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BlindSquare is pioneering accessible navigation both indoors and outdoors. Know where you are, know where you're going, travel with confidence.

BlindSquare is a new solution that combines the latest technology to help the blind with their daily lives. It has been developed in collaboration with blind people and carefully field tested. You need either an iPhone or an iPad to get started. It also supports some additional accessories to enhance the experience.

How does it work?

BlindSquare uses GPS and the compass to locate you. It then gathers information about the surrounding environment from FourSquare. BlindSquare has some unique algorithms to decide what information is the most relevant and then speaks it to you with high quality speech synthesis.
“What's the most popular café within 200 meters radius? Where is the post office or the library?”

You can control BlindSquare also through voice commands. The Voice Command feature is a premium service requiring purchase of credits for continuous use. Voice Command Credits are available as an in-app purchase on the App Store.

Using BlindSquare as a GPS solution:

When you start the app, it will start telling you the interesting places and street crossings around you. By changing the radius, you can limit the area you are interested in. You can also search by search term or by category. You can select an interesting place from the search results and perform the following tasks:

1) Get contact info (address, phone number)
2) Open twitter feed or restaurant menu (if provided)
3) Make a phone call
4) Start tracking the place (BlindSquare will assist you by repeating the distance and the clock face direction)
5) Start your favourite navigator for turn-by-turn instructions (TomTom, Navigon or Apple Maps)

BlindSquare is aware of when you travel by car, bus or train and starts to report interesting places in front of you (for example, the next stops) and street crossings when you are passing them.

You can also save your own private places to iCloud so they will be found with your every device.

Using BlindSquare as a Foursquare client:

If you like to play Foursquare, you can do the following with BlindSquare:

1) Get a list of nearby FourSquare venues
2) When you are in a place, you can check in by shaking your device
3) Do a check in with commenting and twitter/facebook sharing
4) Correct the location of the place

BlindSquare supports the following languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean (South Korea), Norwegian, Polish, Portugues, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

VoiceOver usage is supported but it also includes higher quality additional speech synthesis by Acapela Text-To-Speech from Acapela Group.

Instructions in English: https://www.blindsquare.com/user-guide/ and https://www.blindsquare.com/faq/

Please note: This app retrieves data in real time from Foursquare and Open Street Map. Use of a flat rate data plan is highly recommended.

Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Having only been released in May 2012, BlindSquare has already received several prizes and awards:

- GSMA: Global Mobile Awards 2013, Best Mobile Health Product or Service
- Apps4Finland 2012
- OpenCities App Challenge 2012
- The Finnish Information Processing Association: Best Product 2012

Please note: To use BlindSquare, your iCloud account has to be active so BlindSquare can access it to save your settings and places.

Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

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BlindSquare Pros

✓ Simulate Location is invaluableI've used BlindSquare for around a year. I'm getting better and better at using Simulate Location and My Places to build my mental map of intersections and points of interest where I plan to be. While I'm walking or riding, I mostly use my Braille Sense with app sounds turned off, iPhone muted, and volumes set to 0. I find BlindSquare very difficult to use in this fashion, so Ariadne GPS is my main "where am I?" app, and I love exporting places from BlindSquare to Ariadne GPS. In other GPS apps, I can make the braille display tolerably stable while I'm moving, but, in BlindSquare, I have a hard time reading and navigating the screen (using my Braille Sense) unless my GPS location is stable. At some point, I'll get into the place check-in feature, but I'm still mounting the smartphone mentality learning curve..JDD_ApperVersion: 2.49

✓ Blindsquare rocksThis application provides a travel freedom for blind folks hitherto unknown in the total history of blindness. And it's all provided by one person who before the developing blind Square had no experience with blind folks. This is truly amazing!.Eggmann007Version: 2.01

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BlindSquare Cons

✗ Poor reliabilityI am a certified orientation and mobility instructor in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. I used this app in my training programs for several years with good success. Unfortunately, the app is no longer working properly. I contacted the company. They appear to have fixed one bug with the most recent update, but other problems remain. BlindSquare could no longer recognize some familiar shops and cafes that are found on google and Apple Maps. Directional headings were variable and unreliable..OM teacherVersion: 4.9958

✗ Needs workFirst, the English documentation is poorly organized, and obviously poorly translated from something else. It's hard to use given this quality of documentation. Next, the quality of the map data is rather poor; they use Open Street Map, but perhaps should have used freely available Google map data. There's no way to submit any map data corrections. It's helpful, but hard to learn and hard to use..TallyChipVersion: 3.41

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Is BlindSquare legit?

✅ Yes. BlindSquare is legit, but not 100% legit to us. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 98 BlindSquare user reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, AppSupports Legitimacy Score for BlindSquare is 77.9/100.

Is BlindSquare safe?

✅ Yes. BlindSquare is quiet safe to use. This is based on our NLP analysis of over 98 user reviews sourced from the IOS appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.1/5. AppSupports Safety Score for BlindSquare is 80.4/100.