Documentation

Learn BlindBox with a guide that matches the real app.

Plain-language guides to how BlindBox really works, checked against the apps themselves. Pick your device, or start from what you need today.

The docs section covers both the desktop apps and the mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Guides

Choose your guide

One guide per app, split into short pages you can read in any order. Or take the visual tour first.

Mac and Windows

Desktop guide

Sign-in, the four areas of the window, every feature, all seven Settings tabs, accessibility tools and the full keyboard reference.

Six short pages, each one readable on its own.

iPhone and Android

Mobile guide

Getting connected, the mailbox and menu, message and file tools, Block Mode, Voice Mode, and the accessibility settings.

Five short pages built around touch and screen readers.

Visual tour

BlindBox at a glance

All the main features, visualized: short looping scenes from the real desktop and phone apps, from sign-in to Email AI.

A quick way to see how each feature looks and sounds before reading the full guide.

Start where you are

Not sure where to begin?

Pick the line that sounds most like you, then tell us which app you use.

Screen reader users

A plain-language floor plan of every area, written the way VoiceOver, NVDA and TalkBack hear it.

Low vision

Text up to 200%, a readable font, extra spacing, three themes with high contrast, and a color editor for every scheme.

First time here

Choose your provider, sign in, and create your BlindBox profile. Gmail and Outlook use their own sign-in pages.

Simplest possible mail

A large-tile, speech-first mailbox with one action per tile. On the phone, Voice Mode also lets you handle mail by talking.

Which app are you using?

: we will open the guide for your app.

How it fits together

Your mail, your device

BlindBox is not a mail server. The apps connect to the email account you already have, and a small BlindBox service looks after your profile and plan.

Your device talks to your mail provider directly, not through BlindBox.
  • Mail stays between you and your provider. The desktop app runs a small mail engine on your own computer; the phone app talks to Gmail, Outlook or IMAP directly from the phone.
  • The BlindBox service holds your BlindBox profile and plan, and helps finish Google or Microsoft sign-in. It does not keep a copy of your mailbox.
  • AI only when you ask. A file you send to Insight, or a question you ask Email AI along with the message excerpts it needs, is sent for that one request and processed by Google Gemini. Phone Voice Mode speech is processed by Groq.

Plans

What each plan unlocks

Every plan includes the full accessible mail experience on desktop and mobile, Blind Sight and Block Mode. Plans differ in AI reads, how much mail syncs to your device, and how many mailboxes you can connect. New BlindBox profiles start with a 14-day free trial that includes 10 AI reads.

Basic

Everything you need for accessible daily mail.

  • 50 AI reads a month for image and PDF descriptions
  • Local Mail Sync keeps the last 3 months on your device
  • One mailbox, plus Voice Mode on the phone

Insight

For people who rely on attachment descriptions every day.

  • 1,000 AI reads a month
  • Local Mail Sync keeps 2 years of mail
  • Connect more than one mailbox, with All Inboxes

Insight Plus

The full set, including asking questions about your mail.

  • 5,000 AI reads a month
  • Email AI chat and search by meaning
  • Local Mail Sync keeps your whole mailbox, plus several mailboxes

See prices and compare plans