ColorSay • Color Scanner

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Description of App

Now you can make the environment sound! By using the camera of your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you can scan your surroundings and ColorSay will make the colors audible to you.

ColorSay calls the colors by name!

Set up one of five color sets for speech output, and ColorSay will announce the name of the closest known color. ColorSay identifies the color names in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.

ColorSay converts colors into tones!

Choose between different sound modes for sonochromatic reproduction of the color impressions. The dominant colors of an image will be interpreted as tones in real-time, which will enable you to identify the individual color families acoustically.

ColorSay is optimized to use the iOS accessibility features including VoiceOver, but does not rely on these in order to work without limitations.

ColorSay is a color scanner and suitable for blind users, people with color blindness, defective color vision, red-green blindness, blue-yellow blindness, color vision deficiency, achromatopsia, achromasia, dyschromatopsia, protanopia (red blindness), deuteranopia (green blindness), tritanopia (blue blindness), monochromaticity ...

... and it’s for everyone who would like to rediscover the world of colors!

Version

2.0.0

Free or Paid

Paid

Apple Watch Support

No

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

14.7.1

Accessibility Comments

This is fully accessible and appears to work quite well.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

Recommendations

2 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Ekaj 9 months 1 week ago

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Comments

By StarNoble on Thursday, July 3, 2014 - 17:47

I just checked the app store and the version that actually speaks is $2.99. The app should be updated to reflect this.

By Ekaj on Sunday, February 18, 2024 - 17:47

I went looking for this app a few years ago but couldn't find it. Turns out I mistyped the name or something. Fast-forward to earlier this morning, when I had some time to kill. So I looked for the app again and found the direct link to it. I've not done much of anything with it yet, but it looks very accessible with VoiceOver. In addition I heard a tone right away upon opening the app. I have never been able to sense color. Throughout the years friends and family have attempted to explain color to me, and I think I have a vague understanding of it. But this app seems like it will help out. Clicking on their website link yields a "page not found", and I think might need to be updated. Or is that information included in the in-app guide?