CaptMe vs Captionify

CaptMe transforms your mobile phone into a live subtitler and translator for face-to-face conversation: - for all people in close contact with persons who are hard of hearing or deaf; - for travelers and businesspeople in multilingual situations. CaptMe transcribe, translate and identify instantly the different person speaking even in noisy environment, so that you can naturally speak. When speaking to a foreigner, it is no more necessary to search for words in foreign language. Enhance your CaptMe experience by buying our hands-free kit composed of an exclusive neck lanyard and a smartphone quickstand available on our store at https://www.captme.ai. The magnetic neck lanyard let you fix your smartphone through the Magsafe interface, screen facing your audience. Your real-time captions will be displayed under your face, like in a subtitled movie. The smartphone quickstand lets you prop your cell phone up on a table so you can easily follow along on the screen as others speak. CaptMe supports currently 53 languages for transcription and translation between each other: Arabic, Bengali, Bashkir, Basque, Bulgarian, Cantonese (traditional), Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean,  Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay (latin), Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian (cyrillic), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili (latin), Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Welsh. Your conversations are not monitored or recorded by CaptMe. Your voiceprint is not stored without your consent. However, your anonymized voice data may be used by our European partner to improve speech recognition and transcriptions. CaptMe is EU GDPR compliant. Application and storage are 100% based on European cloud servers. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Captionify turns speech into text in real time, entirely on your device. Transcribe meetings, lectures, and conversations. Translate across languages instantly. No subscription. No account. Nothing sent to the cloud. REAL-TIME TRANSCRIPTION Using on-device AI, Captionify converts spoken words to text the moment they're said — no internet connection required. Ideal for lectures, meetings, interviews, and noisy environments where you can't afford to miss a word. LIVE TRANSLATION Understand any language as it's spoken. Captionify translates speech in real time so you can follow along in any conversation, anywhere in the world. FACE-TO-FACE CONVERSATION MODE Talking with someone who speaks a different language? Face-to-Face mode lets two people hold a natural bilingual conversation on a single device — one speaks, the other reads, then you swap. No interpreter. No awkward pauses. AGENT MODE Talk to an on-device AI assistant that can use tools, connect to your own MCP servers, and remember saved chats — all without sending anything to the cloud. CUSTOM PIPELINE (BETA) Mix and match independent transcription, translation, and voice engines — on-device or your own custom endpoint — to build a live pipeline that's entirely your own. AI SUMMARIES Powered by Apple Intelligence, Captionify distills long transcripts into the key points that matter. Everything runs on-device — your words never leave your phone. APPLE WATCH SUPPORT See live captions on your wrist and control recording remotely. Keep your phone in your pocket while staying connected to every word. SAVE & SEARCH YOUR TRANSCRIPTS Every session can be saved and searched later. Build a personal library of transcripts — no cloud storage, no account, no limits. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Captionify uses Apple's on-device AI for all processing. Your voice and your transcripts stay on your device always. 100% FREE No subscription. No paywall. No account required. Every feature, available from the moment you open the app.