# LatenSea: Translate & Learn — Signs, phrases and flashcards > Signs, phrases and flashcards (iPhone/iPad app by Josiah Kila.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/latensea-translate-and-learn/id6804876280 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Josiah Kila](https://appshunter.io/developer/6804876282) - Category: Education - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 46 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-15 - Data updated: 2026-09-29 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/latensea-translate-and-learn/id6804876280/reviews.md ## What is LatenSea? You are standing in a restaurant in Osaka and you cannot explain that shrimp will put you in hospital. You are at a massage clinic and cannot say which shoulder. You are holding a menu you cannot read. LatenSea is built for those minutes. SHOW SOMEONE A CARD (Japanese) Fill in a profile once and LatenSea builds cards you hold up: who you are and where you're from, your injuries and the places not to touch, what you can't eat, and an emergency card for medical staff. Every fact carries a picture — a crossed-out shrimp, a figure with your sore shoulder marked — so it lands before a word is read. 44 point-and-show phrases are built in and work with no signal and no account. Your profile never leaves your phone. It is not uploaded, not synced, and not stored on our servers. The cards are assembled on the device from a fixed, human-reviewed Japanese table, and every card shows you in English exactly what the Japanese says, so you can check it before you rely on it. TRANSLATE AND UNDERSTAND Type any phrase and get an instant translation with pronunciation and a word-by-word breakdown — every word glossed in English, with tap-to-hear audio on each line. Already translated something once? Running it again is free. READ THE WORLD AROUND YOU Point your camera at a menu, a sign, or a page. LatenSea reads it, translates it, and breaks it down — and you can save any word straight to your word bank, or save the whole sign to your history. PRACTICE SPEAKING Chat with an AI conversation partner in your target language, and choose exactly how replies appear: kanji, hiragana, katakana, romaji, or English. Use Live Translate to speak into your phone and hear it in the other language instantly, or Live Exchange for two-person conversations across languages. QUIZ AND DRILL Turn your word bank into quizzes — multiple choice, listening, or typed answers with romaji accepted — and into flashcard decks with pictures, readings and example sentences. Swipe to grade, track your score, and retry what you missed. LISTEN AND LEARN Generate guided audio lessons: hear a short story all the way through, then walk it back sentence by sentence with translations, grammar notes, and key vocabulary. Slow the speaker down to 75% or 50% while your ear catches up. BUILD YOUR LIBRARY Every word you save gets pronunciation and meaning, and can get an AI-generated picture. Tap any entry to analyze it word by word, hear it aloud, or add it to a flashcard deck and drill it later. Your library and decks stay available even when you're offline. SUBSCRIPTIONS LatenSea Pro (300 credits/month) and LatenSea Premium (1,200 credits/month) unlock larger allowances for translations, breakdowns, audio lessons and image generation. Subscriptions renew monthly and can be canceled anytime in your App Store account settings. Refunds are handled by Apple. Your text is processed by AI to power translations and lessons, and you can delete your account and all your data anytime from inside the app. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Premium | $19.99 | per month | | Pro | $4.99 | per month | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.9 — 2026-09-28 Fixes an "Offline" banner that could appear while generating a story, picture or lesson on a perfectly good connection. Tap the microphone in the Translate box to say your sentence instead of typing it. ### 1.0.8 — 2026-09-27 Fixes a bug where a brand-new install could get stuck on "Signing you in…". A simpler start: tap Try it and you're in — no account needed. Sign in later from Account if you want your words on every device. Works without signal: save a word or finish a quiz on a subway and it syncs when you're back. Faster library, and lessons play instantly the second time. You can now turn usage data off in Account. ### 1.0.6 — 2026-09-25 What's new in 1.0.6 • Show is Japanese-only, and now says so. The Show tab was appearing whatever language you were learning, but its phrases and cards were always Japanese — so if you were learning Spanish it handed you Japanese. It now appears only when you are learning Japanese, and stays hidden for the other languages until a native speaker has checked every line. • Crash reporting. The app had none, which meant a crash on your phone was invisible to us. Crashes are now recorded and sent so they can be fixed, along with which screens were used and for how long. No content is ever included — not a word you saved, not a phrase you translated, not anything from your Show profile. You can still delete your account and everything attached to it from inside the app. ### 1.0.5 — 2026-09-23 What's new in 1.0.5 • Show. A new tab for the moments when speaking doesn't work — you're in a noisy izakaya, you're being handed a form, your hands are full. Tap a phrase and it fills the screen in Japanese, big enough to read across a counter. 44 phrases are built in and work with no signal and no account. • Cards you can hold up. Fill in a profile once and LatenSea builds four cards from it: who you are and where you're from, your injuries and the places not to touch, what you can't eat, and an emergency card for medical staff. Each one is a poster — the card carries a picture for every fact, so a crossed-out shrimp or a figure with your sore shoulder marked is understood before a word is read. • Your profile stays on your phone. It is never uploaded, never synced, and never leaves the device. The cards are assembled on the phone from a fixed Japanese table built into the app, and every card shows you in English exactly what the Japanese says, so you can check it before you rely on it. • "None" is an answer. No food allergies, no injuries, nothing to avoid, no medications — say so explicitly, because a blank card just looks unfinished to the person reading it. • Write your own cards. Type what you need in English, check the translation, and keep it. Saved cards work offline afterwards. • Progress. See which words you miss, which you have never been asked about, and which have gone quiet — then turn any of those groups into a quiz in one tap. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-20 What is new in 1.0.3 Housekeeping only — no feature changes since 1.0.2. ## Apps similar to LatenSea | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [P.S. 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