Bilingual News: Transcripts is an educational app available for iPhone that offers free conversations in English and Japanese on current events and special guest episodes. Users can utilize transcripts to listen along with the podcast audio, learn new words, create word lists, and enhance their Japanese language skills. The app provides word lists for each episode, a vocabulary quiz, a competitive game mode, and episode-based study worksheets.

Bilingual News: Transcripts also includes features such as original essays by Michael and Mami, interactive Shukudai exercises based on podcast episodes, a bilingual dictionary, a word-test mode with a pet creature evolution system, a notes section for jotting down useful phrases, in-app podcast audio with various functionalities, a multiplayer Battle Mode for vocabulary exchange, and the option to print transcripts and essays.