Privacy

In plain words: what happens to your camera and your choices.

Your camera

• The live camera video stays on your device. It is never recorded, saved or uploaded.
• When you tap, the app freezes that one frame in memory to draw the outline and estimate the color. This happens on your device. The frame is cleared when you tap “Tap to resume” or leave the page.

Pinch to select (prototype)

• If you turn on Pinch, your hand is tracked on your device with Google’s MediaPipe. Camera images are not sent for this. MediaPipe does send usage and performance numbers (not images) to Google.

Naming the object (Google Gemini)

• Only when you tap, a small picture of just the area around the object (at most 384 pixels wide) is sent to Google’s Gemini API to get its name and a short description. The full camera view is never sent.
• Outlens does not store these pictures. This demo uses Gemini’s free tier, where Google says it may use what is sent to improve its products. On Gemini’s paid tier, it does not.
• If Gemini is unavailable, the app still works and shows only the estimated color.

Listening (ElevenLabs)

• When a label appears, its short sentence (for example “Mug. Estimated color: black.”) is sent to ElevenLabs to turn it into speech. No image is sent. If ElevenLabs is unavailable, your browser’s built-in voice reads it instead.

Your color-vision profile

• The type you choose is saved only in this browser on this device. There are no accounts, and it is never sent anywhere.
• Outlens is not a medical device and does not diagnose color blindness. For a diagnosis, see an eye doctor.

Colors are estimates

Every color name is an estimate from the camera, and lighting can change it. “Show in my colors” and “Share what I see” are approximations: they help tell colors apart or show what others see, but they do not restore color vision.

Hosting

The site runs on Vercel, which keeps standard request logs (like time and address) to run the service.