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I accidentally tapped to subscribe while attempting to download or use this app. I immediately canceled the subscription, which shows as ended on April 19. However, I was still charged $4.18, and the transaction appears as “Apple Cash Sent Money,” which is not consistent with a normal App Store or in-app purchase. The charge does not appear in my Apple purchase history, and Apple’s system indicates there is no transaction to refund, even though the payment was processed through Apple Pay. I did not intentionally send money via Apple Cash, and there is no corresponding record in my Apple Cash transaction history. This creates a confusing and misleading billing situation where I was charged but cannot locate or properly dispute the transaction through normal Apple channels. I am reporting this because the app’s payment flow appears misleading, and the transaction labeling does not accurately reflect what occurred.

I have been using Google to send messages to Russian speakers and they tell me that the English to Russian translation produces too much nonsense that’s unreadable to them. While I can view Russian to English and mostly get a sense of what they’re trying to tell me, there are still too many flaws for it to be reliable for work or personal correspondence. This new app produced the same flawed translations for Russian so I gave it up as a bad deal. Maybe they can iron out the bugs and make it useful. For example, a sentence dealing with an action by me to or for the benefit of someone comes back as me doing the action to myself, which changes the intent of the email correspondence. Even short, simple English statements aren’t guaranteed to be translated properly, much less complex technical sentences.

At first, I was looking for a translation program to help my grandson with his homework. Trying many and not being satisfied with any, I found this one. I once again was disappointed. Even though this one promised the world… for the most part I got stuck at every port trying to maneuver through the limited command structure and options. The program assumes that you understand and know the dialect and verbiage to construct the sentences. Not taking into consideration the different linguistics of the person actually saying the words which might not be formalize for this program to recognize. The picture to text option seemed great until using it. There is no easy recognizable option on the home screen to use it and you have to get through some hoops to find the option. Then when you do use it, and it does recognize and translate. As soon as you move the picture off of the page, the translation changes, the picture locks up with an error message stating it can’t recognize what it’s looking at. There should be a lock option to freeze the image after scanning. Though, this program has many benefits and compliments of a good translation app. Unless you use it on a day-to-day basis and the quirks refined. It would not be worth the subscription price, especially one that is charged weekly.