Free, for iPhone, iPad and Android. In five languages. No ads, no in-app purchases, no account.
- Thirty-four numbered stampsLeft and right footprints, arrows, doors, stairs, crossings, accessible pedestrian signals, curbs, handrails — and the four landmark categories O&M teaches: visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory. Every tap is a step with its number.
- The photo stampA picture of the real cue, taken from the point where you see it while walking. On the printed sheet it comes out large, next to its number.
- “Follow the route”One step at a time, full screen, in very large type, read out loud — in your own recorded voice, when there is one.
- Print it, or send it to a colleagueA PDF designed for a black-and-white photocopier, and a single file with everything inside — photos and recordings included — that the recipient opens and edits.
- Accessibility is the productVoiceOver and TalkBack everywhere, a step list you reorder with two buttons, no mandatory gesture, three themes including yellow on black, large text.
- No network. Ever.No account, no server, no analytics. A route opens in a corridor with no signal — which is exactly where it is needed.
The story
iWalking is from 2010: you walked across the map with your fingers, on the iPad. In 2011 a review appeared on its App Store page, from an Orientation and Mobility specialist who was using the stamps to build and review routes with visually impaired students. The app had found its audience without knowing it. This version does on purpose what that one did by accident.
Need help?
Write to us: a person answers, not a form. The questions we get most often — no voice in “Follow the route”, where the routes are after changing phone, how to open a received file — are answered on the support page.