Candle – Blind Navigation
Compass, places and routes
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New: choose how navigation talks to you – detailed or short ("50 meters, left"). Messages like "Place saved" interrupt VoiceOver, so nothing gets lost.
Candle helps blind and visually impaired people find their way. The app is built for VoiceOver from the ground up: large buttons, clear announcements and vibration instead of looking at a map.
COMPASS
• Direction by vibration: Candle vibrates when you point your iPhone north or in one of the eight compass directions, and announces it.
• Compass to a destination: hold the iPhone in front of you – Candle tells you the direction and distance to your destination.
PLACES NEARBY
• Explore: cafés, restaurants, pharmacies, ATMs, bus stops, taxi stands, hospitals, public toilets, pedestrian crossings and traffic lights with sound signals – sorted by distance while you walk.
• Radar: point your iPhone in a direction and hear which places are there.
• Wikipedia: articles about sights around you.
YOUR PLACES AND ROUTES
• Save favourite places – from your current position or by address search, also by voice.
• Walking navigation to saved places, with announcements you choose: detailed or short.
• Location notes: leave a hint at a spot, e.g. "stairs after the door" – when you pass it with Candle open, your iPhone vibrates and Candle tells you the hint. Add a new one quickly with a long press on the Candle icon.
• Share places as a link and receive them from family and friends.
PRIVACY
No sign-up, no ads, no tracking. Your places and location notes stay on your device. For maps, places and routes Candle uses open services such as OpenStreetMap.
OPEN SOURCE
Candle is free and open source: github.com/freegroup/candle
Found a bug or have an idea? We welcome feedback – especially from blind and visually impaired users.
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The first big update in a long time:
• Explore and radar: places nearby arrive faster and more reliably.
• Location notes: leave a hint at a spot; Candle tells you when you pass it.
• Navigation: choose the announcements (detailed or short); Candle tells you when you leave the route.
• Share places as a link.
• Colour schemes for people with low vision.
• VoiceOver: new screens read out their title, important messages no longer get lost.
The developer, Andreas Herz, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Andreas Herz
- Size
- 35.2 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and German
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Andreas Herz