Tova Translate
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Read signs, menus & talk to anyone in 118 languages. Works offline in China.
- Downloads
- 20+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Oct 13
- 2026 · v1.2.7
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About Tova Translate
Travel anywhere. Translate anything. No VPN required.
Tova Translate is the fastest way to read signs, menus, and contracts — and to talk with locals — across 118 languages. Built for travelers, business trips, expats, and heritage families who want to feel at home in any country.
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WHY TRAVELERS PICK TOVA
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★ Live camera OCR with pinyin / romaji / Hangul / phonetic readings stacked over every character — actually understand what you're looking at, don't just translate it
★ Voice translation in both directions — say something in English, hear it in Chinese; the other person speaks Chinese, you read English. Whisper-class speech recognition runs on-device
★ Works offline in mainland China — no VPN, no Google account, no friction. On-device translation kicks in automatically when the network is unavailable
★ Per-character pronunciation tiles for Chinese (pinyin with tones), Japanese (romaji), Korean (Revised Romanization), Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Vietnamese, and 12 more
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WHAT YOU CAN DO
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★ Point your camera at a menu — see the dish names in your language with pronunciations
★ Read shop signs, road signs, contracts, prescriptions, museum placards
★ Have a two-way conversation with a taxi driver, hotel desk, or shop owner — both speakers see and hear their own language
★ Auto-detect spoken language across English / Mandarin / Cantonese / Japanese / Korean
★ Translate Cantonese (yue) with Jyutping readings
★ Snap a photo of a multi-column contract — multi-column OCR (Pro Plus)
★ Upload a PDF and translate the whole document at once (Pro Plus)
★ Save phrases for offline use; reopen later for instant playback
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SCRIPTS WE SUPPORT
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Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Devanagari (Hindi / Marathi / Nepali), Latin (English / Spanish / French / German / Portuguese / etc.), Thai, Lao, Burmese, Khmer, Tamil, Bengali, Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic (Russian), Tibetan, Uyghur, Mongolian, and more.
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PLANS
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★ Free — Live camera OCR with pinyin, full translation to all 118 languages, auto-detect source language. Ad-supported.
★ Pro ($7.99 / mo or $49.99 / yr) — Ad-free experience, Favourites, offline language packs, alternate translation engines, Common Replies, Quick-phrases, Learner Mode with HSK and tone colors, Glossary (pin your own preferred translations).
★ Pro Plus ($19.99 / mo or $199.99 / yr) — Everything in Pro plus Business mode (formality 您 / keigo / imnida / usted / Sie), multi-column Document OCR, PDF upload, Boardroom 3-way speech for meetings.
★ Team ($999 / yr, 10 seats) — Procurement-friendly annual SKU for corporate travel teams.
★ 7-Day Travel Pass — One-time intro for first-time travelers who just need Pro for a week.
Auto-renews until canceled. Cancel anytime in Google Play → Subscriptions.
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TRUSTED BY
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Heritage families reconnecting with relatives. Solo travelers reading street food menus. Executives reviewing contracts in Shanghai. Students piecing together Mandarin on the fly.
Privacy policy: https://tovatranslate.app/privacy/
Terms: https://tovatranslate.app/terms/
Support: [email protected]
Tova Translate is the fastest way to read signs, menus, and contracts — and to talk with locals — across 118 languages. Built for travelers, business trips, expats, and heritage families who want to feel at home in any country.
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WHY TRAVELERS PICK TOVA
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
★ Live camera OCR with pinyin / romaji / Hangul / phonetic readings stacked over every character — actually understand what you're looking at, don't just translate it
★ Voice translation in both directions — say something in English, hear it in Chinese; the other person speaks Chinese, you read English. Whisper-class speech recognition runs on-device
★ Works offline in mainland China — no VPN, no Google account, no friction. On-device translation kicks in automatically when the network is unavailable
★ Per-character pronunciation tiles for Chinese (pinyin with tones), Japanese (romaji), Korean (Revised Romanization), Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Vietnamese, and 12 more
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
WHAT YOU CAN DO
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★ Point your camera at a menu — see the dish names in your language with pronunciations
★ Read shop signs, road signs, contracts, prescriptions, museum placards
★ Have a two-way conversation with a taxi driver, hotel desk, or shop owner — both speakers see and hear their own language
★ Auto-detect spoken language across English / Mandarin / Cantonese / Japanese / Korean
★ Translate Cantonese (yue) with Jyutping readings
★ Snap a photo of a multi-column contract — multi-column OCR (Pro Plus)
★ Upload a PDF and translate the whole document at once (Pro Plus)
★ Save phrases for offline use; reopen later for instant playback
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
SCRIPTS WE SUPPORT
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Devanagari (Hindi / Marathi / Nepali), Latin (English / Spanish / French / German / Portuguese / etc.), Thai, Lao, Burmese, Khmer, Tamil, Bengali, Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic (Russian), Tibetan, Uyghur, Mongolian, and more.
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PLANS
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★ Free — Live camera OCR with pinyin, full translation to all 118 languages, auto-detect source language. Ad-supported.
★ Pro ($7.99 / mo or $49.99 / yr) — Ad-free experience, Favourites, offline language packs, alternate translation engines, Common Replies, Quick-phrases, Learner Mode with HSK and tone colors, Glossary (pin your own preferred translations).
★ Pro Plus ($19.99 / mo or $199.99 / yr) — Everything in Pro plus Business mode (formality 您 / keigo / imnida / usted / Sie), multi-column Document OCR, PDF upload, Boardroom 3-way speech for meetings.
★ Team ($999 / yr, 10 seats) — Procurement-friendly annual SKU for corporate travel teams.
★ 7-Day Travel Pass — One-time intro for first-time travelers who just need Pro for a week.
Auto-renews until canceled. Cancel anytime in Google Play → Subscriptions.
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TRUSTED BY
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Heritage families reconnecting with relatives. Solo travelers reading street food menus. Executives reviewing contracts in Shanghai. Students piecing together Mandarin on the fly.
Privacy policy: https://tovatranslate.app/privacy/
Terms: https://tovatranslate.app/terms/
Support: [email protected]
What’s new
Version 1.2.7 · Updated October 13, 2026
Bug fixes and improvements.
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