Comparison

Irish Citylink vs SofiLingo

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

Head to head
About

Irish Citylink

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Use our app to check real-time arrivals and departures for your journey. With real-time data at your fingertips, you can travel with confidence—making your trip smoother and stress-free. Plus, easily book your trip in just a few taps, ensuring a seamless travel experience from start to finish.

About

SofiLingo

Translate text from images, speech, or typed input instantly, even without an internet connection. Supports 58 languages for seamless communication and understanding in any travel scenario. Your translations are private and stored only on your device.

Highlights
  • Camera text translation
  • Offline translation capabilities
  • Speech-to-text and text-to-speech
  • Supports 58 languages
  • Private and no account required
  • Saved scan history
Features
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Point your camera at a menu, a street sign, or a train timetable. SofiLingo reads it and tells you what it says. No signal needed. DESIGNED FOR WHERE YOU ACTUALLY ARE Translation runs entirely on your phone. On a plane, in a tunnel, in a mountain village with one bar of signal — it works the same. Download the languages you need over hotel wifi and forget about it. No roaming charges. No waiting for a page to load while a waiter stands over you. SCAN, TYPE, SPEAK OR LISTEN Hold your camera up to text and SofiLingo highlights what it can read. Tap to translate. Or type a phrase and show your screen to the person you're talking to. Or say it out loud and hear the answer spoken back — for the times there's nothing to point at and nothing you can spell. Or put the phone on the table and let it listen. What the other person says appears in your language a moment after they say it — a doctor explaining, a guide talking, a shopkeeper answering. Read it, or hear it through earbuds. Nothing is recorded. The conversation is translated and then it's gone. 58 LANGUAGES English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Turkish, Greek and Arabic. SAVED SCANS Every scan is kept. Look up that menu again over dinner, or translate it into a different language — as many times as you like, at no extra cost. Capture one of those without signal and SofiLingo saves the photo, then translates it automatically the next time you're online. HONEST ABOUT TWO THINGS Scanning is better online for 33 of the 58 — some use scripts your phone can't read at all, and in others it reads badly enough to matter. Without a signal your phone still has a go, and typing works offline in every language. And listening depends on your phone rather than on us — an iPhone can hear about half of the 58. Where yours can't, SofiLingo says so before you press record and offers you a language it can hear instead. We'd rather tell you now than have you find out at the worst moment. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No email address. We never ask who you are. Your translations and scan history stay on your phone. We don't collect them, read them, or sell them. Free with ads; the Holiday pass removes them. If a translation comes out wrong you can send us that one scan to help fix it — nothing is sent unless you ask, and we tell you exactly what goes before anything moves. PRICING Try it free — your first 15 translations are on us, no card required. After that: • Watch a short video — another 15 translations, as often as you like. • One-time Holiday pass — 14 days, one payment, nothing to cancel. Built for a single trip. The Holiday pass is a one-off purchase. It doesn't renew, and there's nothing to remember to cancel when you get home. — Privacy: https://sofilingo.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://sofilingo.com/terms

Screenshots

Irish Citylink4 screens
SofiLingo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Irish Citylink at none against SofiLingo's 3. Irish Citylink also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.5). SofiLingo's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks). On price 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. SofiLingo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Irish Citylink asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Irish Citylink ships an update every 5 weeks, SofiLingo every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Irish Citylink versus SofiLingo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIrish CitylinkSofiLingo
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB122 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperRise Digital Media LimitedJOHN PIERRE SHEEHY

In-app purchases

None

Irish Citylink

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

SofiLingo

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • One-time Holiday pass$4.99

Questions

Is Irish Citylink free?
Irish Citylink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SofiLingo free?
SofiLingo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Irish Citylink or SofiLingo have ads?
SofiLingo shows ads; Irish Citylink does not.
Which is updated more often, Irish Citylink or SofiLingo?
Irish Citylink ships an update every 5 weeks, and SofiLingo every 2 days. Most recently, Irish Citylink was updated on October 18, 2026 and SofiLingo on October 21, 2026.

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