At-home guide

Check your vision at home, and see how it changes.

Follow this on your own phone. Start a quick check with no account, set eyeQ up for home if you like, read your results over time, and connect with your care team when you are ready.

Start walkthrough Open eyeQ

Before you start

A quiet minute, a well-lit room, and your reading glasses if you use them.

You need the eyeQ app on your phone, or app.eyeq.health in a browser. Hold the phone the way you would hold a book, about 40 cm (16 inches) from your eyes. Every check takes about a minute or two.

Your checks stay on your phone.

Nothing is sent anywhere until you connect with a care team.
eyeQ is for keeping an eye on changes between visits. It is not a replacement for a professional eye exam.
If something about your vision worries you, contact your eye-care clinic.

The short path

Four things, in this order.

Start a quick check Tap Start a quick check on the first screen. No account needed.

Set up for home Choose At home and pick your reading distance. Three short steps.

Read your results Your latest score, every check saved on this phone, and each eye over time.

Connect with your care team Enter your name and date of birth, then show the code at the front desk.

Step-by-step walkthrough

From the first screen to your results over time.

These screenshots come from a verified local run of the current app, walked the way a person would on their own phone.

1. Open the app

The first screen has three doors. For your own vision, use the first one: tap Start a quick check. Browse all checks underneath lists every check.

Your phone No account

First screen with Check your vision, Screen someone else and Your clinic's account — Start here.

2. Read the instruction, then tap Start

Every check opens on one instruction and one button. Have a way to cover one eye ready; your hand works fine. Not right now takes you back without saving anything.

Letter check intro: Read some letters, with a Start button — One instruction, one button.

3. Set eyeQ up for home

Open Settings and tap Start guide, or follow the guide the first time it appears. On Welcome to eyeQ, choose At home, then tap Continue. You can change this later in Settings.

Welcome to eyeQ with At home, Clinic and Waiting room cards — Which best describes you?

Welcome to eyeQ with At home selected and Continue enabled — At home, then Continue.

4. Pick your distance, and you are set

Pick the distance you would hold a book: 40 cm or 16 in mean the same thing. Tap Save distance. On You're all set, tap Open eyeQ.

How far do you hold the screen? with 40 cm selected and Save distance — 40 cm is the default.

You're all set, with the saved distance and Open eyeQ — Open eyeQ.

5. Today is your front door

Today opens on one thing to do: Start today's check. Once you have a result, the Latest card shows your score and See your results opens the rest. The card at the bottom asks how far you hold the screen the first time only.

The three tabs at the bottom are Today, Checks and Results.

Today on a fresh phone: Start today's check, Your care team, Your checks — The first time.

Today with a Latest card showing a score of 80 for the letter check — With a latest result.

6. Read your results

Your results shows your latest score, every check saved on this phone, and what to do next. Tap a check to see it over time, one section for each eye. A change is written in words, like Up from 50 last time, and your left eye is never compared against your right.

Share as PDF makes a copy to bring to a visit. Take this check again starts the same check.

Your results: latest score, Your checks, Saved on this phone, What's next — Your results.

Letter check over time, grouped by right eye, left eye and both eyes — One check over time, eye by eye.

7. All checks

The Checks tab lists every check. The ones in your routine come first, then the rest. Each row says what you will do and roughly how long it takes. Tap a row to start it.

All checks: In your routine and More checks — Tap a check to start it.

8. Connect with your care team

From Today or Your results, tap Connect. Enter your first name, last name and date of birth, then tap Continue. eyeQ shows a short code; show it at the front desk of any eye-care clinic that uses eyeQ and they connect this phone. From then on, your checks go to them as you finish.

Your care team shows who this phone is connected to. Don't have one yet? Any clinic that uses eyeQ can connect this phone at your next visit.

Connect with your care team: Who is this phone for? with name and date of birth fields — Who is this phone for?

Your care team: No care team yet, with Connect with your care team — Your care team, before connecting.

9. Settings

Settings on a home phone is a small page: your results, your reading distance, your screen size, and your care team. Set your screen size once to get exact letter sizes. Reset this device clears everything saved on this phone.

Settings for a home phone: Your results, Check distance, Screen size, Care team — Settings at home.

If something looks off

The quickest next step.

The letters look too big or too small

Open Settings and tap Screen size, then match the outline to a card. Check your distance too: 40 cm is about the length of your forearm.

The text is hard to read

eyeQ follows your phone's text size. Turn it up in your phone's accessibility settings; every screen still fits.

My results are not reaching my care team

Open Your results and check the Saved on this phone card. If it says 0 sent, tap Connect with your care team and show the code at your next visit.

I want to check less often, or more

On Your results, tap Set a rhythm under What's next and pick how often you would like to check.

I want to start over

Open Settings and tap Reset this device. This clears every check saved on this phone, so share a PDF first if you want to keep them.

Something about my vision worries me

Contact your eye-care clinic. eyeQ helps you notice changes between visits; it does not diagnose.