Ruby Lens: Translate to Speech

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About this app

Ruby Lens – Photo Translator with Read-Aloud Audio

Standing in front of a museum plaque, monument sign, or exhibit label written in English — and wishing you could just hear it in your own language? That's exactly what Ruby Lens does.

Point your camera at any information plaque, sign, or label, snap a photo, and Ruby Lens reads it aloud in your language within seconds. No more struggling through unfamiliar English text at museums, historical sites, galleries, or landmarks — just point, snap, and listen.

🏛️ BUILT FOR MUSEUMS, LANDMARKS & TRAVEL
Ruby Lens is a photo translator made for the moments a paid audio guide doesn't cover: the information plaque next to a painting, the historical marker outside a building, the exhibit label in a gallery, the sign at a monument. Snap a photo of any English plaque or sign and hear it translated in your own language instantly.

🔊 HEAR IT, DON'T JUST READ IT
Every translation comes with natural AI-generated audio, so you can listen to the plaque instead of squinting at a translation app screen. Think of it as a pocket audio guide that works on any plaque or sign — at museums, galleries, historical sites, and tourist attractions.

📷 SNAP & TRANSLATE ANYTHING
Beyond plaques and signs, Ruby Lens works as a full camera and photo translator — restaurant menus, street signs, product labels, documents, and handwritten notes. AI-powered OCR extracts the text and translates it in seconds. No typing required.

🌍 TRANSLATE 80+ LANGUAGES
Ruby Lens supports Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Turkish, Dutch, and 70+ more — reading complex scripts and characters that other translator apps miss.

📴 OFFLINE MODE FOR TRAVEL
No signal at that remote historical site? No problem. Ruby Lens saves your scans locally and syncs automatically once you're back online, so your translation history is never lost mid-trip.

📜 TRANSLATION HISTORY
Every plaque, sign, and menu you translate is saved and organized, so you can revisit it later — great for building a personal travel journal or reviewing what you learned at a museum.

🔒 SECURE & PRIVATE
Sign in quickly with Google or Apple. Your data is encrypted in transit and never sold to third parties.

✨ POWERED BY AI OCR
Ruby Lens combines AI text recognition (OCR), machine translation, and natural voice synthesis into one camera translator app — built for accuracy you can trust, wherever your travels take you.

PERFECT FOR
• Museum and gallery visitors who want plaques and exhibit labels read aloud
• Tourists at historical sites, monuments, and landmarks with English-only signage
• Travelers translating menus, street signs, and transit information
• Language learners building vocabulary from real-world text
• Business travelers reading foreign documents
• Anyone who'd rather listen to a translation than read it

HOW IT WORKS
1. Open the camera and snap a photo of any plaque, sign, or text
2. Crop the area you want translated
3. Get an instant translation — read it or tap to hear it read aloud
4. Revisit any scan later in your translation history

Ruby Lens turns every English plaque, sign, or menu into something you can hear in your own language — download it free and never miss the story behind what you're looking at.
Photo translator: snap any sign or plaque, hear it read aloud in your language.
Updated on
Aug 6, 2026

Data safety

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  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

What’s new

Fixed an issue where scanning could occasionally submit the same image twice
- You'll now stay logged in even after app updates or maintenance — no more unexpected sign-outs
- Minor UI and stability improvements
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About the developer
Nasser Ali Afarin
nasser.ali.afarin@gmail.com
Middenstip 14 2492 VT Den Haag Netherlands