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Blink — Strengthen your eyesight with eye tracking
Blink is an iOS app that take care for your eyes. It's a daily eyesight trainer with a number of effective exercises that helps your eyes to relieve tense and strengthen eyesight. Blink uses eye tracking to guide your exercise technique.
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@rossdcurrie Eye exercises is just one part of complex preventive vision therapy. Taking care of eyesight is a good habbit and Blink helps to build it with these small steps – short daily workouts. Gymnastics helps with strenghening eye muscles and due to the specific movents prevents irritation and dryness. The most known research about vision therapy belings to american vision therapy center where we've gathered most of the information.
@kevin @akuheika @rossdcurrie It seems like this app's approach is based on nothing, but there's research on this, if you're curious: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...
Such a great application for the TrueDepth camera! The haptic feedback is a perfect complement to the smooth animations.
Curious to know if the app collects usage data or trains on our faces when we use it?
@ikartik Thanks! No user data collected. The app not even using internet connection. Super safe.
Where is the proof you will improve eyesight like you claim? I’m very surprised everyone is just accepting that claim without asking how? Any proof?
@vincent94828225 Thank you for paying attention to such nuances, we are very pleased! did you leave a rating in the App Store?)
Cool idea, but I'm guessing it's going to require too much CPU, and the idea of having my camera on all day scares me 😬
@jchopak basically the same technology is used to unlock your phone with faceID, so it doesn't look like it does a great impact on battery.
And additionally we do not store or somehow work with the camera data directly. All is done through ios native API and this is more like working with numbers not image data )
Really nice concept, simple and useful app. Do you have any plans to add this exercise data in the Health app?
@suraj78 Do you think this is really necessary? users have already written to us about this feature. we will think how it can be interestingly implemented
@akuheika yeah, I think so as most of the popular activity/exercise apps are connected with the Health app, it becomes easy to see all the data in one place.
Just tried using this app. It’s really good, especially with the eye tracking (through camera) and haptics.
@_aakarshna Thanks that you gave Blink a try. Hope your eyes enjoyed it!
Wow, really nice! Would definitely need this.
How about Android app? Timeframe? 🤔
@martin_ryden Hi, Martin. Right now we are focusing on iOS devices with True Depth camera. But maybe one day we'll develop a version for android ⭐️
@martin_ryden Hi, Martin! Basically right now we're focusing on users feedback. So if community likes it, we'll be glad to increase our auditory by Android version of the app. Unfortunately no timeframe atm.
@arossennik @mokolovich Understand, which you the best of luck and hopefully we will see an android app for the future ;)
Wow, that's what I need. I've been looking for a similar application for a long time, but I couldn't find anything. I hope my eyes will rest more. It must be on the TechCrunch! Thank you, GOD
@new_user_332bfca43d Thanks for your words. Hope your eyes will like Blink. Just don't forget to do exercises daily 👀
@idmitrievich amazing product - great job! I use this app for eye exercises every day. Love your simple and user-friendly interface.
@eugene_strelets thanks a lot! Working hard to do really useful app.
First observation - when I went to app store to download, I first noticed BLNK app. Their B&W logo is similar enough to yours, that I was confused!
As others have commented, as a potential user of Blink, I'd want to know more about the science behind your concept - a quick mention in your explainer video would help me
Feedback: really like the simple interface auditory and tactile feedback. It was easy to figure out without any instructions. I wondered whether it could be set to provide reminders and it did!
Upvoted - congrats and best of luck!
@amliawellness Hello! Thanks so much for such a rich feedback! We are very pleased. The application is made on accessible techniques, but in an improved user experience in our opinion. At the moment we are working on a scientific component. But we don’t have a goal to pour out our eyes, we are talking about relieving fatigue, since it is really important that our eyes can rest
Happy to see that a hackathon idea turned into a product! So rare, so cool!
@okhlopkov That was our original plan after hackathon ^ —— ^ THANKS!
really cool concept, I was looking for an app like that a few years back. Although how can you guaranty that using screens with blue light will not have an impact on your eyesight and be counterproductive ?
@julien_grisoni the color choice in our app is specially made to calm your eyes, but not tense them. Plus, eye tracking helps user to control and do exercises without looking at the screen. You can try Blink yourself and tell us what you think!
That's a really great idea! When will there be an android version of the App?
As my doctor says: “Rest your eyes every 20 minutes. Look 20 feet away for 20 seconds. Get up at least every 2 hours and take a 15-minute break... blah blah”.
Awesome app, but so hard to train 20 feet back from my phone
@hamp Awesome, actually we're thinking of 20 feet away thing! ))))) So stay tuned...
It is really nice product for health care. I do a 2 min training one per day - it is really easy to use. Highly reckoned it, especially for those who work with devises or documents all day long.
@new_user_332c362b0e thank you for taking care of your eyes with Blink!
I love it, but think your monthly fee (for the complex exercises) should be 1.99. I wouldn’t mind paying for a year. But 7.99 a month is too much. In any case, thanks for a great product. I use your free exercises daily.
Remmo