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MelleM translates conversations between two people, each in their own language. Everything is translated on your phone.

Getting started

Your name, language and voice. The first time, MelleM asks for your name and language and learns your voice. You'll find them later in Settings.
Languages. Translation happens on your phone. Download the languages once, preferably on Wi‑Fi, and MelleM is ready.
Your voice. MelleM learns your voice so that it knows who is talking when you share one phone. Your voice profile stays on your phone and is never sent to anyone.

Tap +, then Talk Here, and choose the other person's language.
Lay the phone between you. The top half faces the other person.
Keep your finger on your half of the screen while you talk, or on a name at the bottom. Let go when you're done.
MelleM translates and reads it aloud in the other person's language.

Talk Here is free and works even when MelleM's server can't be reached.

Tap + and invite the person you want to talk with: show a QR code or send a link. The link is valid for 7 days, and you can close MelleM in the meantime. You'll be notified when they accept.
The other person installs MelleM, taps I've Been Invited and scans your code, or just taps your link.
Now you're connected and can see each other in your list. Tap Talk with … to talk. If they don't have MelleM open, their phone rings like a phone call.
Turn the camera on for video. You hear the other person's real voice, then the translation.
You can also write. Each of you writes and reads in your own language.

Free: Talk Here on one phone, and messages with up to 2 contacts.
MelleM Plus: talk on two phones, call and use video, and more contacts.
One pays, both talk: if one of you has Plus, you can both talk, call and use video together.
The first month is free. After that, Plus renews monthly or yearly until you stop it. The App Store shows the price in your country.
Stop or change it in MelleM under Settings → Stop or Change Subscription. On a new phone, use Restore Purchases.

Nothing is in the phone's backup, so move everything from your old phone:

On the new phone, choose Move from Another Phone.
On the old phone, open MelleM and go to Settings → Move to Another Phone.
Scan the code with the new phone. Only show this code to your own new phone: it gets everything, including the keys to your conversations.

No account. No email, no phone number, no password. We don't know who you are.
On your phone. Speech recognition, translation and reading aloud happen on your phone.
Directly between you. Your conversation goes directly and end‑to‑end encrypted between the two phones. Only if they can't reach each other does it pass through our relay server, still encrypted. Want it to be direct only? See Direct Only.
Deleted is deleted. There is no copy in the cloud or in your backup. What you delete is gone from your phone. The other person's copy stays on their phone.
No ads, no tracking, no analytics. Read the Privacy Policy.

MelleM can't hear you, or the camera is off: allow the microphone or camera in the iPhone's Settings → MelleM.
"Can't translate" or no voice for a language: download the languages for translation. Some languages can't be translated on every iPhone; then the person speaking that language can use yours.
You can't connect: check the internet connection. If the invitation is older than 7 days, send a new one. If Direct Only is on for one of you, phones on some mobile networks can't connect; try Wi‑Fi or turn it off.
You don't see new messages: allow notifications for MelleM. Calls ring either way.
A message at the top of the app: that's news from us, for example about maintenance. When MelleM's server can't be reached, Talk Here still works.

Write to us at info@kanha.ch. Please don't send us what was said in your conversations.