In 2024, PENfriend3 was awarded "The Greatest of All Time" product for Blind and Visually Impaired People. Sam Watkins from The Blind Life. Please click the following link to see the judge's verdict.
PENfriend is the trusted device for Visually Impaired and Blind people since its launch in 2008, yes, the last 17 years!
You can buy from our UK distributor, Royal National Institute for the Blind or from main distributors in your own country. Click on the Distributor Tab on this site. Please also open the videos and you can listen/see how simple it is to use PENfriend and where it is being used!
PENfriend3 enables you to record your own audio stickers for a wide range of items in and around the home, at school, and on the way to work. To identify an item, touch the sticker with PENfriend and it will play back your voice recording! Stickers can be re-used and can play back up to 60 minutes of content.
To see what is inside the box, please click on the video where you can also hear the key features.
One important change for all 2025 made PENfriends is that it has USB Type C port to comply with EU regulations for 2025 onwards.
Please do not forget to register your purchase by entering details on the Warranty page in this website
The PENfriend is Made in the UK. See some testimonials for this long loved device.
- "Get started" instructions are spoken in audio (in many languages) and is on the tactile, talking Instruction cards. Far better than text, and how-tos are explained in detail without the restriction of space on a page.
- This site also has detailed video instructions.
- On the reverse of the card are audio explanations with 15 uses people have found over the years.
- You can record new messages onto any label to reuse them as often as you like
- Supplied with 105 tactile recordable labels; each can hold a message, or music, up to one hour long.
- 16GB internal memory stores 250 hours of recordings. Memory is expandable to 32GB.
- Tactile, high-contrast operating buttons and dedicated power button.
- PENfriend is of no use to thieves so listen to your favourite talking books when you go outside
- There are over 2600 unique, reusable audio-labels, so no shortage for labelling your CD collection, birdbooks, food items, etc. Each label has a unique number to avoid duplication.
