Harry See who’s talking.

Live captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing people

See who’s talking.

Harry turns the conversation around you into big, clear captions. Everyone gets their own colour, their name and their photo, so you always know who said what.

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Harry on a phone at a family dinner. Kim’s words are in yellow, Sophia’s in blue and Matt’s in green, each with their name and photo.

Everything Harry saves stays on your phone.
Works in Chrome, Edge and Safari on phones, tablets and computers.

Our story

It started with my dad.

“I wanted Dad back in the conversation.”

My dad lost his hearing suddenly. Family meals and catch-ups that used to be easy became hard work. He’d watch faces, catch a word here and there, and slowly drift out of the conversation.

I wanted to help him take part again, so we tried the captioning apps you can download. Some are clever, but none of them fitted the way our family actually talks: lots of people at once, interrupting, laughing, changing the subject. Dad needed to see what was said and who said it, quickly enough to join in.

So we built Harry. It gives every person their own colour, like subtitles on the telly, with their name and photo beside their words. It sets the conversation out in paragraphs, so it reads like a story. And when Dad wants to reply without speaking, he can type and show everyone.

Harry was made for one family. We hope it helps yours.

MattFounder, and Dad’s son

Who said what

Everyone in their own colour.

Like subtitles on the telly, every voice gets its own colour. Their name and photo sit beside their words, and a new paragraph starts whenever someone else speaks. You know who’s talking at a glance.

Close-up of Harry’s captions: each person’s words in their colour, under their name and photo.

People Harry knows

It knows your family.

Add each person once: their name, a photo, and a short recording of their voice. From then on, Harry puts the right name and face on their words as soon as they start talking.

  • About 20 seconds to learn a voice
  • Wrong person? Tap the name and Harry learns
  • Voices are kept on the phone, never uploaded
The People Harry knows list: Kim, Sophia, Matt and Josh, each with a photo.
Recording Sophia’s voice. She reads a short passage shown on screen.

Share with the family

Set it up. Hand it over.

Visiting someone? Add everyone on your phone, then send them all to the new phone in one go, by WhatsApp, Messages, AirDrop or email. They arrive with their names, photos and voices, ready to use.

Talk back

Reply your way.

Not everyone wants to speak. Tap Type, write your reply, and Harry shows it on screen, big and clear, for everyone to read. It works just as well at the pharmacy counter as at the kitchen table.

Harry at a pharmacy counter. The pharmacist’s words are captioned, and a typed reply is ready to show.

The details

Thoughtful, all the way through.

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Text as big as you like.

One tap makes the captions bigger or smaller. A night look like TV subtitles, or a day look, with high-contrast subtitle colours in both.

Hide the voices you can hear.

Your own, or anyone you don’t need captions for. They shrink to a single line.

Words it should know.

Add family names and local words, so a pastie stays a pastie.

Save what matters.

Keep conversations on the phone to read again, copy or download.

Many languages.

English, Welsh, Polish, Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati and more.

No app store. No account.

Open Harry in Chrome, Edge or Safari on any phone, tablet or computer, then add it to the home screen so it opens like an app. It keeps the screen awake while it listens.

How it works

Three steps to the table.

Step 1

Add the family.

Names, photos and a few seconds of each voice. Or skip this, and Harry gives everyone a colour as they talk.

Step 2

Put the phone down.

Lay it on the table where everyone can be heard, and press Start.

Step 3

Follow every word.

Captions appear as people speak, each in their own colour, set out in easy paragraphs.

On your home screen

One tap away.

Add Harry to the home screen and it opens full screen, just like an app. No app store, nothing to download. Harry offers to do it the first time you open it.

iPhone and iPad

  1. Open Harry in Safari.
  2. Tap Share. On newer iPhones, tap ••• first.
  3. Tap Add to Home Screen, then Add.

Android

  1. Open Harry in Chrome.
  2. Tap the menu .
  3. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.

On iPhone, Harry on the home screen also keeps your people and conversations safe from Safari’s habit of clearing websites you haven’t opened for a week.

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Privacy

Private by design.

Everything Harry keeps stays on your phone. Your conversations, and your family’s names, photos and voices, are saved on the device itself. Not on our website, and not in an account.

Speech in, words out

Harry sends the sound over an encrypted connection to our speech service as people talk. Only the words come back, and they’re saved on the phone.

No accounts

Nothing to sign up for, and no password to remember.

Voices, not recordings

Harry remembers a voice as a rough profile of its pitch and tone. It never keeps a recording.

Photos cleaned up

Photos are shrunk, and hidden details such as where they were taken are removed.

Locked down

Harry runs under a strict security policy: only its own code can run, and other websites can’t embed it.

Delete in one tap

Passing the phone on? Clear everything Harry has saved from Settings.

Why does any sound leave the phone? Turning speech into accurate text, and telling voices apart, takes far more computing power than a phone has. So while Harry is listening, the sound streams over an encrypted connection to our speech service, Deepgram, and the words come straight back. Harry asks Deepgram to keep the sound only as long as it takes to turn it into text, and never to use it for training. Nothing is stored on our website, and Harry never keeps recordings. If Deepgram can’t be reached, Harry uses the browser’s own speech service instead (Google for Chrome, Apple for Safari, Microsoft for Edge), under that company’s privacy policy.

Give someone back the conversation.

Open Harry

Works in Chrome, Edge and Safari on phones, tablets and computers.