Getting started

Where captions appear is a display choice, not a session setting. The interpretation display card lists every surface as a tile — open one, open several, close the ones you don't need. Each fits a different room.

• Subtitles — over your slides

  An always-on-top overlay window floats translated captions over slides, videos, or a meeting window. The most common choice for presentations. Learn more

• Full screen — on the venue screen

  Turns an entire browser window into a caption screen — small source, large translation, built for projectors and LED walls. Works in every desktop browser, including Safari and Firefox. Learn more

• Interpreter — for meetings across languages

  A split view interprets both directions at once: your microphone into their language, the meeting tab's audio into yours. One screen share is all it takes. Learn more

You can switch modes while live — captions carry over without restarting the session.

What Newey listens to comes from the tile you picked at the start — and it is independent of where the captions show.

Overlay captions open in a Document Picture-in-Picture window — supported on Chrome/Edge 116+ and Firefox 151+, it stays on top of every other window and can be dragged onto any screen. On Safari 18+, captions open in a simpler video-style floating window instead.

Park it under your slides, along the edge of the stage screen, or anywhere else, and resize it to taste. You can move and resize it freely while presenting.

One window is just the start — the [New window] button opens extra caption-only popups you can place on other screens. Three screens, one talk, the same live session behind all of them.

To keep product names, proper nouns, and technical terms from being translated differently every time, add them to your glossary. One entry per line — source=translation forces a translation, a bare term boosts recognition, and lines starting with # are comments.

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Acme Robotics
LLM=large language model

Registered terms apply automatically when a session starts, taking priority in both speech recognition and translation. We recommend adding the key terms from your slides before the event.

Every display setting takes effect instantly while live — no need to restart the session.

Once captions are flowing you rarely need to touch anything — but when you do, nothing here restarts the session.

Turn on sharing and your audience follows the live captions on their own phones through a QR code, each viewer in the language they choose. Nobody needs an app or a sign-in.

Finished sessions are saved to your history with a transcript and an AI-generated title, so you can come back to any talk later — and turn it into a summary with AI notes.

• Saved to your account

  History syncs across your signed-in devices, is reachable by no other user, and is opened by no one on our side — turn on end-to-end encryption and we hold only ciphertext. You can also export all of your data as JSON from Settings.

• Export as TXT, Markdown or SRT

  Open a session in history to reread it as summary notes, as the translation with the source alongside, or as a plain script — and download exactly what you are reading as TXT, Markdown or SRT subtitles. SRT timecodes are sequential (3-second steps), so adjust them in an editor if you need exact timing.

• Private session

  Flip on [Private session] before you start and nothing is saved — when you end, everything is gone. Changed your mind at the end? A dialog lets you save just that session as an exception.

• End-to-end encryption — optional

  Turn it on in Settings → Security and your transcripts are encrypted on your own device with a key derived from a six-word recovery phrase — not even we can open them. Titles and metadata stay readable, so sync and search keep working. Keep the phrase somewhere safe: without it, encrypted transcripts cannot be recovered.

A note is the summary you would have written yourself from the transcript. When a saved session ends, open it in your history and switch to the Notes tab to turn the whole thing into a summary document.

• Eight templates, one session

  A one-pager, meeting minutes, a business meeting record, a talk or keynote, an earnings call, an interview or podcast, a news briefing, or a film and drama recap. Each template reads the same session with a different lens, and you can create one of each.

• Or have it written for you

  Turn on auto-generation and every session that gets saved comes with a one-page summary waiting — no asking. It is a per-device preference, so the machine you present from is the one that writes.

The browser extension also translates the page you are reading, in place. Press the shortcut (or use the Page translation tab in the popup) and each paragraph is replaced by, or joined with, your language; press again to bring the original back. It is a separate feature from live captions, and it works whether or not a session is running.

Three engines, and what leaves your device

• Basic — on your device

  Your browser’s own built-in translator runs on your machine. The page text never leaves the browser, and there is no sign-in and no limit. This is the default.

• Pro — context-aware

  Text segments go to our server, which has an AI model translate them with the surrounding context and your glossary, and returns only the translation. We keep neither the original nor the translation. Requires a paid plan and sign-in.

• My API key — your own provider

  Paste a key from your own AI provider — Gemini, Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Grok, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you enter yourself — and the extension sends the page straight to that provider from your browser, on your account. It never passes through us. Available on every plan, including free — you pay the provider directly. Register keys on the extension's key page (the “Manage keys” button in the popup); press Load there to pick from the models your key can actually use, and register more than one key to switch between them from the popup.

Your key is stored only in the extension on that device and is never sent to us; after you save it, only the last four characters are shown. Because the request is made on your account, what the provider does with that text is governed by your agreement with them — worth checking, as some providers may use input sent on a free tier to improve their models.

Two limits apply no matter which engine you pick: on sites the extension treats as sensitive (webmail, banking, health) and while the private toggle is on, translation always falls back to your device. Translated paragraphs are cached on your device so revisiting a page is instant, and the cache is cleared when you sign out or turn translation off.

The web console isn't the only surface — one account runs everywhere. See the download page for everything at a glance.

• Newey for macOS

  A menu-bar app: start captions straight from the tray, and the overlay stays on top of every app — including fullscreen Keynote and slides. Sign-in happens in your browser with the same account.

• Browser extension

  Available on the Chrome Web Store and Microsoft Edge Add-ons. It puts captions directly on the web page you're viewing, from YouTube to Google Slides to webinars, and they stay put even over browser fullscreen. It also translates the page you're reading, in place. Sessions land in the same console history.

• Newey for iOSComing soon

  Captions for the room in front of you — the phone listens to the conversation and shows both sides in your language. Coming soon.

A microphone is required, so Newey only works over HTTPS. If something looks off, update your browser to the latest version and try again.