Know where you are. Know where to go next.

Which side of the street is that café on? Is your bus stop before or after the intersection? What’s leaving next? Straightforward brings places, streets, intersections, and transit into one iPhone app built for blind travelers—and lets you explore another city from home.

Available in beta for iPhone through TestFlight. Explore the features or meet Ask Straightforward.

Find places—and which side of the street they're on

Search nearby or use Anywhere to find a place in another city. Hear its name, address, distance, and geographic direction. When the place’s address street and mapped road geometry establish its street side, Straightforward adds details such as southwest side of East 14th Street. That’s the side of the named street, not simply which direction the place lies from you.

Keep places in favorites, open their listings in your preferred map app, get walking directions there, or watch a place with Straightpoint.

Find the right bus stop, not just the right corner

Two stops can have the same intersection name and sit on opposite curbs. Straightforward keeps those physical stops separate, with routes, destinations, and service direction so you can choose the one you need.

Near side or far side of the cross street adds another useful detail: whether the stop is before or after the intersection in its service direction. This experimental placement is shown where Straightforward can determine it from the available stop and road data.

Get upcoming departures for an exact stop: scheduled times and realtime predictions where available. Filter by route and browse the stops on an actual departure’s trip. Stops also work with map handoff, walking directions, and Straightpoint.

Hear your stops. Know when to get off.

On supported bus trips, hear each stop as you ride, get reminders before your chosen get-off stop, or use both. Choose speech, sounds, vibrations, or a combination. Announcements can continue with your phone locked after you start the ride and grant location permission.

Reminders let you know when you’re three stops away, when your stop is next, and when you’re approaching it—so you can follow the ride without constantly checking the screen.

Go somewhere without going anywhere

Explore another city from home. Anywhere search lets you find a remote place and use it as the starting point for virtual exploration, with surrounding mapped streets, places, and intersections available before you go.

Manual mode offers step-by-step movement and jumps to intersections. Auto mode lets you steer by turning your phone and move along mapped roads, with movement and turn cues. Explore at your own pace, pause, and return to your real location whenever you’re ready.

Ask Straightforward

Get location information and find places or transit stops in ordinary language, through typed requests in the app or Siri. Ask Straightforward can answer questions about your current address, street number, and nearby or approaching intersections, or help choose a Straightpoint target: a place, address, saved favorite, intersection, or specific transit stop.

The assistant uses Apple’s on-device model. It requires iOS 27 and an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone with Apple Intelligence enabled and its system model ready. These requirements apply to the assistant, not the rest of Straightforward. Online place and transit lookups remain separate from on-device interpretation.

Feel the direction with Straightpoint

Straightpoint keeps your bearings toward a place, address, transit stop, favorite, or intersection. Audio feedback, haptics, or both indicate when your phone faces the target; spoken updates can tell you its direction and distance.

Pause the feedback without losing your target. Straightpoint points toward it in a straight line, rather than providing a walking route or automatic turn-by-turn navigation.

Hear the street around you—on your terms

Keep your current address and street number, nearest POI, travel direction, and approaching intersections at your fingertips. Choose which changing fields Straightforward announces automatically—even while the app is in the background or your phone is locked.

Browse a road’s intersections in geographic order and explore crossing details. Get cross streets and, where mapped information is available, traffic lights, accessible pedestrian signals, and other crossing details. VoiceOver keeps those details available even when their automatic announcements are off.

Try the iPhone beta

Straightforward is available for beta testing on iPhone through TestFlight, rather than as a public App Store download. Android isn’t available yet.

Email contact@straightforwardnavigation.com to request a beta invitation. You can also use this address for feedback and questions.