Alt Text Intelligence

On-device alt text and chat

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Compose alt text from your photos fully on device. Chat with the system language model and watch it call Vision tools. Bluesky alt-text dataset compatible. Alt Text Intelligence composes alt text from photos using only your device. The deterministic composer reads each image with the system Vision framework (labels, recognized text, animals, faces, saliency, dominant color) and writes a short, factual description. It never invents details beyond what was detected. Length presets range from a brief 150 characters to a detailed 1200, plus the platform ceilings of Bluesky, Mastodon, X, LinkedIn, and Instagram. THREE WAYS TO USE IT • Open Alt Text Intelligence, pick a photo, get a description. • Share a photo from any app; the Alt Text Intelligence Share Extension drops a description into your clipboard. • Long-press a photo in the Photos app and choose Alt Text Intelligence to describe it without leaving Photos. Export your descriptions in the Bluesky Alt Text Dataset format (the same 279,173-row open dataset published by the author) for downstream use, citation, or fine-tuning. A PLAYGROUND FOR THE ON-DEVICE STACK Beyond alt text, Alt Text Intelligence ships a chat surface for the system language model with a small, growing tool catalog. The model is text-only at the prompt layer; the chat lets you watch it call tools that reach things prompts can't: • vision_recon: reads an image you attached using the Vision framework and returns labels, OCR text, animals, face count, saliency, and dominant color. • regex_match: applies a regular expression to a string and returns matches and capture groups. More tools (Wikipedia summary, weather, generic web fetch) are queued for future updates. When they ship, each network call surfaces a "uses internet" indicator so you always see which tool reached out. PRIVACY POSTURE • The on-device language model never leaves your device. • The deterministic alt-text composer runs fully on device. • No accounts, no telemetry, no tracking. • Today's build requests no network entitlements at all. • Future network tools, when added, are scoped per call and clearly indicated. • The Privacy Manifest declares no data collected, no tracking domains. ACCESSIBILITY • Atkinson Hyperlegible font option. • Dynamic Type and VoiceOver supported across surfaces. • W3C WAI rule citations link back to the source. WHO IT'S FOR The deterministic alt-text composer is for accessibility advocates, social-media posters who want WAI-compliant descriptions without sending images to a server, and developers building offline accessibility tooling. The chat-with-tools playground is for curious users and developers who want to feel the shape of the on-device CV + language model stack. ABOUT Alt Text Intelligence is built by Luke Steuber (Bridge City Lab LLC), speech-language pathologist and indie iOS developer. It's the iOS sibling of the Bluesky Alt Text Dataset and dr.eamer.dev/alt/. OPEN-SOURCE NOTICES • Atkinson Hyperlegible © 2020 Braille Institute of America, Inc., licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. • WAI / W3C accessibility guidance is paraphrased and cited. • System Vision and on-device language model APIs are provided by Apple under the Apple Developer Program License Agreement. NOT INCLUDED This is not a multimodal chat client. The on-device language model is text-only at the prompt layer; image awareness comes from tools the model calls, not from passing pixels directly. Expect terse, factual alt text; the deterministic composer never invents details.

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    • Supported Features

      • VoiceOver

      • Voice Control

      • Larger Text

      • Dark Interface

      • Differentiate Without Colour Alone

      • Sufficient Contrast

      • Reduced Motion

      • Audio Descriptions

    Information

    Size
    • 4.1 MB
    Category
    • Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Provider
    Bridge City Lab LLC
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    Copyright
    • © 2026 Bridge City Lab LLC
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