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PolyPal is $13.90 a month or $119 a year: how much live translation does that buy?
PolyPal is a live translation app made by Timekettle. You open it during a meeting, a lecture, a video or a phone call, and it puts subtitles in your language on screen while people are still talking. It covers more than 100 languages and accents and runs on iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac.
What you are really paying for is minutes. Pro gives you up to 600 minutes of live translation a month, which is ten hours, whether you pay monthly or for the year.
Free and Pro
| Plan | Price | Live translation each month | What you get on top | How to read it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 30 minutes, plus 300 bonus credits | AI summary and mind map once a day, meeting records you can view | Enough to test it on one real meeting |
| Pro, monthly | $13.90 a month | 600 minutes (30,000 credits), plus 500 bonus credits | Unlimited summaries and mind maps, audio and transcript export, your own glossary, GPT-4o and DeepSeek models | About 2.3 cents a minute if you use it all |
| Pro, yearly | $119 a year | The same | The same | About 1.7 cents a minute. PolyPal marks this price as limited-time |
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The pricing page shows prices in US dollars. The bonus credits are for heavier features such as meeting interpretation.
Monthly or yearly
A year of PolyPal (USD)
Monthly ×12 = twelve payments of $13.90. Enterprise is billed yearly. Source: polypal.ai/pricing, checked 9 October 2026.
Twelve monthly payments come to $47.80 more than the yearly price. The crossover is at nine months: eight months of monthly billing is $111.20, still under $119, and the ninth takes you to $125.10. So if you need PolyPal for a single semester abroad or a four-month project ($55.60), go monthly. If it is going to sit in your weekly routine, the yearly plan pays for itself before the year is out.
Where it listens
For Zoom and Teams calls there is nothing to set up. PolyPal says you just open the app and it starts translating the meeting. In a lecture hall or a meeting room it works from your device's microphone, and for a presentation you can project the subtitles on a screen while the audience scans a QR code to follow along on their own phones.
Videos and live streams on YouTube, TikTok, Twitch and Weverse get floating subtitles in two languages, and you can upload your own video, generate subtitles and export the file. Phone translation lets you call from inside the app with no SIM card or new number. The person on the other end joins through a link and does not need to install anything. There is also a camera mode for menus, signs and documents, which lays the translation over the original text.
PolyPal keeps your files on your own device and says it collects only anonymous usage statistics, which you can switch off.
Enterprise plans are bought by the hour
The Enterprise tab is for conferences and events. Instead of a monthly allowance, you buy a year's worth of credits up front.
| Yearly plan | Credits | Conference translation, about | Works out per hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| $279 | 280,000 | 16 hours | $17.44 |
| $779 | 780,000 | 43 hours | $18.12 |
| $1,299 | 1,300,000 | 72 hours | $18.04 |
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Every Enterprise plan translates one speaker into up to five languages at once, lets up to 2,000 people follow on the web at the same time, and supports big-screen subtitles in your own style, live streams and a full archive of audio and transcripts.
All three cost about $1 per 1,000 credits, so a bigger plan gets you more hours, not a better rate. Add up the event hours you expect in a year and pick the plan that covers them: four half-day events of four hours each are 16 hours, which is the $279 plan.
Don't use Pro's numbers to plan an event. By PolyPal's own figures an hour of conference translation takes roughly 17,500 to 18,100 credits (280,000 ÷ 16, 780,000 ÷ 43), while an hour of personal translation on Pro takes 3,000 (30,000 ÷ 10). That is about six times as many.
Buying inside the iPhone app
The US App Store listing has the same monthly and yearly prices, plus a weekly subscription at $5.99 and minute packs: 300 minutes for $9.99, 600 for $19.99 and 1,800 for $39.99. A pack is handy for one trip or one conference week. How long a pack stays valid is not stated on PolyPal's pages, so check that in the app before you buy the large one.
Which plan
If what you want is a written record of meetings held in one language, PolyPal is more than you need, and an AI note-taker is the closer fit (see our piece on meeting-notes pricing). If you only need translation now and then for short calls, Free's 30 minutes a month may be enough, and it is the easiest way to see how well it handles your own meetings. For a weekly call with an overseas team or a term of lectures in another language, take Pro: monthly for anything under nine months, yearly beyond that. If you run events where an audience reads subtitles on their phones or on a screen, look at Enterprise and size it by the hours you will run. Not sure? Start on Free, then try one month of Pro.
Sources: PolyPal pricing page (Free, Pro and Enterprise plans, credits, bonus credits), home page (supported platforms and apps, phone, video and photo translation, FAQ, file storage), App Store listing (in-app purchases), checked October 9, 2026.
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