Tingdong for iPhone and iPad
Read what the people around you are saying, on iPhone and iPad
When you can’t keep up, read along.
Free trial · No account or card · One app for iPhone and iPad
Words appear while people are still talking. Can’t hear them? Read the original. Can’t follow the language? Read the translation. Tingdong for iPhone and iPad goes where you go: a meeting room, a lecture hall, a counter, the family table. Every session leaves a transcript you can search later.
Updated 2026-10-16
Meetings, classes and lectures
Put your iPhone on the table and the room becomes live subtitles. Original and translation appear line by line, and each speaker gets their own color, so you can follow who said what. Add names and terms to “Words for This Session” before you start.
Face to face, in two languages
“Conversation” splits the screen between two people: each of you reads in your own language. Translations can also be read aloud, so the other person hears them too.
Big text to show someone
Big, high-contrast text you can turn toward the person in front of you. Hand over a card they answer with one tap, in their own language: “Yes”, “No”, “Please say it again” or “Please speak more slowly”. Or type a sentence and show it full screen. Made with Deaf and hard-of-hearing people in mind.
Not a replacement for sign language interpreters, CART or medical devices.
Captions on your Lock Screen
Switch to another app or lock your iPhone, and the latest line keeps showing on the Lock Screen. Turn it on in Tingdong’s Settings, under “When You Leave Tingdong”. You can also start captions from Control Center.
Every session, saved as a transcript
Each session is saved on your iPhone or iPad as a transcript you can search, copy and share, and it also appears in the Files app under Tingdong. Keep a session’s recording too, and you can play the audio back from any line.
60+ languages
Captions and translation in 60+ languages, including English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic and Hindi. The app itself comes in 19 interface languages.
On iPad
On iPad, the original and the translation sit side by side, sentence by sentence, in a wide table that’s easy to scan, or one above the other. For Conversation, lay the iPad flat between two people: each half faces its reader. Big text fills the screen for the whole table to see. It’s the same app as on iPhone, and your plan covers both.
Price and free trial
Download free and start with free credits, with no account or card. The free credits never turn into a paid plan by themselves. After that, choose Standard or Pro, or buy 1,000 credits once; credits you buy once never expire. The App Store shows the price for your country. Your plan covers every iPhone and iPad signed in with your Apple Account.
Tingdong for Mac and Windows is a separate purchase, with its own free trial.
Frequently asked questions
How do I translate a phone call?
With Tingdong for Mac. The iPhone doesn’t give third-party apps the sound of a call, so connect your iPhone to your Mac over Bluetooth and move the call’s audio to the Mac; Tingdong for Mac subtitles and translates it. Everything said in the room around you works here on iPhone and iPad. Steps: translate phone calls.
Do I need to create an account?
No. There’s no sign-up and no sign-in, and the free trial needs no card. When you want more, you buy a plan or credits in the App Store with your Apple Account.
Do I need to buy it again for my iPad?
No. It’s one app for iPhone and iPad. Your plan and credits cover every iPhone and iPad signed in with the same Apple Account. On iPad you also get the side-by-side translation table and Conversation with the iPad lying flat.
Where are my transcripts kept? Who hears my audio?
Transcripts are saved on your iPhone or iPad, and you decide whether to share them; delete any session in History. While captions run, audio is sent to a third-party speech recognition service to turn it into text. The audio does not pass through our server, and the service does not store it or use it to train its models. There’s no account, no ads and no analytics. Details: privacy policy.
Which languages does it support?
60+ languages for captions and translation, and the app itself comes in 19 interface languages. In Conversation, each person picks their own language.
Try it at your next meeting or class
Free trial · No account or card
On a Mac or a Windows PC? Tingdong for Mac and Windows captions what your computer plays, and on the Mac, your calls.