How Cash Reader gave me back my money

My name is Hasan, I am blind, and for most of my life handling cash meant trusting other people. I would hold out a note and ask whoever was nearby to tell me what it was. Sometimes I folded my notes into careful patterns to tell them apart, but a new currency, or a taxi driver in a hurry, could undo the whole system in a second.

I found Cash Reader in 2018, and I have used it almost every single day since. You simply point your phone at a banknote, and it tells you the value at once, out loud, clearly, in your own language. It works in dozens of currencies, which mattered to me enormously, because I travel, and money that was a mystery in one country became instantly readable in the next. No internet, no waiting, and no asking a stranger to be honest on my behalf.

I believed in it so much that I became an ambassador for the app across the Middle East, showing other blind people how a small tool could hand back a piece of their independence. To stand in a room and watch someone read a banknote on their own for the very first time, and then smile, is something I will never tire of.

So it is a genuine joy, now, to be able to offer Cash Reader here to blind people all over the world. I am not recommending something I once read about. I am recommending the app that has been in my pocket for years, the one I trust with my own money, every single day.