Why Nagish?
Nagish is a free app for people with hearing loss that provides real-time captions on phone calls and in-person conversations.
■ Built for People With Hearing Loss and People Who Are Deaf
Nagish is specifically designed to empower individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Whether you rely on the phone for work or daily life, Nagish ensures you never miss out on important conversations.
■ Transcribe In-Person Conversations
In addition to phone calls, Nagish Live offers instant captions for noisy in-person situations, like lectures, airports, and doctor’s appointments, providing transcripts in real-time.
■ What Users Are Saying
“Nagish is truly revolutionary. I handle over 100 calls a day, and it seamlessly captions every single one. I can even revisit the saved transcripts later, so nothing slips through the cracks!”
■ Stay Independent With Your Conversations
With Nagish, people with hearing loss can engage in private phone conversations and access transcripts without needing interpreters, captioning assistants, deaf translators, or other third-party services. And the best part? It’s completely free.
■ Fast and Accurate Live Captions
Nagish leverages advanced live transcription technology to deliver real-time captions during your calls. You’ll stay in sync with every conversation with high-speed accuracy.
■ 100% Privacy Guaranteed
We prioritize your privacy. All captions are end-to-end secure, with no human involvement.
■ Easy to Use
Nagish operates just like your phone’s native app—plus, it gives you real-time, private, and accurate captions and transcripts for every call.
■ Keep Your Phone Number
No need to change your number—Nagish can replace your default phone app. It works with your existing phone number for calls and texts, ensuring a seamless experience.
■ Call and Voicemail Transcriptions
Nagish ensures every conversation is accessible by transcribing your calls and voicemails. You can easily refer back to important details whenever needed.
■ Save, Review, and Share Transcripts
Never lose track of a conversation. Nagish stores your call transcripts locally on your device for future reference—always fully private. You can easily share transcripts.
■ Personal Dictionary for Improved Accuracy
Add custom words, names, phrases, or acronyms unique to your conversations. Nagish will capture these accurately, reflecting the terminology that’s important to you.
■ Keyboard Responses for Quick Communication
If voice communication isn’t your choice, Nagish lets you respond through your device’s keyboard. You can also use preset responses for common phrases, making conversations faster and smoother.
■ Robust Spam and Profanity Filters
Nagish filters out spam calls and offensive language, ensuring a more pleasant and focused communication experience.
■ Live Captions for Any Environment
In addition to phone calls, Nagish Live offers instant captions for conversations in noisy environments like public events, lectures, airports, and doctor’s appointments, providing transcriptions in real-time.
■ Support for Multiple Languages
Nagish breaks language barriers by offering support in English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Hebrew, Italian, and more!
■ FCC Certified, Always Free
As an FCC-certified captioned telephone service provider in the U.S., Nagish remains free. Simply verify your eligibility with a few simple steps, as required by the FCC.
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FEDERAL LAW PROHIBITS ANYONE BUT REGISTERED USERS WITH HEARING LOSS FROM USING INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) CAPTIONED TELEPHONES WITH THE CAPTIONS TURNED ON. There is a cost for each minute of captions generated, paid from a federally administered fund.
Giving me a voice after being without one for so long
abstractnoun72
As a person with a speech disability this app has been a game changer for me. Having calls be automatically captioned AND able to be responded to via text in real time has literally upped my quality of life and ability to function independently by so much. Not only is the captioning the most accurate I have found ANYWHERE else, but there’s customization surrounding the voice that speaks back to the other caller as well—they can have a high or low voice, have certain phrases pre-set for when introducing yourself on a phone call, etc. My voicemail greeting (which I can type up and have automatically read and recorded by the app) specifically states that I am unlikely to be able to respond quickly via phone call if someone is leaving me a message, and asks that if they need a prompt response to leave an email address or text number that I can interact with from an accessible method. The number of angry messages I have gotten from people thinking I am ignoring them when I have been unable to contact them by phone went from being at least twice a week to NONE since using this app. I have stopped missing doctor’s appointments, calls from friends, and calls from my bank because I can actually interact with them as they call, regardless of my verbal abilities. The UI is intuitive, syncs easily and consistently with my regular phone service (T-Mobile), and is the number one app I use every day. Could not recommend this app more, to be honest. If you’re on the fence about whether or not the setup time would be worth it or if it will be difficult to work with, I would give it a chance. It might change your life.
Lifesaver(please add mac)
adhdaf
I’m late deafened(when I was 26yo). I for 15 years also couldn’t speak. So text relay apps was only way I could make phone calls but they so slow. Nagish text relay using AI didn’t really work well for me when I tried it. People would hang up before I could type my reply and there wasn’t an operator to explain at the beginning of the call. I’ve been working on relearning to speak and just past couple months have fluent understandable speech now. So I can speak while using nagish as a caption phone call. That has worked great so far. Sometimes it messes up words and I have to ask them to repeat it but mostly it’s right. I use it on both iPhone and iPad. Btw love that you guys got landscape view on the iPad app. I really wish you’d make a nagish app for the mac tho. Rn I have to have iPad or phone on a mount next to screen and keep glancing back and forth between screen and device. 🙏🙏It’d be nice if it could be on mac so I could just arrange window right next to the one I’m using and more easily read what the captions say. Rn my only option on mac is to make a normal voice call and use the dumb mac live captions which are not great.
Best Support Ever!
customerlb
I just had the best experience with Nagish support, I simply had to tell you about it. As most of you know, getting support for anything nowadays is frustrating and definitely not easy to say the least. Good technical support and talking with a person instead of a bot is very hard to come by, too. Not so with Nagish! It was wonderful from start to finish and over a holiday weekend to boot.To explain. I sent in a question re: the call forwarding feature in the Nagish app on Aug 31 at about 11 PM. It did not seem to work as expected. Early and throughout the next day, I received several emails asking for clarification and/or more info, with the last one asking for an ok to conduct test calls to ensure all was ok.Both incoming and outgoing calls (a total of 4) were tested this morning on Labor Day. There was a minor problem with the 1st incoming call. It was something that I considered a “no biggie”. But Laura T, the Nagish rep that I was working with, said “nope… we want to take care of that, too.” Sure enough, they did just that! Problem solved.In addition, Laura then sent me links to 2 articles to instruct me how to do other things that I came up during our calls that morning.Talk about going above and beyond. Laura and the Nagish engineers exceeded my expectations and I am sooo very grateful.I highly recommend the Nagish app to get captions on both incoming and outgoing calls without having callers use 2 separate numbers to reach me. Nagish takes you thru step by step so setup is easy, too. You won’t be disappointed. Kudos to Nagish and its staff! High fives to all!
Best text-based voice calling…now available to a wider range of disabled callers😎
APValerius
I’ve used a TTY and IP relay before. Nowadays I can’t stand being obligated to type GA, SK and other abbreviations. Nagish eliminates those with its full automation of text-based calling to voice phone numbers. Voicemail transcriptions are the most accurate I’ve ever experienced.I mostly use Nagish for its text-to-speech functionality. Its synthetic voice speaks very clearly and does not sound robot-like at all. My callers love having a more natural conversation directly with me. When I’m on hold, it’s nice to be able to hear the hold music.Despite the completely neurological nature and mildness of my hearing condition, now that Nagish has obtained FCC certification to provide IP Relay services even to nonspeaking people withOUT decibel hearing losses, I no longer have any fear of getting in trouble for using Nagish.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for this thoughtful and insightful review! 💙💛 We're honored to hear how Nagish is supporting your communication needs. It also means a lot to hear your trust in us has grown since our FCC certification — we’re proud to expand access for a wider range of disabled individuals, including those with speech-related needs or non-decibel-based hearing challenges. Thank you for being part of this progress with us. 😎
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Version 1.8.5
The developer, Nagish Inc., 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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Information
Seller
Nagish Inc.
Size
97.8 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
13+
13+
This app has an age rating of 13+ with content restrictions. Some content may be rated higher, but access is managed by the developer through in-app controls.