For the Deaf & hard of hearing
EverHeard turns speech and the sounds around you into live captions and instant alerts — on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, in real time. Private, on-device, and multilingual, so nothing important goes unnoticed.
The gap
For millions of Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, these moments pass by unseen. EverHeard is built to close that gap — not with one feature, but with a sense of the whole room.
Two senses, working together
EverHeard captions speech as it happens — in the language it's actually spoken, never machine-translated into something else. English, Spanish, French and more, side by side, detected automatically. It runs entirely on your device.
Doorbells, knocks, alarms, running water, breaking glass — EverHeard recognizes hundreds of everyday sounds and writes them right into your captions. When it's sure, it names the sound; when it isn't, it's honest — “a rumble,” “a screech” — instead of guessing wrong. Never confidently wrong.
Every alert arrives as a distinct vibration — a doorbell feels different from an alarm feels different from your name — and life-safety sounds flash the screen. Awareness you can feel from across the room, without staring at a phone.
Why it's different
Your audio never leaves your device. No cloud, no accounts, no listening servers — it works offline, and it can't be eavesdropped.
Deaf multilingual users deserve their own words, not an English approximation. EverHeard captions each language as spoken.
Sound awareness and captions run in parallel off a single microphone — you never have to choose between the two.
Honest three-tier labeling names the sounds it's sure of and describes the rest as textures — trust over false precision.
A self-tuning, self-healing microphone adjusts to quiet offices or noisy waiting rooms and recovers on its own — tested in a live hospital waiting room.
Proven open, on-device models mean world-class quality at no per-user cost — and we credit every one of them.
Where we are, honestly
Today, EverHeard runs on Apple devices — iPhone, iPad, and Mac. We're seeking funding to bring it to everyone: Android, Windows, and Linux.
Technology & credits
EverHeard runs on open, on-device technology. That's what makes it private, offline, and sustainable at zero marginal cost — and we credit the work it's built on:
Let's build this together
We're looking for partners — investors, funders, and disability organizations who share the goal of making the world's sounds accessible to everyone.
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