it is a fusion of art, accessibility, and sensory expansion for everyone.
Comments
Planning for 2.0 and beyond
Hello from the Development!
We are planning for future releases. Please let me know which features or improvements you are missing.
Greetings from Austria
Stefan Welebny
HearLight can now also take photos
Explore by sound, double-tap to capture what you’re pointing at, and share it instantly, for instance with your installed AI apps or Be My Eyes.
Including Apple Intelligence...
So I can just grab my phone, move it around to guess what I am pointing the camera at and try to infer that from the beeps (e.g., that bag may be green, this red thing is roughly the size of my computer etc.), and then take a photo to verify my guess, all without having to switch apps? Now this app can fulfill various functions, including a color recognizer, and even a fun guessing game.
Sharing Process
Thanks for the detailed thoughts. Just to clarify the intent behind the design: HearLight does not aim to integrate Apple Intelligence directly, and that was a conscious decision.
In my own testing, the current on device Apple Intelligence features were not reliable or informative enough for the kind of precise, perception-based exploration HearLight is meant to support. Instead, the focus is on enabling a continuous sensory workflow: explore by sound, capture the moment, and then hand off the image to whatever tool the user prefers — whether that’s Photos, an AI app, or a human assistant.
The goal is not to replace intelligence, but to get the user to the right image in the first place. Everything after that is deliberately left open. So when double tapping, then the standard iOS sharing dialog pops up.
Yeah, got it.
And trying to locate objects solely through color-based audio cues while learning what color they are sounds interesting and fun indeed. So you then take a photo and verify your guess.