Speak & Translate alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] Speak & Translate 2/5 · US Good app once it loads: The app still takes a long time to load
2. [R3] Speak & Translate 3/5 · US Long App Load Time: The app takes a very long time to load, which makes it difficult if you are trying to start or answer in a conversation
3. [R12] Speak & Translate 3/5 · US Paid for it because it was great at first but now if I need it quickly it takes 4 minutes of buffer: When I first got it, it was great and fast. But now everytime I open the app, it goes straight to a white screen that takes like 2 minutes to load to the actual app. No updates I needed tried to close the app and reopen. Still happens. And then once the app opens, it lags when I change from voice t
4. [R15] Speak & Translate 3/5 · US When it works…: I love this app when it works. When I select the app, I get a white screen and have to wait. Most of the time I get kicked out and have to make several attempts. When it works, however, I love it!!!
5. [R17] Speak & Translate 5/5 · US Listening: English
6. [R18] Speak & Translate 3/5 · US Crashes all the time: I have to uninstall the app almost every day to get it to work. Also wish it had the option to default to Type mode as speech to Spanish isn’t very reliable in the translation. I type and check it to ensure the intention is at least close before sharing the translation to the recipient. Guess I’m saying this app just isn’t there yet but it’s awesome that communicating with ot
7. [R4] Speak & Translate 1/5 · US It was a great application: They sent out an update a couple of weeks ago and now it doesn’t know what language you are speaking. It went from good to useless.
8. [R19] Speak & Translate 1/5 · US It did not work: The up runs but it did not listen, just errors.
9. [R33] Speak & Translate 1/5 · US Doesn’t pick anything up: Doesn’t pick up any thing
10. [R47] Speak & Translate 2/5 · US Not hearing speech: The app will not hear/recognize speech. Text translation works fine.
11. [R6] Speak & Translate 3/5 · US Review Request with each use?: Why does the app ask for a review every time you open the app?
12. [R9] Speak & Translate 3/5 · US It is ok: I am asked to rate too often The app does better on writing than speaking You are forced to do reviews - it is very annoying. It beats nothing. I guess I have to say something nice it or I can’t get off this screen. It is better than other translator apps I have tried.
13. [R13] Speak & Translate 1/5 · US No mas: Quit asking for a review!!
14. [R16] Speak & Translate 1/5 · US Stop this persistence: Stop with the pop up
15. [R21] Speak & Translate 3/5 · GB Well: I was great but I can find other translating apps that can have the same offer for free instead of having a subscription
16. [R24] Speak & Translate 3/5 · GB Never download this app , worst taking £59.99as soon you want to download it , worst app ever 👎👎: Never download this app , fake . £59.99 taken out of your account as soon as you download this app 👎worst app ever
17. [R25] Speak & Translate 1/5 · US Bait and Switch: Did not realize this was automatically going to create a subscription and charged me $9.99 plus tax per week for almost two months. Unfortunately I did not realize as it was subtracting from my Apple balance which I do not monitor that closely. Reached out to Apple to refund who has provided little/no help so far. Read the other reviews! I expect more from this company and App
18. [R27] Speak & Translate 1/5 · US you cant do anything without paying: you literally cant do anything in this app if you dont pay for a subscription. NOT EVEN TEXT. google translate is better than this because at least you can translate something without needing to pay a monthly subscription. dont get this app
19. [R41] Speak & Translate 1/5 · US No es buena - it's bad: For the translation to be done you have to talk too close to the phone. You won't be able to translate conversations unless that person has your phone in hand. It's slow and almost never translates. I paid for the service but it's bad
20. [R52] iTranslate Translator 5/5 · US Exact translation: I’m so happy with the translation.
21. [R54] iTranslate Translator 4/5 · US It’s decent: I think this app is very good at giving you languages at their basic level though it does struggle with words that even though they are from the language, they don’t translate it as they finish just a letter in the alphabet so go to app is good. there is some things that could be worked on like for example, when I try to translate the word on in French, it just gave me back on in Engl
22. [R56] iTranslate Translator 5/5 · US Works good: The only reason I got this app is because I’m trying to pick up on a Romanian girl
23. [R57] iTranslate Translator 1/5 · US Costs more than Adobe: $520 a year? Are these people insane? Deleted.
24. [R70] Translate Now 5/5 · US aprende: Quiero intentar
25. [R71] Translate Now 1/5 · US $9.00 a WEEK????: I’m sorry, what???!?? This is a joke right?!? Who’s paying $9.00/week for a translator app??? Who would do that?? With 350+K favorable reviews, you would like us all to believe that HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE are paying $50 A MONTH for a TRANSLATION APP…??? And if you read the negative reviews, the company response justifies the expense saying it’s going toward “future devel
26. [R73] Translate Now 1/5 · US Everything costs money!: Everything has a fee! So disappointing! 😹 · translated
27. [R74] Translate Now 5/5 · US Wonderful translation: Very fast, accurate and easy to use.
28. [R79] Microsoft Translator 1/5 · US App does not work well anymore: Microsoft removed the ability to download languages for offline use. Microsoft did not adapt the app to be visually accessible, especially with an interface that does not allow resizing of fonts in the device’s Zoomed View. And it misses some gendered nuances, especially in Russian and Middle East languages.
29. [R84] Microsoft Translator 3/5 · US Stopped working: The app used to work great!! It’s no longer utilizing the microphone accurately. Only hears a few words
30. [R85] Microsoft Translator 1/5 · US Not so good anymore: It doesn’t realize when translating a convo between two people the mic and speaker for the other person needs to stay on the phone not the headphones. So worthless No pinyin so worthless for phonetic pronunciation Most times it just spins because of the mic and speaker oversite.
31. [R87] Microsoft Translator 3/5 · US Getting worse: I used to be a fan of this app but it’s gotten much worse. It’s making obvious mistakes, hearing English when Spanish is spoken, even when sets are Spanish to English. I’m now using the Apple translate instead.
32. [R93] Voice Translator 1/5 · US Doesn’t detect: The app won’t detect a language being spoken
33. [R94] Voice Translator 5/5 · US Very easy and convenient to use: Excellent app
34. [R95] Voice Translator 3/5 · US Bad: It just was not very good no adult words
35. [R96] Voice Translator 1/5 · US BEWARE!!!!: I accepted the 3 day trial which triggered the $40 purchase, which I promptly cancelled, and they wont refund. I wouldn’t care if it was a quality app but it isn’t.
36. [R109] Google Translate 3/5 · US Great tool, but Conversation Mode is broken. Bring back manual control!: The auto-detection in Conversation Mode is too aggressive. When sharing one phone with a friend, the app constantly cuts me off and blasts out translations while I'm still talking. It causes a confusing overlap of audio that ruins the conversation. Please bring back the manual recording controls and give us an option to disab
37. [R111] Google Translate 5/5 · US Nice: I learned some Albania from this app
38. [R115] Google Translate 1/5 · US Ai made it worse: It used to be decent. Now it just gives unnatural ai sounding translations that doesn’t translate word for word your original input.
39. [R116] Google Translate 5/5 · US I love learning Spanish, but…: I love learning this for Spanish languages, but it won’t let me know what kind of Spanish I wanna use, like for example, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Chile), and Spanish (Argentina). It just randomly does it for me. I don’t understand this at all. So next time you do the update in the future, can you put like all the AI Spanis
40. [R37] Speak & Translate 1/5 · US This is not free at all.: Apps with a seven day free trial should say “free trial” not “get”. After seven days this app cost $10 a week and of course you’re required to put your credit card in to start the free trial, but this is only after you’ve spent some time setting up the app