HelpPic vs Apptek Speech Translate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HelpPic
This app helps travelers communicate in foreign countries by displaying relevant images. Users can build a custom library of pictures and favorite frequently used ones for quick access.
- Visual communication aid
- Customizable picture library
- Favorite frequently used images
- Offline functionality (implied by travel use case)
- Supports multiple devices
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If you are visiting a foreign country, and you don't speak the local language, instead of using mimics and gestures to communicate, you can just show the picture in the app HelpPic of what you want. If the pictures bundled are not enough, you can add your own pictures to a custom library. Moreover, if there are too many pictures, you can favorite the ones you use the most, so it is easier to find them. Produced in BEPiD PUCPR.
Apptek Speech Translate
Communicate in real-time with native speakers abroad or at home. This app provides speech-to-speech translation in multiple languages, offering offline phrases for common travel situations. You can also type text for translation and customize voice output.
- Real-time speech-to-speech translation
- Offline phrasebook for travel emergencies
- Text-to-speech and text-to-text translation
- Save and access favorite phrases offline
- Edit translations and customize voice gender
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AppTek Speech Translate is a real-time two-way speech communication application that enables you to speak a local language while traveling abroad or with native foreign-language speakers at home. The app offers complete speech-to-speech translation using the latest in automatic speech recognition, neural machine translation, and text-to-speech technologies. For a limited time, AppTek’s Speech Translate application is available at no cost. Using AppTek Speech Translate, users can: • Speak directly into their device and translate into Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Mandarin, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, or Spanish. • Access 100 FREE pre-loaded offline phrases to help you in Emergency, Medical, Transportation, and Dining situations. • Record phrases before traveling and save them as favorites to later access offline when you want to avoid cellular network usage charges. • Type words or phrases into the tool for the text-to-speech or text-to-text translations in multiple languages. • Edit translations easily by changing the text in your native language. • Alter the gender of the speaking voice for a more natural-sounding response. No matter your need, directions, local amenities, restaurants, and especially in case of an emergency, AppTek Speech Translate is the ideal travel companion.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Apptek Speech Translate at none against HelpPic's 1. Apptek Speech Translate also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 38 months). HelpPic's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. HelpPic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Apptek Speech Translate asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HelpPic against 5.0 for Apptek Speech Translate. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Apptek Speech Translate has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
HelpPic ships an update every 38 months, Apptek Speech Translate every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HelpPic | Apptek Speech Translate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evelyn Klassen | AppTek.com |
Customer experience
HelpPic
Apptek Speech Translate
In-app purchases
HelpPic
- Remove Ads$0.99
Apptek Speech Translate
No in-app purchases
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