Other translators hand you words and wish you luck. Tono Translate picks the level of formality for the person you're talking to — your boss, a friend, someone you love — and explains why, in your own language.
Free to try · Korean, Japanese, Chinese & 10 more
Get a word wrong and someone corrects you. Get the level of formality wrong and nobody says anything. Every other translator hands you a sentence without telling you which level it's on — and in Korean, Japanese or Spanish, the level is the message.
The first impression you only get one of — and the one where sounding too casual reads as disrespect, not warmth.
Colleagues won't tell you your Korean sounds blunt. They'll just stop asking what you think.
You wrote it in the language you're learning and you're not sure it's right — or right for them. Paste it, say who it's for, and Tono Translate corrects the spelling, the grammar and the formality, with a line on each change in your own language, so the same mistake doesn't come back. In the app, from Shortcuts and Siri, and from the share sheet.
Select what you wrote in any app, share it to Tono Translate, copy it back corrected.
Paste the message you can't read. Tono Translate decodes slang, shorthand and typos — and explains the level of formality they chose, so you know where you stand.
Friendly, formal, or flirting? The words translate easily. The signal underneath doesn't — until now.
Full screen, full brightness, and a courtesy note in their language so a stranger understands what they're looking at — and wants to help. When they answer, it listens and shows you what they said, with replies ready to tap.
Short drills built from your own phrases, not a word list. A few minutes, and they work offline. And once a week, Tono Translate reads what you said and writes a short lesson on the register you're actually building — kept on your phone, never on our servers.
Every explanation arrives in your own language — and so does the app itself. Korean is where Tono Translate goes deepest, but the whole thing works between any two.
Or paste a message, snap a photo, or just speak it. Any of your languages, either direction.
“To my boss.” “At a market.” One line of context is all it takes to change the whole answer.
The translation, its register named and explained, and other ways to say it for other people.
Free to try on iPhone. Say what you mean, at the right level of formality — and know why it works.
