An iPhone overlay translator. Double-tap to translate the screen in two seconds, without leaving the app — DeepL when online, on-device Gemma when not.
Open WeChat, Safari, Instagram — anywhere with text. Double-tap the back of your iPhone. Two seconds later the translation is layered exactly over the original, line by line, in place.
The translator never owns your screen — it borrows it for a moment. No app switch, no clipboard, no copy-paste. One shortcut, one overlay, the original layout left untouched.
DeepL on a network, Gemma on the device. The same shortcut, two engines underneath — picked by where you are, not what you toggled.
On-device Gemma means a plane cabin, a subway tunnel, a country with no data plan — none of it is a wall. OCR runs locally too, so the screenshot itself never leaves the device.
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese — and more. Pick a target language once; every overlay after that respects it.
Gaming a Japanese RPG, shopping on a Russian site, reading a German contract — Translay treats them all the same way: the line of text in front of you, rendered in the language you read.
Translation tools have spent fifteen years pulling text out of context to fix it. The harder discipline is to leave the context exactly where it stood — and to set the translation under it, not in front of it.