Postcard Cat
Write it on a card. Turn it over.
Postcard Cat translates on your iPhone with Apple's Translation framework, so once a language is on your iPhone it works without a connection. Write on the card or say it, turn it over, and the other side shows the translation, ready to read aloud, copy or share. The two stamps at the top are your languages, and Detect works out which one you wrote. Every card goes in the shoebox, searchable on both sides, with the ones you keep on top. No account, no ads, no use limit. With Pro, a one-time purchase: a table tent for a two-way talk with the phone laid flat between you, slips laid over a photo of a menu or a sign, phrasebook decks you can print or save as a PDF or a spreadsheet, and Home Screen widgets.
On the way to the App Store

Why it exists
“Pointing at a menu and hoping for the best.”
Why Postcard Cat exists
What Postcard Cat does instead
The house rules, the same in every new Cat app.
- The whole job is free
- No ads
- No watermarks
- No sign-up
- Pro is paid for once, and yours to keep
The real thing.
Screens from Postcard Cat as it is today, on an iPhone.

Postcard Cat: a card turned over, showing "¿Dónde está la estación de tren?" above the English "Where is the train station?", with Speak, Copy, Share, Kept and Edit, and the shoebox below

Slips (Pro): a photo of a Spanish café menu with a paper slip in English over each line, from Menu of the day and Coffee with milk to VAT included