Speaker (Croatian)
Dobro jutro! Imate li rezervaciju za kamp?
Guten Morgen! Haben Sie eine Reservierung für den Campingplatz?
Bok Hallo
Live translation
Croatian ↔ German
through one pair of earbuds.
Share an earbud. Pick Croatian and German. Each of you hears the other in your own language, live.
A sample exchange
Three turns between Croatian and German, the way they'd actually go. Each card shows the original line above the translation.
Speaker (German)
Ja, auf den Namen Weber — zwei Nächte mit dem Wohnmobil.
Da, na ime Weber — dvije noći s kamperom.
Speaker (Croatian)
Izvolite, parcela dvanaest, odmah uz more. Struja je uključena u cijenu.
Bitte sehr, Stellplatz zwölf, direkt am Meer. Strom ist im Preis inbegriffen.
What metcha supports for this pair
| Croatian | German | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple on-device translation | — | ✓ |
| Deepgram cloud STT | ✓ | ✓ |
| iOS built-in voices | ✓ | ✓ |
| ElevenLabs premium voices (Plus) | 4 voices | 4 voices |
| Voice cloning (Plus, your voice) | ✓ | ✓ |
Why metcha for this pair
German is the language Croatian tourism grew up with: Germans are Croatia's largest group of foreign visitors year after year, and hundreds of thousands of Croatians live and work in Germany and Austria. The two societies have talked across this line for generations — often in broken fragments of each other's language. Both keep a genuine formal register (Sie, Vi), which metcha's Better Translation preserves instead of flattening.
Common phrases
Hand-picked phrases for everyday German-speaking situations. In metcha you don't need to memorize these — but they're useful to anchor what the app sounds like before you try it.
- Greeting
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Croatian: Dobar dan, drago mi je.
German: Guten Tag, freut mich.
- Thank you
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Croatian: Puno vam hvala.
German: Vielen Dank.
- Apology
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Croatian: Oprostite, ne razumijem.
German: Entschuldigung, ich verstehe nicht.
- Directions
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Croatian: Gdje je stara gradska jezgra?
German: Wo ist die Altstadt?
- Ferry
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Croatian: Kada polazi sljedeći trajekt?
German: Wann fährt die nächste Fähre?
- Ordering
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Croatian: Što nam preporučujete?
German: Was empfehlen Sie uns?
- Allergy
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Croatian: Alergičan sam na orašaste plodove.
German: Ich bin allergisch gegen Nüsse.
- Bill
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Croatian: Račun, molim vas.
German: Die Rechnung, bitte.
- Hotel
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Croatian: Imam rezervaciju.
German: Ich habe eine Reservierung.
- Pharmacy
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Croatian: Imate li nešto protiv glavobolje?
German: Haben Sie etwas gegen Kopfschmerzen?
Where you'd use it
- Campsites and marinas in Istria and Dalmatia, where German guests return every summer
- Croatian families visiting relatives who live and work in Germany See the Munich guide →
- Apartment hosts settling in German-speaking guests
- Konobas and restaurants serving the season's largest visitor group For restaurants →
Common questions
- Does metcha translate German to Croatian as well as Croatian to German?
- Yes, both directions run in the same session. When someone speaks Croatian, the other person hears it in German; when they reply in German, you hear it in Croatian. There is no direction to configure and no turn-taking button. See how it works for the full walkthrough.
- Is Croatian ↔ German translation in metcha on-device or cloud?
- Both. metcha's free tier uses Apple's on-device Translation framework where supported (partial — one side may route via the cloud path). metcha Plus optionally routes through a Better Translation cloud path for more natural phrasing, with a quiet fallback to the on-device path when the network is slow.
- Do I need both AirPods to use metcha for Croatian and German?
- No. The simplest mode is one earbud each — you keep one, the other person keeps the other. metcha handles both directions through that single shared pair. If you'd rather both wear your own earbuds, you can pair a second phone in seconds via a QR code (still no app install for the other person).
- What about regional accents within German?
- metcha's Deepgram STT path handles major regional variants of German robustly. The on-device path is more sensitive to accent — if you find the free path missing words, switching to the metcha Plus cloud STT usually fixes it without changing anything else about the conversation.
- Does it work without internet?
- The free on-device path works fully offline once the relevant Apple Translation language packs are downloaded. metcha Plus features that depend on Deepgram, Better Translation, or ElevenLabs voices need a network connection.
- How many voices does metcha ship for German?
- 4 curated native-German voices on metcha Plus, plus all iOS built-in voices on the free tier (and any Enhanced or Premium voices you've installed in Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content).
- Are conversations private?
- metcha does not store conversations on our servers, and none of our providers retain audio for training. The free on-device path never sends audio off your phone at all. See the privacy policy for the full data-handling story.