70 languages·10 free minutes·Minutes never expire·Android now, iPhone coming soon
Talk in 70 languages, Arabic included. The pairs we have tested less are marked Beta in the app.
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English⇄العربية
They said
أهلاً وسهلاً. حوالي عشرين دقيقة.
Welcome. About twenty minutes.
You said
Canada. It's my first time in Cairo.
كندا. دي أول مرة ليّا في القاهرة.
Stop
Conversation should feel like conversation.
We travel a lot, and we wanted talking to people abroad to feel easy: no buttons, no screen between you, just the moment. So we built Bilu around six simple ideas.
Just talk
Tap Start once. After that, the conversation simply flows.
Eyes on each other
Your phone rests on your knee or in your hand. You look at the person, not at a screen.
Nothing for them to do
The other person doesn't install or wear anything. They hear your words in their language, from your phone.
The earbuds you already have
Any Bluetooth earbud with a microphone. One in your ear, the other ear free.
Your Arabic, your way
Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine or Standard Arabic, in both directions.
Pay for the trip, keep the rest
Buy minutes once. Whatever you don't use waits for your next journey.
How it works
B · I — BLEND IN
Pick two languages
Yours, and the language of the person in front of you. Bilu remembers them.
L — LISTEN
One earbud in
A quick check that you hear Bilu in your ear. The other ear stays free.
U — UNDERSTAND
Tap Start and talk
Speak normally. You hear them in your language; your phone answers for you out loud.
Blend in. Listen. Understand. The letters of the name are the three steps.
One app, every moment
Two parts, four ways to use them. Pick the one that fits where you are. When Bilu speaks for you, it speaks out loud, so everyone knows it is translating.
Bilu Talk
A conversation, both ways
1
Earbud
Taxis, hotels, shops
One earbud in. Their words reach your ear in your language; yours come out of the phone in theirs.
2
Table
Meals, meetings, doctors
No earbud needed. Lay the phone between you and everyone just talks. Bilu shows whose turn it is.
Bilu Listen
One way: what is said around you
3
Earbud
Announcements, tours, TV
What is said around you, in your language, in your ear, with captions.
4
Read
Conferences, meetings, noisy places
Can't use an earbud? Read it. Live captions on your screen in your language, with no voice at all.
Plus My Trip
Before you fly, paste a hotel or flight confirmation so names and places come through exactly right.
Arabic, the way you speak it.
Choose your dialect and Bilu answers in it: words and accent from Cairo, Dubai, Riyadh, Beirut, Damascus or Ramallah, or Modern Standard Arabic.
Prices in US dollars; Google Play and the App Store show your local price. Minutes are shared across Talk, Listen, Read and Table.
Coming next
In development
iPhone
Bilu for iPhone is with Apple for review now. Same app, same minutes.
Very soon · join the list below
Ambient
Walk into a conference, a wedding or a market and understand the room all day.
In development
Bilu Call
Call any phone number and speak your language. The hotel hears theirs.
In development
Bilu Tour
One guide, every language. Guests scan a code and listen on their own phone.
For tour operators
About us
We've been lucky to travel a lot: taxis, markets, small restaurants where nobody spoke our language. What we loved most was never the sights. It was the people. Bilu is our way of making those conversations easy, so you can order the food you actually want, laugh with the taxi driver, and ask the lady at the market how she makes it.
The technology behind Bilu moves fast, so every few weeks we test the newest models ourselves and bring in whatever makes the conversation feel more natural. It isn't perfect, and we don't pretend it is. It keeps getting better.
