Comparison

1st Class vs EarPal Translator

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

Head to head
About

1st Class

This app tracks flights, stores travel memories, and offers offline city guides. Relive journeys with photos and earn achievements for your travels. Explore destinations with personalized itineraries and play offline multiplayer games.

Highlights
  • Live flight tracking
  • Digital travel passport
  • Automatic trip photo mapping
  • Offline city guides
  • Offline multiplayer games
  • Personalized itineraries
Features
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Track every flight. Remember every trip. 1st Class is a flight tracker, travel memory, and pocket city guide — all in one beautifully crafted app. ### TRACK FLIGHTS ### Add a flight from your booking or search the database. Live Activities follow you to the gate. Home Screen widgets show your next departure and the time zone at your destination. ### BUILD A PASSPORT ### Every flight adds a stamp to a holographic passport you can share. Earn achievements for the countries, airlines, and aircraft you've experienced. ### REMEMBER EVERY TRIP ### Photos from your library surface automatically by date, mapped to the right trip. Relive every journey day by day after you land. ### EXPLORE OFFLINE ### 150+ offline city guides built in. Live exchange rates with daily updates. Apple Intelligence generates personalised itineraries for wherever you're headed next. ### AT 30,000 FT ### Offline multiplayer games over Bluetooth — play with your seatmate or the friends a few rows up. No Wi-Fi required. ### OFFLINE FIRST ### Add flights manually any time, free. Online flight search and live tracking require a subscription. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Apple Intelligence itineraries require iPhone 15 Pro or newer. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

EarPal Translator

This app offers private, on-device translation for spoken conversations and text. It identifies speakers, provides live or polished translations, and translates signs and menus via camera. All processing happens locally on your device for enhanced privacy.

Highlights
  • On-device speech and text translation
  • Live and accurate translation modes
  • Multi-speaker identification with color-coding
  • Camera translation for signs and menus
  • Privacy-focused, no cloud processing
  • Supports over 30 languages
Features
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EarPal is the private interpreter for the world around you. Just tap Listen and EarPal hears the conversation, identifies each voice, and shows you a live translation in your language. Open the camera and EarPal reads any text it sees and translates it in place — menus, signs, packaging, screenshots from your library. No buttons to push, no turn-taking, no recording — just understanding. EVERYTHING ON-DEVICE Audio, photos, and recognised text never leave your iPhone. EarPal uses Apple's on-device speech, vision, and translation models, plus a state-of-the-art on-device speaker recognition engine. No cloud. No ads. No tracking. MULTI-SPEAKER, COLOR-CODED EarPal can follow several people at once. Each voice gets its own color in text mode — or its own distinct synthetic voice when you're listening through AirPods. Finally, you can sit at a dinner table with locals and follow the actual conversation. CAMERA TRANSLATION Point your camera at any text and watch translations land over each block in real time. Snap a still photo or pick from your library to translate menus, signs, screenshots, forwarded messages — all on-device. TWO LISTENING MODES - ACCURATE: waits for the speaker to finish their sentence, then shows a polished translation - LIVE: streams a rolling translation as words arrive, like live subtitles 30+ LANGUAGES Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, Hebrew, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Filipino, Arabic, Hindi, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and English (multiple variants). ACCESSIBILITY Live captions of conversations, color-coded by speaker, in your own language. Built for travelers, language learners, mixed-language families, and deaf or hard-of-hearing users. PRICING THAT MAKES SENSE - Free: 60 minutes of listening per month, all features, 2 voices, photo + gallery translation included - Pro Monthly: €1.99 - Pro Yearly: €14.99 (best value, 7-day free trial) - Pro Lifetime: €39.99 — pay once, never again Subscriptions auto-renew at the end of each period (monthly or yearly) at the price shown above unless cancelled at least 24 hours before. Manage anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. PRIVACY PROMISE EarPal does not collect or upload your audio, photos, or transcripts. Speech recognition, speaker identification, OCR, and translation all happen on your iPhone. Built by a solo iOS developer who got tired of translation apps that either spy on you, lock everything behind a $9.99/week subscription, or both. Privacy Policy: https://frostdev.eu/privacy Terms of Service: https://frostdev.eu/terms Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

1st Class4 screens
EarPal Translator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: 1st Class at 100% against EarPal Translator's 43%. On price, update cadence, 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. 1st Class sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and EarPal Translator sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

1st Class ships an update every 8 days, EarPal Translator weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
1st Class versus EarPal Translator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter1st ClassEarPal Translator
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better42.9% of reviews
Number of ratings—12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicolo StanciuAlvaro Escarcha Esteban

Customer experience

1st Class

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

EarPal Translator

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral4.8%
Negative52.4%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

1st Class

Subscriptions3
  • 1st Class Pro - Weekly$2.997 Days
  • 1st Class Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • 1st Class Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • 1st Class Pro — Lifetime$99.99
3 purchases

EarPal Translator

Subscriptions2
  • EarPal Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • EarPal Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • EarPal Pro Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is 1st Class free?
1st Class is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is EarPal Translator free?
EarPal Translator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 1st Class or EarPal Translator have ads?
Neither 1st Class nor EarPal Translator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 1st Class or EarPal Translator?
1st Class ships an update every 8 days, and EarPal Translator weekly. Most recently, 1st Class was updated on October 16, 2026 and EarPal Translator on October 25, 2026.

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