Torii Visual Novel Translator

Read your favorite visual novels in any language, translated as you play. Torii pulls dialogue straight from the game's memory, or reads it off the screen with AI OCR.

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Drag to see the translation

The same scene, before and after Torii.

A visual novel scene with Japanese dialogue

The same scene with the dialogue translated into English

Two ways to read any game

Hook straight into the game's memory, or let Torii read the screen.

Hook mode picking up a game's dialogue

Hook mode

Fastest and most accurate

Torii connects to the game's memory and reads the text at the source, so translations appear the moment the dialogue does. Works with popular Japanese engines and Ren'Py games.

The OCR window placed over a game's dialogue box

Screen OCR

Works with any game

Place Torii's window over the dialogue box and it reads the text off the screen, powered by the Torii Image Translator. Its orange border only shows on hover, so it stays out of your way.

Read it your way

The image overlay uses AI inpainting to paint the translation into the game's artwork, with no box around it. The text overlay shows it in a clean floating window instead, and works in both hook and OCR mode.

The image overlay: the translation painted into the game's dialogue box

The text overlay: the translation in a floating window over the dialogue

And the details

Fine-tune every translation to the game you're playing.

Your choice of model

Pick the AI model and OCR engine that suit the game, from fast and cheap to the most capable.

Any language

Torii detects the game's language on its own. You just pick the one you want to read in.

Custom prompt

Guide the translation with your own instructions, like a tone to keep or names to leave as they are.

Context sharing

Keeps names and character voices consistent across a whole playthrough.

Style the overlay

Font, size, color, stroke and background opacity, to match any game's look.

Auto-translate

Turn it on and every new line is translated the moment it appears, so you just keep reading.

Start translating with Torii VN Translator

Download the latest version for Windows and have fun finally understanding dialogue.

Download for Windows

Compatible with Windows 10 and 11.

Download installer (.exe)

Version 1.0.1 | ~100MB

For developers

Build with the Torii API

The same translation engine behind the extension and the desktop app, ready for your own projects.

Explore the Torii API