Live Translation for Missionaries and Short-Term Teams
Translate sermons, testimonies and conversations in the languages of your host community.
Built for missionaries and mission teams
Sermon Translate is used by missionaries and short-term teams to translate services, testimonies and conversations into the languages of the host community, from one phone or laptop.
What's included
Live translation, automatic Bible verse popups, recorded transcripts, a custom glossary for church-specific names, and large-text captions so members with weaker reading skills can still follow.
- Low-latency captions, anywhere with internet
- Bilingual Bible (native + target side-by-side)
- No headsets, no extra hardware, no interpreter booth
- Plans start at $19.99/month
You choose the speaker language and the translation language
Nothing is locked to one language or direction. Before the service, choose the language being spoken and the language, or languages, the congregation reads. English, Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Vietnamese and 53 more can be set as the source, and English, Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, Fuzhounese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and 115 more are available as targets.
- Speaker language picker: choose whatever the pulpit is preaching in
- Translation language picker: choose the reading language for the screen, and members using the app on their own phone pick their own
- 61 languages can be spoken from the pulpit, and all 123 can be read as captions
- The full list, and which ones have built-in Bible book names, is on the languages page
How do churches translate sermons live with this app?
The speaker opens Sermon Translate on a phone, tablet or laptop, selects the spoken language and the translation language, and starts listening. Transcripts and translations appear on that device, and the whole room can read them as captions on a projector or livestream. No headsets, no interpreter booth, no extra hardware.
Which languages are supported?
Sermon Translate supports 123 languages. 61 of them can be spoken from the pulpit, including English, Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Vietnamese and 53 more, and all 123 can be read as captions. Every listener can pick their own reading language. The full list is on the languages page.
How is this different from Google Translate or generic AI translation apps?
Google Translate is a powerful general-purpose translator. Sermon Translate is designed around the workflow of a Christian service: church vocabulary, hymn titles, proper names, Bible book names, and verse-reference popups that appear when the speaker clearly references a passage.
Do we need to install anything?
No. It runs in a modern browser on iPhone, Android and desktop. The speaker opens it on one device, and the congregation reads the captions on the projector or livestream. Anyone who wants captions on their own phone opens Sermon Translate there and signs in; each listener needs their own account or trial after the free period.
Can it replace a human interpreter?
Sermon Translate works as a sermon interpreter app for live services and handles common preaching vocabulary well. A church can use it as the main translation for weekly services, or alongside a human interpreter for rare languages or high-stakes events. It is a tool, not a person.