Kagi Translate vs Waves
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kagi Translate
This app offers advanced language translation with features like voice, visual, and dictionary translation. It allows users to fine-tune translations for accuracy, formality, and context. A free experience is provided, with premium features available for members.
- Voice translation
- Visual translation
- Dictionary depth
- Smart proofreading
- Contextual control
- Ad-free experience
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Language changes with context. Kagi Translate understands everything from casual slang to precise, formal writing. Fine-tune tone, adjust formality, or specify gender when it matters. These powerful features and controls help make your translations as accurate as possible. Features include: • Voice translation: Speak and listen in another language with voice-to-voice translation. • Visual translation: Instantly translate images and documents, from hotel forms to street signs. • Dictionary depth: Explore a rich dictionary with audio pronunciations, etymology, and synonyms to deepen your vocabulary. • Smart proofreading: Polish your text with proofreading tools that help you learn from mistakes or apply suggested corrections. • Total control: Fine-tune translations to be formal or casual, literal or natural, gender-aware or set the specific context for better accuracy. Kagi members unlock advanced translation models for higher precision, plus premium features like Best mode for proofreading and translation, document translation, extended context length, and longer text-to-speech or voice input. As with all Kagi products, Kagi Translate is entirely ad-free with zero trackers.
Waves
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Waves shows you how heavy each of the next two weeks actually is. Your calendar tells you when things happen. Your task list tells you what's outstanding. Neither tells you whether Thursday is possible. Waves reads both and draws your real daily load as a chart, so an overloaded day is visible days before you live it. - Every task and event as an hours-tall block - Days over your sustainable hours shade red - Drag a task to a lighter day, or into the bin when it's done - Split a three-hour job into a one and a two, on different days - All-day events go on a shelf until you decide what they really cost - Priority bands keep the important work at the foot of the day - Projects with colours, statistics, CSV and calendar export Waves reads your calendars and reminders. It never changes them, and nothing you enter leaves your device. No account, no server, no subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Waves at 15.1 against Kagi Translate's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Kagi Translate | Waves |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (55 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kagi Inc. | Philip Hawkins |
In-app purchases
Kagi Translate
No in-app purchases
Waves
No in-app purchases
Questions
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