About us
A small messenger for the conversations that already matter to you.
We don’t think language should stand between people who want to talk to each other. NatChatt is here for the families, partners, friends, teams and travellers whose everyday talking moves between two or three or four languages. It’s less of an app, more of a place where those conversations can happen without anyone falling behind.
Our story
Where this started.
NatChatt came out of the pandemic. Most of our talking moved onto screens for a long stretch, and a lot of families kept up with each other through video calls and group chats they hadn’t bothered with before. The milestones still happened — birthdays, weddings, a baby on the way, the phone call that someone made to say their father had been admitted to hospital. The language kept getting in the way of all of it.
I felt it myself. My English wasn’t quite enough for some of the friendships I cared about, and I’d been working around it for years. My wife felt it more sharply. She was volunteering through the pandemic, handing out emergency aid where it was needed most, and the older and more isolated the person she was helping, the less likely they were to share any English with her.
So I started building NatChatt. A place where people from different backgrounds could keep talking — supporting each other, celebrating each other, asking for what they needed — in whichever language fit the moment.
— Ismet Karakus
The app
Hello, in every language we could fit on a screen.
The about screen inside the app is a soft pattern of greetings we’ve collected from the people who already use NatChatt. Hola, Merhaba, Здраво, Aloha, Bonjour, Salam. We add new ones when someone writes in with one we forgot.
What we do
A messenger with translation built in.
NatChatt translates text, voice notes, voice calls and video calls across more than a hundred languages. You can also share photos, videos, files and locations the way you would in any messenger — we carry those across as-is, with whatever caption you wrote translated alongside them.
Inbox and call history live in one place. Files attach where you expect them to. Group chats translate per reader so nobody has to keep up with three languages at once. The features behave the way you’d guess they would.
Our commitment
Tools for the people in the conversation, not for anyone watching it.
Group threads have administration tools you can pick up in a minute. Each member chooses the language they want to read the thread in, and the thread arrives in that language for each of them. Sharing files, sending a location, customising notifications, blocking someone you’d rather not hear from — all of it sits where you’d look first.
We don’t store your messages in the cloud. We don’t train AI models on your private conversations. We pass on what Google charges us for translation, at their published rate, with no markup of our own.
Our vision
What we’re aiming at.
A world where language is one less thing in the way of a conversation. Families celebrating across borders. Small teams working with people on other continents. Couples building lives in two countries. A traveller meeting a host who doesn’t share their language. We want NatChatt to be useful in those small daily moments, not as a centrepiece but as a thing that quietly works underneath.
Why NatChatt?
Three things we wanted to get right.
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01 · You decide
Settings you control.
Pick the language you read in, the people you’d rather not hear from, the notifications you actually want. The defaults stay out of your way.
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02 · By default
Privacy is the starting point.
Your messages don’t live on our servers. Translation runs through Google’s Gemini API at the moment of sending and isn’t kept after delivery.
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03 · Slowly
Small team, steady pace.
We update the app when something is ready, not when there’s a calendar slot. We talk to the people who use it. The next release is usually shaped by something one of them said.
Come with
NatChatt is small, and getting better one conversation at a time.
If you’ve already downloaded the app, thank you. If you’ve got feedback, an idea, or a story about a conversation NatChatt helped with, write to us. We read every message and one of us replies within a working day.