Comparison

Universal Tourist vs Tell Me Please

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Universal Tourist

Features
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Universal Tourist is a translation tool for tourists visiting foreign countries to facilitate multilingual interactions with local shops, hotels, restaurants, emergencies and more. Universal Tourist helps tourists communicate in places where they don’t speak the local language. ------------ - Why use Universal Tourist? - With the number of tourist destinations increasing every year, language barriers can be an obstacle to a great vacation. Universal Tourist is an app to help you communicate when you’re in a shop, hotel or restaurant and the staff don’t speak your language. Universal Tourist works completely offline and has an interactive interface. It helps you in various aspects: to find specific information, communicate your needs or requests,etc. The conversation is facilitated by suggested answers based on the phrase you select. So when you click a specific phrase, it proposes various possible answers to the person you are speaking with, making conversation easy and fun. LANGUAGES Spanish English French Russian German Chinese (Simplified) Japanese Catalan Italian Portuguese COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES - Offline: use it anywhere without internet connection. - Enables conversation: Made to start conversations and facilitate communication. - Never fails: Hundreds of phrases recorded by professional interpreters, avoiding the mistakes of mistranslations and misunderstandings. FEATURES * Hundreds of phrases with audio recorded by native speakers in 10 different languages * Unique design that makes multilingual conversations easy. * Topics include: hotels, transport, shopping, activities, restaurants, emergencies and more. The translation technology platform used by Universal Tourist has been implemented in the area of health and commerce services for several years (known as Universal Doctor Speaker and Universal Customer) and has proved to be very user-friendly, valuable and reliable. The design is therefore well tested and adaptable to various situations.

About

Tell Me Please

Features
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The "Tell Me Please" app is a free speech multilingual translator designed for conversations with a foreign interlocutor who is nearby. The translation direction changes by adjusting the smartphone orientation. You speak and listen to the translated speech in your language when the smartphone is held vertically with its screen facing you. To switch languages, simply extend your arm with the smartphone toward your conversation partner, so that the screen is oriented upwards Every day, the first 3000 characters are translated for free by OpenAI ChatGPT. After that, the built-in free translator will be used for the rest of the day.

Screenshots

Universal Tourist3 screens
Tell Me Please2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tell Me Please at none against Universal Tourist's 10. Tell Me Please also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 months). Universal Tourist's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Universal Tourist sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Tell Me Please asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Universal Tourist ships an update every 5 months, Tell Me Please every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Universal Tourist versus Tell Me Please: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUniversal TouristTell Me Please
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUniversal Projects and Tools S.L.Sergey Lupov

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Universal Tourist

One-time10
  • U-Tourist EnglishFree
  • U-Tourist PortugueseFree
  • U-Tourist CatalanFree
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  • U-Tourist French$1.99
  • U-Tourist German$1.99
  • U-Tourist Spanish$1.99
  • U-Tourist Italian$1.99
  • U-Tourist Russian$2.99
  • U-Tourist Chinese$2.99
  • U-Tourist Japanese$2.99
None

Tell Me Please

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Universal Tourist free?
Universal Tourist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tell Me Please free?
Tell Me Please is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Universal Tourist or Tell Me Please have ads?
Neither Universal Tourist nor Tell Me Please shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Universal Tourist or Tell Me Please?
Universal Tourist ships an update every 5 months, and Tell Me Please every 4 days. Most recently, Universal Tourist was updated on November 1, 2026 and Tell Me Please on November 4, 2026.

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