Comparison

Google Translate vs Live Translator AI + Learning

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

Head to head
About

Google Translate

Instantly translate text, voice, and images between hundreds of languages. Features include offline translation, real-time conversation translation, and the ability to save frequently used phrases.

Highlights
  • Text translation
  • Offline translation
  • Instant camera translation
  • Photo translation
  • Voice translation
  • Conversation translation
  • Phrasebook
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Translate between up to 249 languages. Feature support varies by language: • Text: Translate between languages by typing • Offline: Translate with no internet connection • Instant camera translation: Translate text in images instantly by just pointing your camera • Photos: Translate text in taken or imported photos • Dictation: Translate spoken words and phrases • Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly • Transcribe: Continuously translate someone speaking a different language in near real-time • Handwriting: Draw text characters instead of typing • Phrasebook: Star and save translated words and phrases for future reference Permissions notice: • Microphone for speech translation • Camera for translating text via the camera • Photos for importing photos from your library Translations between the following languages are supported: Abkhaz, Acehnese, Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alur, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Avar, Awadhi, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Balinese, Baluchi, Bambara, Baoulé, Bashkir, Basque, Batak Karo, Batak Simalungun, Batak Toba, Belarusian, Bemba, Bengali, Betawi, Bhojpuri, Bikol, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chuukese, Chuvash, Corsican, Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic), Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dhivehi, Dinka, Dogri, Dombe, Dutch, Dyula, Dzongkha, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Fon, French, French (Canada), Frisian, Friulian, Fulani, Ga, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hakha Chin, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Hunsrik, Iban, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Inuktut (Latin), Inuktut (Syllabics), Irish, Italian, Jamaican Patois, Japanese, Javanese, Jingpo, Kalaallisut, Kannada, Kanuri, Kapampangan, Kazakh, Khasi, Khmer, Kiga, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kituba, Kokborok, Komi, Konkani, Korean, Krio, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Limburgish, Lingala, Lithuanian, Lombard, Luganda, Luo, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Madurese, Maithili, Makassar, Malagasy, Malay, Malay (Jawi), Malayalam, Maltese, Mam, Manx, Maori, Marathi, Marshallese, Marwadi, Mauritian Creole, Meadow Mari, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Minang, Mizo, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nahuatl (Eastern Huasteca), Ndau, Ndebele (South), Nepalbhasa (Newari), Nepali, NKo, Norwegian, Nuer, Occitan, Odia (Oriya), Oromo, Ossetian, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Quechua, Qʼeqchiʼ, Romani, Romanian, Rundi, Russian, Sami (North), Samoan, Sango, Sanskrit, Santali (Latin), Santali (Ol Chiki), Scots Gaelic, Sepedi, Serbian, Sesotho, Seychellois Creole, Shan, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Susu, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tahitian, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamazight (Tifinagh), Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tetum, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tulu, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Twi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Venda, Venetian, Vietnamese, Waray, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yakut, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya, Zapotec, Zulu

About

Live Translator AI + Learning

Break down language barriers with this AI-powered translator. It offers instant text, voice, and camera translation in over 200 languages, plus an AI editor to refine your writing. Ideal for travel, study, or business.

Highlights
  • AI-powered translation model
  • AI text editor for grammar and style
  • Real-time voice translation
  • Instant camera text translation
  • AR object translation
  • Phrasebook for saved phrases
  • Real-time conversation mode
Features
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Live Translator is your reliable companion for translation, communication, and language learning. Whether you travel, study, learn a new language, or run a business, it provides you with powerful tools to overcome language barriers, communicate confidently, and expand your vocabulary. Translate in over 200 languages, learn new words with flashcards, practice with personalized learning materials, and track your progress, all in one app. Main Features: Voice Translation: Communicate effortlessly using your voice. Simply speak naturally, and Live Translator will quickly recognize your speech and translate it into the desired language. It is a convenient way to get instant translations while traveling, working, studying, or communicating in everyday situations. Language Learning: Build your vocabulary and improve your language skills with interactive learning tools. Study words with flashcards, choose from different vocabulary categories based on your interests and goals, and track your learning progress over time. Practice with a variety of texts to learn new words in context and make language learning more engaging and effective. Conversation: Have real-time conversations in different languages and communicate more naturally. Live Translator helps both sides understand each other through a dynamic exchange of translated speech, making it easier to connect with people while traveling, at work, or in everyday life. AI-Powered Translation Model: Get fast and accurate translations powered by an advanced AI model. It takes the context of your text into account to provide more natural and precise results across over 200 languages, including less commonly used languages and dialects. Text Translation: Translate written text quickly and easily across over 200 languages. Enter or paste your text to understand messages, documents, websites, and other written content whenever you need it. Camera Translation: Translate the world around you using your camera. Point it at signs, menus, documents, or other printed text in a foreign language to quickly understand what you see without manually entering the text. Camera AR Object Translation: Use your camera to interact with objects around you and receive information in your preferred language. It provides a simple and visual way to explore your surroundings and understand unfamiliar objects. We simplify communication and language learning, making both more intuitive and effective. Translate when you need to communicate, practice when you want to improve, and build your language skills at your own pace. Whether you're discovering new words or having real conversations, Live Translator helps you understand, learn, and connect with confidence. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://translator.avalonsofts.com/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Google Translate4 screens
Live Translator AI + Learning4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Google Translate at none against Live Translator AI + Learning's 15. Google Translate also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (84K vs 711). Live Translator AI + Learning's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (51% vs 41%). On price, update cadence, monetization model 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. Live Translator AI + Learning sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Google Translate asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Live Translator AI + Learning holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Translate has 84K ratings behind it against 711, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Google Translate's written reviews are positive against 51% of Live Translator AI + Learning's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Google Translate ships an update weekly, Live Translator AI + Learning every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Google Translate versus Live Translator AI + Learning: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle TranslateLive Translator AI + Learning
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (84K ratings)4.6 (711 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.1% of reviews51.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings84K — better711
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#1 — better#106
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size295 MB237 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperGoogleAVALON SOFT OU

Customer experience

Google Translate

All ratings83,720 ratings
Positive81.2%
Neutral5.3%
Negative13.4%
Written reviews1,466 reviews
Positive41.1%
Neutral11.1%
Negative47.7%

Live Translator AI + Learning

All ratings711 ratings
Positive90.6%
Neutral2.5%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive51.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative48.8%

Bugs and requests

Google Translate

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Camera translation not working without internet connection
  • Inability to select and translate specific text in images
  • Inconsistent translation of words with multiple meanings
  • Predictive text feature providing inaccurate suggestions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more language support, especially for minority languages
  • Improve accuracy of translations, especially for Asian languages
  • Allow manual selection of text in image translation
  • Add option to toggle between formal and informal language
  • Improve offline performance and functionality

Live Translator AI + Learning

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Google Translate

No in-app purchases

15 purchases

Live Translator AI + Learning

Subscriptions14
  • Thanks for Coming Back$6.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$14.991 Month
  • Discount1 Year trial$14.997 Days
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  • Weekly subscribe - upgrade7 Days trial$14.997 Days
  • Weekly Subscription$14.997 Days
  • Special weekly offer7 Days trial$14.997 Days
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$14.997 Days
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$19.997 Days
  • Six month Subscription$29.996 Months
  • Translate into 200+ Languages3 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Annual with Free Trial3 Days trial$44.991 Year
  • Black Friday Sale - Translator3 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription$99.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription1 Month trial$99.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime access$99.99

Questions

Is Google Translate free?
Google Translate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Live Translator AI + Learning free?
Live Translator AI + Learning is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Google Translate or Live Translator AI + Learning?
Live Translator AI + Learning is rated higher. Google Translate averages 4.3 out of 5 from 84K ratings, while Live Translator AI + Learning averages 4.6 from 711 ratings.
Do Google Translate or Live Translator AI + Learning have ads?
Live Translator AI + Learning shows ads; Google Translate does not.
Which is updated more often, Google Translate or Live Translator AI + Learning?
Google Translate ships an update weekly, and Live Translator AI + Learning every 4 days. Most recently, Google Translate was updated on September 27, 2026 and Live Translator AI + Learning on September 23, 2026.
Which is more popular, Google Translate or Live Translator AI + Learning?
Google Translate currently peaks at #1 in the App Store charts, and Live Translator AI + Learning at #106. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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