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Real conversations, not phrasebooks.

A bar in Shibuya. Two people becoming friends.

Chotto translates the conversation in real-time — keeping the warmth, the humor, and the nuance.

🍸 Bar / Social context
🍸 Bar / Social
ENSo where are you from? Did you grow up in Tokyo?
JP出身はどちらですか?東京で育ったんですか?
@ You
JPううん、長野の小さい村で育ったんだ。山に囲まれてて、冬はめちゃくちゃ雪が降るところ。
ENNo, I grew up in a small village in Nagano. Mountains, insane snow in winter.
@ Yuki
ENThat sounds beautiful. Do you miss it?
JPすごく素敵なところだね。懐かしくならない?
@ You
JPたまにね。東京は便利だけど、息が詰まる。実家に帰ると泣きそうになる。笑
ENSometimes. Tokyo is convenient, but suffocating. Going home makes me want to cry. Ha.
@ Yuki
EN Jack's phone
🍸 Bar / Social
ENI love the city but my body knows where it belongs.
@ You
ENThat sounds amazing... Show me around Oregon. I'll take you to Nagano.
@ Yuki · translated
ENDeal. You bring the sake, I'll bring the craft beer.
@ You

your phone. their phone. same conversation.

Each person sees everything translated into their own language, on their own device.

messages flow between devices
JP Yuki's phone
🍸 バー / 社交
JPすごくわかる。都会は好きだけど、体はどこに属してるかわかってるんだよね。
@ Jack · 翻訳済み
JPいいなぁ…。オレゴン案内してよ。長野にも連れてくから。
@ あなた
JPいいね。日本酒持ってくよ、クラフトビールよろしく。
@ Jack · 翻訳済み

built for Japanese.

Most apps bolt Japanese on as one of 100 languages. Chotto is designed around how Japanese actually works — its structure, its politeness levels, its nuance.

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fast enough for real talk.

No awkward pauses. No staring at a spinner. Chotto translates at conversational speed, so the dialogue keeps flowing naturally.

Fast enough for real talk

knows when to be polite.

Business meeting? Casual dinner? First date? Chotto reads the situation and adjusts tone, formality, and word choice automatically.

Context-aware translation

your phone. their phone. same conversation.

Everyone joins from their own device. No passing phones back and forth, no crowding around a screen. Just natural, multi-person conversation.

Your phone, their phone, same conversation

made for travel moments.

Ordering ramen. Asking for directions. Checking into a hotel. Chotto is optimized for the real situations travelers face every day in Japan.

Travel moments — ramen, train, hotel, shopping

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