Summary
Low Key Translate is designed as a local-first translation app. Speech recognition, translation, and text-to-speech are performed on your iPhone or iPad when supported by the device, operating system, installed language assets, and selected languages.
Connect Nearby
Connect Nearby connects nearby participants using local peer-to-peer networking where available. Low Key Labs LLC does not receive Connect Nearby audio, transcripts, translations, voice selections, or messages. Participating devices exchange conversation data directly with each other.
Connect Worldwide
Connect Worldwide uses a Low Key Labs LLC relay server so participants can connect over distance. The relay receives room and transport metadata needed to operate the service, including room code, device UUID, connection timestamps, IP address, message routing metadata, and short-lived public key-exchange frames used to establish encrypted device-to-device messages.
Conversation payloads are encrypted by the app before they are relayed. The relay server is not designed to decrypt message contents, perform speech recognition, perform translation, perform text-to-speech, or store audio, transcripts, translations, or voice selections.
Voice Preferences
Each user may choose a translated voice preference. That preference is shared with other participants' devices so those devices can play translated speech using the requested voice style when available. Installed voices vary by device, so a receiving device may use the closest available voice. Low Key Translate does not infer speaker gender from speech in the launch implementation.
Permissions
Low Key Translate requests microphone access to capture speech, speech recognition access to transcribe speech, and local network access for Connect Nearby discovery. Audio playback uses the current iOS audio route, including built-in speaker, Bluetooth speaker, wired audio, earbuds, or headset as selected by the user in iOS.
Purchases
Subscriptions are managed by Apple through StoreKit. Low Key Labs LLC does not receive full payment card details from Apple.
Conversation History
Conversation history is off by default. If you enable local history, completed conversation entries are stored locally on your device and can be cleared from Settings. Clearing local history removes saved entries from your device only and does not delete anything from another participant's device.
Data Retention
Remote relay room metadata and public key-exchange frames are short lived and expire automatically. Operational relay logs use content-safe metadata and do not include audio, transcripts, translations, voice selections, or message payloads.
Contact
For Low Key Translate support, contact email@lowkeylabs.com. For website or company inquiries, contact web@lowkeylabs.app.