A new layer for the stories you love

Bring another language into storytime.

LinguaLayers helps families, language learners and creators turn their own and authorised books and learning materials into beautifully formatted multilingual reading resources—ready to review, print and enjoy.

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Built for bilingual homes, heritage-language communities, language learners and independent creators.

An open illustrated storybook showing a rabbit in a blue coat escaping beneath a garden gate while a gardener gives chase — See the language layer change

Keep the physical bookReview before printingDesigned for mobile captureMore languages, more stories

See the finished result

One familiar book.A new language layer.

Photograph the pages, create printable translation stickers, then add another language to the physical book.

A wide children’s board book open to two illustrated English story pages

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Start with a book you love

Photograph the original pages while keeping the familiar illustrations and layout.

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How it works

From photographed page to printable language layer.

LinguaLayers guides you through the practical work while keeping every stage visible and reviewable.

01Capture

Photograph pages with your phone or upload images you already have.

02Prepare

Straighten pages, split spreads and mark the words that need a new layer.

03Translate

Translate the story while keeping its meaning, tone and surrounding pages in view.

04Print

Review the layout, generate sticker sheets and add the finished language layers to the book.

Capture pages

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Made for real life

Start with the phone already in your hand.

Capture one page after another, return to the project later, and move through alignment, translation and print preparation at your own pace.

Phone-first capture workflow
Page-by-page review and correction
Printable output sized for the original book

What you need

Simple printing, with ordinary equipment.

LinguaLayers arranges the translated text on A4 sticker sheets. Print at 100% scale, cut around each label, then place it over the original text.

A LinguaLayers A4 translation sticker sheet ready to print and cut — An example printable sticker sheet from the LinguaLayers workflow.

Printer

Any ordinary inkjet or laser printer that accepts A4 sheets.

Sticker paper

White matte, full-sheet A4 self-adhesive label paper made for your printer type.

Cutting

Scissors are enough. A craft knife and cutting mat—or a cutting machine—are optional.

Sheet estimate

A typical 40-page picture book uses about 5 A4 sheets, but this can vary with the number and size of its text areas.

Why people use it

The book stays familiar. Another language becomes easier to understand.

Keep family language close

Make more of the stories a child already loves available in the language spoken at home.

Learn through familiar stories

Build vocabulary, reading confidence and comprehension in a language you are learning.

Read away from screens

The finished experience stays physical: a familiar book you can hold, revisit and enjoy.

Create for smaller languages

Build useful reading materials even when the language you need has a limited publishing catalogue.

Illustration of a father and young daughter sharing a playful moment — Built from a real family need.

Our story

It began with a father, a daughter and books that did not exist in both of their languages.

LinguaLayers grew from a simple family problem: how do you share the books a young child loves while also giving a heritage language a real place in everyday life?

Rather than replacing physical books with another screen, the idea was to create a careful new language layer—one that could live inside storytime itself.

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Early family feedback

What our tester families noticed.

Reflections from families who have been helping us test and improve LinguaLayers.

“Our daughter was just as engaged after we added the language layers. They felt like part of the book and didn’t distract her from the pictures or the story.”

Tester family · Bilingual household

“The layers helped us keep repeated lines consistent throughout the book. My partner could finally follow the Russian version too.”

Tester family · Russian–English household

“Having the translation prepared meant we spent less time thinking about individual words and more time bringing out the humour, rhythm and details in the story.”

Tester family · Bilingual parent

Simple launch pricing

Try four pages free. Finish a whole book for $10.

A$10 in Australia. US$10 in other markets. Your currency is confirmed at checkout.

See how it works

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Try the complete workflow on four pages before you decide.

Up to 4 book pages
Full capture-to-translation workflow
Watermarked on-screen preview
No printing or downloading

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Simple one-off priceComplete your book

One book

$10 one-off

A$10 in Australia · US$10 elsewhere

Create the printable language layers for one complete book.

Designed for books of about 40 split pages
Up to 50 split pages included at launch
Full-quality printable sticker sheets
No subscription or recurring charge

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Questions and support

Useful answers before you begin.

Need help with a project or want to take part in testing?

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What can I use with LinguaLayers?+

LinguaLayers is intended for material you created, material in the public domain, or material you are authorised to reproduce, translate or adapt.

Does it automatically produce a final translation?+

It produces a translation and layout for review, and a fluent speaker should check the wording before printing, especially for children’s literature.

Do I need special equipment?+

A phone camera, ordinary printer and suitable sticker paper are enough to begin. A cutting machine is optional. See the illustrated printing guide →

What does the $10 book include?+

One complete book project. The price is A$10 in Australia and US$10 in other markets, with the applicable currency shown at checkout. LinguaLayers is designed for books of about 40 split pages, with an allowance of up to 50 split pages for books that run a little longer. It includes the full workflow and printable sticker-sheet output, with no subscription.

Will my uploaded pages be stored forever?+

No. You can delete projects, and you can ask us to delete your account. See the Privacy Policy for storage and deletion details.

One more story, in one more language

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