Intersector: Intersection Identifier

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Description of App

Hear your upcoming intersections while walking, when in a rideshare, or on a bus with the new Live Mode.

Intersector helps you quickly identify nearby street intersections using your iPhone’s location and heading.

Ask for the nearest intersection, what’s coming up ahead, use Scan Mode to point your phone down the street and hear the intersection it detects, or turn on Live Mode and have Intersector speak your upcoming intersections on a walk or during a ride with your phone locked.

Intersector can speak distance, direction, and neighborhood context, and includes optional wording styles so announcements can match how you think about your surroundings.

Built with VoiceOver users in mind, Intersector focuses on fast, clear spoken information without turning into turn-by-turn navigation. It is designed as a lightweight orientation tool for understanding nearby cross streets, not as a crossing aid or safety system.

Features include:
• Nearest intersection announcements
• Upcoming intersection announcements
• Scan Mode for nearby intersections in the direction you point
• Live Mode to announce upcoming intersections automatically while walking or in transportation, using customizable speech
• Siri Shortcut support
• Optional distance, direction, and neighborhood details
• Customizable intersection wording
• Support for split intersections where different streets meet the same main street
• Manhattan Snob Mode for New York-style direction wording
• VoiceOver-friendly controls and spoken feedback
• Dynamic Type and large text support.

Intersector also has an Apple Watch companion app, so Siri Shortcuts and intersection data can be queried right from your wrist.

Intersector uses location and heading data to provide orientation information. Always use your own judgment, mobility skills, and available pedestrian infrastructure when traveling.

Version

1.3.0

Free or Paid

Free

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

26.6.2

Accessibility Comments

This app is fully accessible and was Built with VoiceOver users in mind. The app also makes good use of the VoiceOver actions rotor to obtain information for intersections further away.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

Other Comments

This app has already come in handy and gotten me out of a jam. It’s not trying to reinvent the accessible GPS navigation wheel, and it doesn’t need to. It does a few things well, which is what I like about it.
Other than some longer-than-optimal loading times when launching the app, I haven’t encountered much to complain about. I suspect the loading time is related to loading the maps and the app’s reliance on OpenStreetMap for its data.
Looking forward to seeing how this app evolves.

Recommendations

1 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Matt M 16 hours 26 minutes ago

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Comments

By Paul on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 - 10:24

Does this app describe intersection layout? I’ve primarily relied on BlindSquare since Microsoft shutdown the Soundscape app. BlindSquare provides much of the functionality described for Intersector, but not the orientation information Soundscape used to.

By WellF on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 - 11:47

These days we have soundscape community (a more straightforward fork) and voice vista (more complex one but with the same core as soundscape).

By Enes Deniz on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 - 12:15

There's another app called Oko, and then there are others. Scattered efforts here and there, some free, some paid, some abandoned after a while because much of their functionality overlap with or can be fulfilled by other apps that are often newer and maintained by global corporations, some only address certain users or regions. Some developers really want to do something useful but don't know what to do and how to do it, and some can't even reach out to the blind and visually-impaired community or otherwise get noticed by us. Some release nothing and either charge a shocking price for it, or more recently, transition to a subscription model on grounds that they need more money to maintain their worthless niche app. Some just stop updating their apps or remove them from the App Store, either because of arbitrary or otherwise personal reasons, or because they can't compete with other larger or more established companies who can promote their app and handle Apple's payment demands more easily. And here's the result: Numerous new apps introduced to us on AppleVis in excitement, only to disappear from the App store after a while. Why can't someone just combine all of these things, or at least certain relevant ones, and make one single app that more users can download for one purpose or another, and the developer doesn't have to beg for money or exploit our disability? Do sighted users ever get worried about Apple Maps no longer being bundled in the OS as a built-in app, or Google Maps being removed from the App Store? We're even unhappy and worried about VoiceOver, the built-in screen reader and all of its bugs, but do sighted users ever have to worry about the screen or camera(s) stopping functioning, being removed from new devices, or otherwise being problematic?

By charles on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 - 13:52

GPS for blind people seem toalways be such a battery drain because we don't have one single app that does what wee would like. A lot of people use Blind Square, but I don't, because it has to be used in conjunction with another to get full GPS info. It does not provide turn by turn info, and, from what I can tell, this app doesn't either. One fully functional GPS app would be less of a battery hog. Apps change their name and functionality or they just disappear once they are pretty near perfect, as with Nearby Explorer, which was expensive but good, then Nearby Explorer Online for free. Good Maps, which was lousy for outdoor navigation, Good Maps Indoors, then another name. I could mention others, but you get the point. If the app of this discussion gets expanded to be a full blown GPS, and remains decently priced for low income blind people, I will like it more than I do, now. But, like I say, this does, for the time being, look pretty good for what it does.