But fear not, although it is imperative to get regular eye examinations, with these top ten apps you can run some regular tests of your own whilst having a little fun along the way.
Glaucoma App
A fantastic app allows you to experience life through the eyes of a glaucoma sufferer. Giving you an educated insight into what life would be like should you be unfortunate enough to contract the condition. With the intention of raising awareness, this educational tool gives a greater understanding of the disease. Taking a giant leap into early intervention and stopping the disease advancing into latter stages that are much more serious.Better Vision
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Supporting visually impaired and dyslectic suffers, Better Vision allows you to enhance their display by up to 10 times its normal size. There are many apps that share this trait with Better Vision; however, with the ability to read the text aloud to the user in English, German, Spanish or Dutch, this app has a great deal more potential than its simplistic magnifying rivals.
Ucansi Brain Training App
It’s hard to believe that a game with a simple grey screen and a white circle, followed by a number of blank and blurred lined images moving across it could help you with your vision. However, research from the University of California discovered that a controlled group of users, significantly improved their vision after 40 sessions, and also became faster at reading sentences. Great eyesight and a quicker brain, sounds like a real deal to be had with this app.Essilor Vision Test
The Essilor app allows you to find potential defects in your vision, using tests and questioning to diagnose symptoms of visual acuity, astigmatism and douchrome. The app then directs you to your nearest optical practice for a full examination if required. With over 366,000 downloads this app is clearly one worth keeping an eye on.Macular Disease Evreader
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With many people now using mobile devices to get their dose of literature, it’s no wonder that this app has become a great success for those suffering from macular disease. The Evreader gives readers a eccentric vision viewing technique for use when reading ebooks. The app presents the text at the best point of eccentric vision to the user, helping retain a steady eye and enabling users to read more easily.
Night Vision
A fun app that does exactly what it says on the tin, applying night vision to the devices camera in real time or to add effects to existing images and photos. Superb if you fancy a midnight stroll or spooking the kids.Chromatic Vision Stimulator
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5% of men having difficulty distinguishing clearly between red and green, or being able to recognize dark red due to colour blindness. This app simulates the effects of the protanopia (red-green colour blindness) or tritanopia (blue-yellow colour blindness) in real time through the devices camera. So you can experience colour blindness for yourself.
Boots Opticians Eye Check
This app runs tests for 0astigmatism, douchrome, visual acuity and also runs colour checks. The great thing about this app is that because it scores both eyes individually it allows you to see separate issues for each eye.Thermal Camera
Plain and simple; real time thermal imaging through your devices camera, see life in heat patterns and discover those hot spots.My Vision Tracker
Combating degenerative eye disease, glaucoma and macular disease this app gives the user three circles to choose from, one of which is distorted; as the test moves on it becomes faster and more difficult to spot giving results of any irregularity that it discovers.
Kevin McNultyAbout the Author:
Kevin McNulty is a technology enthusiast and regular blogger. When he's not at his computer he works at Nextdaylenses.com so you can trust him to know which apps are great fro vision.