Nav by ViaOpta app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
First release : 21 Aug 2014
App size: 28.15 Mb
Take the stress out of navigating your surroundings with Nav by ViaOpta! Nav is a navigation app designed to help those with low vision reach their desired destination with voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation. This app was designed in partnership with visually impaired users. You can use the app to:
• Give you your current position as a street address
• Insert waypoints into your journey for a more efficient route
• List the junctions/intersections around you, alongside their distances from you
• Set favourite locations by category
• Integrated haptic interactions make it easier for visually impaired users to use the application
• Use the integrated Be My Eyes, a service which allows users to call a sighted volunteer for live support
Latest reviews of Nav by ViaOpta app for iPhone and iPad
Even though being completely blind I love to stay mobile and independent. This app majorly helps with that. It is very useful, easy to use and has lots of cool functions. I use it all of the time to walk to my favorite stores and hangouts and to explore unknown routes and locations. And bonus unlike other navigation apps for the blind and visually impaired its not outrageously priced. Its completely free. And no ads or in-app purchases. Tons of thanks to the developers.
Not only were the maps out of date, but the interface is very strange requiring you to do such things as to going to settings to enable headphones, which then required you to restart the app before you could use headphones
Now I can have just one app to replace all my GPS apps for my needs. This is well designed app. Great work!
This is a potentially good app for those of us who need walking directions. However, I would like to see this ability also expand to driving places as well. I would also like to see this app, use feet and miles instead of yards. This is a bit confusing to some who dont know the metric system. From what I can gather, I enjoy using this app a lot. Im going to try a walking route to see if this is actually accurate.