Evidence-based visual field and handwriting exercises for adults recovering from stroke and neurological injury. Designed for home use alongside professional care.
Available in 17 languages including Welsh, Canadian French and Arabic — because after a stroke, practising in your first language matters.
Each app addresses a specific post-stroke difficulty — visual field loss and handwriting — with exercises grounded in published research.
Eight evidence-based exercises covering hemianopia, quadrantanopia, visual neglect and scotoma. Ten adaptive difficulty levels. Progress tracking you can share with your therapist. Three colour modes for changed colour vision after stroke.
Guided tracing practice for letters, words and sentences — with language-specific content for Welsh, Arabic, Japanese kanji, Chinese characters and more.
These aren't wellness apps dressed up in clinical language. The exercises are drawn directly from decades of rehabilitation research.
Hemianopia exercises follow the compensatory saccadic scanning approach supported by NICE NG236 and four decades of research by Zihl, Pambakian, Rowe and others.
Structured tracing practice using principles from the graphomotor rehabilitation literature, with language-specific content so people practise in the script they actually use.
These are wellness support tools — not medical devices. They complement, rather than replace, the care of your neuro-optometrist, orthoptist, occupational therapist or rehabilitation team.
Not machine-translated English — real words, phrases and sentences in each language.
Grounded in saccadic scanning, smooth pursuit and graphomotor research.
Install once, practise anywhere — no internet needed after download.
No accounts, no data collection. Everything stays on your device.
Ansteyapps was founded in 2026 after a loved one had a stroke that caused significant visual field loss. The existing tools were expensive, clinically opaque, or designed for children.
They were also all in English, or one additional language. These apps exist to fill that gap — real rehabilitation exercises, in the languages people actually speak, at a price families can afford.
Built in the UK, for others dealing with stroke.
— Liam Anstey, founder
If you are an occupational therapist, speech and language therapist, neuro-optometrist, orthoptist or rehabilitation specialist, there is a dedicated clinicians page with evidence summaries and clinical feedback channels.
Whether you're a clinician considering recommending the apps, a commissioner exploring rehabilitation tools, or a stroke survivor or carer with feedback — I'd welcome the conversation.