What Loquela costs

Almost all of it is free, permanently

The subscription buys one thing: translation.

Everything else has no price and never will — typing, having it spoken aloud, every phrase board, the phrases someone writes themselves, prepared discussions, the identity card, listening, the voices, the app lock, the settings. None of it is behind a payment.

That is deliberate. The part that costs us money is the part that costs you money; the rest is the product.

Trying it

Every new install starts with a small allowance — enough for roughly 75 translations, available for the first week. It is there so a family can use Loquela in a real situation before deciding anything, not so they can evaluate a demo.

The subscription

US$10.99 a month. It refills a monthly allowance of translations.

If a month is unusually heavy — a run of appointments — there are one-off top-ups rather than a forced upgrade.

We would rather tell you plainly that heavy use may need a top-up than pretend a single number suits everybody.

When the allowance runs out

Nothing is blocked. There is no wall and no locked screen.

A calm note appears once, and then the app keeps working: typing, phrases, speaking aloud and listening all continue exactly as before. Only new translations pause, and anything waiting fills itself in as soon as there is allowance again.

Someone who cannot speak should never be made silent by a billing screen.

Cancelling

The subscription is an Apple one, so it is cancelled in the device's own subscription settings, like any other. The app shows you where.