Comparison

TransPeek vs Subtitle It

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

Head to head
About

TransPeek

Instantly translate any on-screen text in real-time with floating subtitles. Play games, watch videos, or browse websites in foreign languages without leaving the app. Also offers quick photo translation and saves your translation history.

Highlights
  • Real-time screen translation
  • Floating subtitle window
  • Quick photo translation
  • Works with games, videos, and websites
  • On-device text recognition
  • Translation history
Features
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Read any screen in your own language — games, videos, comics, chats and websites, without leaving the app you're in. TransPeek floats a small window over whatever you're doing, reads the text on screen and shows the translation right there. Text recognition and translation both run on your device. FLOATING WINDOW Drag the window over the text you want to read. It translates what sits just below it, sentence by sentence, with the original line above each translation, so you can read both at once. Move it and it follows along. RARE WORDS, MARKED FOR YOU Learning a language? TransPeek marks the less common words in each sentence and highlights the matching words in the translation, numbered so you can pair them up. Set your reader level for each language and it only marks what you're likely not to know yet. FIXED REGION For subtitles, game dialogue or speech bubbles that always appear in the same place: mark those areas once and TransPeek keeps translating them. The window takes the shape of what you marked — wide and short for a subtitle strip, tall for a column of bubbles. PHOTO TRANSLATION Take a photo or pick one from your library — menus, signs, letters, product labels — and translate the text in it. Photos never leave your device. SHORTCUTS, SIRI AND CONTROL CENTER Start the floating window or a fixed region from Control Center, Siri, Spotlight or the Shortcuts app. Pair "Take Screenshot" with "Translate Screenshot" to translate whatever is on screen with one tap; on iOS 26, with the language already downloaded, the result appears without leaving the app you're in. 20 LANGUAGES, ANY PAIR English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Italian, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, Dutch, Hindi, Indonesian, Polish, Turkish and Ukrainian — translate between any two. Translation is powered by Apple's on-device engine; once a language is downloaded, it works offline. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no cloud and no tracking. Your screen is processed on your iPhone or iPad and is never uploaded. MAKE IT YOURS Choose the window's shape, border colour and text theme. Every translation is kept in your history on this device, with stats for the week. PRICING Try everything free for 3 days. The trial starts with your first screen translation, not when you install. After that, a one-time purchase unlocks TransPeek Pro for good — no subscription. Pro owners can gift a friend a code to unlock Pro at a gift price. How to start: pick your languages, tap Start Floating Window, then choose TransPeek in the system's screen broadcast sheet. Switch to any app and the window comes with you.

About

Subtitle It

Features
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Having trouble understanding foreign-language videos? SubtitleIt generates real-time bilingual subtitles for videos, live streams, podcasts, meetings, and everyday conversations, making content across languages easier to understand. Whether you’re watching an international course, an overseas live stream, or an interview—or joining an online meeting—SubtitleIt recognizes speech and displays the original transcript alongside its translation. With floating Picture in Picture subtitles, you can switch to another app and continue following the translation in real time. Key Features • Real-Time Bilingual Subtitles View the original speech and translated text side by side, helping you quickly understand what is being said. • Floating Picture in Picture Subtitles Keep subtitles visible in a floating PiP window while watching videos, following live streams, or attending meetings in other apps. • Screen Audio Recognition Recognize audio from videos, live streams, podcasts, and calls playing in other apps, then generate subtitles in real time. • Live Microphone Recognition Ideal for face-to-face conversations, classes, lectures, meetings, and audio playing from a computer or television. • Support for 20 Languages Supports widely used languages including English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, and Hindi. • Subtitle History Automatically save subtitle records locally, with tools to search, copy, share, and delete them for convenient review and note-taking. • Full-Screen Subtitle Reading Quickly switch between the original transcript and translation, scroll through longer text, copy subtitles, and view character counts. Ideal For • Foreign-language videos and international live streams • Online courses and language learning • Podcasts, interviews, and news programs • Online meetings and video calls • Classes, lectures, and face-to-face conversations • Unsubtitled foreign-language content Privacy Policy: https://indecisive-blackberry-1b0.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-3bbc773b6a078091bbadfd900cad0f94 Terms of Use: https://indecisive-blackberry-1b0.notion.site/Terms-of-Use-3bbc773b6a0780f8811ef3f778dd8c3a

Screenshots

TransPeek4 screens
Subtitle It4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: TransPeek at 18.0 against Subtitle It's 26.0. 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. TransPeek sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Subtitle It sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TransPeek ships an update every 5 days, Subtitle It every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
TransPeek versus Subtitle It: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTransPeekSubtitle It
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer上海百隅信息科技有限公司伟 潘

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TransPeek

One-time1
  • TransPeek Pro$6.99
5 purchases

Subtitle It

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
  • Yearly Subscription$19.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription$25.991 Year
One-time2
  • SubtitleIt Lifetime$24.99
  • SubtitleIt Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is TransPeek free?
TransPeek is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Subtitle It free?
Subtitle It is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TransPeek or Subtitle It have ads?
Neither TransPeek nor Subtitle It shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TransPeek or Subtitle It?
TransPeek ships an update every 5 days, and Subtitle It every 9 days. Most recently, TransPeek was updated on October 31, 2026 and Subtitle It on October 29, 2026.

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