Cues you feel
Something’s close, Arrived, and Listening each have their own buzz. Setup lets you feel them.
For blind and low-vision people
Visual assistance you can talk to.
Ask fathom what’s in front of you, what a letter says, or where you left your keys. It remembers what you tell it, and you decide what it keeps.
The film: Four questions.
One conversation.
Watch fathom describe a kitchen counter, read a bill, recall where you said your keys are, and guide the way to the kitchen.
Describing, reading, and memory are free. Go, which guides you to places you’ve named, is fathom plus.
Read the transcript
Opening
Sound: Mellow guitar music, all the way through.
On screen: The fathom logo and the line “An assistant with vision.”
Narrator: fathom is an assistant with vision, for blind and low-vision people. It used to have five modes. You had to pick one before you could ask anything.
On screen: An iPhone running fathom. Five mode buttons, Look Now, Lookout, Go, Task, and Assistant, fly in around it and fold into the orb on its screen.
Narrator: Now it’s one conversation. You just ask.
On screen: The orb pulses, and the words “fathom is one conversation now.” appear beside the phone.
Describe
On screen: A line drawing of a kitchen counter with a kettle and a pour-over coffee setup.
Sound: fathom’s listening chime plays before each question, and its heard chime after it.
You: What’s in front of me?
fathom: A stainless steel kettle and your pour-over coffee setup are about 6 feet away, at your 11 o’clock. Be careful, just in case there’s hot water in the kettle.
On screen: Labels mark the kettle, the pour-over, “about 6 ft,” and a caution, “may be hot.” A clock dial points to 11.
Read
On screen: An electric bill for October. Amount due, $84.77. Due by October 12.
You: What does this say?
fathom: It’s October’s electric bill. It’s $84.77, due by the 12th. Would you like me to read all the details?
On screen: A prompt under the bill reads “Read all the details?”
Remember
On screen: A drawing of keys on a hook by a door.
You: Where did I leave my keys?
fathom: You told me they’re on the hook by the door. I remember what you tell me.
On screen: A card headed “From your memories” reads “The keys are on the hook by the door,” and under it, “You told fathom.” A tag above it reads “Remembered.”
Guide
On screen: A line drawing of a hallway, with the kitchen door on the left wall ahead.
You: Take me to the kitchen.
fathom: Keep heading forward for about 12 feet, and then the door to the kitchen will be at 9 o’clock. You’ll notice a change in the floor texture, because it’s tile.
On screen: Footsteps lead about 12 feet up the hallway. A clock dial points to 9, toward the kitchen door, where the floor turns to tile.
Closing
On screen: The phone turns away. The fathom logo returns with “Made to be heard.” and “Live on the App Store, fathomvision.app.”
Narrator: fathom is live on the App Store, free to download. Find it at fathomvision.app. Made to be heard.
Why we built it: Most of the day
asks you to look.
The label on the can. The dial on the washer. The sign on the door. The kiosk that’s only a screen. So you ask someone, or guess, or wait.
Or you ask fathom.
Just ask: One screen.
Say what you need.
Speak, type, or take a suggestion, and fathom does it on the same screen.
The mic is always in the same place, and Magic Tap opens it. Tap anywhere to stop fathom talking.
Free. Talking to fathom uses Cloud AI.
Look Now: Tap More.
Six ways to look.
Pick one: describe the whole scene in one scan, read text word for word, identify what you’re holding, read a kiosk or appliance screen, name what you’re pointing at, or take a closer look.
Free. With On-device AI, reading text works on every iPhone.
Read: Long text.
At your pace.
A long letter becomes a document you move through. Go back, skip ahead, repeat a part, or pause.
With VoiceOver, it’s real text, with headings on the rotor. When you’re done, ask fathom about it.
“Your hold is ready to pick up.”
Free.
Lookout and Point to Ask: It talks as you walk.
Point, and it names it.
Lookout keeps describing what’s around you while you move. You choose how much it says: Hazards Only, Balanced, or Full Awareness.
Point at anything for about a second, and fathom tells you what it is.
“Oat milk. The label says Barista Edition.”
Free. Obstacle alerts run on your phone and never use the cloud.
Memory: It learns your world.
You decide what it keeps.
Tell it where things are, then ask later. When you tell it something, it says back what it saved.
After a longer task or plan, fathom plus shows you a checklist of what it learned before it keeps any of it. Uncheck anything that’s wrong.
Everything it keeps is in Settings, under More options, then Memory, where you can correct it or delete it.
“Remember my keys hang on the hook by the door.”
Free. The checklist after a task or plan comes with fathom plus. What it remembers is kept on your iPhone, and sent to Google with your requests when Cloud AI is on.
Go: Say where.
When it thinks you’re there, it asks.
Go guides you to places you’ve named, like the laundry room. It works from what the camera sees, and buzzes when something’s close.
When you get there, tap I’ve arrived or shake your phone. Or answer when it asks.
“Take me to the laundry room”
fathom plus. Guided by the camera.
Step-by-step plans: See the plan
before you start.
Tell fathom the whole job. It lays out the steps and reads them to you first. Accept the plan, edit it, or dismiss it.
Once it’s running, you can pause it, change the plan, or end it.
“Do a load of laundry”
fathom plus. Nothing starts until you accept.
Task and Live mode: Hands busy?
Talk it through.
Task coaches you through one hands-on job in front of the camera.
Turn on Live mode and it becomes a conversation. Tap the task, or use Magic Tap, and talk while you work. fathom also opens the mic after it asks you something. When the mic is off, the screen says “Microphone off.”
“Sort the darks from the lights”
fathom plus. In Live mode, your voice is sent to Google while the microphone is on.
Skills: Teach it once.
Run it by name.
After a task, say “save this as a skill.” When you do the same job a third time, fathom offers to keep it for you.
Then run it from the suggestions, from the Skills list, or from Siri.
“That’s the third time you’ve done the laundry. Want me to save it as a skill so you can just say run the laundry? Say save this as a skill and I’ll keep it.”
fathom plus. Or ask Siri: “Run the laundry with fathom.”
Your choice: Cloud or on-device.
It asks before anything goes to Google.
With Cloud AI, fathom sends camera pictures, the text of what you say, and what it remembers about you to Google’s Gemini AI. In Live mode, your voice is sent too, while the microphone is on.
With On-device AI, nothing is sent to Google. Camera pictures and your voice stay on your phone. Obstacle alerts and reading text work on every iPhone. On iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence, Look Now can also describe what is around you.
What goes to Google, and what Google keeps
Free either way. Switch any time in Settings, under AI Mode.
The safety net: Obstacle alerts are always on.
And always free.
When fathom notices a hazard, it buzzes first. Obstacle alerts run on your phone in Lookout, Go, and tasks, with Cloud AI on or off. Pausing doesn’t stop them, and they keep working after this month’s Cloud AI allowance runs out.
fathom uses AI and it can make mistakes. Keep your cane or your dog.
It fits how you already work.
Siri and the Action Button
Nine Siri shortcuts, and the Action Button can open Look Now. Ask where you left something without opening the app.
Your language, your voice
fathom answers in your iPhone’s language and voice when it can. Buttons and alerts stay in English.
It knows how you get around
Three optional questions at setup, so fathom skips what your cane or dog already handles. With Cloud AI on, your answers are sent with your requests.
On the App Store
Download fathom free.
No account. Every setup question is optional.
Press or media? Email support@fathomvision.app for the press kit.
Download free on the App Store
Free · iPhone · iOS 17+
Free: talking to fathom, Look Now, Lookout, Point to Ask, memory, and every obstacle alert.
fathom plus adds step-by-step plans, Go, Task with Live mode, and skills. $12.99 a month after a seven-day free trial.
Cloud AI has a monthly allowance. Obstacle alerts keep working when it runs out.