About us: the team behind the Olga talking phone
Olga is a voice-controlled talking phone designed in France for people who are visually impaired, blind or elderly. It has been developed since 2016 in Neuilly-sur-Seine by the Olgaphone team, which runs the olgaphone.com website for Flagtory SAS. This page explains who we are, where Olga comes from and how we work.
Our story
Olga was born from an everyday need
Watching his 95-year-old grandmother, who had macular degeneration (AMD) and arthritis, struggle to use a phone, Olivier Gatelmand decided to design Olga. No phone on the market let her call her family on her own: screens too small, menus too complex, keys too stiff.
The first prototype evolved quickly. Olivier found that the need went far beyond his own family: with longer lives, ever more complex smartphones and growing numbers of older people living alone, hundreds of thousands of people have lost the use of the telephone. Olga gives them that connection back.
Who is behind Olga
Olgaphone, a French team
Olga is designed and published by Olgaphone, a brand of Flagtory SAS. Flagtory originally developed mobile applications in the gaming field; Olga inherits that know-how: a pleasant, responsive interface designed to be understood without any learning curve.
We handle the software development, customer support and phone updates ourselves. Olga is available in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
Olgaphone · Flagtory SAS
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Contact us by email (support is provided in French)
What Olga brings
- Independence: everything is done by voice, and the whole screen acts as a single button.
- A connection restored: calls, messages and photos from family, read aloud.
- Safety: reach someone in seconds, even without seeing anything.
- Reading: document reading, audiobooks, radio and a smart assistant.
Evaluated and listed
Olga has been evaluated by CERTAM, the assessment centre of the French Valentin Haüy association. It is listed in the assistive technology databases Handicat (France) and SIVA (Italy, Don Gnocchi Foundation), and on the European portal EASTIN.
Olga is used and recommended by occupational therapists, orthoptists and associations of visually impaired people. Read our user reviews or our comparison guide to phones for the visually impaired.
The Low Vision Map
Beyond the phone, we publish the Low Vision Map: a free directory, area by area, of the associations, rehabilitation services and professionals supporting visually impaired people in France, Italy and Spain.
Our blog (in French) publishes guides on AMD, glaucoma, cataracts and daily life with low vision.
Testimonials
Marguerite, 90, living with AMD
Michel, 70, former iPhone user
Find out more
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