The iScanner software is one of a growing number of AI-driven counting and tagging apps available.

The ability to count things with your phone might be handier than you expect.

But, there are a bunch of other apps available that will also count objects with your iPhone.

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For example, theresChooch IC2, an app that uses visual AI to count and tag items.

“IC2 will even give you the Latin names.”

you might train the app to count and recognize new objects.

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“you could even look under your profile and see the things youve trained.”

The appCountThings, claims to automate the counting process from videos as well as still photos.

The app can detect and label objects within an image.

Dont trust AI to count things for you?

I dont see this feature as anything revolutionary in AI, but rather another step in AI technology.

In aBlack Mirrorvein,the company Densityoffers hardware and software that counts the number of people in a building.