Description
Live Subtitles turns any audio playing on your iPhone into real-time bilingual subtitles. Get instant speech-to-text transcription with live translation for videos, calls, podcasts, streams, and online classes.
Start a screen broadcast with one tap — iOS captures the audio from whatever you are watching or listening to, and the app displays captions live, with the original language and translation shown side by side.
Real-Time Speech Recognition and Translation
• Automatic speech-to-text across 30+ languages
• Instant translation between any pair of supported languages
• Dual subtitles: original text on top, live translation below
• Accurate recognition even at low volume
• Fast, low-latency streaming captions
How It Works
• Pick the language you want to recognize
• Pick the target translation language
• Tap Start, then confirm the iOS screen broadcast
• Audio from any app — Safari, YouTube, Netflix, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, FaceTime, podcasts, and more — is transcribed in real time
• Subtitles update live inside the Live Subtitles app
• Tap Stop to end the session
What It Is For
• Watching foreign movies, shows, and streams with live translation
• Listening to podcasts, lectures, and audiobooks in another language
• Joining international video calls and online meetings
• Following news, interviews, and livestreams
• Language learning — hear native speech and read the translation at the same time
• Travel — follow travel videos, conversations, and interviews on the go
• Accessibility — visual captions for anyone who needs them
Works With Any Audio Source
The app uses the standard iOS screen broadcast system, so it works with audio from:
• Video streaming apps and browsers
• Video call and meeting apps
• Podcast and music apps
• Social media and short-form video
• Audiobook apps
• Any other app playing audio on your iPhone
Supported Languages
Live Subtitles supports over 30 recognition and translation languages, including English, Russian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, and more.
Requirements
• iPhone running iOS 17 or later
• Active internet connection (cloud-based speech recognition and translation)
• Audio playing on the device
Get Started
Download Live Subtitles and turn any audio on your iPhone into live, translated subtitles. Understand more, learn faster, and stay in touch across languages.
Privacy Policy: https://live-subtitles.com/privacy
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What's new (v1.3)
What's new in 1.3
• Your screen now stays awake during an active broadcast — no more interrupted sessions when the display dims
• Faster, more reliable translation in restricted networks (3-second backend timeout)
• Microphone session auto-recovery if iOS suspends audio mid-session
• Smoother balance handling near zero remaining minutes