This app is a simple way to convert text to Braille notation and vice versa.
About Braille
Braille is a tools app developed by Mobile Safe Apps.
Download Statistics
Braille has been downloaded 41 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 1.3 thousand times.
User Ratings
Braille is rated 4.45 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 91 ratings.
App Information
Braille is FREE to download. The APK download size is 5.52 MB. The latest version available is 0.0.8. The last update was on November 25, 2024.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play May 2022.
Description
This app is a simple way to convert text to braille notation and vice versa.
Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are blind or visually impaired. It is traditionally written with embossed paper.
Braille is named after its creator, Frenchman Louis Braille, who lost his eyesight due to a childhood accident. In 1824, at the age of 15, Braille developed his code for the French alphabet as an improvement on night writing. He published his system, which subsequently included musical notation, in 1829. The second revision, published in 1837, was the first binary form of writing developed in the modern era.
Braille characters are small rectangular blocks called cells that contain tiny palpable bumps called raised dots. The number and arrangement of these dots distinguish one character from another. Since the various braille alphabets originated as transcription codes of printed writing systems, the mappings (sets of character designations) vary from language to language. Furthermore, in English Braille there are three levels of encoding: Grade 1 - a letter-by-letter transcription used for basic literacy; Grade 2 - an addition of abbreviations and contractions; and Grade 3 - various non-standardized personal shorthands.
Braille cells are not the only thing to appear in braille text. There may be embossed illustrations and graphs, with the lines either solid or made of series of dots, arrows, bullets that are larger than braille dots, etc. A full Braille cell includes six raised dots arranged in two lateral rows each having three dots. The dot positions are identified by numbers from one through six. 64 solutions are possible from using one or more dots. A single cell can be used to represent an alphabet letter, number, punctuation mark, or even an entire word.
In the face of screen-reader software, braille usage has declined. However, braille education remains important for developing reading skills among blind and visually impaired children, and braille literacy correlates with higher employment rates.
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Great app, can use numbers as well but no contractions or at least that I know of
★★★★★Brendon Kozlowski· Oct 5, 2022
Looking to audit the signage at work and add someone that doesn't know Braille, this has been quite useful to spell out the symbols to identify what is currently written. There's more work to be done, but in just translating our old elevator buttons this app has already helped! Thank you!
★★★★☆AjaY ShuklA· Dec 16, 2024
This knowledge increasable app is powerful tools for blind men who are by birth or by life may be educated by machine or human made products. DibipmaN -79.
★★☆☆☆Zac Lawson· Jun 6, 2025
I can't convert the Braille alphabet unless I already know it! Pretty basic layout.
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