Questions and answers

A private chat app for two people who speak different languages. Messages, voice messages and calls are translated by AI into the language each of you reads, in ten languages.

Talkalike is in private beta, and you join with a personal link from someone who already uses Talkalike. Each link works once, for 7 days. If you do not know anyone who uses it yet, you can put your email address on the waitlist: if we open Talkalike to more people, we will email you. We cannot say when that will be.

Adults aged 18 or over. You confirm your age when you sign up. Opening or sending explicit photos, videos or voice messages needs a one-time age check with Yoti.

Turkish, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Arabic, Russian and Hindi, for messages, voice messages and calls. The app itself is in all ten.

It is done by AI, so it can be wrong, and some languages work better than others: speech recognition is less accurate in Arabic, for example. You can always see the original, check what the other person got, and fix words in the glossary you share.

No person translates them: AI does. Our server and our AI providers process what you send so it can be translated. We do not browse chats; a message that is reported to us is reviewed by our team, as the Complaints and Reporting policy explains.

No. Sending your words to AI needs your explicit permission, which you can give or take back in Settings. Without it, Talkalike works as a plain messenger: what you write and say is not translated, and the other person sees your original words.

No. To translate, our server and our AI providers process what you send. Everything is encrypted on its way between your device and our server, and photos, videos, voice messages, files and backups are also encrypted when stored. Message text is stored without a separate layer of encryption.

No. Talkalike does not record or keep calls. For live translation, what you say goes to our AI providers as you speak; ElevenLabs, which turns speech into text, may keep logs of it under its own terms.

No. You choose an AI voice by gender, age and tone, and it is labelled as an AI voice. Talkalike does not clone voices.

Talkalike is free during the beta; if that changes, we will tell you in the app first. During the beta there is a monthly budget for AI voices: if it runs out, messages are still translated and the original voice still plays, but translated voices pause until the next month.

Talkalike runs in your browser, on phones and computers. Add it to your home screen and it opens like an app, with notifications. There is no app store version yet.

Apart from the person whose personal link you joined with, only someone who knows your exact username can start a chat with you. There are no public profiles, no suggestions and no search by name, and you can block anyone.

In Settings. Your account details, messages, media and voice data are deleted from our server, including the messages you sent on the other person's side. Reported content can be kept for a limited time, as the Privacy Notice explains.

We use it only for the waitlist: a short confirmation when you join, and one email if we open Talkalike to more people. We delete it when you ask us to (every waitlist email has a link for that), when you sign up to Talkalike with it, or after 12 months at the latest; if we could not send the confirmation, after 7 days. It is never shared or used for marketing.

Talkalike is a product of Friendify Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 16656938. Registered office: 128 City Road, London, United Kingdom, EC1V 2NX.