Passport Buddy: AI Translator
Voice, Camera, Live Transcribe
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Needs Passport Buddy Pro. New in 2.0: the app learns your voice on the iPhone and speaks your translations in it, plus a Transcribe tab and captions that work offline.
Say something in English and the person across the counter hears it in Spanish, in your own voice. Passport Buddy is a translator for speech, text and whatever you point the camera at, and most of it runs on the iPhone.
Passport Buddy is free to download, but using it requires Passport Buddy Pro, a paid subscription or one-time lifetime purchase made in the app. Every feature described below is part of Pro.
Version 2.0 has five tabs: Translate, Transcribe, Conversation, Camera and Settings.
TRANSLATE (PRO)
The app opens here. Type, paste or speak, and read the translation in large type. Tap to hear it. Save the words you keep looking up and drill them later with flashcards.
YOUR VOICE, THEIR LANGUAGE (PRO)
Read a few sentences aloud. The app builds a voice model from them on the iPhone, and from then on your translations are spoken in your voice instead of a stock one. The recording never leaves the iPhone. The full voice model needs 8 GB of memory (iPhone 15 Pro or later). With less memory, English is spoken in your voice and other languages use a system voice.
FACE-TO-FACE CONVERSATION (PRO)
Pick a language for each side and put the iPhone on the table. Each of you reads the other person's words in your own language while they talk, and every turn is read out loud. It works at a pharmacy counter, a hotel desk, or dinner with your partner's parents.
CAMERA (PRO)
Hold the camera up to a menu or a street sign. The translation sits on top of the original text and stays put while you move. Not sure what you're looking at? Switch to identify mode and the app names the object in both languages. You can also take a photo and translate that.
TRANSCRIBE (PRO)
Press record and read the captions as they arrive: a lecture, an interview, a tour guide. The Lock Screen shows the timer, so the iPhone can sit face down. Recordings stay in a searchable list, and a transcript exports as TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT or JSON.
OFFLINE (PRO)
Download your languages and the offline caption model before you fly. Translation and Transcribe keep working in airplane mode.
WHAT LEAVES THE IPHONE
Most translation, the voice model and offline captions run on the device. 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 can't translate by itself. A random install ID goes with them. Your name and your Apple Account do not.
LANGUAGES
Translation between 21 languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Your cloned voice speaks all of them except Ukrainian, which uses a system voice. Offline captions cover all 21. The app's own interface comes in more than 50 languages.
What is available depends on the language, the iPhone and the OS version, and some languages ask for a one-time download first.
PASSPORT BUDDY PRO
Pro is sold in the app as a weekly, monthly or yearly auto-renewable subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Each plan's price is shown before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and the renewal is charged within 24 hours of that. Manage or cancel it in Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions.
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Talking face to face in the Conversation tab works much better in this update.
READ ALONG WHILE THEY TALK
Their words appear on your side, already translated, while they're still speaking. You don't have to wait for them to finish.
KNOWS WHO IS TALKING
The first word of a sentence could appear on the wrong side, making the screen say you were speaking. It's fixed.
SMOOTHER TO READ
A finished sentence now stays where you were reading it instead of jumping up the screen. A short pause no longer cuts a sentence in two, and quiet voices are picked up too.
RESIZE EITHER SIDE
Drag the bar in the middle to give your side or theirs more room.
MUTE EITHER SIDE
Hear their translations out loud but not yours, or the other way round.
YOUR VOICE
Your cloned voice starts a little sooner, and the app shows each step while it gets ready.
ALSO
Identify mode names objects more accurately on iPhones with Apple Intelligence, live transcripts stay on the newest line, and many smaller fixes.
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Information
- Seller
- Block Browser INC
- Size
- 2.8 GB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 47 more
- English, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Lifetime Access $49.99
- Weekly $1.99
- Annual $24.99
- Monthly $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 PassportBuddy
