Kuli Kuli is the context-aware voice, text, and camera translator built for real-world travel. Have natural, two-way conversations, enter text, or use your camera to understand menus, signs, products, receipts, handwritten notes, cultural sites, and more.
Go beyond a literal translation. Kuli Kuli adds useful context—dish references, potential allergens, product ingredients, usage details, and cultural explanations—so you can decide what to say, order, buy, or explore.
KEY FEATURES
• Two-Way Voice Conversations — Speak naturally and keep conversations moving when ordering food, shopping, asking for directions, or connecting with locals.
• Text Translation — Enter text for a quick translation whenever you need to understand something or find the right words to reply.
• Context-Aware Camera Translation — Take a photo or choose one from your library to translate printed or handwritten text and get useful context for what you’re seeing.
• Food & Menus — Understand unfamiliar dishes and daily specials, view helpful dish references, and identify potential allergens and ingredients before ordering.
• Shopping & Everyday Essentials — Decode skincare and beauty labels, snacks, pharmacy labels, tickets, receipts, and more.
• Culture & Discovery — Uncover the meaning behind omikuji fortune slips, artwork, landmarks, and local curiosities—not just the words.
Kuli Kuli supports 120+ languages. Feature availability varies by language.
From restaurants and markets to pharmacies and souvenir shops, Kuli Kuli helps you spend less time decoding and more time exploring.
I’ve been using the Kuli Kuli Translation App for a couple of my travel trips, and it has been a total game-changer! Whether I’m traveling or just chatting with friends from different cultures, it makes communication so much easier. The translations are spot-on, and the voice-to-text feature is super accurate—even with accents!The app is super intuitive, and I love how quickly it works. It’s like having a personal translator in my pocket. Highly recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable and easy-to-use translation tool!
Better than Google Translate
Tommyboy1812
I recently used this app in Japan after running into a couple who recommended it. Honestly, this app has been a game changer. I used it on countless occasions: historical signs only in Japanese and many appliances also in only Japanese. It works insanely quick and gives you not only an accurate translation of several lines or buttons but will often times give background information. I will definitely be using this app in other countries!
Developer Response
What a lovely way to discover Kuli Kuli. We’re really glad it helped during your Japan trip, from historical signs to appliance labels, and that the extra background info was useful too. Thanks for sharing this, and we hope Kuli Kuli keeps coming in handy on your future trips.
Worth the $30
Darkmaer
Now that they added conversations, this is a one stop shop. I love the general info that pops up and even more cool when taking picture of a menu and then you select something on the menu, it will bring up general info about the dish including allergy, spice level and calories using a simple icon system. This is a huge help when trying to figure out what stuff is and what’s in the dish. Can’t wait to give this a go in the real world when I go to Japan soon.
Developer Response
Thanks so much — this really made our day. Hope it makes your Japan trip a lot easier. Enjoy!
Translation made easy
Joannnneeeee
Perfect for translations!! You can take a photo or upload one and it translates the photo/menu for you! It also works for ingredient translations and receipts! Love this app so much since it helped me double check payments and reading labels!!
TRAVEL LOG #11
Today is the autumnal equinox. I found a freshly fallen ginkgo leaf by the roadside — like picking up a letter from the past. Time has always been writing to me. I'm only now learning how to read.
• Optimized translation experience in certain scenarios
• Bug fixes and improvements
Version 2.0.1
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