Question 1

What is Passport Buddy?

Accepted Answer

Passport Buddy is an iPhone translator for speech, text and whatever you point the camera at. Most of the translation runs on the iPhone.

Question 2

Does Passport Buddy work offline?

Accepted Answer

Yes, with Pro. Download your languages and the offline caption model before you fly, and Translate and Transcribe keep working in airplane mode.

Question 3

How many languages does it support?

Accepted Answer

Translation between 21 languages, including Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. The app's own interface comes in more than 50 languages.

Question 4

Is Passport Buddy free?

Accepted Answer

It is free to download, but using it requires Passport Buddy Pro. Pro is sold in the app as a weekly, monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. The price of each plan is shown before you buy.

Question 5

What leaves my iPhone?

Accepted Answer

Most translation, the voice model and offline captions run on the device, and there is no account to create. Three things can go to our server: a photo you translate while online, a camera frame when you tap to identify an object, and text in a language pair the iPhone cannot translate by itself.

Question 6

Can it speak in my own voice?

Accepted Answer

Yes, with Pro. Read a few sentences aloud and the app builds a voice model on the iPhone, so translations are spoken in your voice. The recording never leaves the iPhone. The full voice model needs 8 GB of memory (iPhone 15 Pro or later).

Passport Buddy terms of use