HearLight Canvas

By onetrickpony, 9 January, 2026

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iOS and iPadOS

Emerging from HearLight I’ve released an app called HearLight Canvas.
HearLight Canvas is a painting app for blind and low-vision users where painting means painting sound.
Colors are represented as audible elements, and painting consists of placing and shaping sound on a canvas using touch.
As you paint, you hear what you are doing. The same canvas can be explored again by touch and sound, allowing you to revisit and navigate what you painted.

The app supports:
• a direct-touch canvas with continuous audio feedback
• color selection, where each color has its own sound
• brush size and opacity
• pan and zoom to move across the canvas
• undo and redo, saving and loading images

There are two modes:
• Paint mode, for placing sound on the canvas
• View mode, for exploring what is already on the canvas by listening

The visible image is a normal picture that sighted users can see, but the primary experience is painting and exploring sound on a canvas.

HearLight Canvas is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is designed for users who enjoy exploratory, hands-on interaction.

I have five promotional codes available for blind users who would like to try the app for free.

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Comments

By Enes Deniz on Friday, January 9, 2026 - 15:12

May I request a promo code?
I don't know if the app already has any of these features or not, but here are some suggestions:
  • The ability to add text by tripple-tapping or something that works without interrupting the app's current functionality
  • Importing images (exporting images from other apps or via the Share Sheet) to explore and examine them in something like a read-only mode. The user should also be able to switch to editing mode and do everything that sighted users can do, including cropping photos, adding text/captions, applying effects and filters etc., and saving the image as PDF.
  • Taking a photo within the app to explore by touch or save to photos (The user should be able to customize whether the photo is saved within the app or to photos, or deleted).
  • The ability to get a description of the drawing by sharing it to other apps or using Apple Intelligence, to get a better idea of how sighted people would perceive it.

By onetrickpony on Friday, January 9, 2026 - 15:25

Code sent with PM.
Load and Save to Photos already works. Text and AI are good ideas!
Thanks!
Stefan

By KE8UPE on Friday, January 9, 2026 - 21:57

Hi,
If you have anymore promo codes left, I’d gladly take one & provide feedback.
I’m also willing to beta test upcoming releases & provide feedback on those, if needed as well.