Voice Translator: Deceptive Subscription Charges and Trials
Users are frustrated with deceptive pricing practices and misleading claims regarding free trials in the voice translation app market. Many feel trapped between paying high fees or disputing unauthorized charges with their banks.
23 different people have complained about this since 13 Feb 2023, most recently on 08 Jun 2026.
No new posts for 153 days. This may have been fixed, or people stopped writing about it — the evidence below is from before 08 Jun 2026.
- “Super annoying to need live translation and waste my data downloading a free app just to learn phase one of the app is to insert you payment information to access the free trial.”
- “Voice Translator: AI Translate — Speech recognition and translation does not work well enough to use.”
- “Voice Translator: AI Translate — Bad app, scam, not free.”
23 people in 23 posts across 1 source · 0 in the last 30 days, 0 in the 30 before
The pain
shares of 23 peopleWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 23 people using Voice Translator: AI Translate
- What goes wrong
- Forced subscription to open the app9 people · 39%
- No clear way to cancel subscription7 people · 30%
- Charged immediately despite free trial6 people · 26%
- Translations are inaccurate or garbled5 people · 22%
- Since
- 13 Feb 2023 → 08 Jun 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Voice Translator: AI Translate
- Looking for something else
- 4% want an alternative · 0% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint2296%
- Looking for an alternative14%
Sources
23 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original. 1 post was held back as off-topic; all 23 still count toward the score.
Voice Translator: AI Translate — ‘Free trial’ just add payment info Super annoying to need live translation and waste my data downloading a free app just to learn phase one of the app is to insert you payment information to access the free trial. I don’t understand why companies do this to waste time and frustrate…
Looking for a toolFrustratedWastes timeVoice Translator: AI Translate — Speech recognition and translation does not work well enough to use I tried to use this app to help me translate when abroad and the apps functionality was pretty useless. I was expecting a lot more for the price they try and charge. I forgot to cancel after my free trial and tried to…
Doesn't workVoice Translator: AI Translate — Bad app, scam, not free Don’t waste your time and money since it isn’t free. Download, then immediately have to pay to even try the app. Talking in English it does not pick up English words. Bunch of nonsense comes us as what it thought you said. Gotta jump thru fire hoops to cancel…
Voice Translator: AI Translate — Biggest piece of AI garbage hype fake reviews! Ripped me off for 29.99 plus tax even though I tried to cancel subscription. Look elsewhere, I paid $32 with tax for this piece of garbage. Found another one in Apple Store for $69.99 that actually works. I guess you get what you pay for.…
…ty of some, a lot, of these apps which I have, at my cost, found out. This time NO I have learnt to be untrusting and suspicious and not lost anything. I have deleted the app and I will look for a more reputable app. What I dont understand is why? If an app is as good as it’s supposed to be, to actually give a free…
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Why did it move?
Score 26.6 → 26.9 · 25 Oct 2026, 23:00 → 00:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is Deceptive Subscription Charges and Trials a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 23 different people described it independently, in 23 mentions, the earliest from 13 Feb 2023 and the most recent from 08 Jun 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Status: quiet — no new posts in the last 60 days. 0 people raised it in the last 30 days and 0 in the 30 days before; the status compares its share of everything collected from the same source, so collecting more or less cannot create a trend.
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Voice Translator billing accounts a thirty-dollar yearly fee right after a supposed free trial has caught 14 people off guard before they could cancel. We saw that these unexpected charges usually show up immediately following the first tap on the welcome screen. At what exact screen during the initial setup did the payment prompt pop up instead of your trial?