WayAround - Tag and Scan vs Envision AI Usage & Stats
Tap your phone to a WayTag, and the shirt tells you it's the navy polo. The bottle tells you it's the antibiotic, twice daily, finish the course. The can tells you it's black beans, expires next March.
WayAround turns everyday objects into things that can speak for themselves, giving blind and low-vision users a faster, more independent way to identify and organize the items around them.
"Information is power, and WayAround takes it to the next level."
Neva Fairchild, retired, American Foundation for the Blind
HOW IT WORKS
Stick, clip, or pin a WayTag (sold separately) onto anything: clothing, medication, pantry items, files, appliances, cables, plants. Use the app to write whatever info you want onto the tag. From then on, a quick tap of your phone reads it back instantly through VoiceOver or your preferred accessibility settings.
No camera. No aiming. No barcode hunting. Just tap and know.
WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IT
Identify things in a second. Tap a tag and hear the description immediately. Swipe for more detail when you want it.
Store real information, not just labels. Unlimited characters per tag allows for full washing instructions, dosage schedules, ingredient lists, or links to other resources like a user manual. Rewrite tags as often as you like.
Work the way you already work. WayAround is built around VoiceOver, high-contrast visuals, large type, braille displays, and voice dictation. Whatever accessibility setup you use on your iPhone, the app fits into it.
Stay organized offline. Your tags work without an internet connection, and your data backs up automatically to the cloud when you reconnect.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"WayAround is a simple and cost-effective solution for labeling just about anything."
J.J. Meddaugh, AT Guys
"I love it. So much easier than a barcode reader or anything you have to focus with a camera."
Melissa Wagner, user
FOR BUSINESSES AND BRANDS
WayAround's patented public-tag solution lets any business add accessible information that anyone can read with a tap, improving the experience for customers with disabilities and beyond. Learn more at wayaround.com/public.
GETTING STARTED
WayTags come as stickers, magnets, buttons, and clips. Buy them at wayaround.com/shop or through an assistive technology distributor.
COMPATIBILITY
WayAround works with the built-in NFC on iPhone 7 and later. For iPad users or older iPhones, the WayLink Scanner (sold separately) connects via Bluetooth and sends tag info to the app.
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- Free
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Envision is the fastest, most reliable and award-winning OCR app that speaks out the visual world, helping people who are blind or have low vision lead more independent lives.
Envision is developed for and together with the blind and low vision community. The app is simple, gets things done and brings the best assistive experience to blind and low vision users.
Simply use your phone camera to scan any piece of text, your surroundings, objects, people or products and everything will be read out to you thanks to Envision’s smart artificial intelligence (AI) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
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What Envision users say about the app:
“Easy going text recognition. Text recognition is outstanding. Good for independence. Ease of use is immaculate” - Noahis from Australia
“Amazing. I love it. I'm blind and I love how easy it is to use. Amazing job!!!!” - Matt from Canada
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With full talkback support, Envision enables you to:
Read all kinds of text:
• Instantly read any piece of text in over 60 different languages.
• Easily scan your paper documents (single or multiple pages) with the help of audio-guided edge detection. All content is spoken back to you and is ready for export and edit.
• Import PDFs and images to get a description of the image and recognition of all the text within it.
• Quickly read handwritten postcards, letters, lists and other paperwork.
Know what's around you:
• Effortlessly describe visual scenes around you.
• Detect colour on your clothes, walls, books, you name it.
• Swiftly scan barcodes to get extensive information about the products.
Find what you're looking for:
• Find people around you; the names of your family and friends are spoken out whenever they are in the frame.
• Find objects around you; selecting common objects from the in-app list to find them.
Share:
• Share images or documents from your phone or other apps like Twitter or WhatsApp by selecting Envision from the share sheet. Envision can then read and describe those images for you.
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Feedback, questions or feature requests?
We welcome everyone to provide their feedback about the Envision app, as we’re constantly improving.
Please email us at support@LetsEnvision.com.
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If you're still reading all the way down here, we'd like to thank you for your diligence, attention to detail and general commitment to finishing something that you started. Just like all the team working at Envision!
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WayAround - Tag and Scan VS. 
Envision AIMay 3, 2026