HuggingSnap: On-device Visual Assistant

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Description of App

Transform your iPhone into a visual assistant with real-time object description and visual understanding powered by on-device AI.

HuggingSnap brings smart vision AI to your iPhone. Using our smolvlm2 vision model, the app understands what your camera sees in real-time without sending any data to the cloud.

Just point your camera, ask a question or request a description, and HuggingSnap will identify objects, explain scenes, read text, and make sense of what you're looking at. It's helpful when shopping, traveling, studying, or just exploring your surroundings.

Key Features:
- Processes everything on your phone - your data stays private
- Works in real-time with no delay
- No internet needed - works offline anywhere
- Easy on your battery
- Reads and translates text in images
- Describes scenes for better accessibility
- Search using your camera
- Choose what types of objects to recognize

HuggingSnap turns your iPhone into a helpful visual companion that sees the world with you!

Terms of use & privacy policy:
Terms of use: https://huggingface.co/terms-of-service
Privacy policy: https://huggingface.co/privacy

Version

1.0

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

No

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

18.3.2

Accessibility Comments

Currently, this app is mostly unusable for VoiceOver users.
1. All buttons do not have clear labels.
2. Descriptions generated from the camera are not visible to VoiceOver.
3. It is possible to obtain descriptions for images in your photo library, however the interface for these could be more efficient to navigate.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads a few page elements.

Button Labeling

Few buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

Some parts of the app are accessible with VoiceOver, but not enough to make it usable.

Options

Comments

By Brad on Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 17:43

For those that do try it, or want another tool, i'd recommend contacting the dev and seeing where things go.

Their email is: [email protected]

By Brian on Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 17:43

If the developer can get the accessibility sorted, this could potentially be a great addition to the majority of tools that blind folks use on a daily basis. :-)