Meaning in its cultural context — for signs you photograph, phrases you type, and live speech translated in real time. With the tone you choose: Polite · Casual · Slang. Then keep what you met as flashcards and make it yours.
A translator swaps words. Gist It helps you live in the language — understand it, speak it, read it, and keep what you learn.
What a phrase really means, how blunt or polite it sounds, where people say it — and a familiar comparison so it clicks.
Say the thought you want to get across, or describe the moment — “returning a jacket”, “a sore throat at the pharmacy” — and get natural phrases in the tone you choose.
A lecture, a tour, the counter at the café: your iPhone listens and translates the room as people speak. Pause, flip the direction, replay later.
Point the camera at a sign, a menu or a letter: the text is read, translated and explained — what the notice is about, what to order, what the letter asks of you.
Save any word or phrase as a ready card and practise it every day with spaced repetition — understand it first, then say it yourself.
Not “closed for good” — just the annual holiday shutdown. Half of Paris hangs this sign in August and reopens in September. Gist It explains the sign and the custom behind it.
simply “exit” — cultural small print explains itself
Save a phrase from a sign, a chat or a conversation, and it’s already a full card — translation, an example, synonyms and a note on when people say it. Then practise it right in the app.
Every phrase plays back in the language you’re learning, one tap.
Live translations land in History with the original audio recording.
Bookmark any phrase — it’s a ready flashcard, and it exports to Anki or AlgoApp too.
Widgets open the camera, the mic, or a live session already listening.
Gist It is on the App Store. The beta gets what's next before everyone else — and your feedback and ideas directly shape what gets built.