Point your phone. Understand what you’re looking at.

We’re two people building simple, free tools for reading the things around you. Photograph a nutrition label or a printed page, and get it back in plain words, in your own language. There’s nothing to sign up for.

See the two apps

What both apps hold to

No accounts, no data harvesting: Nothing to sign up for and no profile to fill in. You open the app and use it. We don’t collect your details to sell or to build anything around you.
Plain language, always: Answers come back in everyday words that anyone can follow, whether or not they read English or fine print comfortably.
Your native language first: Built for the language you actually read and speak, from the start. Not an English app with translations added later.
Honest about limits: When an app isn’t sure, it says so. Parakh isn’t medical advice. Vachak marks a word it can’t read instead of guessing.
Free to use, always: Scanning a label and reading a page are free, and will stay free.

The two apps

Both run in your phone’s browser. You can add either one to your home screen, but you don’t have to.

Parakh

For food packets

Photograph a nutrition label, get a plain-language verdict.

What’s in it, how processed it is, and a one-line answer you can use in the shop. It isn’t medical advice, and it doesn’t know your health history.

Open Parakh

Vachak

For printed pages

Photograph any printed page, hear it read aloud in your language.

A letter, a notice, a medicine strip, a page of a book. It reads the words as printed and marks any it can’t make out. Some photos are kept only to make the reading more accurate, never to sell.

Open Vachak

Why we’re building this

A lot of what matters in daily life arrives as small print: the back of a packet, a notice from the council, a letter, the strip on a medicine. The person holding it isn’t always the person who can read it easily, or in the language it was printed in.

A phone camera can already see the page. We want it to tell you what the page says, plainly, in your language, without asking anything of you first. That is the whole idea behind both apps.

It’s early, and we’re focused on getting the core right.

— the two of us at Iksha