VoiceTra vs Goshuin Finder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VoiceTra
This app translates spoken words into multiple languages, offering both voice and text input. It's designed to facilitate communication for travelers and visitors, with features like instant translation direction switching and a user-friendly interface.
- Speech-to-speech translation
- Supports 33 languages
- Text input option
- Instant translation direction switch
- High-precision speech recognition
- User-friendly interface
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VoiceTra is a speech translation app that translates your speech into different languages. VoiceTra supports 33 languages and can be downloaded and used for free. With an easy-to-use interface, you can also check if the translation results are correct. VoiceTra, whether to enhance your travel experience or to welcome visitors to Japan, will definitely come in handy as your personal speech translator. ■Features: VoiceTra utilizes high-precision speech recognition, translation, and speech synthesis technologies developed by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). It translates your spoken words into different languages and outputs the results in a synthesized voice. The translation direction can be instantly switched, allowing 2 people that speak different languages to communicate using a single device. Text input is available for languages that do not support speech input. VoiceTra is best suited for travel-related conversations and is recommended for situations and places such as below: ・Transportation: Bus, train, rent-a-car, taxi, airport, transit ・Shopping: Restaurant, shopping, payment ・Hotel: Check-in, check out, cancellation ・Sightseeing: Overseas travel, serving and supporting foreign customers *VoiceTra has also been introduced as a disaster-prevention, disaster-related app. While VoiceTra can be used as a dictionary to look up words, it is recommended to input sentences as it interprets the meaning from the context to output the translation results. ■Supported languages: Japanese, English, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Korean, Thai, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Myanmar, Arabic, Italian, Ukrainian, Urdu, Dutch, Khmer, Sinhala, Tamil, Danish, German, Turkish, Nepali, Hungarian, Hindi, Filipino, Bengali, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Malay, Mongolian, Lao, and Russian ■Restrictions, etc.: Internet connection is required. It may take a while to display the translation results depending on the network connectivity. Languages available for text input are those that the OS keyboard supports. The characters may not be displayed properly if the appropriate font is not installed on your device. Please note that some of the functions or the application itself may be disabled when the server is down. Users are responsible for the communication fees incurred to use the application. Please be aware that international data roaming charges can be expensive. This application was developed for research purposes; targeting individuals to test it out when traveling, and uses servers that are also setup for research purposes. The data recorded on the server will be utilized to make improvements in speech translation technologies. You may test out the app for businesses, etc., but please consider using private services that we have licensed our technology to for continuous use. Please refer to our "Terms of Use" for further details → https://voicetra.nict.go.jp/en/attention.html
Goshuin Finder
Explore temples and shrines in Japan and manage your stamp collection. Find nearby locations, check real-time wait times, and plan your visits with detailed information on hours and availability. Contribute to the community by reporting your own wait times.
- Discover temples and shrines
- Track goshuin stamp collection
- Interactive map with location markers
- Real-time visitor-reported wait times
- Offline data support
- Details on hours, availability, and cost
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Discover temples and shrines across Japan and track your goshuin stamp collection. Goshuin Finder helps you locate nearby temples and shrines using an interactive map, check real-time wait times reported by fellow visitors, and plan your visits with confidence. Features: - Browse temples and shrines with details on hours, goshuin availability, and cost - View live wait times reported by visitors on the ground - Report wait times when you visit to help the community - Interactive map with temple markers and your current location - Offline support — cached data keeps the app useful without a connection
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Goshuin Finder at 5.0 against VoiceTra's 4.6. Goshuin Finder also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 79%). VoiceTra's advantage is ratings volume (203 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Goshuin Finder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VoiceTra has 203 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of VoiceTra's written reviews are positive against 100% of Goshuin Finder's.
VoiceTra ships an update every 4 months, Goshuin Finder every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VoiceTra | Goshuin Finder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (203 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 203 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NICT | RAFAEL NORIEL,BATTO ADRICULA |
Customer experience
VoiceTra
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In-app purchases
VoiceTra
No in-app purchases
Goshuin Finder
No in-app purchases









