Every bridge has a story

UX improvements

• A round of user-experience improvements.

Plan & translation-model update

• Subscription plan pricing updated
• Translation model upgraded

Voice tools live · Japanese & Korean UI · home screen four-card IA

• Live Interpret: pick an app that's playing foreign audio, Babelarc speaks the translation in your language a moment later, with live subtitles
• Cross-Language Mic: you speak your own language, the other side hears an AI-spoken translation in theirs — Discord, Steam voice, TeamSpeak, in-game voice chat, all work
• Japanese (日本語) & Korean (한국어) UI — auto-detects from system locale, or pick manually
• Home screen reorganised into two tiers, four cards: Text tools (Chat-Box Translate / Flash Translate) and Voice tools (Live Interpret / Cross-Language Mic)

Official release · switch plans online

• Babelarc is officially live — daily-driver from today
• Client code-signed — Windows SmartScreen no longer flags it as an unrecognized app
• Existing subscribers can switch plans in-place — upgrades take effect today; switching to a smaller plan is scheduled for the next renewal so you keep what you already paid for
• Email-link sign-in added to the website subscribe flow, sharing the same account as the desktop client

Plans live · Flash translates anything · faster translation

• Subscription plans live: Starter / Pro / Power tiers with monthly energy; subscribe / cancel / resume all happen in-app
• Flash translates anything: Ctrl+Alt+S, drag a rectangle, translation lands right over the source — game UI, browser dialogs, document snippets
• Saved regions: every framed area is remembered, switch games and pick from a dropdown to jump back
• Faster translation: screenshots upload 5-10× smaller, end-to-end latency shaved 200-500 ms
• Bubble padding scales with font size, so shrinking actually packs more lines

Cloud-based · any-to-any languages

• Fully cloud-based: sign in and translate; first sign-in gets 300 free energy
• Any-to-any languages: type the target language name freely — works for anything the AI can write
• Fast / Quality tiers — switch from the home screen; Quality handles long quest text and game slang more reliably
• Email-link sign-in — no Google account needed
• In-app auto-update: one click downloads, replaces, and restarts
• Installer down from ~230 MB to ~91 MB

Visual redesign + immersive style

• Full visual redesign — deep night sky + glass theme
• Corner radii, spacing, typography all retuned for a more modern look
• Sound effects off by default — no more startling teammates
• Translation progress / status indicators read more clearly
• High-precision OCR loaded on demand — no longer bloating the installer