Snap
A line grabs you mid-episode? Point your phone at the screen — or share a screenshot straight to Tellybird. Reading happens on your device.
“You’re gonna wanna see this.”
How it works
Built for the couch. Works for your brain.
Get it
Seconds later: a natural translation in your language, plus the words and phrases actually worth learning — slang, idioms and all.
put it past someone — explained in your language
Review & Quiz
Every word lands in your notebook, tagged with the show it came from. Flip through review cards or take a quick quiz — a few minutes at a time, and the words are yours.
Quiz · put it past someone means… A, B or C?
Get a nudge
Turn on reminders and Tellybird taps your shoulder exactly when memory starts to slip — 1, 3 and 7 days after you last touched a list. Keep practicing and it stays quiet. Entirely optional.
🔔 Time to practice · your words are waiting
Why Tellybird
Subtitles fly by. Your words shouldn’t.
Learn from what you love
No textbook sentences about airports. Your vocabulary comes from the scenes you chose to watch — so it comes with a story attached, and stories are what memory keeps.
Real spoken language
Shows talk the way people talk. Tellybird keeps the tone — slang, idioms, sarcasm — and explains what it actually means, not what a dictionary wishes it meant.
One notebook, all your shows
Words are saved into lists by show and season, ready to review or share with a friend.
Private by design
No account, no email, no ads, no ad tracking. Your photos never leave your phone — text is read on-device — and your learning data stays yours.
Languages
English in. Your language out.
Translations and explanations arrive in your native language — 30 supported and counting.
Türkçe
Deutsch
Français
Español
Nederlands
Italiano
العربية
فارسی
हिन्दी
中文
Português
Русский
日本語
한국어
Polski
Українська
Română
Ελληνικά
Čeština
Magyar
Svenska
Dansk
Norsk
Suomi
Bahasa Indonesia
Tiếng Việt
ไทย
עברית
বাংলা
اردو
Pricing
Free to start. Honest to upgrade.
Free
$0
Forever.
- 5 subtitle captures every 6 hours — the meter refills while you watch
- Full notebook, lists, review and quizzes
- Sharing with friends
- All 30 languages
Tellybird Pro
$3.99/month
or $39.99/year · 7 days free
- 100 captures a day — enough for the longest binge
- Everything in Free, uninterrupted
- Cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings
Prices in your local currency are shown in the app. Allowances may be tuned over time; the app always shows your current balance.
FAQ
Fair questions.
Does it work with any show?
Any screen with English subtitles: streaming, broadcast, DVDs, even another device. If you can see the subtitle, Tellybird can catch it. You can also share a screenshot straight to the app.
Which languages does it support?
You learn English; translations and explanations come in your native language — 30 supported, from Turkish and German to Japanese and Urdu. The full list is right above.
Is my data private?
Yes, unusually so. There is no account, no email, no ads and no advertising or cross-app tracking. Photos are read on your device and never uploaded; your saved words and progress stay on your phone. The only things we keep are anonymous usage statistics and crash reports; the subtitle text you translate passes through our server to the AI provider and is not stored. Details in the privacy policy.
How is this different from Duolingo?
Duolingo gives you its sentences. Tellybird starts from yours — the lines of the shows you already watch. You learn the language you actually hear, in the order your life presents it.
Do I need an account?
No. Download, point, snap. No sign-up, no login, nothing to remember — your notebook lives on your device.
What does Pro add?
One thing, honestly: room to binge. Free gives you 5 captures every 6 hours; Pro raises that to 100 a day. Everything else — notebook, review, quizzes, reminders, sharing, all 30 languages — is free. Pro is $3.99/month or $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial.
That line you didn’t catch?
Caught.
Coming soon to theApp Store