Read any sign. Speak with anyone.
Even in China — no VPN.

Point your camera at a menu. Talk to a taxi driver. Read a contract. Tova works in 118 languages — and keeps working when the network (or the Great Firewall) doesn't.

Download on the App Store Coming soon to Google Play

Free to download No sign-up required Works in China — no VPN

118

Languages

Offline phrase packs

Camera scripts

VPNs required

Use it to 🍜 Order food 🚕 Hail a taxi 📋 Read contracts 💬 Make friends 🏨 Check in at hotels 🏛️ Read museum signs

Live camera OCRDetected text + per-character pinyin in a single dark panel at the bottom of the camera screen — speak / show / save / copy actions and a STABLE READ pill on the high-confidence line.

Three speakers, one conversation — Tova Boardroom mode across English, Mandarin, and Japanese

Three speakers, one conversationBoardroom mode hears all three languages and translates between them — perfect for cross-border meetings.

Two-way voice translationSpeak naturally — see the pinyin reading and translation in seconds, then tap Listen to hear it spoken back.

Mandarin or Cantonese?

Tova does both — with the right romanization for each.

Other apps treat Chinese as one language and slap pinyin on every character. Tova doesn't. Pick 简体中文 and you get real Hanyu Pinyin above every character. Pick 廣東話 and you get real Jyutping — the romanization Hong Kong Cantonese speakers actually use.

Same English question, two dialects, two correct readings — built in, no settings to tweak.

简体中文 · Hanyu Pinyin 繁體中文 · Hanyu Pinyin 廣東話 · Jyutping

Tova screenshot — same English question in Mandarin with Hanyu Pinyin and Cantonese with Jyutping, side by side

What's inside

A travel translator that doesn't quit at the border.

A signage-first OCR engine, an offline-first translation pipeline, and a conversational mode that respects how people really talk.

Live camera OCR — 11 scripts

Point. See. Read. CJK, Thai, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Tibetan and more, with per-character pinyin, romaji, and hangeul rendered above each glyph in real time.

Two-way voice translation

On-device speech recognition, natural voice playback, and a 3-way Boardroom mode for meetings with speakers across three languages.

Works in China — no VPN

When the backend is unreachable, on-device neural translation kicks in automatically. Apple Translation on iOS, ML Kit on Android. No setup, no detours.

29 offline phrase packs

Curated travel phrases plus the full CC-CEDICT Chinese dictionary. Download once, use forever — no cell signal required to find the bathroom.

Ready when you are

Pack lighter. Travel further.
Talk to anyone.

Free to download. No accounts, no sign-up. Take Tova on your next trip and never get lost in translation again.

Download on the App Store Coming soon to Google Play

Free download No sign-up required Works in China — no VPN

Read any sign. Speak with anyone.Even in China — no VPN.