What Bonocle does
Bonocle is braille learning software that helps blind and low-vision learners practise braille and gives teachers tools to track their progress, working with existing braille displays, devices and embossed paper. It is aimed at districts, teachers of the visually impaired, learners and families. The site describes BoQuest, a gamified iOS and Android practice app with an AI tutor, adaptive difficulty and support for braille displays or embossed sheets, and BoDesk, a teacher web platform for building UEB and Nemeth aligned lessons and assignments with real-time progress tracking and IEP-aligned data. Bonocle Sheets exports practice sets as BRF files for embossing. Both BoQuest and BoDesk can be tried for free, and districts can book demos.
How Bonocle compares with its closest alternatives
1 of the 5 closest alternatives has a free plan; Bonocle does not. 3 of the 5 offer an API. Bonocle offers a web app and a mobile app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app and 1 offers a mobile app. Bonocle was founded in 2025; the alternatives were founded between 2018 and 2024, 5 of them earlier. Bonocle is based in Singapore; all its 5 alternatives are in Singapore too.