YouTube Translate

Simple Pricing — Free Forever, Premium for Heavy Users

No ads. No tracking. Use YouTube Translate free every day, and upgrade to Premium only if you need unlimited AI usage. One subscription works on both iOS and Android.

Free

Subtitles and transcripts on captioned videos — no card, no account.

$0 forever
  • Unlimited subtitle viewing on captioned YouTube videos
  • Unlimited subtitles & transcripts on captioned videos
  • PDF export of any transcript / translation / summary
  • Flashcards from any transcript (limited daily)
  • 30 interface languages
  • Unlimited AI translations
  • Unlimited AI summaries
  • Priority processing on long videos
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Premium is billed by Apple App Store or Google Play, in your local currency. Pricing and trial length may change by region — check the app for the current numbers before you subscribe.

Free vs Premium — feature-by-feature

FeatureFreePremium
Subtitle viewing (captioned videos)✓ unlimited✓ unlimited
AI transcripts (uncaptioned videos)✓ unlimited
AI translations (134+ languages)✓ unlimited
AI summaries (concise / detailed / bullets)✓ unlimited
AI flashcards from transcripts✓ unlimited
PDF export
30 interface languages
Priority processing on long videos
Cross-platform (iOS + Android, one sub)
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Pricing FAQ

Is YouTube Translate really free?

Yes, for everything that does not run an AI model. Opening any public YouTube video that already has captions, reading the full transcript with timestamps, copying individual lines, and exporting it to PDF are all free and unlimited, with no account and no card. There is no daily allowance to run out of on that path. Premium covers the parts that cost real processing: transcribing a video that has no captions, translating a transcript into any of the 134+ supported languages, writing summaries, and generating flashcards or quizzes. That split is why the free tier can stay genuinely unlimited — reading text YouTube already published is cheap to serve, while running speech recognition or a language model over an hour of audio is not. There is also no trial requirement on the free path — it is not a limited preview that expires after a period of use.

What's the Premium subscription price?

Premium pricing is set by the App Store and Google Play, not by us, and it is localized to your country and currency. The exact monthly and annual prices, the length of any free trial, and the date of the first charge are all shown on the store's purchase sheet before you confirm anything — that sheet is the authoritative source, which is why we do not publish a single number here that would be wrong in most countries. Annual is discounted relative to monthly in every region. One subscription covers both iOS and Android when you sign in with the same Apple or Google account, so switching phones or owning both does not mean paying twice. To see your own price, open the app and tap Upgrade. Annual and monthly are both offered everywhere; which is better value depends only on how long you expect to keep using it.

Do I have to subscribe to try Premium?

No. A free trial is offered on the standard plans, so you can use the AI features before paying anything. Its exact length is set per region by the App Store and Google Play rather than by us, and the purchase sheet shows you three things before you confirm: how long the trial runs, what the price is afterwards, and the date of the first charge. Cancel any time during the trial and you are not charged — and cancelling does not end the trial early, you keep access until it would have expired. A trial converts into a paid subscription automatically if you do nothing, which is Apple's and Google's standard behaviour for every app. Cancellation is done in the store, not in the app: Settings then Subscriptions on iOS, or the Play Store on Android.

How do I cancel?

Cancellation happens in the store that took the payment, not in the app, because Apple and Google own the subscription record. On iOS: Settings, then your name at the top, then Subscriptions, then this app. On Android: open the Play Store, tap your profile picture, then Payments and subscriptions, then Subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next renewal — it does not cut off access immediately, so Premium keeps working until the end of the period you already paid for, and you do not get a partial refund for the remainder. If you cancel during a free trial you are not charged at all, and access continues until the trial would have ended. Re-subscribing later works normally and does not lose anything you generated. Decks, summaries and transcripts you generated before cancelling remain in the app afterwards; only the ability to generate new ones stops.

Does Premium work on both iOS and Android?

Yes — one subscription covers both, with one condition: you have to be signed in with the same store account on each device. Premium is a standard in-app subscription owned by Apple or Google rather than a separate account of ours, so entitlement follows your Apple ID or your Google account. If you subscribe on an iPhone and later install the Android app while signed in to a different Google account, that second install will not see the subscription — the entitlement is tied to where you bought it. Buying on both platforms is never necessary and would mean paying twice for the same thing. Content you generate is tied to your app data rather than to the platform, so it is there either way. If you are unsure which account bought it, the subscription is listed under that account's Subscriptions screen in the relevant store.

What exactly is free, with no subscription?

Everything that does not need an AI model. That means opening any public YouTube video which already has captions, reading its full transcript with timestamps, switching between subtitle and transcript views, copying individual lines with the moment they were said, copying the whole thing, and exporting it as a formatted PDF. None of that requires an account, a card, or any kind of daily allowance, and there is no cap on how many videos you do it with. What requires Premium is the work that runs a model over the content: transcribing a video that has no captions of its own, translating a transcript into any of the 134+ supported languages, writing a summary, and generating flashcards or a quiz. Anything you have already fetched stays readable on the device afterwards.

Are there refunds?

Refunds are handled by the store that processed the payment, since Apple and Google are the merchants of record and we never see the card. For iOS, use reportaproblem.apple.com and select the purchase; Apple decides these case by case and usually responds within a few days. For Android, open the Play Store, find the subscription under Payments and subscriptions, and use the refund option there — Google’s self-service window is short, after which it becomes a manual request. Cancelling a subscription is not the same as requesting a refund: cancelling stops future charges but leaves the current period in place. If you hit an edge case neither store resolves, email yayappsltd@gmail.com and we will help where we can. Refund decisions are the store’s to make, so we cannot reverse a charge ourselves even when we agree with the request.

Will the price ever change?

If we change the Premium price, existing subscribers keep the rate they signed up at when their subscription renews — a price change applies to new subscribers, not retroactively to people already paying. That is also enforced by the stores themselves: Apple and Google require explicit consent before charging an existing subscriber more, and will pause a subscription rather than silently raise it. Regional pricing moves on its own for a different reason: both stores periodically adjust local prices when exchange rates shift, so the number in your currency can change even when the base price has not. Whatever the current price is for you, the store's purchase sheet shows it before you confirm, and your renewal price is visible in your subscription settings at any time. Nothing about a price change affects content you have already generated, which stays in the app regardless of subscription state.

Start free — upgrade only if you need to

Try the free tier first — subtitles and transcripts on captioned videos cost nothing and need no account. Upgrade only if you need the AI features.