Prau App Store

Offline voice translator for iPhone

Say it in your language.
Be understood in theirs.

Prau recognizes, translates and speaks in 19 languages — entirely on your iPhone. No internet, no accounts, no servers. Nothing you say is ever sent anywhere.

Download on the App StoreFree 3-day trial · iOS 18 or later

Prau main screen: French to German pair, microphone button, read-aloud switch

Real screens from Prau — nothing staged.

Airplane mode on — the phrase is translated and voiced entirely on the iPhone. One continuous take, no cuts.

Privacy is the design, not a setting

Most translators send your voice to a server. Prau doesn't have one.

Stays on your iPhone

  • Everything you say and hear
  • Everything you type
  • Photos, PDFs and the recognized text
  • Your conversation history and search
  • Conversation summaries (Apple Intelligence, on device)

Leaves your iPhone

  • Your subscription status — an anonymous ID and the App Store receipt, checked through RevenueCat so the app knows Pro is active. Nothing else.

Read the full Privacy Policy →

Where Prau goes further

Not another everything-translator. One job: a conversation that works without a network and never leaves your phone.

Market leaders*
Prau
Without internet
Offline is a paid add-on: text in dozens of languages, voice in a handful.
Offline is the product: 19 languages, voice and text, always.
Where your voice goes
Voice and photos are processed on servers; the privacy label lists tracking.
Nothing leaves your iPhone. No server, no account, no tracking.
Talking, not typing
Basic voice-to-voice.
Face-to-face split screen, headphones where each side hears its own language, Stream for lectures and TV.
After the conversation
—
A summary of the whole conversation, written by Apple Intelligence on the phone.
Hands-free
—
Start a conversation with Siri or the Action Button.
App size
Up to 270 MB.
8.9 MB.
What you pay for
Weekly subscriptions; the offline add-on costs about €80–100 a year.
One price for everything, a lifetime option, and history, search and export free forever.

* Based on the App Store listings and websites of the leading paid translator apps, September 2026.

How it works

Three steps, then it just works — anywhere.

  1. Pick a pair of languages

    Tap the language buttons at the top. The first time, iOS offers to download the packs — confirm, and after that translation never needs a network.

  2. Tap the microphone and speak

    Prau recognizes your words on the device, translates them and reads the translation aloud. The other person answers and hears their reply in their own language.

  3. Keep the conversation

    Every conversation is saved automatically. Search it, reopen it, export it to TXT or PDF, share it. This part is free, always.

See it, not just read it

Every screen below is Prau 1.0 as it runs on an iPhone today.

Translation into your headphones

Connect AirPods or any headphones. The translation into your language plays quietly in your ear; the other person hears their language from the phone speaker.

Settings: my language, speech rate, translation voice, languages

Face-to-face mode

Put the phone between you. Each side sees the screen the right way up, in its own language, and speaks in turn. Made for a hotel desk, a pharmacy, a taxi or a shop.

Face-to-face mode: the screen split in two, each half turned toward its speaker

One conversation per person — voice, photos and PDFs together

Every conversation is saved on your iPhone. Swipe a conversation right to rename it — “Hotel in Lisbon”, “Landlord”. Open it and tap “Continue this conversation”: new speech, photos and PDF pages land in the same thread, so one counterpart means one record, one summary, one export. Search across everything, export any conversation to TXT or PDF. And in any card, press and hold to select and copy a single word or phrase. Translation history, searching it, exporting and copying never require a subscription — not now, not later.

History: a conversation with the Rename action revealed by a right swipe

Summary written on your iPhone

On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, get a short summary of a whole conversation — the key points in a few lines, written on the device and never sent anywhere.

Photos and PDFs

Point the camera at a menu, a sign, a document — or import a PDF. Text is recognized and translated on the device, laid out in readable paragraphs, exportable as PDF.

Translate from a photo or PDF: scan, choose from library, choose a PDF

Voice conversations, offline

Speech recognition, translation and speech output run on the iPhone. Works on a plane, in the mountains, abroad without a SIM card, and anywhere the connection is poor.

Text and speech rate

Type instead of speaking when it is quieter. Slow the spoken translation down if the other person has trouble following. Choose the voice when the system offers more than one.

Stream: live subtitles for anything you hear

Foreign TV, a lecture, a guided tour, a station announcement — point your iPhone at the sound and read along in your language as it's spoken.

  • Nothing to pressPrau listens continuously and writes the translation paragraph by paragraph, like subtitles.
  • Offline, even in Airplane ModeRecognition and translation run on the iPhone — in a museum basement, on a train, abroad without a SIM.
  • Into your headphonesRather listen than read? The translation plays quietly in your AirPods.
  • Pause whenever you needOne tap and Prau stops listening; another tap and it carries on.
  • Private by designThe audio never leaves your iPhone. No servers, no recordings sent anywhere.

TV & radioLecturesGuided toursAnnouncementsMeetings

Prau Stream: live English subtitles of a French museum announcement

Set up once, before the trip

Two things live inside iOS, not inside Prau. Do them at home on Wi-Fi — after that everything works with no network at all.

  1. Language packs for translation

    Open Prau and pick your pair. iOS shows the “Required downloads” sheet — tap the arrow next to each language. Roughly 50–100 MB per language, once. Later you can add packs in Prau → Settings → Languages.

  2. Offline dictation for your voice

    iPhone Settings → General → Keyboard → Dictation Languages. Add each language you will speak. If a language is missing from that list, add its keyboard once (Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard) — dictation follows automatically. iOS downloads the model in the background, usually within a day, fastest on Wi-Fi while charging. In Prau → Settings → Languages a green microphone means the language is ready.

  3. Headphones — optional

    Connect AirPods or any headphones and choose “My language” in Prau Settings. Your translation plays quietly in your ear; the other person hears theirs from the phone speaker.

Text and photo translation don't need dictation at all — they work as soon as the packs are in.

19 languages, fully offline

English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese. Any pair among them.

Voice input works for languages whose offline dictation model is installed by iOS — a green microphone on the Languages screen shows which ones are ready. Text and photo translation work for all 19 in any case.

Prau Pro

Try everything free for 3 days. Then pick what suits you.

Monthly
$9.99 / month

3 days free, then monthly. Cancel any time.

Best value
Yearly
$49.99 / year

−58% · $4.17 / month, billed yearly

3 days free, then yearly. Best value.

Lifetime
$99.99 once

≈ 2 years of Yearly, yours forever

One-time purchase, yours forever.

Base prices for the United States. Your exact price, including local taxes, is shown in the App Store. Prices are set per country by the App Store — open Prau there to see yours.

History, search and export to TXT/PDF are free for everyone, always.

Prices in USD; your local price is shown in the App Store. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Restore purchases: paywall → Restore, or Settings → Restore purchases.

Download on the App StoreFree 3-day trial · iOS 18 or later

Support

The microphone is crossed out for a language

Voice input needs the offline dictation model that iOS installs for that language. Open Settings → General → Keyboard → Dictation Languages: if the language is listed, iOS is already downloading the model in the background (usually within a day, best on Wi-Fi while charging). If it is not listed, add the keyboard for that language once — dictation switches on by itself. Until then, text and photo translation work fully.

The system 'Required downloads' sheet appears

That is Apple's Translation framework asking for the language packs. Tap the arrow next to each language; the download does not start until you tap. Once done, translation works offline forever.

Translation is slow or the translator isn't responding

This happens on the iOS side, usually right after a language pack was installed, and clears within a minute. If it keeps happening, restart the iPhone.

I paid, but Pro is not active

Open the paywall or Settings and tap Restore purchases. Purchases are tied to your Apple Account, so they restore on any of your iPhones. If it still fails, write to us with the App Store receipt.

How do I cancel the subscription?

iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Prau. Cancelling keeps Pro until the end of the paid period.

Which iPhones are supported?

Any iPhone running iOS 18 or later. Conversation summaries additionally need Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro and newer) and a supported system language.

Get in touch

Questions, bugs, ideas — write to [email protected]. We answer personally, usually within a day.