Flunqero is your pocket interpreter for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Speak, listen, or point your camera — translation runs on your device, so it keeps working when your signal doesn’t.
How it works
If you can take a photo, you can use Flunqero. Nothing to set up, nothing to learn — and once your language is set up, airplane mode changes nothing.
Pick your destination, then tap Get ready. Flunqero sets your language and currency and downloads the language pack. Open Talk once while you still have signal too — each language fetches its speech model the first time you use it.
Hand your phone over for a two-way conversation, catch an announcement with live captions, photograph a menu, or point the camera at a sign or a label.
A full-screen allergy or emergency card in the local language — with Yes/No buttons so the person reading it can answer you back.
Free download — unlimited translation in every language Apple’s on-device engine supports.
What Flunqero does
Not just words — Flunqero understands the situation. Ordering food, catching your stop, reading signs, handling money, and getting understood when it really counts.
Flunqero tracks whose turn it is, so you can hand your phone across the counter and the other person answers with a tap — or turn on Hands-free and it picks up which language was spoken. Or use Type to write something out — it translates your words back so you can check the meaning — then show it big or have it spoken aloud.
Live translated captions for platform announcements and fast talkers. Add your stop or your hotel to the watch list and your phone buzzes the moment it’s said.
Photograph the menu page by page and read it in your language, with sections, dishes, and prices still lined up where they were. Tap a dish you don’t recognize to find out what it is — the built-in dish dictionary is always there, and free users get three AI dish briefings a day on top (Apple Intelligence, iPhone 15 Pro or newer).
Point at a street sign, a station board, or the back of a packet and read the translation right on top of the words.
A clear full-screen card about your allergies and diet in the kitchen’s language, with warnings about hidden ingredients and Yes/No buttons for staff. Show it or print it as a PDF, and tap “What this says” to read it back in English before you hand it over. Your first language is free, always — Pro adds all 16. Outside English the wording is AI-drafted rather than professionally reviewed, and the card says so — always confirm out loud. Emergency cards are always free.
Check any price in your own money, offline — exchange rates refresh whenever you have signal. Pro adds Know before you go — etiquette, tipping, and market know-how for 45 destinations, saved before you fly, plus tipping guidance for the bill — and Ask anything for “is tap water safe?” moments, both on Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or newer).
When you’ll reach for it
These are the four situations travelers open Flunqero for. If one of them is yours, it’s a free download away.
A pharmacist, a taxi driver, a hotel desk at midnight. Hand your phone over and take turns — or run Listen and read what’s being said as it’s said.
Photograph the whole thing and read it in your language, layout intact. Tap the dish you don’t recognize and find out what it is before you order it.
Show the kitchen a full-screen allergy card in their language, hidden ingredients flagged, with Yes/No buttons so they can answer you. Free in your first language. Outside English the wording is AI-drafted, so confirm out loud too.
Basements, metros, mountain roads, planes, and roaming switched off. Download your language and open Talk once before you go, and translation keeps working at zero bars.
No account. Nothing to sign up for.
Apple-native
Translation, speech, and AI answers run on your device with Apple’s on-device intelligence — no account, no tracking. Saved phrases follow you across iPhone and iPad over iCloud, and once synced, your allergy card and saved phrases live on your wrist, alongside ready-made travel phrases in 14 languages, for when your phone is out of reach.
Pricing
Every way of translating — talk, listen, menu, camera, type — costs nothing, in every language Apple’s on-device engine supports. Pro adds the travel toolkit.
No account. No signal required.
Flunqero Pro · 7-day free trial
Prefer to pay once? Lifetime is $39.99. Already used your free trial? A $3.99 Trip Pass covers 30 days.
Ask anything, Know before you go, tipping guidance, dish briefings, Talk’s reply suggestions, and tone rewriting in Type and Talk run on Apple Intelligence, so they need an iPhone 15 Pro or newer with Apple Intelligence turned on. Everything else — translation, speech, menus, allergy cards, emergency cards — works on any iPhone or iPad running 26.0.
Guides
Walkthroughs for the jobs people bring to Flunqero: talking with locals, reading menus and signs, translating offline, the Apple Watch, and choosing between translators.
Six iPhone translators compared on what works offline: voice, camera, menus, Apple Watch. The free pick, the travel pick, and a 20-minute test to run before you fly.
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The best translation app for Apple Watch in 2026, ranked on what works on-wrist with no signal and no iPhone — shown, spoken, standalone — not phone-port checkboxes.
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Free to start — unlimited translation, fully offline, in every language Apple’s on-device engine supports. Add Pro when you want the travel toolkit.
