Comparison
InterScribe vs Wordly: an honest comparison
Both turn live speech into translated captions and voice. Wordly sells packages of hours, about $150 an hour as published. InterScribe sells hours that cover every caption language at once, from $19.96 at list price and $11.88 at the church price billed yearly. The sums are below, and so is where Wordly is better.
- Facts checked October 7, 2026
- 2 sources, listed below
- Written by InterScribe. We are not neutral, so we show our sources.
- Up to 12× less per hour
At the church price, billed yearly, with all 25 plan hours used.
Keynote, in English
Good teams don't start with a plan. They start with trust.
Side by side
The facts, with dates
| Question | InterScribe | Wordly |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | Engage is $499 a month with 25 event hours, about $19.96 an hour at full use. Captions in all supported languages are included. | Starts at about $1,500 for a 10-hour package, usable for 12 months. Nonprofit and education discount of 10% on Pro and above.2Read on their site October 7, 2026 |
| How you buy | Plan prices are published on the pricing page. A one-time event is quoted from your hours, rooms and languages. | Get a demo, Try it now, or Buy online. Says it activates within 5 to 10 minutes after purchase.12Read on their site October 7, 2026 |
| Languages | AI voice in 89 languages. Captions in all supported languages. | 60+ languages and 3,000+ language pairs, with voice, captions, transcripts and summaries.1Read on their site October 7, 2026 |
| AI voice | Natural AI voice in 89 languages, plus device voice (the phone reads captions aloud) on every plan. Your own interpreters use no AI-voice hours. | Voice in 60+ languages.1Read on their site October 7, 2026 |
| Human interpreters | Your own interpreters in a browser booth, mixed with AI voice per language. Booth seats from Engage. | Not published on the pages we read. |
| App needed to listen? | No. The QR code or link opens in the phone's browser. | Not published on the pages we read. |
| Works with | Audio in through a browser or the desktop streamer. Captions on ProPresenter screens. | Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, Cvent and Encore.1Read on their site October 7, 2026 |
Every fact about the other vendor names its sources below and the day it was read. Where its site does not say, the cell says so.
Event day
How each works on the day.
InterScribe
1 · Sound desk
Your mix goes in, as it does today.
2 · Laptop
A browser or the desktop streamer sends it.
3 · QR on screen
Your portal, or each room's own link.
4 · Their phone
Captions, AI voice or an interpreter, in the browser.
Interpreters join from the booth in their own browser. The operator console shows every room live.
Wordly: what its site says, October 7, 2026
- Before
- Get a demo, Try it now, or Buy online. Says it activates within 5 to 10 minutes after purchase.
- Connects
- Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, Cvent and Encore.
- Delivers
- 60+ languages and 3,000+ language pairs, with voice, captions, transcripts and summaries.
- How listeners join, and where audio comes from
- Not published on the pages we read. Ask in the demo.
Price per hour, compared fairly
Up to 12× less per hour than Wordly's published package.
$11.88 an hour against about $150 (InterScribe Engage at the church and nonprofit price, billed yearly, all 25 hours used).
$11.88 an hour
Engage, church price, yearly
$499 × 0.70 × 0.85 = $296.90 a month ÷ 25 h
$15.35 an hour
Community, church price, yearly
$129 × 0.70 × 0.85 = $76.75 a month ÷ 5 h
$19.96 an hour
Engage, list price
$499 a month ÷ 25 h
First, what each vendor calls an hour
The same word means different things. A price per language multiplies with every language you add; ours does not.
InterScribe
Per hour, all languages
One event hour covers every caption language at once, up to 20 languages at the same time, at no charge per language. AI-voice hours are counted separately; your own interpreters use none.
Wordly
As the vendor publishes it
Starts at about $1,500 for a 10-hour package, usable for 12 months. Nonprofit and education discount of 10% on Pro and above.2
One ordinary situation, worked out
Every number is on the card, so you can check the sum.
Wordly, as published
$1,500 for a package of 10 hours, used within the package's term.
$1,500
InterScribe
Pay once, 10 hours at the church price: $45 × (1 − 30%) = $31.50 an hour, −10% for 10 hours = $28.35. Without the church price: $40.50 an hour, $405 in all.
$283.50 for 10 hours
About 5× less (3.7× at list price)
Two ways to buy InterScribe
A monthly plan if you meet every week. Hours you pay for once if you don't. Captions and translation in every supported language are in every hour, on both.
Monthly plans
List price, per month
| Plan | Price | Event hours | AI-voice hours | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community | $129 | 5 | 0 | $25.80 |
| Launch | $349 | 15 | 5 | $23.27 |
| Engage | $499 | 25 | 20 | $19.96 |
| Elevate | $997 | 50 | 50 | $19.94 |
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Church or nonprofit and yearly billing combine. Engage becomes $296.90 a month: $11.88 an hour.
Pay once, no plan
By audience size, per hour
- Up to 250 people
- $45 an hour
- Up to 1,000 people
- $55 an hour
- Up to 5,000 people
- $70 an hour
- AI-voice hour
- $18 an hour
Church or nonprofit −30%: $31.50 an hour for up to 250 people.
Hours you buy up front stay usable for 12 months. Buying more at once takes a share off the whole purchase: 10 h −10%, 25 h −20%, 50 h −30%.
$45 × 0.70 = $31.50, −30% for 50 h = $22.05 an hour
- 10 h, church: $28.35 an hour
- 50 h, church: $22.05 an hour
Our prices are list prices in US dollars, read from our rates on the day the page is built; competitors' are as published on their sites on the date shown with each source; your quote may differ. Per-hour figures assume every included hour is used.
AI voice
Hear the difference before you buy.
An hour is long. A voice that follows the speaker's rhythm is easy to listen to for all of it; one that reads words out one at a time is tiring by minute ten. Some tools call text-to-speech "voice". Listen before you buy.
AI voice
Natural rhythm
Phrases flow, pauses fall where the speaker paused, and a question sounds like a question. InterScribe: a natural voice in 89 languages.
A phone's built-in text-to-speech
Robotic rhythm
Reads the captions word by word in one even tone, in whatever voice the phone has. Still useful: InterScribe includes it as device voice on every plan, at no extra cost.
Ask any vendor to play you their voice in your language before you buy.
Hear a sample
A real recorded keynote, voiced by the page your audience would use. Pick a language and listen to the rhythm.
More languagesWhere Wordly is better
We would rather you hear it from us.
Who should choose which
Choose Wordly if
- you want to start with a demo, or to buy a package online and be running within minutes
- you need connectors for Cvent, Encore or Webex
- your buyers ask for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 or a VPAT, which it lists
Choose InterScribe if
- you want chat, Q&A and polls for your audience on the same page as the captions
- you want your own interpreters in a browser booth, with AI voice covering the other languages
- your listeners should scan a QR code and pick their language in the browser
Where InterScribe differs
Choose InterScribe if this is your room.
Your listeners scan a QR code and pick their language in the browser.
Share your portal or the room link, not a single event: your portal always shows what is live and what is next. Nobody installs anything or makes an account.
- Choose Your portal, not This event
- Same page by link
- A code for people who type
Your own interpreters in a browser booth, AI voice for the other languages.
At the venue or from home. They pick the session, their language and their sound.
Chat, Q&A and polls on the same page as the captions.
Messages arrive translated into each listener’s language.
Picture this
Thursday, 8:50. The annual meeting.
For example:
The QR code is on the screen behind the lectern. A member from Montréal scans it, picks Français and puts in one earbud. Two rows back, a colleague reads Spanish captions.
Upstairs, two volunteer interpreters cover Portuguese from the booth in their browsers. The AV lead watches the console, sees every room live, and doesn't touch a thing.
Switching from Wordly
Moving over takes one rehearsal.
- Bring your word list
Export any glossary or term list you keep and paste it into Vocabulary. Names and terms carry over.
- Plug in the same audio
The feed you send today works here: a sound desk, a browser, or the desktop streamer.
- Swap the QR code
Print the new code on the same slide. Listeners do not need to learn anything new.
- Rehearse side by side
Run one recorded session through both and compare on your own phone before you cancel anything.
Before you sign
Questions to ask Wordly, and us.
Ask both the same questions, in the same order. The answers decide it faster than a feature list.
Questions about Wordly and us? Ask us.
Talk to a personIs InterScribe cheaper than Wordly?
Compare the published prices in the table above, each dated the day we read it. We price by the hour and every hour covers all caption languages at once, so ask Wordly whether their rate is per language before you compare the totals.
Do our listeners need an app?
No. A listener scans a QR code or opens a link on their phone, picks a language and follows along in the browser.
Can we use our own interpreters?
Yes. Interpreters join from a browser booth and the audience hears them live, while AI voice covers the other languages at the same time.
Does it work with Zoom or Teams?
Yes. Send the meeting's audio to InterScribe and listeners follow on their own phones, in the language they pick.
Sources
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- Wordly home page, read October 7, 2026
- Wordly pricing, read October 7, 2026
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