Apple Vision framework
Hacker ApprovedVision framework in Developer tools
Apple's built-in on-device vision toolkit, recommended for speed, accuracy, and working offline with no network access needed.
Apple's built-in on-device vision toolkit, recommended for speed, accuracy, and working offline with no network access needed.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 92%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 11 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fast and accurate, beats Tesseract
“Apple Vision is generally way faster and more accurate on Apple Silicon.”
Comment from 4 Oct 2026 in “Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS” “It smokes tesseract in both speed and accuracy.”
Comment from 4 Oct 2026 in “Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS” Works offline, free, no network
“No network entitlement needed, works offline, passes App Review without needing to justify external data flows.”
Comment from 26 May 2026 in “Show HN: Glimpse, Markdown reader using Apple's on-device foundation model” “it's instant, free, and works offline”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision” Built-in and just works
“the hand tracking uses Apple's built-in framework, which is very good”
Comment from 10 Oct 2026 in “The Lightbulb Computer” “stuff just works and is slowly more accelerated/lower power”
Comment from 9 Dec 2025 in “Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending”
What people said
11 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the hand tracking uses Apple's built-in framework, which is very good”
“Useful performance gains to be made by tuning the right settings.”
“Apple Vision is generally way faster and more accurate on Apple Silicon.”
“it likes to interpret the upside down text as a Cyrillic alphabet”
“nullsanity got downvoted into oblivion, but they are correct.”
“It smokes tesseract in both speed and accuracy.”
“it's instant, free, and works offline”
“No network entitlement needed, works offline, passes App Review without needing to justify external data flows.”
“Apple Vision which ain't half-bad for something on device”
“That part is surprisingly powerful, especially on Apple Silicon.”
“stuff just works and is slowly more accelerated/lower power”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.