In-game event4 Sep 2026v2026.904.849 — Cloud image translation, pre-game review, free balance top-upPlayto Cloud can now translate a whole screen as an image, and the review deck now meets you before the game starts. Image method on Playto Cloud — one-shot screen translation · How it works — select Playto Cloud as the engine, choose the Image method, then press the Shutter (default F4). Playto sends that one screenshot to the cloud and shows the translation. Each shot costs several times more…
This update focuses on getting a fresh install translating reliably, wherever you are. The default translation model is now included · Why — In some regions the model download could fail, leaving Playto unable to translate at all. The minimal model needed for translation now ships with the install, so translating works right after setup with no download. Install size grows by about 1.1GB. · Alr…
This update is about the moments when nothing appears on screen: Playto now says why, and what to do next. Session status banner While a session is running, a banner in the Playto window now tells you what is wrong instead of leaving the screen quiet: · No text found in the area — the capture area is not over any text. A "Tips" button opens a short guide with a sample screen showing where the a…
This update focuses on translation quality, plus two new tools for checking and managing your setup. Translation quality fixes · Wrong model after startup — In some sessions (typically from the second launch onward), translation could silently run with the wrong model configuration and produce much worse output. This is fixed. · Traditional Chinese output — When translating into Traditional Chi…
Hy-MT2 is now the default translation model On PCs without a dedicated GPU, the larger default models (3-4GB) could take minutes to load — translations looked stuck even though nothing was broken. Hy-MT2 1.8B is a translation-focused model at about a quarter of the size, so it downloads and starts much faster. · New setups — start on Hy-MT2 when both the game language and your language are supp…
Two things in this update: a translation bug that could leave lines permanently blank in same-alphabet language pairs, and Game audio now showing lines while they are spoken. Translation fix for same-alphabet language pairs When a word's correct translation is spelled exactly the same — "Menu" in English→French, or a kanji word between Chinese and Japanese — Playto treated it as a failed transl…
Two focuses this update: cleaning up your logs and wordbook takes seconds instead of minutes, and Playto keeps translating on PCs where the engine used to crash. Manage logs and the wordbook in bulk · Select & delete — pick multiple entries in Log, Words and Sentences and delete them at once. Delete all now asks for confirmation first. · Swipe — swipe a log entry right to save it, left to delet…
Playto can now hear your game as well as read it. This update adds game audio transcription as a paid beta, a storage manager for downloaded models, and more resilient downloads. Game audio transcription (beta) — paid · Opt in per game — turn on Game audio on the pre-start screen (or Settings). Spoken lines are transcribed and show up in the Log's Audio tab with translations, alongside what Pla…
Playto Cloud in more regions Until now, Playto Cloud did not work in regions our primary AI provider does not serve: the free trial could be activated, but translations failed with a region error. · Second provider route — when the primary provider declines a request because of your region, Playto Cloud now sends it to a second provider (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, Singapore) automatically. Not…
OCR engine choice is now kept · Fixed — If OneOCR failed to start once (for example a locked file on first load), Playto used to switch to Windows OCR and save that as your setting, so it never went back. Your selection is now kept and OneOCR is tried again on the next launch. · Settings — While a fallback engine is running, the OCR Engine row shows "Currently running Windows OCR — the selected…
This update is mostly about setup and about what Playto tells you when something goes wrong — capture that started without the OCR language pack it needed, error banners that hid the very message they existed to show, and screens that stayed untranslated with no explanation. Capture checks the OCR language pack first · Capture no longer starts without the pack it needs — with the Windows OCR en…
This update is mostly about reliability — translations that failed in bulk and never recovered, capture areas that did not hold up when used together, and album scenes that showed the wrong picture. Translations no longer fail in bulk · One refused request no longer wipes a screen — when a single translation request was refused, every line on that screen that was not already cached got marked a…
Second update in our series on how the overlay looks and behaves while you play. This one focuses on list-style screens — inventories, item lists, settings menus — where several rows share the same name. Stable translations in item lists and menus · No more vanishing lines — on screens with many identically-named rows, a translated line could periodically flip back to the original text for a se…
This is the first of several updates focused on how the overlay looks and behaves while you play. We're shipping them in small steps so each change is easy to judge — and easy for you to call out when something still feels wrong. A more stable overlay · Less text swapping — on a still screen, a translated line could periodically flip to a slightly different reading and back. The overlay now hol…
This update is mostly about one thing: translation that stops mid-session and never comes back. When the engine stops, translation comes back Until now, if the local AI crashed or quietly stopped answering while you were playing, Playto kept capturing and showed nothing. You had to notice it yourself and restart. · Automatic recovery — if the engine dies during a session, Playto restarts it onc…
Playto Cloud (beta) — translation in the cloud, off your GPU Local AI stays the default and works fully offline. Playto Cloud is a new optional engine for machines where local AI struggles: not enough VRAM next to the game, older GPUs, or engine startup trouble. While it's on, translation runs through our cloud relay instead of your GPU. How to use it · Activate — open Cloud from the side menu…
Words you already know can still add up to something you do not. This update points those phrases out, so you notice them instead of reading them word by word. Idioms in the detail panel Open the detail panel for a line and Playto lists the idioms it finds there, beside the difficult words it already showed. The log itself is unchanged, and nothing extra runs while you play. The check happens w…
This update is mostly about voice. Japanese now reads aloud with a natural voice, Chinese can be read aloud for the first time, and every language plays back at a matching volume. A natural Japanese voice Japanese read-aloud now uses VOICEVOX rather than the general-purpose engine, so pitch accent and rhythm sound like spoken Japanese instead of a string of syllables. It is an optional download…
This update rebuilds the first-run tutorial into something you play, adds a Scene Album that keeps your sessions as screens, and makes overlays steadier during play. A tutorial you play, not read The tutorial is now a small playable scene. You read a few lines with live translation, stop the session, save words, and sort tonight's album — the same loop you'll use with real games. It runs even w…
This update adds a lot more languages to learn from, a new way to review whole sentences, and the option to bring in your own words. 11 more languages to learn from You can now learn from games in Swedish, Dutch, Traditional Chinese, Greek, Romanian, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Turkish, Czech, and Hungarian, alongside the languages already supported. These newer ones are marked Experimental whi…
Added · In-app guides — a new Guide tab in the sidebar with 60+ short how-to entries ("I want to move the overlay", "Translation looks broken or cut off", "How do I lock a name's translation?"), grouped by feature and searchable. The setup tour and the ? buttons across the app link into them, so help is one click away right where you need it. · Send feedback from the app — a new option in Suppo…
Changed · New default capture hotkeys (F2–F5) — the previous defaults (F7–F10) overlapped with Japanese IME conversion keys. Start/Stop is now F2, Pause F3, Shutter F4, and the overlay toggle F5. If you haven't customized your hotkeys, they migrate automatically on the first launch after this update; customized bindings are left untouched. You can change them anytime in Settings. Improved · One…
New · Reworked first-run setup — setup is now a single language choice with everything else configured automatically, followed by a short guided introduction to your first capture. Quick Start's fixed-region capture is now available in the free version and the demo. · Save phrases and idioms — select a span of words in the session review to save a multi-word phrase or idiom, browse them in your…
We've published a development roadmap on our website. It shows, in one place: · Shipped — what has already reached you, month by month · Now — what's in development, including what lands in the next update · Next — what's planned but not started yet · 1.0 — the four goals that decide when we leave Early Access: reliability, language quality, a complete learning loop, and overall polish There ar…
Improved · Edit capture regions by dragging — a fixed capture region can now be resized by dragging its edges or corners, or moved by dragging inside it, instead of drawing it over from scratch. Adjust as much as you like and press Enter when you're done. You can even edit while capture is running — it pauses for a moment and picks right back up, with no stop-and-start. Your region's settings,…
Playto now lives in your tray Playto used to be an app you opened when it was time to study. From this update, it stays quietly by your side — for a quick translation between matches, and for the daily review that keeps words from fading. New: Quick Translate Press or on the Home screen and drag over what you want to read — translation starts right there. No pack to pick, nothing to configure,…
New — Window capture (Beta) · Whole-window translation — Pick your game window and Playto reads the whole screen, not just a fixed region. Best for text-heavy games. · Fast scene changes — When the scene changes, stale translations clear quickly instead of lingering. · Show it only when you want — Tap the overlay shortcut to scan and show the current screen, or hold it to show the overlay only…
Saved words — richer review · Furigana and word details — when you review a scene you saved, the sentence now shows furigana (Japanese), and tapping a word shows its reading, part of speech, and JLPT level. New — Export to Anki · Take your cards to Anki — if you use Anki, you can export an album of saved scenes as an Anki (.apkg) deck. Each card keeps the game screenshot, the sentence (with fur…
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