Cat Translator – Pet to Human

This app is “free” because it offers a free trial. It costs $10 per week unless you accept a discount, but you are still billed weekly even with the discount. Monthly and annual subscriptions are not offered, nor is a lifetime single device license offered. It has a lot of cute features for the money, emojis, articles about cats, pet profiles to name a few. But if you are truly broke or under 18 without a gift card, this app is not for you.

If you sort by most favorable reviews, you’ll see that there’s literally one five star review and the rest are negative. Despite that, this app somehow has a 4.6 star rating. It’s pretty obvious to me that the majority of these positive reviews are most likely paid for, so I recommend that you report this app to Apple. and in case you’re wondering, the app doesn’t work at all whatsoever, and the app developers almost certainly know this, which is why they try to trick you into buying an absurdly priced weekly subscription before you even use the app once.

As a pet parent, I’ve learned about cat communication and can communicate better on my own with my cats through research on cat behavior, body language, and vocalization’s in the past 18 years… and I was hoping this app would seem to prove at least partially decent with this AI… but it did not so far. I’m not even sure that this AI would know the difference between a stress purr and a happy purr, or even the difference between chittering to mimic prey and a greeting to a person. I even tried using good voice inflection and tone, but to no avail. The AI is not very well trained yet, it would seem. I understand it’s hard to be aware of the situation and body language that help decipher what cats are trying to say, but perhaps also offer some educational info on how cats completely communicate with a mix of vocals and body language and situation (to help someone understand why, for example, a purr can mean several different things)… so that even if AI fails, pet parents can still learn how to communicate better.