# BelliedMonkey Translator — Bilingual web & video subs > Bilingual web & video subs (iPhone/iPad app by ZHAO ZHANG.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/belliedmonkey-translator/id6787190032 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [ZHAO ZHANG](https://appshunter.io/developer/1753955994) - Category: Utilities, Reference - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 4 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-13 - Data updated: 2026-08-31 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/belliedmonkey-translator/id6787190032/reviews.md ## What is BelliedMonkey Translator? BelliedMonkey Translator brings clean, bilingual translation to Safari — read the world's web and watch videos in your language without losing the original. WEB PAGES, SIDE BY SIDE Turn on translation and every paragraph keeps its original text with a fresh translation right below it, in a distinct color. No switching tabs, no losing your place — just read. YOUTUBE DUAL SUBTITLES Watch with the original subtitle on top and the translation underneath, matched sentence by sentence, so you can follow along and pick up the language as you go. LEARN AS YOU READ Sentences you actually read can become review cards on a forgetting curve — read, listen and write tiers, free practice, sentence notes, and read-aloud. Off by default, and everything stays on your device. SYNC ACROSS YOUR DEVICES (OPTIONAL) Sign in with a free email account and your phone can review what you read on your computer. What sync stores on our servers: your saved sentences and translations, their source page URL and title, and review times — in readable form, only for your account. Delete a source or your account and it is removed from all devices. Without signing in, nothing leaves your device. BRING YOUR OWN ENGINE Google translation works instantly, with no setup. Prefer an AI model? Add your own key for OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, or GLM and translate with the engine you trust. You're always in control. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No tracking, no telemetry, no ads. No servers of ours in the translation path — text goes straight to the provider you choose, and your keys and settings stay on your device. No account unless you want one. The entire app is open source. FREE AND OPEN BelliedMonkey Translator is free and fully open source. Great for reading foreign news and blogs, studying a language, following creators who speak another language, and browsing the global web the way you'd browse your own. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.6.7 — 2026-08-26 Podcast mode now works like a music app: · Playback keeps going when you leave the app, lock the phone, or switch away — card after card, without stopping. · The Lock Screen shows the card being read: the sentence, its translation, and — while the analysis plays — three lines (vocabulary / phrases / grammar) that light up one at a time as they are spoken. · The Dynamic Island shows your progress; press and hold to see the full sentence and translation. · Play/pause and next work from the Lock Screen, your car and your headphones. "Previous" repeats the current card from the top. · Playback resumes by itself after a phone call ends. Also: the screen no longer dims while podcast mode is in front. To keep seeing the card after you lock the phone, turn on Always-On Display (Settings → Display & Brightness → Always On). Note: this version changes how the analysis is split for speech, so previously downloaded analysis audio needs to be preloaded once more for fully offline playback. ### 1.6.5 — 2026-08-24 Podcast mode can now be taken offline. Tap Preload before you set out and the speech, sentence notes and translations for today's deck are downloaded to your device, so a whole session plays with no network at all. The first tap only prices it — it shows how many cards and how many billed calls, and spends nothing. You decide, then tap again. · Cards start faster. Everything a card needs is now requested at once instead of one piece at a time, so the silence between sentences is gone. · Cards captured without a translation can be given one, using the engine you already configured. · When the speech engine cannot be reached, it now says so and stops — instead of skipping through the whole deck in silence and reporting that the round is finished. · Stop now takes effect promptly during a preload. ### 1.6.4 — 2026-08-22 Reasoning models now translate long passages reliably. Some of them used to return a successful response with no text in it — the paragraph just stayed blank, with no error to explain why. Requests now carry only the fields each endpoint is known to accept, which fixed that and cut a long paragraph from about 15 seconds to 3. · Advanced settings accept your own request parameters, so a private or corporate endpoint can be tuned without waiting for us to add it. · More engines to choose from — each one measured against its real endpoint rather than its documentation. · An engine whose default model had been retired no longer fails the moment you pick it. · Fixed a few interface strings that showed their formatting marks verbatim. ### 1.5.1 — 2026-08-15 1.5.1 — Meet the BelliedMonkey A full visual redesign: • New mascot icon and in-page floating button — a pot-bellied monkey carrying the translation • Warm terracotta & sage palette across every surface (popup, settings, review, app) • Translations default to a calmer sage green; your custom color is untouched, old defaults migrate once automatically Learning improvements: • Review cards are now captured per sentence — short enough to actually remember; a one-tap action in settings splits your existing long cards • Translation, learning and privacy model unchanged ### 1.5.0 — 2026-08-14 1.5.0 — Listen, speak, read, write: every sentence, every skill The learning module now trains all four skills: • New exercises: translation multiple-choice, blind-listen word picking, read-aloud scoring, AI comprehension questions • Each review automatically rotates to your least-recently-verified skill — a sentence counts as learned only while all four stay fresh • Read-aloud scoring: your recording goes only to the transcription endpoint you configure, and is discarded once the transcript returns — it never touches a server of ours. No endpoint configured, no speaking exercise. • Optional AI-generated questions use your own API key — one call per card, cached forever • Every new exercise has a zero-cost local variant — fully usable with no API configured at all --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*