Tablow - Everyone reads in their own language. Only one installs.
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Tablow is live translation for the table. One person runs the app and puts the phone in the middle. Everyone else scans a QR code and reads the conversation in their own language on their own phone, with no app and no sign-up. The translation shows up while people are still talking. Video calls work too: the other side joins from a browser link and both screens show captions. I built it after my brother spent every family dinner translating between his Japanese wife and our parents.
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm David, a developer in Toronto. I built Tablow alone, after work.
My brother married a Japanese woman. When she first came to meet my family, my brother sat between my parents and her and translated both ways all night. He barely ate.
So I built an app for my own family. I had one rule from the start. Getting my parents to install one new app and sign up once took me 30 minutes, so only one person installs Tablow. Everyone else scans a QR code and reads the conversation in their own language on their own phone. No app, no sign-up.
Before the wedding, both families had dinner with an early build on the table. For the first time, they laughed together without my brother in the middle.
Then I heard that when she video-called my parents, she held the call on one phone and a translator app in her other hand. So I added video calls. The other side joins from a browser link, and both screens show captions in each person's own language. Now they just talk.
Our family group chat is full of videos of my daughter, all in Korean, and my sister-in-law couldn't follow them. So I added Media Captions, which puts live translated captions over videos playing on your phone.
Every feature started at our own table. It's on iOS and Android, and guests join from any browser. Audio is never stored, transcripts are stored encrypted, and rooms are deleted after 7 days.
The first hour is free. After that it is a $9.99 pack or a monthly plan, and guests never pay.
I'd love to hear what your family dinners sound like, and which language pair you would try first.