🌍 Equipment Tracker Now Speaks Your Language
Equipment Tracker Pro now runs in Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese and Italian, following your phone's own language setting. The buttons were the easy part. The work was in the trade vocabulary a technician who doesn't think in English actually uses, in the reports, and in deciding what stays untranslated.
The Words That Mean Two Things
Translating an app for the trades is not the same as translating a shopping app. Almost every word that matters has an everyday meaning and a completely different one on a roof.
A belt is not something that holds up your pants — it is the drive belt on a blower motor, and the wrong word makes a parts list read like a clothing order. Charge is not something on an invoice; it is the refrigerant charge in a system. A unit is not a measurement and not an apartment — it is the machine you are standing in front of. Get any of those wrong and the app reads like it was written by someone who has never touched the equipment.
So we translated it into the words a technician in each language actually uses, then audited those trade terms a second time. If a word had a plausible wrong reading, we checked where it appears in the app before translating it.
What Deliberately Stays in English
Some things must never be translated, because they are printed on the equipment itself. If a nameplate says R-410A, the app says R-410A, in every language. The same goes for:
- ▸ Refrigerant designations — R-410A, R-22, R-134a, R-407C, R-32, R-454B
- ▸ Belt codes — A32, AX32, BX74, 4L340, 5VX810
- ▸ Filter sizes and MERV ratings — 16x20x2, MERV 8
- ▸ Regulatory references — EPA, EPA 608, F-Gas, ASHRAE, NATE
- ▸ Units and abbreviations — PSI, CFM, BTU, RPM, kW, HP, MFD, FLA, MCA
- ▸ Every model number, part number and serial number you have entered
Your Data Does Not Change
Switching languages changes the app's labels and buttons. It does not touch a single thing you have entered. Your equipment names, service history, technician notes and vendor names stay exactly as you wrote them, because those are your records, not the app's wording.
The AI nameplate scanner is unaffected too. It reads the physical plate and reports what is stamped there, whatever language you are working in.
Your Reports and the AI Are Translated Too
A report you hand to a building owner is built separately from the app's screens, so at first it still came out in English: every column heading, section title and summary line. A report you hand to a building owner is built separately from the app's screens, so at first it still came out in English: every column heading, section title and summary line. That is fixed. Generate a report on a Spanish phone and it prints in Spanish. The other languages work the same way.
AI Diagnostics and AI Condition Scan answer in your language as well. Describe a compressor that will not start, or scan a rusted condenser, and the assessment comes back in the language you work in. The technical content does not move. Refrigerant designations, belt codes, pressures in PSI, model and serial numbers all stay verbatim, because a translated part number is no use to you standing at the unit.
How to Use It
There is nothing to turn on. Set your phone to Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese or Italian and the app follows it the next time you open it. Set it to anything else and you get English. If you would rather pick one yourself, open Settings and use the Language row at the top. That choice beats the phone.
Spanish is split into Latin American and European variants, because the vocabulary genuinely differs — and a technician should read the words used where they work.
Why We Did It
Roughly a quarter of HVAC and refrigeration technicians in the United States are Hispanic or Latino. The trade is international by nature too: the same rooftop units, the same compressors and the same filter sizes turn up in every country.
Standing on a hot roof recording a serial number is hard enough without working through an app in a second language. A technician should not have to work around an app in a second language while standing on a roof in the heat trying to record a serial number.
This is the first release. If a term reads wrong in your language, or something is still in English, tell us. You are the ones who will catch the last mistakes, working on real equipment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which languages are supported?
Seven in total: English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish in both its Latin American and European variants.
How do I change the language?
Two ways. By default it follows your phone — change the phone language, reopen the app, and it comes back translated. Or set it directly. Open Settings and pick a language from the Language row at the top. The app restarts to apply it, and that choice overrides the phone setting.
Will translating change my saved data?
No. Only the app's own wording changes. Anything you typed in is stored the way you typed it and is never put through translation.
Are refrigerant and belt codes translated?
No, and deliberately so. R-410A, AX32, MERV 8, EPA 608 and every model, part and serial number are left untouched. They are identifiers, not words, and a translated one is no use to you at the unit.
Does the AI nameplate scanner still work in other languages?
Yes. It works off the plate itself, so your phone setting makes no difference to what it pulls back.
Is this a Pro feature?
No. The languages are available to everyone, on both iPhone and Android.
Jonathan Curtis
HVAC Technician & Founder · Equipment Tracker Pro
Jonathan Curtis is an HVAC technician and the founder of Equipment Tracker Pro. He built the app to solve real-world property handoff challenges — including the absolute nightmare of losing years of maintenance histories and having to reprint physical asset tags.
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