App helps distinguish colors

A new app helps color blind a hand in distinguishing colors.

Many people with color blindness have difficulty certain colors apart. they can indicate which combinations lead to problems with the new app. Through the smartphone camera one color appears darker and the other lighter on the screen. Thus, they can be distinguished more easily.

Color Binoculars, currently only available for iOS iPhone is not the first digital tool for color blind people. Previously released an app that loud colors 'reads out' and an app that hatches a preset color using the camera.