Iris · your mail, out loud
Hear your mail before you read a word of it.
Point your iPhone at an envelope and Iris speaks a one-line verdict — who it's from, what it is, how much, and when it's due. Then you decide what to do, out loud.
In development for iPhone · VoiceOver-native · AAA contrast
The verdict
Water bill from the City of Gig Harbor. $84.20, due the 28th.
A simulated example of Iris's spoken verdict. Nothing is sent anywhere — press play to hear the shape of it.
Why a verdict
Iris doesn't just read your mail back to you.
Point-and-read tools recite what's in front of the camera, top-left corner to bottom — the return address, the barcode, the fine print — and leave you to work out the one thing you actually needed: is this important, and is it urgent?
Iris leads with the judgment. It looks at the whole piece of mail, works out what it is and what it wants from you, and says it in one line: "Water bill, $84.20, due the 28th — want a reminder?" If that's all you needed, you're done in four seconds. Ask for the full read, the amount double-checked, or the date on your list — out loud — only if you want it.
What Iris does
Everything by voice, nothing you have to see
Every action has a spoken path. The screen is a high-contrast repeater for the people who glance at it — never a requirement.
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The one-line verdict
Sender, type, amount, and due date, spoken as a single sentence — the whole point of the app, delivered in seconds.
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Knows what needs doing
Bills and deadlines land on a Needs-Action list, read back with the soonest first and the urgent ones flagged aloud.
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Read it in full
Want the whole letter? Say so, and Iris reads it top to bottom at a pace you can interrupt at any moment.
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Save it or drop it
Keep a piece for later or clear it from the pile with one spoken command. Junk mail never needs a second thought.
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Built on VoiceOver
Iris and VoiceOver take turns instead of talking over each other — its voice ducks and queues so nothing collides.
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OLED-black, jumbo, AAA
True-black surfaces, warm amber, nothing below 17px, and every text pair verified at AAA — for the eyes this is for.
How it works
Three moves, mostly hands-free
A tone and a tap of haptics do the aiming, so you don't need to see the frame to catch the mail in it.
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Point at the envelope
Hold your phone over the mail. Iris guides you with sound and haptics and locks on when the whole piece is in view.
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Hear the verdict
In a few seconds you get the one-line answer — sender, type, amount, due date — spoken clearly, no reading required.
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Decide out loud
Read it in full, add the due date, save it, or move on — every choice is a spoken command with a visible twin.
Made for low vision, operable with none
The brand has to pass the test the product exists to pass
Iris is dark-mode only, on purpose. OLED true-black saves power on a phone you might prop up and leave running, and gives warm amber the maximum contrast it needs to be read by residual vision.
- Nothing below 17px, body at 20. Type scales to the largest accessibility sizes and wraps instead of clipping.
- AAA on every pair. White on black is 21:1; amber on black is 11.6:1. Verified, not eyeballed.
- Whole-screen targets. Primary actions are full-width zones — no precision aim required.
- Color is never alone. A deadline is coral and the word "due" and an icon, all three.
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