Vision training for reading

Menus getting harder to read?

Three minutes a day of guided, adaptive visual exercises for reading, fine print, and screens. Informed by peer-reviewed perceptual-learning research, and honest about what training can and cannot do.

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  • One free session every day
  • 7-day free trial on the annual plan
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  • About three minutes a day
  • Difficulty adapts to your answers
  • 15 exercises across four skill areas
  • Research explained with its limits
  • Built for iPhone and iPad

Why it works

Your eyes capture light. Your brain builds the picture.

As the eye's lens stiffens with age, near text takes more effort. That lens change is physical, and no app reverses it. But detecting faint contrast, recognizing crowded letters, and reading fluently are skills your visual cortex performs, and adults can still improve on practiced visual tasks. Get Visionary trains those skills.

What training does not do

It does not soften the lens, cure presbyopia, treat eye disease, or replace glasses and professional eye care.

What you practice

Detail and contrast, reading and recognition, visual speed and search, and eye movement and awareness.

How perceptual learning works
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How it works

A plan built around you, three minutes at a time.

Real screens from the app. No stock photos.

Get Visionary screen that begins personalizing your training plan

Step 1

Tell us what is getting harder

A rapid interactive check and three short questions set your starting levels for contrast, speed, reading, and stamina.

Get Visionary orientation training session, round 1 of 12

Step 2

Train for about three minutes

Each session is 12 focused rounds. Difficulty adapts to your answers, so it stays challenging without becoming frustrating.

Get Visionary exercise primer showing research context and an eight-session accuracy chart

Step 3

See your progress, honestly

Track accuracy session by session and earn milestone stars when your estimate improves. The app tells you what a result means, and what it does not.

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What you practice

15 exercises. Four visual skill areas. One next step.

You never have to choose from a pile. The plan recommends one exercise at a time and explains why.

Detail and contrast

Orientation, contrast detection, and spatial-frequency tasks using Gabor patches.

Reading and recognition

Letters, scripts, shapes, words, and sentences at sizes and contrasts that adapt to you.

Speed and search

Speed challenges, visual search, and blur resistance for quicker, more comfortable scanning.

Eye movement and awareness

Smooth pursuit, serial search, and peripheral awareness for steadier, wider attention.

The research

Inspired by published research. Explained without hype.

Get Visionary is informed by peer-reviewed studies in visual perceptual learning. Those studies do not endorse the app or guarantee the same result.

Polat et al., 2012 ยท Scientific Reports

30

trained adults with presbyopia

37

half-hour sessions, on average

3

months of training

Participants who practiced contrast detection with Gabor targets improved on several near-vision measures, including reading speed, while the eye's optics did not change. The authors interpreted the gains as perceptual, not optical.

Why we say inspired, not proven

  • The study was small, participants were not randomly assigned, and only three people formed the no-practice control group.
  • The protocol was intensive, not a few minutes for a few days.
  • It tested a laboratory protocol, not Get Visionary. The app itself has not been clinically tested.
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Get Visionary research screen listing peer-reviewed studies and their limits

Every exercise opens with the evidence

Inside the app, each exercise explains what it trains, what published research found, and your own history, with the limitations stated next to the result.

Pricing

Try it every day for free. Upgrade only if it helps.

No surprise charges. We remind you two days before a trial ends, and you can cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings.

Free

Enough to know if it is for you

  • One adaptive training session every day
  • Rotates through the foundation exercises
  • Personalized starting levels
  • No account or card required to start
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Annual plan includes a 7-day free trial

  • All 15 exercises across four skill areas
  • Your full personalized plan and daily coaching
  • Progress history, milestone stars, and check-ins
  • Annual or monthly billing
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Localized price, trial length, and renewal terms are shown in the App Store before you confirm.

Vision Access Pledge

Cost a barrier? One year free.

  • Full Premium access for one year, at no cost
  • Request it from inside the app in one tap
  • No card, no proof, no questions asked
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The Vision Access Pledge

Vision is too important to be gated by cost.

"I've dealt with near-vision changes myself, and I know what money stress feels like. If cost is a barrier for you right now, we'll give you a full year free. No questions asked."

Michael, founder of Visionary

Tap "Request 1 year free" inside the app. We activate the year on your account and reply from a real inbox.

Get Visionary Vision Access Pledge screen with a one-tap request for one year of free access

Questions

Straight answers

Is this just another eye exercise app?

No. Get Visionary does not claim to strengthen eye muscles or reverse lens aging. It uses adaptive visual tasks informed by perceptual-learning research to practice detail, contrast, recognition, and visual speed, the processing skills your brain uses when you read.

Will I be able to stop wearing reading glasses?

We do not promise that. Presbyopia is a physical change in the eye's lens, and no app reverses it. Training targets visual processing skills, and responses vary by person, task, and consistency. Keep your glasses and your regular eye exams.

How long before I notice anything?

It varies, and we do not promise a timeline. The most cited research protocol used about 37 half-hour sessions over three months. The app shows your accuracy session by session and explains what each result means.

What is free and what is paid?

Free members get one adaptive training session every day. Premium unlocks all 15 exercises, your full personalized plan, and progress history. The annual plan includes a 7-day free trial. The App Store shows localized price, trial length, and renewal terms before you confirm, and you can cancel anytime in your Apple ID subscription settings.

Is it safe? Who should not use it?

Get Visionary is a wellness and visual-performance training app, not a medical device, test, or treatment. It does not diagnose or treat eye conditions and does not replace eye exams. Stop and seek professional advice if you notice concerning symptoms or a sudden change in vision, and talk to your eye-care professional first if you have an eye disease or a history of seizures.

What happens to my data?

Your training results are stored privately in your own account, are never sold, and can be deleted with your account at any time from inside the app. Read the privacy policy for the full picture.

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Try the task format before you download

Educational demos and calculators. They illustrate the ideas; they are not a diagnosis or a substitute for the guided plan.

Orientation demo

Spot the rotated Gabor patch

Contrast demo

Detect subtle contrast differences

Free near-vision screen

A 60-second Tumbling E on your device

Reading glasses calculator

Typical reader strength by age
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Three minutes a day. Start today.

Download Get Visionary, take the two-minute starting check, and finish your first session before your coffee cools.

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