The apps

Two tools, built for real rehabilitation.

Each app tackles one post-stroke difficulty: visual field loss, or handwriting. The exercises come straight from published research.

Nine evidence-informed exercises covering hemianopia, quadrantanopia, visual neglect and scotoma. Ten adaptive difficulty levels. Progress tracking you can share with your therapist. Three colour modes for changed colour vision after stroke.

The exercises use the compensatory scanning (saccadic) approach described in clinical guidance — the app itself has not been clinically evaluated or endorsed. NICE NG236

£29.99 one-time · no subscription

Buy web version · £29.99 Try the demo Learn more

On iPhone, iPad or Android? Get it from your app store — same app, same price.

Guided tracing for letters, words and sentences, with content built for each language: Welsh, Arabic, Japanese kanji, Chinese characters and more.

The first dedicated adult post-stroke handwriting rehabilitation app available in Welsh, Irish and Canadian French. Listed as a stroke recovery resource by the National Aphasia Association. aphasia.org

£29.99 one-time · no subscription

Buy web version · £29.99 Try the demo Learn more

On iPhone, iPad or Android? Get it from your app store — same app, same price.

Clinical grounding

Grounded in published research.

These aren't generic wellness apps dressed up in clinical language. The exercises are drawn directly from decades of rehabilitation research.

Stroke Sight

Hemianopia exercises follow the compensatory saccadic scanning approach studied over four decades by Zihl, Pambakian, Rowe and others. The apps themselves have not been clinically evaluated.

ReWrite

Structured tracing practice using principles from the graphomotor rehabilitation literature, with language-specific content so people practise in the script they actually use.

Compensation, not ‘restoration’. Sight loss after a stroke is approached three ways: restitution (trying to restore the lost field), compensation (training eye-movement strategies to work around it), and substitution (aids such as prisms). Stroke Sight is a compensation tool — it doesn’t promise to restore lost vision, where the evidence is limited and contested, but helps you make the most of the sight you have.

These are wellness support tools, not medical devices. They work alongside your neuro-optometrist, orthoptist, occupational therapist or rehab team, not instead of them.

What makes them different

Built for how recovery actually works.

19 languages, real content

Real words, phrases and sentences written for each language, not English run through a translator.

Evidence-informed exercises

Grounded in saccadic scanning, smooth pursuit and graphomotor research.

Works offline

Install once, then practise anywhere. No internet needed once it's downloaded.

Complete privacy

No accounts, no data collection. Everything stays on your device.

Built for adults

Adult vocabulary, adult design. Not repurposed children's apps.

Usable with the vision you have

A hyperlegible typeface, high-contrast and paper colour modes, and reduced-motion support — designed for changed vision, not in spite of it.

How it compares

Built for exactly this — and priced to match

Most options are free but basic, subscription and English-only, or clinical and expensive. Here's where Ansteyapps sits.

Feature	Free web tools	Subscription apps	Clinical programs	Ansteyapps
Cost	Free	~£20–30 / month	£100s · clinician-gated	£29.99 once
Languages	English only	Usually English	English	19, native content
Designed for adults recovering	Varies	✓	✓	✓
Progress you can share with a therapist	✗	✓	✓	✓
Private · offline · no account	Varies	✗	✗	✓
Try the full thing free first	Basic	Limited	✗	✓ demo

Pay once. A £25-a-month app costs more than Stroke Sight within six weeks — and keeps charging every month after.

Typical of each category; individual products vary.

About Ansteyapps

Why Ansteyapps exists.

Ansteyapps began when my partner had a stroke at 35. Overnight, our world changed — and the tools we needed weren't there. The existing tools were expensive, clinically opaque, or designed for children.

They were also all in English, or one extra language at most. These apps fill that gap: real rehabilitation exercises, in the languages people actually speak, at a price families can afford.

Built in the UK, for others dealing with stroke.

— Liam Anstey, founder

Information for clinicians

If you are an occupational therapist, speech and language therapist, neuro-optometrist, orthoptist or rehabilitation specialist, there is a dedicated clinicians page with evidence summaries and clinical feedback channels.

Clinicians Signposting pack Contact Liam

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I'd genuinely like to hear from you.

Whether you're a clinician considering recommending the apps, a commissioner exploring rehabilitation tools, or a stroke survivor or carer with feedback — I'd welcome the conversation.

Two tools, built for real rehabilitation.

Stroke Sight

ReWrite

Grounded in published research.

Stroke Sight

ReWrite

Built for how recovery actually works.

19 languages, real content

Evidence-informed exercises

Works offline

Complete privacy

Built for adults

Usable with the vision you have

Built for exactly this — and priced to match

Why Ansteyapps exists.

Information for clinicians

I'd genuinely like to hear from you.

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