Everything you need to be understood
Parlivon covers the four situations travellers actually hit: talking to someone, writing to someone, reading something, and losing signal completely.
Core translation tools
Voice conversation
Two people share one phone — or one pair of earbuds. Each person speaks their own language and hears the other translated out loud, with auto-routing so whoever speaks is translated in the right direction.
Best for: shops, taxis, hotels, meeting people
Chat translate
Type instead of speaking. Every message appears in both languages, which is ideal in noisy places or when someone is more comfortable reading. A QR code lets a second phone join the same conversation.
Best for: loud rooms, quiet rooms, longer explanations
Camera translate
Point the camera at a menu, ticket machine, road sign, prescription label or package and read it in your language, with the translation overlaid on what you see.
Best for: menus, signs, forms, labels
Offline phrasebooks
Download language packs before you fly. Hundreds of travel phrases across categories like airport, food, health, payments and emergencies keep working with no data at all.
Best for: flights, rural areas, roaming caps
Produce Lens
Photograph an unfamiliar fruit or vegetable at a market and Parlivon names it, tells you how to pick a ripe one, how to store it and how it is normally eaten — in your language.
Premium, Family and Trip Pass — 60 scans a day
Group broadcast
One person speaks and a whole group hears the translation in their own earbuds — built for tours, venues and teams. In internal testing now; not part of the Standard, Premium or Family plans.
Business — coming soon
Currency converter
Daily exchange rates built in, so the price you just translated also makes sense in your home currency.
Best for: markets, taxis, tipping
Details that make it usable in the real world
Earbud setup you can trust
A guided check confirms left and right ears get the right voice before a conversation starts, so nobody hears their own language back.
Wording that fits the speaker
Choose neutral, masculine or feminine wording. Neutral gives one clean, inclusive phrase instead of showing every gendered variation at once — including in offline packs and their pronunciation guides.
Accessibility and comfort
- Large-type, high-contrast mode
- Dark mode across the whole app
- Adjustable playback speed and replay
- App interface available in many languages
See how it fits together
Read the step-by-step walkthrough , or check what is included on each plan on the pricing page.
Machine translation can be imperfect. Parlivon is a travel and everyday communication aid — do not rely on it for medical, legal, financial or emergency decisions.
Parlivon travels on your phone
Translation happens on the device in your pocket — set it up in about a minute.