Live church translation in Spanish and more, 109 languages in total

Plans start at $45 a month for 10 translation hours, or $39 a month paid yearly. A single event needs no plan: $40 for 5 hours. An hour is one hour of translation in one caption language, and Pause stops translation, for example during songs. Extra hours are $6 an hour on any Church plan, monthly or yearly, and $8 without one. The first 4 hours are free, with no card.

Every new account gets 4 translation hours free, with no credit card required; each language you show uses its own hours. The free hours are for your first 14 days.

Yes. Cancel from Manage billing in your account, with no phone calls and no retention scripts. Your plan stays active through the end of the period you already paid for. When that period ends, so do the plan's unused hours and any free hours (from the trial, a referral or a gift). Hours you bought stay, and so does the account, with its history and settings, so you can pick a plan or buy hours again whenever you need them. If you want money back as well, ask within 30 days of the payment: we refund the hours of it you have not used, once per church.

No. People scan the QR code on the screen, or open the link you share, and the captions and the translated voice open in their phone’s web browser. There is nothing to install and no account to make.

Yes. For a Mass in Spanish, set the spoken language to Spanish and choose the caption languages your people need, English or any other. For a service that moves between English and Spanish, set the spoken language to the one used most; Livefy still hears the other. If yours switches back and forth, try a few minutes of it first. The page for parishes covers the Mass in more detail.

109 live translated languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Swahili and more. 42 new languages are captions only for now, with no voice yet.

It does the work of all three. It is a church translation system run from the sound desk: the sermon is translated in real time, as the pastor speaks, which is what simultaneous interpretation does, without interpreters or booths, and with no translation devices such as receivers or headsets needed. Guests use it like a translation app, in the phone’s browser, with nothing to install. The words show as live captions, or subtitles, on the screens and phones, and a translated voice reads them aloud.

A laptop or desktop computer with a web browser (phones and tablets cannot run a service), the sermon’s sound reaching that computer (from your mixing board, or a microphone near the pulpit), and a screen for captions (projector, TV, second monitor, or your phones). Your existing AV setup almost certainly works as-is.

No. The service runs in a web browser on a laptop or desktop computer, connected to the sermon’s sound. Phones are for listening: anyone in the room can follow the captions and the voice on their own phone.

Yes. Livefy gives you an Overlay link with no background. It goes into a Browser source in OBS Studio, a Web Browser input in vMix, or a web object inside a ProPresenter prop, all tested on the real programs (OBS 32, vMix 29, ProPresenter 21.4), and into anything else that can show a web page over video.

The best translation, with the highest accuracy. Livefy is built for church: it is made to keep names and Scripture references right, it knows the Lord’s Supper is not dinner, and it translates whole thoughts, not word by word. For the clearest result, take the sound straight from the mixing board.

Almost as soon as the words are spoken, a word at a time, so the screen follows the preacher instead of waiting for the end of each sentence. The translated voice on phones comes a moment later, a phrase at a time.

For listening, often yes: the sermon, the readings, the announcements and the prayers, in as many languages as you need at once, every week. It does not talk back, so a conversation, a counseling session or a prayer line still needs a person. And like any interpreter it makes mistakes, so try it on a service of your own first.

No. Livefy never stores the sound of your services. Transcripts are kept unless you turn that off in Settings, and turning it off deletes the ones already kept, at once here and within 30 days from our backups. Livefy also keeps its own copy of the words for a year, to find and fix translation mistakes.