Read any sign. Speak with anyone.
Offline-ready in China.

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.

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Free to download No sign-up required Works fully offline in China

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.

Per-character pinyinReal result card: small mint pinyin reading floats directly above each character — same display the app uses across translate, favourites, and history.

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

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 Pro Plus 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.