ScribeMe

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Description of App

Introducing Live Assist, the world’s first real-time AI video assistant made for blind and visually impaired users. With just one tap, it helps you find objects, read text, navigate unfamiliar places, and understand your surroundings instantly. Simple, fast, and reliable, Live Assist gives you greater freedom and independence every day.

ScribeMe is your all in one AI-powered assistant for making documents and images fully accessible. Instantly scan PowerPoints and PDFs, and the app automatically preserves formatting by labeling headings, lists, and tables—while generating detailed alt text to make your files 100% accessible. With advanced OCR in over 50 languages, ScribeMe extracts text with high accuracy and even lets you ask AI questions about your documents, from quick summaries to deep insights.

With Snap nScribe, you can take photos using your camera or choose from your gallery to receive detailed descriptions of product labels, surroundings, and more. Upload multiple images at once for fast, thorough results, and ask follow-up questions on any photo. You can also share documents or photos directly from other apps to ScribeMe, giving you instant AI-powered assistance for reading, understanding, and exploring content with ease.

Version

2.2

Free or Paid

Free With In-App Purchase

Apple Watch Support

Not Known

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

18.7

Accessibility Comments

App is accessible.

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.

Other Comments

This is the utility I have been waiting for to combine extracted text with image descriptions. It inserts the images for each page at the end of the text.
It requires a subscription of 250 or 500 images a month. I think it has potential, but needs to expand more before it's ready for prime time. For example, you can browse your file history, and read your already generated files, but there is no way to directly export them. Having the share sheet so that I could export the file to, for example, Dropbox for use elsewhere would be helpful. Good idea, but it needs a bit more development.

Recommendations

2 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Ayub 5 months 1 week ago

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Comments

By Bishoy on Monday, April 21, 2025 - 18:21

I tried the app and I have to admit, it’s impressive. I have been looking for something to make documents accessible for a long time

By Scott Davert on Friday, April 25, 2025 - 19:00

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

Version 1.6.2 Added the German and Hindi language App for describing images.

By Scott Davert on Sunday, May 4, 2025 - 18:08

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

The latest update adds the ability to ask questions about the uploaded documents. I noticed it is no longer possible to turn the sound off when scanning a file, I hope they will bring that back as I would strongly prefer the ability to turn it off.