TaqLens

Point your camera at a sign, menu, page or label. TaqLens reads the text, translates it, reads it aloud, and helps you learn the words you care about.

No account. No ads. Your photos and history stay on your phone.

HOW IT WORKS
• Scan Text: take a photo with your camera, or import one you already have
• Review: TaqLens reads the text on your phone. Fix anything it got wrong before you translate
• Translate: pick your language and tap Translate. After a one-time download of each language, translation works with no internet
• Listen: tap the speaker to hear the original or the translation
• Learn more: get a plain-language explanation of any sentence, with a word-by-word breakdown, grammar notes and examples
• Save: bookmark words and sentences into your own vocabulary list
• Practise: review what you saved with simple flashcards

WORKS OFFLINE, ONLINE WHEN YOU WANT IT
Reading photos, language detection, translation and speech all run on your phone once the languages are downloaded. If you'd rather not wait for a download, you can choose "Translate online now" for that scan. TaqLens always asks first, because online translation sends the scanned text to a server.

13 LANGUAGES
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi and Bengali.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No sign-up, no ads, no tracking or analytics
• Photos, scans, vocabulary and flashcards are stored only on your device
• Only two optional features use the internet: "Learn more" explanations (sends the selected sentence) and "Translate online now" (sends the scanned text). You agree to each before it is used
• Nothing you send is stored by the TaqLens service

GOOD TO KNOW
• Reading text from photos supports Latin-script languages plus Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Devanagari (Hindi). Arabic, Bengali and Cyrillic (Russian) text in photos can't be read yet; you can still type or paste it and translate it
• Translations and explanations are made by software and can contain mistakes. Check anything important, such as safety or medical notices, with a native speaker
• Offline language downloads are large; connect to Wi-Fi when you download them
• Speech uses the voices installed on your phone. If a language has no voice, add one in your phone's text-to-speech settings

Made for travellers, students and the curious. Snap. Understand. Learn.