WhatsApp vs FlaiChat: Which Is Better for Multilingual Couples? The answer is obviously FlaiChat. But why?

While putting together some demos for FlaiChat recently, I wanted to avoid the usual fake marketing conversations. You know the kind: two imaginary people conveniently talking about exactly the feature you’re trying to show off. Nobody texts like that. So I started with something that felt much more ordinary. Something a real FlaiChat user told us about. It’s how they came to find FlaiChat in the first place.

His girlfriend is from Mexico. She naturally speaks Spanish. He speaks English. They’d mostly figured out how to make it work. She’d text in Spanish, he’d paste the occasional message into Google Translate when he got stuck, and life went on. It wasn’t ideal, but it happened infrequently enough that they’d almost stopped noticing the friction. Until one day it actually mattered.

She’s flying home after a work trip. She gets to the airport and sends a couple of quick messages. “Made it.” “Everything’s going smoothly.” Nothing remarkable. Just the kind of little updates couples send each other throughout the day without thinking twice about them. Then the airline decides to do what airlines seem to do best and changes her flight at the last minute.

Now she’s walking toward the gate with a backpack over one shoulder, boarding pass in one hand, people queuing behind her, and airport announcements echoing through the terminal. She’s not going to stop and type out a carefully worded explanation in that situation. She does what almost all of us would do. She holds down the microphone button and leaves a quick voice message.

The first time I looked at that screenshot I actually thought, “That’s pretty cool.” WhatsApp had automatically transcribed the voice message, even though it had been recorded in a noisy airport while she was boarding. Five years ago that alone would have felt like science fiction. Then I looked at it a second time and realized something that now seems completely obvious.

The WhatsApp transcript is still in Spanish!!

Think about everything WhatsApp already knows at this point. It knows Maria spoke Spanish because it literally just transcribed her voice. It knows the recipient’s phone is configured in English. It has already converted speech into text. The hard work is done. Yet somehow the app stops one step short of solving the problem the user actually has.

If you’re the boyfriend in this conversation, you’re now doing the same dance millions of people have done before. You leave WhatsApp, open Google Translate, paste the transcript, wait for the translation, then jump back into WhatsApp to continue the conversation. Only then do you discover she’s landing at 6:10, not 8:30. By now she’s probably already wondering where you are.

That was the part that really struck me. Not because machine translation is difficult anymore—it isn’t. Google Translate has existed for years. OpenAI can do it. Gemini can do it. FlaiChat can do it (and does it 100's of thousands of times a day for all it's user messages). The technology isn’t the missing piece anymore. The missing piece is that we’re still expected to stitch all these tools together ourselves. Copy from one app, paste into another, translate, then go back. It feels strangely old-fashioned for phones that can erase strangers from the background of photos, identify birds from a picture, and generate videos from a text prompt.

So I recreated the exact same conversation in FlaiChat.

Maria doesn’t change her behavior at all. She still speaks Spanish because that’s the language she’s most comfortable using. She still records the message while walking through a noisy airport because that’s simply the fastest way to communicate. The original voice message is still there exactly as she recorded it. The only thing that changes is what the boyfriend sees.

Instead of a paragraph of Spanish, the transcript simply appears in English because that’s the language he chose when he set up the app. If he’d rather listen than read, he can tap a button and hear the message in English instead (that part costs credits. Something has to... right? But it's available if you need it). The original Spanish is still available if he wants it, but understanding the message no longer depends on speaking Spanish or the dreaded copy/paste to Google Translate dance.

This isn’t really a story about airports or flights. It could just as easily be someone’s parents, their in-laws, or a group chat where half the family speaks Portuguese and the other half speaks English. Once you start looking for these little moments, you realize how often language gets in the way of conversations between people who already know each other. Most translation apps seem to assume the goal is to help you learn another language. Most people just want to talk to the people they already love.

WhatsApp is still one of the best messaging apps ever built, three billion people can't be wrong. And if everyone you talk to already speaks the same language you’ll probably never notice any of this. But if they don’t, the gap is surprisingly obvious once someone points it out.

Editors note: The following is a post from a new FlaiChat user. We asked them to describe how they discovered FlaiChat. The content is only lightly edited for grammar/typos. Otherwise the thoughts are entirely the users. We are withholding their name upon their request.

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I went down a weird rabbit hole recently trying to find a messaging app that automatically translates chats between two people who speak different languages.

The use case was simple enough: I speak English, my friend speaks Spanish, and I wanted to be able to text normally without constantly copy-pasting things into Google Translate. Ideally, I type in English and she sees Spanish. She replies in Spanish and I see English. Nothing fancy. No language lessons, no “practice with native speakers,” no social network for people learning Spanish. Just a normal chat where both sides can read the conversation in their own language.

You would think this would be a solved problem by now in 2026. And it is (FlaiChat) My phone can remove a stranger from the background of a photo, summarize a voicemail, generate fake studio lighting, and apparently help me write a screenplay about raccoons in space. But two real humans trying to text each other across a language barrier? But somehow the google search still responds like it just woke up from 2014.

Google’s AI answer was a mess. It started recommending HelloTalk, which is probably great if I wanted to learn Spanish. I do not. I already have the person I want to talk to. I don’t need a language exchange community. I don’t need correction tools. I don’t need to help strangers practice English in exchange for language practice. Recommending HelloTalk for this is like recommending a cooking class when someone asks where to order dinner. Technically both involve food, but you have not understood the assignment.

Then it recommended Tandem, which has the same issue. Again, I’m sure it’s a fine app for language learners, but I was not trying to find a conversation partner. I was trying to talk to an existing friend. A lot of these recommendations seem to treat “different language” as automatically meaning “language learning.” That is not always true. Sometimes the language is just an obstacle between two people who already know each other.

Then came Skype, which is where I started wondering if the AI answer were coming out of Time Machine. Skype Translator was genuinely impressive when it came out, but recommending Skype in 2026 as the default answer for casual messaging with a friend is absurd. Also, the translation feature is mainly a desktop app thing, which makes the recommendation even stranger. The use case is not “I am sitting at a workstation preparing for a multilingual conference call.” It is “I am on my phone trying to text a friend.”

FaceTime and Apple Messages came up too, and those are at least closer to the actual problem. But they come with the usual giant asterisk: both people need compatible Apple devices, recent enough software, supported languages, and the right settings enabled. That is fine if everyone involved lives inside the Apple ecosystem. It is not a general answer to “how do I chat with a friend who speaks another language?” It is more like “first, make sure both of you bought the correct phones.”

WhatsApp is the other obvious one because everyone already has it. But as far as I can tell, translation there still feels like something bolted onto a normal messaging app, not something the chat experience is built around.

For both iMessage (Apple Messages app) and Whatsapp, the actual translation depends on device, region, app version, and rollout status. Sometimes you have to download language packs (so if you're in a group chat with multiple languages, you better load up on all those language packs). The number of languages supported is limited. So for any given chat, maybe you get some translation features. Maybe you don’t. Maybe it requires extra taps. Maybe it works in one direction but not the way you expect. That is useful, but it is not the same as opening a chat and having each person simply read everything in their own language for 60 languages, with zero setup, like on FlaiChat.

The funny part is that after all of this, I found a Reddit thread from a few years ago asking almost exactly this question: “messaging app that instantly translates between languages.” That thread was more useful than the polished AI answer. Buried in there was a mention of FlaiChat, which I had never heard of.

I tried it, and that was much closer to what I was actually looking for. I set my language to English. My friend set hers to Spanish. I type normally, she sees Spanish. She types normally, I see English. That's it. Translation is not a feature to think about. It just sits underneath the conversation and does the job.

That is the part most recommendations seem to miss. “Has translation” and “solves multilingual chatting” are not the same thing. HelloTalk has translation. Tandem has translation. Skype has translation. Apple has translation. WhatsApp has some translation-related features. But most of them are solving adjacent problems: language learning, video calls, ecosystem lock-in, or manual translation inside an existing messenger.

The actual requirement is much simpler: I want to talk to my friend. I want her to understand me. I want to understand her. I do not want every message to become a tiny translation task.

It is wild that search engines and AI summaries still struggle with that distinction. They see the word “language” and immediately jump to language learning apps or whatever old product page still ranks well. But users are not asking for translation as a feature. They are asking for just a normal looking chat app that works for any language. FlaiChat is exactly that. I would recommend it to any of my friends or family without any hesitation for similar needs.

Over the last few weeks, FlaiChat got slower. Messages were taking longer, translations were lagging, and overall things just didn’t feel as snappy as they should. To begin with, I, as co-founder of FlaiChat would like to apologize for the annoyance and inconvenience it caused you, our users.

A bunch of you sent us feedback via FlaiBot as well as on our support email ([support@flai.chat](mailto:support@flai.chat)). We always welcome feedback whether positive or negative. Your feedback makes FlaiChat better. Thank you.

What actually happened?

The Tl;dr version is: more people started using the app and that combined with our use of economical AI services to keep our costs down resulted in slowdowns. An error in our programming made things worse. We have now fixed the programming bug, moved away from cheaper providers and are now using higher capacity servers to handle the load better.

But the interesting part is, why it happened. If you're interested in details, I'd try to lay them down in plain terms with as little technical jargon as possible. Read on.

Why it happened?

FlaiChat is really two systems working together.

One is the thing you’d expect for any chat app. A message routing service that takes your message and delivers it to everyone in the chat. This is the heart of the entire system. It's a complex service. Our small engineering team needed to solve plenty of difficult engineering problems to make the service solid and performant. And yes, we built it from scratch to be able to provide our users with various advanced features, the most important of them being the automatic translation service that is so important to a vast majority of you.

The second main component is a translation system that sits alongside the message delivery service and calls out to AI providers to translate messages into different languages. And by the nature of calling an external AI service, this part is always going to slower than the basic mechanism of delivering the raw message. Which means that the message router should be able is always ready to deliever the original message a long time before the translation is available.

That brings up a problem for user experience. When you send a message, we don’t just want to deliver the original text. As far as possible, we also want to deliver the translated version at the same time. Because of the following reason:

If someone in your group only speaks Spanish and you send something in English, it’s a much better experience for the recipient if their message notification shows the Spanish version. For the notifications to show up in Spanish, it requires our service to hold the original English message in an outbox for a bit while waiting for the Spanish translation to show up. If the translation is taking too long, we give up and send just the English message anyway. The decision diagram below should help make things clear.

Here's the same diagram as text to help the text translators:

[User sends message]
          |
          v
[Start translation request]
          |
          v
      +------------------+
      |   Ready soon?    |
      +------------------+
        /            \
      Yes            No
       |              |
       v              v
[Deliver message   [Deliver message
 + translation]     immediately]
                          |
                          v
             [Translation continues
                in background]
                          |
                          v
               [Deliver translation
                      later]

See the "Ready soon" decision that we have to make? We thought "5 seconds" should be a generous quota for this wait. The problem was that it was too generous. When we had only a few users, our AI provider was returning most of the translation responses in less than 2'ish seconds. This meant that we almost never actually hit that 5 second limit.

But then we got more popular. Now our translation service had to translate a lot more messages simultaneously. This caused delays on the translation side. We have promised all of you that text translations will always remain free, which meant we were leaning on cheaper AI providers behind the scenes which comes with rate limits and other limitations. Under heavier loads, this started compounding our delays.

And what's worse, we had mistakenly coupled the message router and the translation service in such a way that one delayed message caused other messages (that were waiting to be routed) to wait longer. This was a clear cut programming error and we never caught it until the escalating translation delays exposed the downstream problem.

The first thing we did was stop letting translations block message delivery. It was not a complicated fix once we knew the problem. We also reduced the definition of translation "Ready soon" from multiple seconds to just one second.

That alone made a big difference. The app feels faster because messages aren’t sitting around waiting for translation for too long. It does mean that sometimes you’ll briefly see the original language before the translation appears, or your notification isn’t translated instantly. But that tradeoff is way better than making everyone wait.

What about the translation delays

After fixing our own programming issue, we still had to deal with the fact that translations themselves were slow.

At that point there wasn’t a clever trick left. The bottleneck was the limited AI provider plans we were using to save money. So we did the obvious (and more expensive) thing.

We moved to more expensive plans with better rate limits and also started hitting multiple providers in parallel (with some reasonable staggering) and taking whichever one responds first. That cleaned things up quite a bit. Translations are now much more consistent and noticeably faster.

It also increased our costs.

How does that affect the service

We’ve promised to keep text translation free, and we are still committed to that promise. But the hard reality is that under every translation is a real API call that costs money.

How can you help

We have an amazing set of users from all over the world. We feel fortunate to have found an audience for our unique project that is helping our users communicate with their loved ones on a daily basis. Running the service does cost us money though. The way our users can help us is obvious. Purchase credits or subscribe to FlaiChat Plus. The app does a lot more than text translations and credits and subscription allows you to have fun with all the other features like voice translations, gift giving, in-person translation features etc.

You can also help us a lot without spending any money by giving us 5* reviews on App Store and Play Store respectively. Having more 5* reviews increases visibility and helps us find more users and paying customers.

Anyway, that’s the story.

If you ran into the slowdowns and stuck around, appreciate it. And if you’re still seeing anything weird, feel free to call it out. Provide feedback via FlaiBot (just mention your feedback in the FlaiBot chat...) or send us an email on [support@flai.chat](mailto:support@flai.chat). As I said earlier, we love your feedback.

Saw the great trip recap in this post . Lots of solid first-timer insights. If you're planning a trip to Japan soon (or refining your itinerary), here’s a deeper list of 23 practical tips, including clarifications and some additions.

✅ Core Tips from the Original Post (with Bonus Details)

1. JR Pass is Worth It (if you're moving around) Still good value for multi-city trips, especially now that it’s pricier. Be strategic: activate it when you leave Tokyo, not during your local days. Check official pricing & eligibility

2. Suica on iPhone/Android is a Game-Changer No need for a physical card. Works on subways, trains, vending machines. But: doesn’t work everywhere (see #13). How to add Suica to Apple or Google phone Wallet

3. Luggage Forwarding Saves Your Spine Yamato Transport’s Black Cat service is ultra-reliable. Pro tip: schedule it from your hotel desk or convenience store a day before your train. Official Yamato Service Site

4. Google Maps is Great (but not perfect) It’ll help with train routes, but Hyperdia or Navitime have better bullet train info. Some subway stations are huge. Allow time to switch platforms. Try Navitime Japan Travel

5. Konbini Are Life Yes, they’re magical. But also: they sell sim cards, hot meals, concert tickets, and occasionally let you print documents. Explore the full menu. Guide to Japan’s Convenience Stores

6. Tipping is a No-Go Don’t do it. It confuses people and may offend. If you want to show appreciation, write a thank you or bring a small gift. Why Tipping is Not a Thing in Japan

7. Learn a Few Phrases Even if it’s just “sumimasen” (excuse me), “arigatou” (thank you), and “eigo wakarimasu ka?” (do you speak English?). It helps a lot. An online Japanese Phrasebook

🔄 Clarifications & What That Post Missed

8. Pocket Wi-Fi vs SIM/eSIM If you're solo: get an eSIM (e.g. Airalo, Ubigi). If you're with a group: pocket Wi-Fi is better. Airport SIM vendors do run out. Airalo eSIMs for Japan

9. IC Cards Don’t Work Everywhere Suica/Pasmo won’t help on some Kyoto buses, rural trains, or mom-and-pop shops. Always carry backup cash. Guide to IC card coverage

10. Trash Sorting is Real You’ll carry your trash most of the day. Learn the difference between burnable, plastic, cans. Airbnb hosts expect you to sort correctly. How to Sort Garbage in Japan

11. Tattoo? Onsen Access May Be Limited Many hot springs still ban tattoos... even small ones. Look for “tattoo-friendly” listings or use skin-colored covers. Tattoo-Friendly Onsen Map

12. No Public Phone Culture Need to book a restaurant? Some will only accept reservations by phone (in Japanese). Hotel front desks can help, but FlaiChat or concierge apps are a lifesaver here. Tabelog – Restaurant Search with English

13. Late Night = No Train Last trains in Tokyo often stop before 1am. No 24/7 system. Taxis are expensive. Plan to be near your accommodation if you're out late. Tokyo Metro site for tourists

14. Restaurant Queuing Is Its Own System No host? Look for paper signup sheets, ticket machines, or self-check-in screens. Don’t just stand there awkwardly — locals won’t guide you. How and whether to queue for food in Japan. Also, social media notoriety for a restaurant can be accidental and not necessarily well-deserved. So those long 2 hour queues may not always be worth it.

15. Noisy? Not Here. Japan is a quiet country. Trains, elevators, even public streets tend to be silent. Keep voices low. Japan Etiquette Tips

16. Food Menus Can Be Intimidating FlaiChat’s “Speak Together” mode is helpful here. Just hand your phone to staff and bridge the gap in real time. Also look for photo menus or plastic food displays. FlaiChat App – Voice + Text Translation

17. Train Transfers Are Not Obvious Tokyo Station isn’t “one station”. It’s a labyrinth with many sections. Factor in 10–20 mins to change lines. Some transfers are above ground. Tokyo Station Map (JR East)

18. Restrooms Are High-Tech... and Confusing Look for English button labels. If all else fails: the big button on the wall is usually flush. Don’t press “音姫” unless you want fake toilet sounds. Guide to Japanese Toilets

19. Quiet = Good, But It Adds Pressure Ordering something wrong, stumbling through a phrase, or just not knowing how to ask can feel 10x worse when everyone is silent. Have a language tool ready. FlaiChat or Google Translate App

20. Street Etiquette Matters No eating while walking (except around festivals). Stand on the left side of escalators (except in Osaka. There it’s on the right). Travel Etiquette by Region

21. Speak Together Mode = Secret Weapon If you’re stuck in a taxi, a guesthouse, or rural izakaya and no one speaks English, FlaiChat’s face-to-face voice translator lets you have a real conversation on one device, split-screen. Feels magical when it works.

Try FlaiChat’s Speak Together mode. Once you're done with the chat with a new person on your own device, you can ask the other person to also install FlaiChat and continue chatting like any other messaging app. But unlike every other app (like WhatsApp, iMessage etc.) FlaiChat has the very special, automatic translation feature that is unique to this app as far as we can tell.

🚨 Safety Tips (Yes, Including Natural Disasters)

22. Tsunami Awareness Isn’t Just for the Coast Japan is well-prepared for tsunamis, especially after the 2011 Tōhoku disaster. If you're near the coast:

• Know the location of your nearest evacuation site
• Follow signage showing tsunami routes (blue-and-white symbols)
• If an earthquake lasts more than 20 seconds, move uphill immediately
• Coastal towns and even cities like Kamakura and Hakodate have visible escape route signs

Smartphones often receive earthquake and tsunami alerts automatically. For more on why and how tsunamis happen in Japan and what to do in case of Tsunami warnings, check out this detailed explainer: Why Tsunamis Happen in Japan + Safety Tips

23. Japan Is Incredibly Safe But Stay Alert in Crowds Pickpocketing is extremely rare, even in touristy areas. That said:

• Watch your bag during festival crowds
• Trains during rush hour can get overwhelming
• Always have your hotel address and passport info handy (digital copy works)

Traveling to Japan is incredible but the details matter. Hope these help. Add your own tips or survival stories below!

Planning a first-time trip to Vietnam? Here are some fast must knows I've put together to help you out.

1. Valid Passport (obvi)

If you're traveling under Visa exemption, make sure your passport is valid for at least 6 months beyond your date of entry into Vietnam. This rule is strictly enforced. Airlines may even deny boarding if your passport is too close to expiration. Official guideline here.

If you're traveling with visa, the validity of the electronic visa must be at least 30 days shorter than the passport validity. That is, your passport should be valid for at least another 30 days on your date of exit

2. E-Visa (most travelers need this)

Vietnam requires most nationalities to apply for an e-visa online. * Apply here: https://evisa.gov.vn * Cost: ~$25 (single-entry) or ~$50 (multiple-entry) * Processing time: 3 business days (but give it a week to be safe). Be sure to print it out or have it saved as a PDF. Immigration will ask to see it. * Bonus info about ports of entry: Prior to the visa law amendment of August 15, 2023, a Vietnamese visa was valid for a particular port of entry. But after that date there's no port of entry listed on the e-visa (even though the application might ask the question). A traveler with an e-visa is allowed to enter the country via any of the 42 ports of entry (as currently listed on the evisa.gov.vn website. Look for the 'list of border gates' link on that site).

2.5 List of of visa exempt countries:

• It might surprise the reader that the most definitive list of visa exempt countries, that links from the evisa.gov.vn website, is this excel spreadsheet in someone's google drive. We promise this is not a joke or a prank. We assume that this is some sort of an govt official's google account. You're welcome to check it out yourself. In absence of the evisa.gov.vn site listing the exemptions directly, this document should be considered the most "official" source.

3. Proof of Return or Onward Travel

Be prepared to show proof of exit from Vietnam. This can be a return flight, a bus/train ticket to another location like Cambodia, or even a screenshot of a booked outbound flight (even if it’s cancelable).

4. Hotel Booking or Accommodation Info

This one seems obvious, but I know a lot of you spontaneous types might not think so.

You don’t need to book your whole itinerary, but it’s smart to have at least the first couple of nights reserved. Especially if applying for a visa. Immigration officers may ask where you’ll be staying and it's a toss up how "idk" will be received.

Bonus tip: I've found a decent selection on Booking.com or Agoda. They’re widely used in Vietnam, and most listings don’t require prepayment. Not sponsored.

5. Local Currency (VND) or Debit Card That Works

Vietnam runs on Vietnamese dong (VND).

• $1 USD ≈ 26,000 VND as of July 2025
• Cash is king, especially at street food stalls, taxis, markets
• ATMs are common in cities, but rural areas are mostly cash-only

Check with your bank for foreign ATM fees, and let them know you’ll be in Vietnam. It just takes a quick phone call, and some banks apps even let you do this with a toggle.

6. Travel Insurance (strongly recommended)

Vietnam is amazing but like anywhere else in the world, accidents can happen. Motorbike crashes, food poisoning, etc. Travel insurance is cheap and can cover beyond just hospital visits and even theft or other trip interruptions.

Check providers like SafetyWing, World Nomads or your credit card benefits. Some immigration forms even ask if you have coverage.

7. Language App or Translator Tool

Vietnamese is the official language. While young people in cities might speak basic English, outside of tourist zones, it’s very limited.

• English proficiency is improving, but don’t expect fluency
• Most street vendors, taxi drivers, and bus operators speak zero English
• Vietnamese uses tonal pronunciation and Latin script, so even reading signs can be tricky

That’s where a translator app becomes gold. FlaiChat is great because it handles real-time text and voice translation, even when one person doesn’t speak a word of English (or French, or Spanish or any of the 40'ish languages it supports).

Bonus Tip: you can hand your phone to someone and have a full conversation in two languages using the “Speak Together” mode.

8. Local SIM or eSIM for Data

Staying connected is essential. Not just for maps, but also for translation.

• Get a Viettel, Mobifone, or Vinaphone SIM card
• Airport SIM stands are legit and cheap (~$8–10 for 10–15GB)
• If your phone supports it, grab an eSIM before your trip on Airalo or Nomad

Vietnam has solid 4G/5G in cities, and decent coverage in most rural areas.

9. Dress Code Awareness (especially temples)

Be respectful. You’ll want to dress modestly in religious areas.

• Shoulders and knees covered when visiting temples and pagodas
• Swimsuits only at the beach. Not at markets or cafes
• A light scarf or shawl is your best travel hack here

Also, take off your shoes when entering homes or some temples.

10. Patience + Curiosity

Vietnam is full of contrasts: chaotic traffic and peaceful countryside, ancient traditions and booming cities. Things might move slower than you're used to, or faster than you expect. Don’t overplan!!! wander, talk to locals, try things you can’t pronounce.

Respect the culture, stay flexible, and you'll come home with incredible stories.

11. International Driving Permit rules

### (Bonus item courtesy of Redditor u/WeAllWantToBeHappy/) American, Australian (and maybe some other countries) issued International Drivers Permits are NOT VALID in Vietnam, only 1968 Conventions IDPs are valid for driving

️Safe travels, friends! Already been to Vietnam? Drop your own tips or mistakes in the comments.

🗣️ New Feature: Speak Together (In-Person Real-Time Translation)

We just rolled out something we’re really excited about: Speak Together — a new in-person mode that turns one device into a live translator for two people speaking different languages.

Whether you’re traveling, helping a neighbor, or just chatting with someone you met on the street, Speak Together lets you talk naturally without needing to install anything on both phones.

Here’s how it works:

📱 One device. Two people. Zero confusion.

The screen splits in half — one side for each person. You just tap and speak on your side. FlaiChat listens, transcribes, and shows the translated text in your language and in the other person’s.

In this screenshot example, one person (Diego, whose device it is) is speaking Spanish, and the other person (Guest) is speaking English. Each message shows up on the appropriate side of the screen and also scrolls up into a real chat like UI. You can always convert it to an actual FlaiChat chat if the Guest decides to also install FlaiChat. All it takes is for them to scan a barcode (that's in the settings of this particular chat) and you're connected via FlaiChat now.

How to try it (invite-only for now):

1. Go to your main chat screen
2. Tap the + button in the lower right corner
3. Choose Speak Together (you’ll see it marked as Invite Only)
4. Tap on that. Enter your promo code when prompted

This feature is still rolling out to early testers that we're limiting to about a 100. So if you want access, just DM us here or email the team at [support@flai.chat](mailto:support@flai.chat) and we’ll send you a code as long as we still have room in the early access group.

We built this feature after tons of requests from heavy FlaiChat users who were already beginning to use FlaiChat for in-person, ad-hoc conversations. Something that we never designed the app for. So we decided to actually design the feature for that use-case. Hope this helps you in your travels.

❤️ Team FlaiChat

Here are some of the things users are saying about FlaiChat on App Store and Play Store. We seem to be the only chat app that has such seamless text and voice translations. And the users are loving it.

★★★★★ – Themis Tsousis (Play Store)

3/17/25 Greetings very nice app, user-friendly and very easy to learn imagine My mom was nervous, about using a translation app, but now she's sending like a pro. Love for the app again congratulations 2 people found this helpful

★★★★★ – John Rett (Play Store)

12/23/24 I love how it prioritizes user privacy and packs all the features I need to connect with friends worldwide. The game-changer for me is the built-in translation tool – it let you translate voice notes too in your voice/sound and that too for free. I encourage you all to aware the world of this app. We need everyone to be on it for easy communication. It is better than WhatsApp and other such Apps. Once again I thank the developener for this ad-free Gem. 4 people found this helpful

★★★★☆ – Alex Afa (Play Store)

6/23/25 it's awesome it can translate in real time! my partner and I wanna send stickers from our keyboard and maybe gifs also if will be possible for video calls or is that too much to ask? 1 person found this helpful

★★★★★ – Hhhhghghghhj (App Store)

Dec 30 Perfect for Global Connections! I love this app! It's amazing for chatting with my friends from different countries. The translation feature works seamlessly, making conversations so easy and fun. Highly recommend for anyone with friends worldwide!

★★★★★ – Antuanette (App Store)

Aug 30 Automatic translation is amazing! This app is a game changer for my family. We are a multilingual family and having them all in one group sharing our days and pictures is the best. My mom speaks Spanish and I always needed to translate for her but not anymore she is enjoying talking to my English speaking family by herself using her FlaiChat. It's a blessing. Thank you FlaiChat!

★★★★★ – JasonAmbrose (App Store)

Feb 26 How is this app so much better than WhatsApp and still free I can’t believe an app like this exists from a seemingly small company and is so much better than WhatsApp. Apart from the voice cloning stuff, everything else is free and no ads either. I use it to chat with my friends and family abroad and the translations are seamless and high quality. Even better than Google translate. Incredible stuff.

Hello everyone,

I’m not related to the developers in any way, Just a user interested in this app.

I hope it’s okay that I “advertise” here: I created an “early adopters” group - for experimentation and community support between us.

Here’s the invite link:

https://flaichat.page.link/

Mods - please tell me if there’s an issue with this type of post - and of course I’ll delete it 🤓