Babelfish Translator5.8 - App Store

Babelfish helps you understand and be understood in real time.

Transcribe speech, translate instantly, save useful phrases, and keep your language tools ready across iPhone, widgets, and Apple Watch.

Babelfish includes live transcription with real-time translation, a Live Captions mode for external audio like TV and videos, and a two-way Conversation Mode for face-to-face communication in different languages.

You can build a personal Phrasebook with categories, favorites, search, and one-tap common phrase generation. Your transcription history, conversation history, and live caption sessions are saved for quick review.

Babelfish also includes a Share Extension to translate text from other apps and save it to your Phrasebook, plus support for Apple Translate and Google Translate with offline-aware fallback.

When signed in, iCloud sync keeps your transcriptions, phrases, and history up to date across your Apple devices.
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Version History Bugs fixes and performance improvements including support for iPhone Duo 5.8 Oct 7 Bugs fixes and performance improvements

Babelfish 5.7 makes translating and speaking smoother:
• Redesigned voice selection combining Apple and Magna Voices
• Improved speech recognition with broader language support
• Better offline translation and voice playback
• More reliable language choices in Conversation and Live Captions
• Improved Phrasebook generation, categorization, and playback
• Reliable sharing of spoken translations as audio clips
• Corrected Premium access and daily usage limits
• Numerous stability and usability improvements 5.7 Aug 23 Bugs fixes and performance improvements

Babelfish 5.6 makes translating and speaking smoother:
• Redesigned voice selection combining Apple and Magna Voices
• Improved speech recognition with broader language support
• Better offline translation and voice playback
• More reliable language choices in Conversation and Live Captions
• Improved Phrasebook generation, categorization, and playback
• Reliable sharing of spoken translations as audio clips
• Corrected Premium access and daily usage limits
• Numerous stability and usability improvements 5.6 Aug 21 Babelfish 5.5 makes translating and speaking smoother:
• Redesigned voice selection combining Apple and Magna Voices
• Improved speech recognition with broader language support
• Better offline translation and voice playback
• More reliable language choices in Conversation and Live Captions
• Improved Phrasebook generation, categorization, and playback
• Reliable sharing of spoken translations as audio clips
• Corrected Premium access and daily usage limits
• Numerous stability and usability improvements 5.5 Aug 8 Fixes for various bugs, including some crashes
Updated translation and voices platform 5.1 Mar 31 This update introduces a fully redesigned app experience with dedicated tabs for Home, Phrasebook, Conversation, Live Captions, and Settings.

Live Captions is now available with language setup, translation toggle, adjustable caption behavior, and full session history.

Conversation Mode is now available for real-time two-way translation, including conversation history and message details.

Phrasebook has been expanded with categories, favorites, phrase generation, richer phrase actions, and improved browsing.

New widgets are included for quick recording and favorite phrases, including lock screen support.

A new Share Extension lets you translate text from other apps and save phrases directly.

Apple Watch support has been added for quick recording actions and phrase playback access.

iCloud-backed sync and migration are now available for transcriptions, phrasebook data, conversation history, and live caption history. 5.0 Feb 13 Free limit of English transcribing set to 3 per day;
Bugs fixes 4.1 Jan 14 Major Update - Now with Apple Translation!

• Apple Translation Built-in - Free on-device translation that works offline. No internet required!
• Offline Mode - Transcribe and translate without an internet connection using Apple's powerful on-device AI
• Improved Performance - Instant speech recognition with no model loading delays
• Streamlined Interface - Refined glass design with smoother animations
• Choose Your Provider - Switch between Apple Translation (free) and Google Translate (premium) in Settings
• Bug fixes and stability improvements 4.0 12/08/2025 Bugs fixes and performance improvements 3.1 09/26/2024 Automatically detect spoken language!
Significantly improved transcribing of spoken text!
Also, some small bugs fixing and UI polishing 3.0 04/13/2024 Significantly improved transcribing of spoken text! 
Also, some small bugs fixing and UI polishing 2.9 04/09/2024 Bugs fixes 2.8 03/23/2024 Bugs fixes and performance improvements 2.7 02/21/2024 Small design fixes 2.6 02/03/2024 Incredibly fast real time transcribing and translating now available! Both in offline and online modes!
Bugs fixes and performance improvements 2.5 02/01/2024 Fixes for automatic UI translation
Bugs fixes and performance improvements 2.4 01/06/2024 Some fixes for iPad version 2.3 11/02/2023 Added ability to enter text manually to translate or for text to speech 2.2 10/01/2023 Experimental feature added! By enabling option in settings you now can automatically translate The Babelfish Translator UI into your current device language 2.1 09/23/2023 Completely refreshed UI
Faster transcribing
Faster translating 2.0 09/18/2023 - Added more voices for text to speak!
- Generate unique texts for teaching own voice
- bugs fixes 1.9 07/27/2023 Added AI request feature: AI can answer question, translate the answer and use text to speech with answer (using your won voice if you want) 1.8 07/18/2023 Bugs fixes in own voice creation flow 1.7 06/26/2023 Bugs fixes;
Added ability to share audio clips (for paying customers) 1.6 06/08/2023 Bugs fixes and performance improvements 1.5 05/27/2023