Comparison

Immersive Translate vs LectMate

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

Head to head
About

Immersive Translate

This AI-powered tool breaks down language barriers with fast, accurate translations for web pages, videos, and documents. Experience dual-language reading, input box translation, and custom AI personas for professional results.

Highlights
  • Dual-language web page reading
  • Bilingual video subtitle translation
  • Input box translation with hotkey
  • File and PDF translation
  • Custom AI industry personas
  • AI contextual translation
Features
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"Immersive Translate" is the next-generation AI translation tool, trusted by over 20 million users worldwide. We help you break down language barriers and connect with a broader world. Fast & Accurate AI Translation: Integrated with multiple top-tier AI translation models. The Perfect Safari Companion: Seamlessly integrated as a browser extension for comprehensive adaptation. Fully compatible with all major browsers across platforms. Pioneering "Dual-Language" Display: Our unique vertical contrast layout enhances the reading experience by significantly reducing visual "intrusion," offering you the best way to read and translate foreign web pages. 【Extension Features】 - Immersive Web Reading: By intelligently identifying the main content area of a webpage and displaying bilingual translations, we provide a brand-new foreign language reading experience—hence the name "Immersive Translate." - Deep Optimization for Major Sites: We have customized optimizations for Google, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Whether you are searching, socializing, or gathering information, the experience is smoother and more efficient. - Immersive Video Experience: Powered by AI, we support bilingual subtitle translation for dozens of mainstream video sites, including YouTube, Netflix, Coursera, and more. - Input Box Translation: Type your native language in any input box on any webpage and press "Space" three times to instantly translate it into your target language. This immediately unlocks real-time bilingual dialogue experiences for tools like Google Search and AI chats. - Efficient File Translation: One-click export of bilingual e-books, with support for real-time translation of PDF, Subtitle, TXT, and other file formats. - Advanced PDF Translation: We preserve the original document formatting. The Pro version supports complex formula recognition, table recognition, and image OCR within PDFs, ensuring the translation maintains the original layout as much as possible. Perfect for foreign literature, academic papers, product manuals, and more. 【AI Translation Features】 - AI Expert: Support for setting specific AI industry personas to provide more professional translations for specialized content. - AI Terminology: Support for custom glossaries, ensuring the AI uses your specific terms during translation for higher accuracy. - AI Contextual Translation: The system analyzes the full context and professional terminology before translating to provide a more accurate result. (Beta) - AI Subtitles: Intelligently recognizes speech in videos without subtitles and automatically generates bilingual captions. (Beta, currently limited to YouTube) 【Terms of Use】 https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ 【Auto-Subscription Service Instructions】 Payment: Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Auto-Renewal: Your Apple Account will be charged within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. The subscription period extends by one cycle upon successful payment. Cancellation: You can manage your automatic subscription in your iPhone "Settings" --> Click "Apple Account" --> Click "Subscriptions." To cancel, please turn off the auto-renew feature at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing cycle. You will not be charged if you cancel within 24 hours of expiration.

About

LectMate

This app provides real-time voice-to-text transcription and simultaneous translation with advanced noise reduction. It's designed to help students and professionals understand lectures, meetings, and conversations, even with accents or background noise. Features include AI-powered summarization, note-taking, and multi-language support.

Highlights
  • Real-time voice-to-text transcription
  • Simultaneous translation
  • Audio noise reduction
  • AI keyword summarization
  • Bilingual transcript export
  • Search and replay recordings
  • Supports 71 languages
Features
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LectMate: A must-have for students. Professional recording, real-time voice-to-text transcription, and high-precision simultaneous translation; improve learning efficiency, and top students are using it. [Application scenarios] * Real-time translation for Zoom online classes and video conferences. No need to worry about accents from teachers or classmates, the transcription will still be accurate. * Offline classes can also be translated, with real-time Chinese subtitles to easily understand every sentence. * Take notes easily and export bilingual transcripts at any time to save time on reviewing and not miss any important knowledge. * Record phone calls and no longer fear to communicate with customer service. * Switch to conversation translation mode when going out to avoid social awkwardness and understand the other party's thoughts. * Collect inspirations at any time and improve your oral expression ability. [Core features] * Audio noise reduction: Even in noisy environments or when recording distant sources, high-quality voice-to-text transcription results can be obtained. * Intelligent transcription: The world's leading AI technology, #1 in the 2021 international automatic speech recognition challenge, provides high-precision, accurate, and fast transcription with high recognition rates. * Affordable price: 180 minutes of free transcription time per month, and only 0.27 yuan per hour for VIP members, which is only 1/2 the price of similar services. * Comprehensive functionality: Recording audio, taking notes, viewing translations, and exporting in multiple formats. All functions are available. We will continue to update more useful features to help you easily tackle all learning problems and improve efficiency. [Main features] * Real-time transcription: Record audio and take notes in real-time with high accuracy. Automatically save text and voice records after the session. * Keywords: Automatically extract key content and generate keyword summaries. * Import and export: Import audio files from other applications with one click and automatically generate text notes for efficient processing of audio content. * AI intelligent engine: Recognizes mixed Chinese and English speech, automatically distinguishes uppercase letters, adds punctuation, and corrects mistakes intelligently. * Search and replay: Quickly search for any word or sentence in the whole recording. Replay audio at your preferred speed for efficient review. * Multiple scenarios: Suitable for all classes, meetings, phone calls, interviews, lectures, and daily voice conversations. AI saves you time and effort. [71 supported languages] We stand with users from all over the world, continuously providing the most advanced services, making it easier for you to record every important moment in your daily life. Currently supported languages include: English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Turkish, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Greek, Finnish, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Afrikaans, Amharic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Filipino, Galician, Gujarati, Armenian, Icelandic, Javanese, Georgian, Khmer, Kannada, Lao, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Marathi, Malay, Burmese, Nepali, Punjabi, Sinhalese, Albanian, Sundanese, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Uzbek, Cantonese, Zulu. [Information confidentiality] We take your privacy and data security seriously. Your data is confidential and will not be transferred to third parties for any reason. You have full control over your data and can delete it from your account at any time. Privacy Policy: https://d1e0dtlz2jooy2.cloudfront.net/inter-web/lect-mate/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://d1e0dtlz2jooy2.cloudfront.net/inter-web/lect-mate/terms.html

Screenshots

Immersive Translate4 screens
LectMate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Immersive Translate at 72% against LectMate's 30%. Immersive Translate also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). LectMate's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Immersive Translate sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and LectMate sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LectMate holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 518 and 665 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Immersive Translate's written reviews are positive against 30% of LectMate's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Immersive Translate ships an update every 10 days, LectMate every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Immersive Translate versus LectMate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImmersive TranslateLectMate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (518 ratings)4.8 (665 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.6% of reviews — better30.4% of reviews
Number of ratings518665 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB280 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperFunstory.ai limitedYoudao (Hong Kong) Limited

Customer experience

Immersive Translate

All ratings518 ratings
Positive89.6%
Neutral1.9%
Negative8.5%
Written reviews176 reviews
Positive71.6%
Neutral4.0%
Negative24.4%

LectMate

All ratings665 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral1.4%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews112 reviews
Positive30.4%
Neutral9.8%
Negative59.8%

User reviews

Immersive Translate

From 518 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Personalized experience
  • 🚀 Immersive translation
  • 💡 Supports multiple translation engines
  • 👍 Preserves formatting
  • 👍 Accurate translations

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Subscription issues on Apple
  • 🐛 Doesn't support Netflix
  • 🐛 Slow translation speed for paid version
  • 🐛 Incompatible with Roku
  • 🐛 Buggy extension on Safari

LectMate

From 665 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Accurate translation
  • 💰 Affordable pricing
  • 📚 Supports multiple languages
  • 🤖 AI-powered summarization

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Unreliable voice recognition
  • ⏱️ Inconsistent performance over time
  • 🔒 Subscription issues and lack of transparency
  • 🔊 Poor audio quality

Bugs and requests

Immersive Translate

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Subscription issues on Apple
  • Incompatibility with Roku
  • Bugs on Safari extension
  • Auto-detect language not working properly
  • Causing issues with YouTube playback
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  • Inconsistent behavior with configuration settings

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to translate PDF files
  • In-app translation option
  • Ability to select and translate individual words
  • Customizable settings for video subtitle translation

LectMate

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Sudden loss of membership status
  • Automatic pause during recordings
  • Inability to find account login on different devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Batch export/import functionality
  • Customizable recording duration
  • Improved handling of accented/regional speech

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Immersive Translate

Subscriptions6
  • Monthly Pro$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Max Monthly Membership$34.991 Month
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  • Annual Pro$79.991 Year
  • Annual Pro3 Days trial$79.991 Year
  • Max annual membership2 variants$289.991 Year
8 purchases

LectMate

Subscriptions8
  • LectMate 会员3 Days trial2 variants$5.997 Days
  • LectMate Pro3 Days trial2 variants$5.997 Days
  • LectMate 会员3 Days trial2 variants$6.997 Days
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  • LectMate Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • LectMate Pro3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • LectMate 会员$49.991 Year
  • LectMate Pro4 variants$49.991 Year
  • LectMate 会员$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Immersive Translate free?
Immersive Translate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LectMate free?
LectMate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Immersive Translate or LectMate?
LectMate is rated higher. Immersive Translate averages 4.6 out of 5 from 518 ratings, while LectMate averages 4.8 from 665 ratings.
Do Immersive Translate or LectMate have ads?
Neither Immersive Translate nor LectMate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Immersive Translate or LectMate?
Immersive Translate ships an update every 10 days, and LectMate every 3 weeks. Most recently, Immersive Translate was updated on September 26, 2026 and LectMate on September 25, 2026.

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