When a congregation speaks more than one language, Sunday can leave part of the room outside the sermon. Hope Translator is a live captioning and translation tool for sermons, events, and speeches. The speaker broadcasts from a phone or laptop, and people in the audience scan a QR code to read or listen in their language, with no app download required to join.^1
Listeners can follow in 103 output languages: every language includes live text, and 81 also include spoken audio, while the other 22 are text only for now.^2 Churches can put captions on a main screen through OBS or ProPresenter.^1 Speaker apps are on iPhone and Android, and the listings also mention Solo Mode, external microphones, and headset listening.^1 It is freemium: each month starts with a free allotment of translation time, then paid plans add more hours.^1
Hope Harbor, LLC builds it from Grandview, Missouri.^5 A developer and co-founder on its team has said they created it out of a real need: their Chinese fellowship in Texas welcomed English speakers, but language barriers made worship feel divided across Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and English.^6 The homepage says 300+ organizations use it every month.^1 A small Korean church the company profiles, with about 50 adult members, began using it after a non-Korean-speaking husband started attending, put the translation on its main screen, and now welcomes Taiwanese, Chinese, and Russian-speaking attendees, with a small English-speaking Bible study formed along the way.^7
"It was difficult to find someone available every weekend, especially when we only needed translation for one person. Hope Translator solved that challenge for us." - Church Elder and Former Translator^1
"It was surprisingly easy to set up—we had a working prototype in about an hour." - A/V Team and Technology Lead^1
