Ekto helps you understand conversations, TV, livestreams, lectures, and meetings with live captions and instant translation.
Tap once to see speech as text in the original language or translated into your language. Works from across the room and supports 35+ languages.
LIVE TRANSLATION FOR LECTURES, MEETINGS & CONVERSATIONS
Ekto is also a full live translator. Follow lectures, meetings, and sermons in a language you're still learning, with subtitles in your own. Two-Way mode translates face-to-face conversations in both directions, with spoken playback.
SUBTITLES FOR LIVE TV
Catch every word of the news, the game, and your favorite shows. Set your phone near the TV and read the dialogue as it's spoken, transcribed or translated. No more rewinding, no more asking what they said.
LIVE CAPTIONS FOR HEARING LOSS
Reliable captions in noisy rooms, group conversations, and at a distance, alongside hearing aids or without them. Large, readable text. Simple enough for less-technical family members to use every day.
BROADCAST CAPTIONS TO A ROOM (LIVE LINK)
With Live Link, a speaker, teacher, or pastor shares a web link and up to 100 people read live captions on their own phones, each in their own language.
KEY FEATURES
- Live Captions: real-time speech-to-text with automatic language detection
- Live Translation: 35+ languages, translated as people speak
- Distance Capture: picks up speech from across the room
- Large, Readable Text: designed for tired eyes and distant viewing
- Floating Captions: keep captions on screen while you use other apps
- Speaker identification – See who is speaking with clearly labelled captions
- Transcripts & AI Summaries: every session saved and ready to review
- Two-Way Conversations: translation in both directions, with voice playback
- Live Link: broadcast captions to up to 100 people on any device
- Private & Secure: no audio stored, no AI training on your conversations
MADE FOR
- International students and travellers
- Anyone living and working abroad
- Deaf and hard-of-hearing users, at home and at work
- Hearing aid users, for when aids fall short in noise or groups
- Spouses, adult children, and caregivers supporting a loved one
- Teachers, tour guides, churches, and event organizers
Try Ekto free every day. Go Premium for unlimited captions and translation.
Internet connection and microphone access required.
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- app does not keep the device wake, even in active use (device will go sleep after a few minutes) - sometime the translation does not break the lines so it display 1 very long line in 1 language, blocking the view of the other language - sometime the translation stops ( probably because of sleep), and returning to the app does not get it started again. Have to fully exit and then reopen the translation to continue The app picks up the sounds very well, so hopefully the developer will fix the above critical usability issues, if fixed, will earn 5 stars and yearly subscription.
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback. If a sentence gets too long during translation, you can decrease font size during a session.As for the issues, a fix will be released soon to keep device awake.
Understand conversations, lectures, meetings, conferences, tv with live translated subtitles even when you sit at the back of the room.
v1.29.0 - Faster, more reliable session startups, improved connection stability and other bug fixes to improve the app
Version 1.29.0
The developer, Anthony Ho, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Supported Features
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Information
Seller
Anthony Ho
Size
34.2 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 4 more
English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
