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Imotara · Honest comparison
Yes, though far fewer than in English. Imotara works in 22 languages, eleven of them Indian — Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia and Urdu — for both chat and voice, on the free tier as well as the paid one.
| Imotara | English-only apps | |
|---|---|---|
| Chat | All 22 languages. | English. |
| Voice and read-aloud | Supported across the language set. | English, usually. |
| Consent and safety screens | Shown in your language, not only English. | Often English even where the app is translated. |
| Crisis numbers | Matched to your country, not to your language. | Frequently a single national number. |
| Cost of the language support | None — it is on the free tier. | Sometimes a premium feature. |
Bengali is also spoken in Bangladesh, Tamil in Sri Lanka and Singapore, Urdu mostly in Pakistan, Punjabi in both India and Pakistan. An app that infers your helpline from the language you chose will hand some people a number they cannot call.
Imotara resolves the crisis service from country, separately from language, and names findahelpline.com for anywhere not covered.
Machine-translating an English wellbeing script produces text that is grammatical and slightly wrong — the register of a form rather than of a person. Imotara's consent and safety copy carries the same voice across all 22 languages and has been corrected by native speakers in use.
Each language also has its own question-and-answer page, written in its own script.