Color Blind Pal

My son is colorblind for red green and I’m helping him try to understand the world as I see it. The app seems to work really well at differentiating different colors. THANK YOU SO MUCH. However, I find the user interface and usability of the app very frustrating. To me it’s completely non-intuitive how to change between the different modes. For example, the app started off in the camera mode but it’s now in picture [still] mode and I can’t get it back into camera mode. Summary: Functionality wise, this is a great app, but suffers from poor usability. (As an IT person I can help you develop and test enhancements, if you wish. Hence 4 stars

Thank you so much to whoever made this app. It is immensely helpful. I’ve used it to help me teach my non-colorblind son colors, to avoid leaving the house in terrible outfits, and so many other situations where clarification of color is useful. The accuracy depends on the lighting situation, but you can often work out when it’s inaccurate based on intuition (unless you have truly monochromatic vision). That said, I am really surprised by how accurate it is in most settings. It also has a feature that is very helpful in conveying your condition to others. Obviously vision is a complicated process and there’s no way for them to see exactly what they see. But, the simulator does give them a better idea of how your condition works and why you are so often mislabeling colors.

Besides the phone and texting apps, this is the only app I use. It is how I go about my life unimpeded by my disability. Every single day I use this app to help me in my job. This app also enables me to wear clothes other than jeans and a gray t-shirt without mismatching. All while growing up my parents thought I just had terrible taste! It wasn’t until Jr. High that they, and myself, realized I was colorblind! I also use this app when shopping for groceries to help pick out what fruits and vegetables are ripe. It really can’t be understated what a wonderful person this developer is. To make an app to help people with a disability and not monetize it in any way. When I open the app an ad never is what I see, it just goes straight to it’s sole function of telling me what color something is. I wish I could give him or her 6 stars. You made a wonderful app that lets me go about my day normally. Thank you so much.