The everything-app for everyone — built voice-first
ChatLemur is one assistant for the everyday things — markets and news, shopping and budgeting, job-hunting and staying a step ahead of scams — that you can talk to instead of type. Her name is Lenny, and she answers out loud in a natural voice.
Our mission
We’re building the everything-app for everyone: a single, friendly place to get things done by conversation. Most apps make you look at a screen, tap through menus and read the small print. ChatLemur lets you just ask — and Lenny replies in plain language, by voice or text, whichever suits the moment.
That matters when you’re driving, cooking, carrying a child, resting your eyes — or any time a screen is in the way. Voice-first is better for everyone. It just happens to be essential for some of us.
Accessibility is the whole point, not a checkbox
Plenty of products bolt on an accessibility mode at the end. We did it the other way around. ChatLemur is designed so the entire experience works by ear: every message, mention and reply can be announced and read aloud, the keyboard reaches everything, and we hold ourselves to WCAG AA contrast and screen-reader support as a baseline — the floor, not the goal.
When you build for the person other apps leave behind, you end up with something calmer and clearer for everyone. That’s the bet at the heart of ChatLemur.
Why voice-first is real here
ChatLemur is built in public by Joseph Webber, a blind founder and engineer. That’s the honest reason the voice-first design isn’t a marketing line — it’s the architecture. The founder uses this app the same way our users who can’t (or don’t want to) stare at a screen do: by listening and talking. If a feature doesn’t work by ear, it doesn’t ship.
It started as a tool one person genuinely needed, and grew into a company with a simple conviction: an assistant that truly works for a blind developer in Adelaide will work beautifully for everyone else, too.
That conviction rests on 16+ years shipping production systems across government, finance and payments — including the accessibility-mandated National Redress Scheme survivor portal. VoiceOver, full keyboard navigation and WCAG AA aren’t bolt-ons here; they’re the spec, tested every day by the person who has to live inside it.
The newest proof of that range is the ChatLemur Vision iPhone app. Point your phone at the world and Lenny describes it out loud — scenes, signs, documents, money, colours, objects, even the faces you choose to save — with most of it worked out privately, right on your phone. Those vision tools are live now in a TestFlight beta. The next piece — spoken walking guidance for the path ahead — is in active development: it works out depth and distance right on your iPhone, using a LiDAR sensor if it has one and neural camera depth if it doesn’t, so it keeps working outdoors too. It won’t guide anyone until it’s been validated, step by step, with Orientation & Mobility specialists. Built and used every day by the person it’s for.
More on the engineer behind it: LinkedIn (opens in a new tab).
No fake reviews. No invented user counts. We’re a young company and we say so. The proof we offer is the thing itself: you can talk to Lenny in your browser in about ten seconds, no sign-up, and judge for yourself.
On your side
Lenny works for you, not for a seller. She screens for scams, fake urgency and dodgy “deals,” and explains your Australian consumer rights in plain English. When a link ever earns us a commission, she always tells you. Anything Lenny says about markets is general information for learning, not financial advice.
The company
ChatLemur is one platform, built in Adelaide, Australia, with data hosted in Sydney. Lenny, the voice assistant, is live on the web today; the Vision app puts her eyes on your iPhone, with vision tools live in a TestFlight beta and walking guidance in active development — see exactly where it stands on the Vision page. Our friendly fire-lemur is the platform’s mascot, and there’s a community on Discord. ChatLemur is independent and founder-run — built and operated by the person who uses it every day, not a subsidiary or a side project awaiting a pivot.