Your guests come from everywhere. Last month it was a family from São Paulo; this week it's a couple from Osaka. They booked through a platform that spoke their language, got confirmation emails in their language — and then they walk into your property and the TV on the wall greets them in English.
Not any more. BetterSTR TV — the app that turns any Android TV into a hotel-style welcome screen for your rental — now speaks 19 languages, and switching is as easy as clicking the flag in the corner of the home screen.
See it in action
Here's a quick demo of a guest switching languages on the TV — watch the whole interface relabel itself on the spot:
All 19 languages
English plus 18 translations, each shown to guests in its own name and flag so anyone can find theirs:
That list isn't a screenshot — it's generated from the same language catalog the TV app itself uses, so it's always current.
What actually gets translated
This isn't just a translated menu bar. When a guest picks their language, the TV relabels itself throughout, on both TV themes:
- The home screen — the welcome message, check-in and check-out labels, and every tile and button: Guidebook, Messages, Wi-Fi, Activities, Weather, Store, Apps, Live TV, Movies and TV Shows.
- The guidebook — navigation, plus your guide content itself where you've added a translation (one click in the Guide Builder — more below).
- The Wi-Fi screen — including the casting and AirPlay instructions, so “point your phone at the code” makes sense to everyone.
- Activities — the browse-and-book screen for local things to do, with prices already in the right currency.
- The Store — item list, buy flow, payment and the guest's folio.
- The Live TV guide — category filters and the Channel / Now / Next columns.
How it works for guests
In the top-left corner of the home screen there's a flag showing the current language. The guest selects it with the normal TV remote, picks their language from the list, and the TV switches immediately — no restart, no settings menu, no app download.
Their choice sticks for the whole stay: the TV remembers it until check-out, then automatically returns to your property's default language, ready for the next guest. Nobody arrives to the previous guest's Finnish.
How it works for you
You can set a default language per property under Members → Property → Property Defaults → Language Settings — handy if most of your guests share a language. Your TVs pick the change up automatically within about 15 minutes, and the same setting drives the default language of your online guest guide.
The step-by-step version, with screenshots of exactly where everything lives, is in our help article: Android TV: Guest Languages & Translations.
Your digital guidebook is multi-language too
The TV's interface is translated by BetterSTR automatically — but your content deserves the same treatment. BetterSTR digital guidebooks can be translated into all 18 languages from the Guide Builder: open Manage Translations, click the language, done. The translated guide then shows up everywhere guests read it — on their phone via their unique guide link, and on the TV in the living room.
And if you haven't translated your guide into a guest's language yet? The TV keeps its translated interface and simply shows your guide in English — guests never hit an empty screen.
What it costs
Nothing. Multi-language support is a free feature on every BetterSTR plan, like the welcome screen itself. If you can put an Android TV or Google TV device on the wall — or grab the plug-and-play BetterSTR TV stick from our shop — your international guests get a TV that speaks their language tonight.
New to the TV side of BetterSTR? The full rundown — personalised welcome screens, WiFi QR, activities, upsells and more — is on the BetterSTR TV page.