Looking for VoiceOver testers for Flip Unit - Free accessible unit converter

I haven’t necessarily tried all the conversion units, but I did try the temperature and distance units, and they’re looking very good.

One thing I’d like to see is this: when selecting the conversion units, clicking the button to open the dropdown list can remain the same, but would it also be possible to add the conversion units as VoiceOver actions so we can reach them just by swiping up or down for quick access? Another option could be to make conversion units appear via swipe up or down only if we set them as favorites, so we would only see our favorite or most frequently used units. It’s a great app, thanks so much for the work.

Hi, Siraj.
A very nice app. Very well laid out. I want to make a couple of points. In the temperature conversion section, I could not use zero as a value even though zero is a valid temperature. Also, I did not find a way to insert negative values since I couldn’t find the minus sign in that keyboard layout. Great work! I can see myself using this app quite a bit.

Thanks so much! I completely agree with the previous comment that for any category both in the from as well as to fields, we should be able to flick up or down (voiceover gestures of course is all I’m talking about here on my comment), to flick through all the unit choices of the different standards such as metric and imperial. it’s all about efficiency and speed given that screen reader usage anyway typically takes longer for a blind person than a side person so whatever an app design can do to expedite the process requiring fewer swipes and double taps etc. is always the best. secondly, after I have chosen the number in the number that it failed, and chosen the from as well as to fields, currently the done button which must be pressed is all the way man the user on the done button? totally, there is a fixed hip on the app screen that says “swipe left on any category to add it to ferrets“. This doesn’t seem to be a tip for voiceover users. It may be just four sided people and if that’s the case then that tip is not only vomiting all your screen users but it also does not work using voiceover. to the text of the tip mention above should be removed and another implementation to add a category to favorites that is voiceover friendly should be included. ideally it would be unified for both sided and blind people so after removing that text of the tip I mentioned, maybe one has to enter a category and then there can be a button write the beginning before you start adding that number and filling out the fields that would say add to ferrets and once it’s added to a favorite that button label should automatically switch to “remove from favorites”.y swipes later at the end of all the tabs at the bottom. Can we move this done button to appear right after the to field so that a single right swipe from the TO

First of all I totally want to acknowledge that such apps as the flip unit are super helpful for screen reader iOS users who do not use AI apps or have low proficiency in prompt engineering and effective use of those AI apps. Personally I am a ChatGPT subscriber for more than a year and a half now and I just using its inbuilt shortcut opened up the advanced voice mode which is in my iPhone home screen dock, and GPT really really quickly converted any unit to any other unit that I asked you to. Since this was all in voice mode and no text typing even required, it required like a fraction, literally a fraction of the swipes and double taps compared to the flip unit app to achieve my conversion goal. So personally I will be using the single convergent ChatGPT app for any of my unit conversions instead of having five different apps on my phone each doing a different thing for example. So please pardon me, but personally I don’t have a motivation to do further testing on the flip unit app. However to re-trade and circle back, I truly appreciate this app and his refinement because there are many blind screen reading iOS users cool for one reason or the other don’t use AI or have AI apps but don’t know how to use them effectively which is fine, and for them such separate dedicatedunit conversion apps would be very useful.

I got the update and zero and negative values work in temperature now. Thanks! I have another suggestion. It would be nice to be able to favorite unit pairs instead of or in addition to the categories. Basically, the ability to add Celsius to Fahrenheit. And Canadian dollar to US dollar as favorites for example.
Since we use some conversions more than others frequently.

I haven't yet started testing your app but would very much like to do so. I've already got TestFlight on my phone and will click the link. I wanted to say that your website is very accessible and helpful. An app such as this would be a great help for me.

What does this app do that the native iOS Calculator does not? Thanks in advance for your time. :)

Hi Siraj.
Thanks so much for creating and sharing this app; it's a very nice little utility to have on the phone. I just have a few thoughts.
1. It'd be nice if Favourites and All Categories on the main screen were tagged as headings. It'd just make VoiceOver navigation a little easier and would more clearly separate content sections.
2. If I add Distance for example to Favourites, its VoiceOver label changes from "Distance, button" to "Distance, Favourite, button". I find this additional verbosity a little annoying, and it's unnecessary as I already know it's in the Favourites section.
3. For Cooking, it looks like it is using the American standard for a cup measure. I wonder could an option be added in the settings to choose between American, Modern Metric aka (European or International), and perhaps even the old Imperial cup measures?
4. This one might be more of a stretch, but perhaps you could create controls that can be added to the Control Centre that would jump you straight to Cooking or Distance etc.
Thanks again, appreciate the app.
Dave

Sounds like a nice little app? What rate are you offering for Voiceover testers?

I don’t really have a lot to say but for feedback and an initial review, it’s very good. I’ve always wanted to get an app that you can convert from one measurement to another so thank you very much.