Imotara · Honest comparison

Are there mental health apps in my own language?

Yes, though far fewer than in English. Imotara works in 22 languages — English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Indonesian — for both chat and voice, on the free tier as well as the paid one.

At a glance

	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.

Language is not country, and the difference is a safety issue

Bengali, Tamil, Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese are each spoken in more than one country. 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.

Written in the language, not translated into it

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.

When Imotara is not the right answer