# BigBear Translate — Offline Voice+Photo Translator

> Offline Voice+Photo Translator (iPhone/iPad app by jiong dai.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bigbear-translate/id6799470043 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [jiong dai](https://appshunter.io/developer/1848251530)
- Category: Travel, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-09-14
- Data updated: 2026-09-21
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bigbear-translate/id6799470043/reviews.md

## What is BigBear Translate?

Talk — order a nice dinner abroad.
Listen — follow a lecture in a language you don't speak.
Watch — enjoy a foreign movie or lesson on your phone.
Read — understand the signs on a foreign street.

Every language barrier — unlocked and solved. The only translator that does all four, fully offline.

YOUR CONVERSATIONS STAY YOURS
Unlike cloud translators, every word is processed on your iPhone — never uploaded, never stored, seen by no one. Not even us. Try it in Airplane Mode: everything still works.

FOUR WAYS TO UNDERSTAND
Talk: hold the button, speak, and the other person reads your words in their language — on a screen turned toward them, and spoken aloud.
Listen: live captions of the speech around you, sentence by sentence, with the translation underneath. A lecture, a doctor, an airport announcement.
Watch: start it, then open any video app. Captions float over the video in real time — movies, lessons, anything that plays.
Read: point the camera at a menu or a street sign. The translation appears right on the photo.

AND AFTERWARDS, IT WRITES IT UP FOR YOU
Every session is saved as a document: the raw transcript, the live translation, a tidied script with the "um"s and false starts cleaned out — and a fresh re-translation of that clean script, which reads far better than sentence-by-sentence captions. Plus key points: what it was about, what was decided, the names and numbers. Export any of it as text.
It all happens offline, on your iPhone. Early access, included at no extra charge. This one needs a chip that can run Apple Intelligence: iPhone 15 Pro / Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 or 17. On other iPhones, translation, captions and photo work exactly as usual.

LANGUAGES
English and Chinese both ways, Spanish and English both ways. You can also add more languages yourself in Settings — French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and more, each pairing with English and with Chinese.

BUILT FOR PARENTS, AND FOR TRAVEL
Big text, big buttons, no sign-up, no account. Save your own short phrases for the moments when talking is hardest.

PAY ONCE
3 days free with everything unlocked, then a one-time purchase. No subscription. No daily caps. No extra fees. Ever.

Requires iOS 26.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Full Unlock | $2.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-20

Minor improvements, and a clearer App Store page.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-17

Localized app name and permission prompts — English, Spanish and Chinese now follow your iPhone's language.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-09

No release notes.

## More apps by jiong dai

- [VocabPalace](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vocabpalace/id6762327870)

All apps by jiong dai: https://appshunter.io/developer/1848251530

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