Translation credits, subscriptions and offline use explained
A subscription grants access; credits meter the online AI work. They are related, but they are not the same thing.
Monthly access
LingoVela’s monthly subscription includes 2,000 AI credits per month. An active subscription is required for all translation modes. Check Apple’s purchase sheet for your local price, taxes, renewal period and cancellation terms before confirming.
Which mode spends credits
OpenAI · Online and Private Cloud Compute use credits. On Device uses no AI credits. PCC’s tariff is half the equivalent GPT Realtime text-token rates, with actual token usage counted. Do not interpret this as a guarantee that a spoken minute always has a particular price.
Why duration is not enough
Two conversations of equal length can have different amounts of speech, different response lengths and different provider token usage. Short confirmations and long translated paragraphs do not cost the same merely because a timer ran for the same duration.
Buying and managing access
Optional packs add 1,000 or 5,000 credits; inspect the current purchase sheet. Restoring an Apple subscription and recovering a device-linked anonymous credit balance are different operations. Before deleting app data or changing devices, read the current support and privacy guidance. Data deletion does not cancel your Apple subscription.
