Language for
the Journey.
The only language app built for APAC tourists and expats โ where you survive a Bangkok market and eventually thrive in a Tokyo boardroom.
Phrasebooks teach you to say โthe apple is red.โ
Then you land in Bangkok and can't order a plate of pad thai. Kaya is built backwards from the moments that actually happen on the ground.
What tourists get today
- โ Generic, decontextualized phrases
- โ No tone or pronunciation feedback
- โ Needs signal to translate
- โ Zero cultural context
- โ Childish gamification
What Kaya gives you
- โReal street scenarios, not textbook sentences
- โTone training for Thai, Mandarin & Vietnamese
- โCamera translate that teaches, not just translates
- โWorks fully offline โ even in a dead-zone night market
- โCultural cues so you don't accidentally offend
Hover a card โ
Everything a phrasebook isn't.
Get the tones right
ToneRight
Thai, Mandarin and Vietnamese live or die on tone. Kaya visualizes each contour in 3D and lets you hear and practice the pitch โ so 'horse' doesn't come out as 'dog'.
- โ5 Thai tones visualized
- โHear the pitch glide
- โMic practice & scoring
Good morning, RJ ๐
3-day streak ยท ๐ฅ
Food & Drink
12/18 phrases
Transport
7/14 phrases
Emergency
9/9 phrases
Culture
4/11 phrases
Daily phrase
เธชเธงเธฑเธชเธเธตเธเธฃเธฑเธ
sร -wร t-dii krรกp ยท Hello
A whole journey,
in your pocket.
From your first โsร -wร t-diiโ to closing a deal in-language โ Kaya grows with you from SURVIVE to THRIVE.
Survive mode, free forever
Phrase packs, scenarios, camera translate and cultural cards โ the whole tourist toolkit, no paywall.
Tone & script mastery
Visual tone contours and script drills for the languages where pronunciation is everything.
AI conversation partner
Thrive mode pairs you with a patient native-speaker AI that corrects you gently, in context.
Spaced-repetition that sticks
Every word you scan or learn flows into a review deck tuned to how your memory actually works.
One app for the whole journey.
Most travellers juggle six apps โ translate, maps, a food guide, a currency converter, a notes app, and a panicked Google search at the worst moment. Kaya folds them into one, and threads them with the thing none of them have: the words to actually use.
Language
Survive a market, thrive in a boardroom โ scenarios, tones, A1โB2.
The Table
Find the dish, order it in-language, log your palate passport.
Getaround
Every transport mode, real fares, and how to negotiate them.
Stays
The right neighbourhood for your kind of trip, in every city.
Wander
Curated sights with insider tips and a perfect-day plan.
Money
Offline converter, tipping norms, and live scam alerts.
SOS
Tap-to-call emergency lines and offline help phrases.
The thread
Every vertical hands you the exact words for the moment โ negotiate the fare, order the dish, ask for help. That language layer is the unfair advantage no maps or food app can copy.
From craving to chopsticks.
Every food app tells you whereto go, then abandons you at the door. Kaya owns the 90 seconds that matter โ the stall, the order, the โis this safe for me.โ We're becoming the confidence layer for eating your way across Asia.
Crave
Sour, brothy, 2am, raining
Find the dish
Dish-first, not restaurant-first
Order in-language
Tone, dialect, โless oilโ
Stamp your passport
Then your next stretch dish
Love laksa? Here's its family.
The first cross-cuisine flavor map in the world โ the coconut-curry-noodle cousins scattered across Asia. Discover dishes you'd never have searched for, because you already love their relatives.
Palate Passport
Map your taste across cuisines, unlock stamps, get your next stretch dish.
Plate Scanner
Point at any menu โ Kaya tells you what to order and flags what's in it.
Order Scripts
The exact words to order it โ right tone, right dialect, โno pork, less oil.โ
Safe Plate
Halal, no-beef, allergies โ hidden ingredients caught, verified with the vendor.
Blind-Spot Map
For locals: the cuisines you've never tried in your own city.
Eat It Before It's Gone
Find the retiring aunties and dying trades. Taste them while you still can.
Hawker Live
A real-time, stall-level map of the world's richest food culture โ what's open, what's sold out, the one dish to get, ordered in dialect.
Built for all of APAC.
We launch where the journeys are. Two languages live today, the rest of the region rolling out through 2026.
Thai
40M tourists/yr
Bahasa Indonesia
16M tourists/yr
Vietnamese
18M tourists/yr
Japanese
25M tourists/yr
Korean
17M tourists/yr
Mandarin
Greater China
Tagalog
Philippines
Malay
Malaysia
Travelers who stopped pointing
and started speaking.
โUsed it to negotiate a tuk-tuk in Chiang Mai on day one. The driver actually laughed and dropped the price.โ
โThe tone trainer is the first thing that made Thai pronunciation click for me. I could finally hear the difference.โ
โScanned a street-food menu, tapped the dish I wanted, learned the word. That loop is genius.โ
Survive for free. Thrive when you're ready.
Survive
Everything a tourist needs to get by.
- โOffline phrase packs (Thai & Bahasa)
- โReal-world scenarios
- โCamera translate (ScanLearn)
- โCultural cards
- โAlways-free emergency packs
Thrive
Full fluency, from script to boardroom.
- โEverything in SURVIVE
- โFull A1 โ B2 curriculum
- โAI conversation partner
- โTone & script mastery
- โSpaced-repetition flashcards
- โProgress sync across devices
Start Speaking APAC Today.
Free to download. Survive a market tonight, thrive in a boardroom next year.