Simultaneous interpreters used to be reserved for heads of state. Ora puts one on your Mac. Speak any language, see live translations stream into a floating caption card — entirely on Apple Silicon. No cloud. No account. Free forever.
👋 Hey Product Hunt — I'm the maker of Ora.
Simultaneous interpreters — the ones you see behind glass booths at the UN — are some of the most elite professionals in the world. They translate in real time as the speaker is still talking, often juggling three or four languages in a session. It's one of the highest cognitive-load jobs on earth, and one of the most expensive services you can hire.
Ora puts one on your Mac. Free.
Hit ⌘⇧T, start speaking, and translations stream into a floating caption card as you talk — usually before you've finished the sentence. It's not "transcribe, then translate" — it's a rolling, live interpreter that keeps pace with you.
Everything runs on your Mac's Metal GPU via MLX. No cloud. No account. No subscription. After the first model download, the whole thing works on an airplane.
Chinese ↔ English ↔ Japanese ↔ Korean ↔ Spanish ↔ French ↔ German and more. Swap source and target from the menu bar.
Signed + notarized .dmg, macOS 15+ on Apple Silicon. There's also a Python reference implementation in the repo if you want to see the pipeline.
I'll be in the comments all day. Really curious which conversations you'd bring Ora to — travel, meetings, family calls, conference talks. 🙏
Not relying on cloud tools or apis is a smart move. What trade offs did you make between latency vs accuracy when running everything locally on Apple Silicon??
About ora on Product Hunt
“Your personal simultaneous interpreter, on your Mac”
ora launched on Product Hunt on April 23rd, 2026 and earned 73 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #28 on the daily leaderboard. Simultaneous interpreters used to be reserved for heads of state. Ora puts one on your Mac. Speak any language, see live translations stream into a floating caption card — entirely on Apple Silicon. No cloud. No account. Free forever.
ora was featured in Mac (103.5k followers), Productivity (650.3k followers), Artificial Intelligence (466.8k followers) and GitHub (41.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 244.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted ora?
ora was hunted by wangzhang wu. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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