Translator with Speech vs 3PO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Translator with Speech
Instantly translate text into 88 languages with spoken pronunciations. Features optional speech-to-text for 23 languages, allowing spoken input. Offline playback of saved translations is also available.
- Translate 88 languages
- Speech to text input
- Pronounces translations
- Offline translation playback
- Transliteration support
- Sleek user interface
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Use this cool talking translator to instantly translate any text into any of 88 languages! It also pronounces the translation for you. The new optional SPEECH TO TEXT feature allows you to translate your English SPOKEN text into any of many languages supported by this app. Stop typing, start speaking! In this update, you can translate text spoken in 23 major languages (optional). Now in the app store for 4 years, with almost 3 million downloads, and an average user rating of 4.5! Thank you all! Unlike other translation apps, this one does not solely depend on one web translator. It produces superior spoken translations! This translator also stores previous translations in its database and allows you to prepare a set of translations in advance and play them back later without the need for internet and expensive data roaming. The application features: -Translation into any of 88 languages -Optional speech to text allows you to record your text in 23 languages and convert it into any of the many listed languages. -Remembers earlier translations, providing playback without internet -Just click to playback. Very useful when trying to tell that taxi driver where you want to go. -Localization for 10 major languages -Transliteration support for non-latin character sets -Sleek user interface Supported languages: -Afrikaans -Albanian -Arabic -Armenian -Azerbaijani -Basque -Belarusian -Bengali -Bosnian -Bulgarian -Catalan -Cebuano -Chichewa -Chinese -Croatian -Czech -Danish -Dutch -English -Esperanto -Estonian -Filipino -Finnish -French -Galician -Georgian -German -Greek -Gujarati -Haitian Creole -Hausa -Hebrew -Hindi -Hmong -Hungarian -Icelandic -Igbo -Indonesian -Irish -Italian -Japanese -Javanese -Kannada -Kazakh -Korean -Lao -Latin -Latvian -Lithuanian -Macedonian -Malagasy -Malay -Malayalam -Maltese -Maori -Marathi -Mongolian -Nepali -Norwegian -Persian -Polish -Portuguese -Punjabi -Romanian -Russian -Serbian -Sesotho -Sinhala -Slovak -Slovenian -Somali -Spanish -Sundanese -Swahili -Swedish -Tajik -Tamil -Telugu -Thai -Turkish -Ukrainian -Urdu -Uzbek -Vietnamese -Welsh -Yiddish -Yoruba -Zulu Speech translation is provided for the following languages: - Afrikaans - Albanian - Arabic - Armenian - Bosnian - Catalan - Chinese - Croatian - Czech - Danish - Dutch - English - Esperanto - Finnish - French - German - Greek - Haitian Creole - Hindi - Hungarian - Icelandic - Indonesian - Italian - Japanese - Korean - Latin - Latvian - Macedonian - Norwegian - Polish - Portugese - Romanian - Russian - Serbian - Slovak - Spanish - Swahili - Swedish - Tamil - Thai - Turkish - Vietnamese - Welsh This application requires access to the internet to create a new translation. For the voice to text feature, the app has to be given access to use the microphone.
3PO
This app offers real-time, one-touch speech-to-speech translation across numerous languages using advanced LLM technology. It automatically identifies spoken languages and translates them aloud, facilitating seamless conversations with people worldwide.
- Automatic language identification
- Speech-to-speech translation
- LLM technology powered
- Supports over 100 languages
- One-touch operation
- Offline translation for select languages
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3PO is a first-of-a-kind app that can auto-identify the language being spoken and translate to another spoken language in one step using LLM technology. This one-touch speech-to-speech translator enables you to converse with almost anyone with little friction. Language supported include: Asia - Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, SiChuan, Shandong), Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Cambodian*, Filipino*, Lao*, Mongolian*, Malay*, Burmese*, Nepali*, Sri Lankan* Middle East & Africa - Arabic, Persian*, Afghanistan*, Hebrew*, Kenyan*, Somali*, Tanzanian*, Zulu* Europe - Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh Albanian*, Armenian*, Bosnian*, Icelandic*, Georgian*, Kazakh*, Macedonian*, Maltese*, Serbian*, Uzbekistan* (*) Language auto-identification not supported yet. Speech recognition and translation do work if you pick that language specifically on the bottom left. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: 3PO at none against Translator with Speech's shown. 3PO also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 weeks). Translator with Speech's advantage is ratings volume (15K vs 36) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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. Translator with Speech sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and 3PO sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Translator with Speech against 4.7 for 3PO. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Translator with Speech has 15K ratings behind it against 36, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Translator with Speech's written reviews are positive against 84% of 3PO's.
Translator with Speech ships an update every 5 weeks, 3PO every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Translator with Speech | 3PO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (15K ratings) — better | 4.7 (36 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.7% of reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | 36 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 218 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sparkling Design and Infotech Private Limited | Evergreen Labs |
Customer experience
Translator with Speech
3PO
Bugs and requests
Translator with Speech
Reported bugs
3 issues- Translations not always accurate, especially for complex sentences
- Voice recognition issues, especially for non-English languages
- Crashes or freezes when switching between languages
Requested features
5 requests- Add more language options, especially less common ones
- Improve voice recognition and pronunciation features
- Allow disabling of voice output for privacy
- Provide offline translation capabilities
- Add ability to save/export translations
3PO
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Translator with Speech
- English Language Speech Input$0.99
- Spanish Speech Input$0.99
- French Speech Input$0.99
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- Italian Speech Input$0.99
- Japanese Speech Input$0.99
- Russian Speech Input$0.99
- Remove the ads$0.99
- Chinese Language Speech Input$0.99
- Translate text from your Camera$0.99
- Speech input for all languages$2.99
3PO
- 3PO Pro$6.99
Questions
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