Hono Translate: Live Subtitles
青云 王 Utilities iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Hono Translate: Live Subtitles is a free Utilities app for iPhone and iPad by 青云 王. Rated 4.6/5 from 12 ratings. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated October 23, 2026.
- Rating
- 4.6
- 12 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 61 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 23
- 2026 · v1.2.1
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About Hono Translate: Live Subtitles
■ One iPhone is all you need No second phone, no microphone: the sound playing on your iPhone becomes translated subtitles that float over any app. Works with TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Weverse, Twitch, and videos in Safari or Chrome. Sound, Screen and Live translation, free to try. Formerly Hono Subtitles. ■ Made for the apps you already use TikTok LIVE, Instagram Live, Weverse idol lives, YouTube, Twitch: no waiting for the platform's own captions. Screen translation reads pages in Chrome and Safari too. ■ Sound: subtitles for the audio in any app Livestreams, TV series, online classes, video meetings, podcasts, videos in your browser. If it plays on this iPhone, translated subtitles appear as it plays. ■ Screen: text translated when the screen holds still Web pages, documents, social feeds, games, manga, text in other apps. Stop scrolling and the translation shows in the floating window. ■ Live: subtitles for the people in front of you Lectures, client meetings at trade shows, conversations while you travel. The app listens through the microphone and subtitles each sentence. Premium members can keep transcripts to read, copy and share later. ■ A floating subtitle card Leave the app and the card floats over what you watch as Picture in Picture. Newest line on top; drag it taller, or down to a slim bar. Sound and Live show Bilingual, Translation or Original. ■ Record clips with the subtitles in them Turn on Record from the Window (Me › Try New Features) to save picture, sound and subtitles from Sound mode as one video in Photos. ■ On-device, private, offline Speech recognition, text recognition and translation run on your iPhone. No account, no ads, no third-party analytics SDKs. Audio and screen are never uploaded. Each language downloads once, then works with no network. ■ Many languages English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, German and more; subtitles in 20+ languages. ■ Free to try Try all three modes for free. For unlimited use, pick a monthly plan, a yearly plan with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime unlock. New users get a limited-time welcome offer. How it works · Sound or Screen: tap Start translating sound or Start translating screen, tap Start Sharing in the iOS panel, then tap the empty space below it and switch apps. · Live: tap Start live translation and allow the microphone; Float it keeps subtitles over other apps. Before you buy · Requires an iPhone running iOS 26 or later. · Sound and Screen use iOS screen sharing, so a red status-bar indicator shows; that is standard iOS. The screen is recorded only when you record a clip, and clips stay in your Photos. · Sound and Screen can't run at once. Changing the spoken language means starting again. · If the app you are watching opens its own Picture in Picture, the subtitle window closes. · Transcripts are a Premium feature. Subscription terms · Monthly, yearly and one-time lifetime options are available. Prices are shown in the app. · The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, it becomes a paid yearly subscription. If you allow notifications, the app reminds you the day before. · Eligible new users can get the first month of the monthly plan at an introductory price; it then renews at the regular price. · Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. · Manage or cancel in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. The lifetime unlock never renews; if you buy it while subscribed, cancel the subscription yourself in Settings; Apple won't do it for you. · Privacy Policy: https://honoapps.com/subtitles/privacy/ · Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions or suggestions: [email protected]
Ratings & reviews
4.6
12 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.2.1 · Updated October 23, 2026
Hono Subtitles is now Hono Translate, with a complete redesign: • Screen: foreign text on web pages, in documents and in other apps is translated the moment the screen holds still. • Live: subtitles for the people in front of you, through the microphone, for lectures, meetings and travel. • Sound: livestreams, videos and online classes still get live translated subtitles. • New design: Sound, Screen, Live and Me tabs put everything one tap away. • Transcripts: Premium members can keep each session to read, copy and share later.
App privacy
The developer, 青云 王, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- User Content: Other User Content
- Identifiers: Device ID, User ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
- Diagnostics: Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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