SpeakShift vs TranslationTone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SpeakShift
Communicate globally with real-time voice and video translation. Speak naturally in your language and be understood by others, even if they don't have the app. Offers personalized AI voices, group calls, and translated messaging.
- Real-time voice and video call translation
- Group calls with translation
- Dial landlines/mobiles with translation
- Personalized AI voice cloning
- Translated chat and voice notes
- AI language coach
- Screen sharing with sound
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SpeakShift is a voice and video calling app with real-time translation built in. Call your friends, family, and colleagues anywhere in the world, speak naturally in your own language, and be understood in theirs. Every call is translated live, both ways, as you talk. CALLS THAT TRANSLATE THEMSELVES - High quality voice calls over the internet - Video calls with live translated audio - Group calls with translation for every participant - Incoming calls ring on your lock screen with a full screen answer and decline, exactly like a phone call, so you never miss one - Start a normal call and turn translation on at any moment with the in-call toggle - Share your screen, with its sound, while you talk REACH PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE THE APP Dial an ordinary phone number and talk through live translation, or send a text that arrives in the other person's language. They need no app and no account. SOUND LIKE YOURSELF IN EVERY LANGUAGE Record a short sample in Voice Studio and SpeakShift learns your voice. The other side then hears the translation in a voice that sounds like you, not a robot. TALK FACE TO FACE Put the phone between you and anyone and speak across languages in person. Live Voice reads each side out loud and shows a running transcript of both. MESSAGING THAT ARRIVES TRANSLATED - Chats translated automatically in 133+ languages - Voice notes translated and spoken back in your language - Photos, videos, documents, and locations - Voice reactions, stickers, GIFs, and AI stickers of you - One time photos and videos that vanish after a single view - Stories your contacts hear in their own language - A shared media hub holding everything sent in a chat AI STUDIO - AI Avatar: one selfie becomes a stylized portrait - AI Stickers: a personal sticker pack of you - Songs: turn what you want to say into an original song - Coach: a private AI language coach you can talk to out loud AND MORE - SpeakShift Live: broadcast to viewers who each hear you in their own language - Translate Hub: translate documents, images, and anything you paste or snap - AI Companion: an AI contact that chats, listens to your voice notes, and answers in voice - Discover people near you and the languages they speak, and join public groups - Sign in with Face ID or Touch ID using passkeys - Quiet hours, per chat mute, and a web app for your other devices WHY SPEAKSHIFT Whether you are calling family abroad, working with international teammates, traveling, or meeting someone new, SpeakShift takes the language barrier out of the most human thing there is. A real conversation, voice to voice, face to face. Download SpeakShift and call the world in your language.
TranslationTone
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Speak your language. They hear theirs — in your voice. TranslationTone translates your phone calls and messages in real time, then speaks the result in a clone of your own voice. Not a flat robotic read-out: your voice, your tone, in a language you never learned. WHAT YOU CAN DO Live translated calls — talk normally. The person on the other end hears you in their language, sounding like you. Translated messages — send a text or a voice message; it arrives in their language. Voicemail — miss a call and they can still leave you a message, translated. Photo text — send a photo and the text inside it is read and translated. Practice mode — say a phrase, get scored on your pronunciation, and hear it played back in your own voice. WHO IT IS FOR Families split across languages. Calling parents or grandparents you can't fully talk to. Partners meeting each other's relatives for the first time. Travellers who need more than a phrasebook. Anyone who has ever handed the phone to someone else because they couldn't manage the call themselves. 30 LANGUAGES Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese. WHY IT SOUNDS DIFFERENT Most translation apps hand your words to a generic synthetic voice, and everyone on the call can tell. TranslationTone builds a voice profile from a short recording you make in the app, then speaks the translation with it. The person you called hears you — your pitch, your pacing, your tone — just in a language you don't speak. GETTING STARTED Record a short voice profile, pick your language, and call. New accounts start with free minutes, so you can hear how it sounds on a real call before paying for anything. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS A subscription is optional. TranslationTone works without one — use your free minutes, or buy minute packs as you go and they never expire. Monthly Pro Subscription (optional) — US$19.99 per month, auto-renewing. Includes 400 translated call minutes each month, plus a discounted rate for any additional minutes. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.translationtone.com/privacy CARRIER NOTICE TranslationTone places calls over the internet (VoIP). Some mobile operators restrict or charge extra for VoIP calls, and standard data rates apply. Please check your agreement with your operator before you subscribe.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: TranslationTone at none against SpeakShift's shown. SpeakShift's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. SpeakShift sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and TranslationTone sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SpeakShift ships an update daily, TranslationTone every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SpeakShift | TranslationTone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 222 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | SpeakShift | TranslationTone LLC |
In-app purchases
SpeakShift
- App Subscription$1.991 Month
- Paid Tier$5.991 Month
- Voice$9.991 Month
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- Mind$19.991 Month
- Soul$49.991 Month
- Voice Annual$95.991 Year
- Voice Credit Pack$9.99
- Mind Credit Pack$19.99
- Soul Credit Pack$49.99
TranslationTone
- Monthly Pro Subscription$19.991 Month
- 60 Mins Translation Call Time(Pro)$1.79
- 60 Minutes Translation Call Time$5.39
- 180 Mins Translation Call Time(Pro)$5.49
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- 300 Mins Translation Call Time(Pro)$8.99
- 180 Minutes Translation Call Time$14.99
- 600 Mins Translation Call Time(Pro)$17.99
- 300 Minutes Translation Call Time$23.99
- 600 Minutes Translation Call Time$35.99









