Hello guys,
I have created the free app PiccyBot that speaks out the description of the photo/image you give it. And you can then ask detailed questions about it.
I have adjusted the app to make it as low vision friendly as I could, but I would love to receive feedback on how to improve it further!
The App Store link can be found here:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/piccybot/id6476859317
I am really hoping it will be of use to some. I have earlier created the app 'Talking Goggles' which was well received by the low vision community, but PiccyBot is a lot more powerful and hopefully useful!
Thanks and best regards,
Martijn van der Spek
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PiccyBot on MacOS
PiccyBot is now available for MacOS as well. You need a M1 or higher Mac for this. You can benefit from any existing subscription by using the same Apple account. Just go to the App Store on your Mac and search for PiccyBot, it should pop right up.
The camera on the Mac won't be available, but you can describe any video or image stored on your Mac and it has all the regular PiccyBot features.
Guidance for taking pictures
I'm already subscribed, but would pay again for this. it'd be an wonderful thing to have especially if we could refine it to work fairly decent.
Pasting an image
Firstly, great news about the Mac app - thank you. I was initially unsure I was downloading the right thing as the App Store suggested it wasn't a Mac app, but I installed it and opened it up and it seems to work well.
On the Mac, my main use case for this sort of thing is getting images on the clipboard described. But being on my work computer, I don't really want the automatically detection of clipboard on. I noticed there was an option to turn it off. Is there another way I can paste the image in? I tried but I only ever managed to get the last text I copied into the text box as opposed to the last image.
Whilst the feature is fantastic, I'm still a little unsure about how much I like the automatic option on the phone either. For example, I could be in an app and share an image to PiccyBot. So the app opens and immediately I'm prompted if I want to paste in the text I happened to have copied to clipboard before. It's a minor thing but I think I would prefer to be in control of when it happens. Is the only other way to do this in iOS as per the original version? I never really got the hang of it because I don't think it was really set for VoiceOver.
I would quite like an easy way to paste on my own terms in both applications.
And going back to the Mac, the other thing I would really, really like is a way to have the image described locally without going to the cloud. I'm a bit reluctant to put work images in here - I probably will if I have to, but I would really rather have something that was all local in those cases. Please correct me if I am wrong but I don't think an option like this exists now, so can it maybe be added as a feature request?
Thanks again for continuing to work on this. The amount of new features that have come in since I first subscribed is incredible.