MorseApp
Send and receive Morse code with an iPhone's LED torch and camera
Details
- External ID
- 1362258311
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- MorseApp
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.21822956699974377
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 13, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 13, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- optical morse code communication using iphone torch and camera
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Flashing the torch is straightforward via AVFoundation, but reliably decoding incoming optical Morse code via video stream requires real-time computer vision and signal thresholding under variable lighting.
What it would actually take: An iOS native app (Swift/SwiftUI) using AVFoundation is needed. The receiving engine requires real-time camera frame processing with OpenCV or Vision framework to isolate the light source, adaptive luminance thresholding to handle ambient light variation and hand wobble, and state-machine timing algorithms to distinguish dots, dashes, and word breaks. This requires solid experience with mobile computer vision and signal processing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 164 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #123 of 165 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 289 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.