Lingo Echo
Utilities
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Lingo — Hear. See. Understand.
Lingo translates the world around you: what people say, what's printed on a menu, what's on the screenshot a friend just sent. It runs on Apple's on-device intelligence, so your words stay on your iPhone.
Speak. Instantly understood.
Talk naturally and Lingo translates in real time, so both sides of a conversation can follow along. No typing, no waiting, no passing the phone back and forth.
See. Understand.
Point your camera at a menu, sign, or document and the translation appears laid over the original text, right where it belongs. Already have the picture? Tap the photo button, pick any shot or screenshot from your library, and Lingo reads and translates it in place — then copy the text, copy or save the translated image, or pick another. When text is best read as-is, switch to Live Text and select it yourself.
Hear. Remember.
Record a conversation, a lecture, or a meeting. Lingo transcribes it automatically, translates the transcript into your language — live while you record or later on a saved recording — and pulls out the key points, so one tap jumps you to the moment something was said. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, each recording is titled for you, on device.
Share. Done.
Send text or a screenshot to Lingo from any app with the share sheet and get the translation back without switching contexts.
Keep what matters.
Save any translation as a Note and revisit it whenever you like.
Every language Apple supports
English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, and more — every pair Apple's on-device Translation framework offers, growing with each iOS release. Lingo's own interface speaks English, Japanese, and Chinese, and switches live.
Your data. Always yours.
Translation, transcription, and notes are processed entirely on your device. Your audio, text, and images are never uploaded to our servers. There is no account and no sign-in, and we don't embed analytics or advertising SDKs.
Translating a photo from your library needs no permission at all — the picker runs outside the app and hands Lingo only the picture you tap.
Optional Google Drive sync
Turn on sync and your notes, transcripts, and recordings back up to a single "Lingo" folder in your own Google Drive, so they travel between your devices. Lingo uses the restricted drive.file permission and can only see the folder it created — never anything else in your Drive. Sync is off until you enable it, and you can disconnect at any time.
Lingo is free to download and use.
Privacy Policy: https://lingo.human-star.com/privacy
Support: https://lingo.human-star.com/support
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Translate photos you already have.
Until now, reading text in an image meant pointing the camera at it, or leaving Lingo and using the share sheet. This version adds a photo button to the top bar: tap it, tap any picture in the grid, and Lingo reads the text and lays the translation right over the image — screenshots, saved menus, photos from last week's trip. From there you can copy the text, copy or save the translated image, or tap Photos to pick another.
It needs no permission at all. The picker runs outside the app, so Lingo never gains access to your library — only the picture you tap is handed over. And because it doesn't touch the camera, it works even if you've turned camera access off.
Also in this release:
- A long or dense page now shows real progress while it's being translated, with lines appearing as they're ready instead of everything arriving at once.
- Fixed: switching to Live Text while a slow translation was still running left the progress card stuck on screen.
- Sharper text recognition on still images, which means fewer wrongly detected source languages.
The developer, HUMAN STAR, K.K., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- HUMAN STAR, K.K.
- Size
- 6.6 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 3 more
- English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © HumanStar Co., Ltd.
