Write naturally. Espero translates automatically. Everyone reads in their selected language.
Choose your phone’s app store or start in your browser.
Sign in with your email. Choose a username and the language you want to read messages in.
Ask for your friend’s @username. Open Chats → +, search for the username and select the right person.
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Send your friend espero.live. Ask for their username after they have set up Espero.
Open your friend’s chat. Write in English and press send.
¡Hola, Noé! ¿Cómo estás?
Choose a topic for short steps and an illustration.
Sign in with your email. Choose a username and the language you want to read messages in.
Choose your phone’s app store or start in your browser. app.espero.live
Sign in with your email. Choose a username and the language you want to read messages in.
Choose English in Settings to read incoming messages in English.
Ask for your friend’s @username. Open Chats → +, search for the username and select the right person.
Ask for your friend’s @username. Open Chats → +, search for the username and select the right person.
username · @noe
Open your friend’s chat. Write in English and press send.
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Five tabs along the bottom of the app — that is the whole map. Whatever you write, everyone else reads in their own language, everywhere in it.
Your conversations and the search box. The round button at the bottom right starts a new chat, opens Saved Messages or creates a group.
Your call history. Voice and video calls start from the icons at the top of any one-to-one chat.
Translating outside a chat: quick translator, face to face and image translation.
Discover topic groups and new people, and manage your friends. Add someone by @username, QR code or invite link.
Your language — the one setting that decides what you read everything in — plus appearance, privacy, notifications and the in-app help chat.
Write in your own language and send. That is the whole trick — everything else is small icons around the message.
Open your friend’s chat. Write in English and press send.
Camera, photo, video, file.
A voice message — you hear it before it is sent. Start typing and it turns into send.
The message box changes shape twice, which causes the most common worry: has it already gone? It has not — not until you press send.
The microphone sits at its right edge. Tap it and recording starts.
The box turns into a timer and a stop button. Nothing has been sent yet.
After you stop, the message appears as a player: hear it, throw it away with the bin icon, or send it with the button on the right. Only that sends it.
Press and hold: reply, react, forward, copy, edit, delete, pin, save to a collection or “Translate again”. Double-tap to heart it.
Press and hold: reply, react, forward, copy, edit, delete, pin, save to a collection or “Translate again”. Double-tap to heart it.
Tap it to jump straight to that message.
Your call history. Voice and video calls start from the icons at the top of any one-to-one chat.
In one-to-one chats. If the icons are missing, the other person's Espero needs an update.
Your call history. Voice and video calls start from the icons at the top of any one-to-one chat.
Everyone writes in their own language and reads everyone else in it. That's the whole trick.
Tap the round button at the bottom right of Chats and create a group — or join one from Discover.
Choose a private or public group. Give it a name, find members by @username and create the group.
As an admin, tap the group name to set who can join and whether it appears in search. Closed groups are not listed.
Closed: Only admins can add members. No invite link. Approval: Anyone with the link can request to join; an admin approves. Open: Anyone with the link joins instantly.
As an admin, tap the group name to set who can join and whether it appears in search. Closed groups are not listed.
Closed: Only admins can add members. No invite link. Approval: Anyone with the link can request to join; an admin approves. Open: Anyone with the link joins instantly.
As an admin, tap the group name to set who can join and whether it appears in search. Closed groups are not listed.
Members can read the group’s messages. Join requests need approval before reading or posting. An unlisted group can still be joined by link if joining is enabled.
| Who can join | Group info |
|---|---|
| Closed | Only admins can add members. No invite link. |
| Approval | Anyone with the link can request to join; an admin approves. |
| Open | Anyone with the link joins instantly. |
Topics organize messages for all members; they do not create a private audience. All shows the whole conversation.
An owner or admin opens the group’s details and enables Topics. Return to the chat.
Tap + in the topic bar, enter a name and save. The new topic opens immediately: write and send your message there.
Topics organize messages for all members; they do not create a private audience. All shows the whole conversation.
Topics are on by default in normal one-to-one chats. Either person can create them. If the bar is missing, tap your friend’s name and enable Topics. Turning it off keeps the topics and messages.
Tap + in the topic bar, enter a name and save. The new topic opens immediately: write and send your message there.
Topics organize messages for all members; they do not create a private audience. All shows the whole conversation.
Topics are on by default in normal one-to-one chats. Either person can create them. If the bar is missing, tap your friend’s name and enable Topics. Turning it off keeps the topics and messages.
Press and hold one for mute, pin and archive.
Finds conversations and single messages, across languages.
Press and hold one for mute, pin and archive.
Videos get subtitles in your language — watch anything alone, understood.
Open “Saved Messages” from the new-chat menu.
Send yourself links, notes, photos and videos.
Videos get subtitles in your language — watch anything alone, understood.
The eye icon shows the original text, the speaker icon reads it aloud in your language, and the あ→a button writes other scripts in familiar letters.
The eye icon shows the original text, the speaker icon reads it aloud in your language, and the あ→a button writes other scripts in familiar letters.
Tap the speaker icon under a message to hear it read aloud in your language.
Tap the あ→a button to see other scripts in readable letters (pinyin, romaji…).
Press and hold: reply, react, forward, copy, edit, delete, pin, save to a collection or “Translate again”. Double-tap to heart it.
Press play — the subtitles follow along in your own language.
Paste a YouTube link into any chat — Espero transcribes the video and translates it.
Or choose a video from Gallery, Files or Google Drive.
Press play — the subtitles follow along in your own language.
Put the phone between you — each person taps their mic and just speaks.
Open the Translate tab and choose “Face to face”.
Put the phone between you — each person taps their mic and just speaks.
The other side reads it — and hears it spoken — in their language, live.
Translating outside a chat: quick translator, face to face and image translation.
Translating outside a chat: quick translator, face to face and image translation.
Open the Translate tab and choose “Face to face”.
The same profile: picture, @username, bio and links.
Tap it to open your profile.
The same profile: picture, @username, bio and links.
Sign in with your email. Choose a username and the language you want to read messages in.
Choose English in Settings to read incoming messages in English.
Choose English in Settings to read incoming messages in English.
Your language — the one setting that decides what you read everything in — plus appearance, privacy, notifications and the in-app help chat.
Illustration. A conversation. Your own messages sit on the right, everyone else's on the left; the colours follow the theme you pick.
