TranslationOctober 9, 2026

Vision, EPUB books, and the price on every button

From the Transept team

An illustration on a dark background, headed “See it as pages.” On the left, a Vision spread: an original page set as a book, with a “Chapter 1” label, the title “The Lighthouse Keeper”, a drop cap and small caps opening the first paragraph, and beside it the German translation page, its first paragraph typeset and the rest still faded placeholder lines, with a line at the top reading “4 of 9 blocks translated”. Under the spread, a row of chips: a “novel.epub” file chip, a “68 languages” chip with Estonian and Japanese tags, and an orange “Translate” button carrying a coin and the price “1,840”. On the right, Literess, drawn as a blonde chibi girl with a gold hair clip, grins with stars in her eyes. — Vision sets the original and the translation as facing pages, and the Translate button shows what the run costs before you press it.

This note covers what shipped between 27 September and 9 October. Most of it changes what you see before and after you press a button: your document laid out as pages, the price of every paid action on the button itself, and the steps an AI action takes while it works.

Plans changed too. Free now comes with 2,500 credits a month, Starter and Pro have new monthly amounts for new subscribers, and on Starter and Pro a message to Literess about your translation now spends credits.

Added

Vision: your document as pages. The Review page is now Vision: the original on the left and the translation on the right, each set as a page. An upload, a paste or a Notion import opens there, with an empty translation page and Translate. Word files, Markdown and plain text take one of three looks (book, magazine or plain), chosen from the document’s category and its text; EPUBs read like an e-reader; HTML pages, emails and Figma keep their own design; a PDF shows its own pages. Untranslated paragraphs show as faded lines, and while a run is going the translation page fills in as blocks land, proofreading included. Vision is free and runs nothing. Open it from the Vision button in the editor header.
EPUB books. Upload an .epub from your computer or Google Drive and every chapter comes in. Export as EPUB writes the translation back into the original book, keeping the cover, images, fonts, styles, footnote links and table of contents, with the title and contents list translated. Glossary auto-build, style-guide generation and Literess can read an EPUB too. A book with DRM can’t be imported, and the upload says so. See Importing your work and Exports & integrations.
The price is on the button. Every action that spends credits shows its cost inside the button before you click: Translate and Regenerate on a block, sentence alternatives, Literess’s Confirm and Approve all, fixes on the review screen, Get a fix on a comment, continuing a workflow past a review step, and Add language with “Translate immediately”. The number turns amber when your balance can’t cover it. The Smart Proofread and batch Regenerate dialogs are priced too, and glossary and style-guide builds show an exact price instead of an upper bound. The full price list is public on /pricing.
Where your credits went. The billing page has a 30-day chart of your spending by kind of work, and a history of every charge with the document, run and block it was for, each one linked. A credit counter next to Help in the editor shows your balance and updates the moment a run, a top-up or Literess changes it.
68 languages. Sixteen languages joined the picker (Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Estonian, Galician, Georgian, Icelandic, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese and Welsh) along with English (UK) and German (Switzerland), so all 24 official EU languages are covered. Maltese and Irish are marked Beta.
One dialog for uploading. Uploading moves through the file, the languages, and a short checklist while the document is read, and ends on a summary: the source language it detected, the number of blocks, and the language versions it created. Every setup dialog (upload, paste, blank document, starting point, Notion, Google Drive, add languages) picks languages from the same searchable list, with your recent and likely languages first. A search with no match offers an email to ask us for the language.
Transept in Japanese. The app, its emails and Literess are available in Japanese. When the app shows English but your browser or country points to one of its other languages, a card offers to switch.
AI actions show their steps. A block being translated or proofread lists the steps its run takes (the previous blocks, your glossary and style guide when they are attached, translation memory when the run reads it), and the result types itself into the block. A proofread types in only the words it changed.
Starting points for writers and academics. The starting-point picker offers Novel or book, Short story, Newsletter, Blog post, Article, Thesis, Research paper, Abstract and Client document, each with its own workflow: translate, proofread, then one check such as names, facts, or claims and citations. Landing page, Help center article and Legal & policy are retired; documents made from them keep working. See Starting points & templates.
Literess checks in. She writes first when something in your work suggests it would help: a failed import or run, a spot where you seem stuck, or a faster way to do what you keep doing by hand. While your tab is in the background she sends one note at most and holds the rest until you are back. She also sees the buttons, links and tabs on the page you have open, and can highlight one to show you where it is. Turn check-ins off under Settings → Notifications → Literess check-ins. See What Literess can do.
Downgrading from Pro to Starter works in the app. The change takes effect when the period you have paid for ends, and you keep Pro and its credits until then. Keep Pro on the billing page undoes it.
Approximate złoty prices. In Polish, every euro price on the site and in the app shows an approximate amount in złoty beside it. Checkout still charges euros.

Changed

Free includes 2,500 credits a month, up from 1,500: about five pages translated and proofread in Standard. Existing Free accounts get the new amount at their next monthly refresh.
New monthly amounts for Starter and Pro. Starter (€29) includes 60,000 credits a month and Pro (€79) 200,000. Credit packs are Small, 30,000 credits for €19; Medium, 100,000 for €55; and Large, 300,000 for €149. Anyone subscribed before 29 September keeps their current allowance until they change plan. See Plans, credits & the free tier.
Messages to Literess about your translation spend credits on Starter and Pro. A reply costs what it takes to write, and the expected range shows under the chat box before you send. @-mentioning her in a comment is billed the same way. Questions about Transept itself, her check-ins and the Free plan’s 10 messages stay free. If a reply would cost more than the credits set aside for it, she stops and asks.
Run what fits works for workflows. When your balance can’t cover a workflow run, Translate + Proofread included, the dialog offers Run what fits. It runs the opening blocks your credits cover, and running it again later continues from the first untranslated block. A run across all languages works through them in order until the balance runs out. A workflow that sends email, exports, or sets a status never runs partially.
Credits are called credits again. For a few months the app and the site called the billing unit “words”. It is “credits” everywhere again, and “word” only means the length of your text, as in 1 credit per source word in Standard.
Sentence alternatives are billed at the model’s rate for the sentence’s words, once, and only when options come back. Glossary auto-build and style-guide generation charge a read fee of 0.2 credits per word they read.
API keys, MCP and webhooks are part of Starter and Pro. Free accounts no longer have them. Keys and triggers made on Free stay listed and can be deleted, but stop working until you upgrade. See Automate Transept with the API.
A new refund policy. It replaces the 7-day money-back guarantee. We refund a payment when a fault on our side blocked your work and support couldn’t fix it within 3 business days, or when we charged you by mistake; a single failed job gets its credits back. EU consumers keep the 14-day right of withdrawal, now set out in the Terms with a model withdrawal form. See Billing, cancellation & refunds.
Bigger uploads. Word, EPUB and PDF files can be up to 95 MB (the limit was 10 MB), text formats up to 25 MB, and translation memory imports up to 45 MB. Literess reads attached documents up to 25 MB.
Pasted text splits into paragraphs. Text pasted or uploaded as .txt with one line per paragraph used to arrive as a single block. Each paragraph is now its own block.
Signing in. The login page no longer asks you to tick a Terms checkbox; a line under the button links the Terms and Privacy Policy. Inside the Instagram and Facebook in-app browsers, the login card suggests email sign-in or opening the page in your own browser.
Deleting your account deletes everything. It cancels your subscription, stops your runs, hands teams you own to their next member, and removes your documents, the translation memory built from them, and your records with the services we use.
Fewer notifications. A browser notification now comes only for a job that ran two minutes or longer, and a run across several languages sends one notification and one email when its last language finishes.
Emails follow your language. Every email from Transept, payment reminders and onboarding emails included, is written in your interface language, with dates and prices formatted for it.
The website is in English, German, Japanese and Chinese. Its other language versions now redirect to the English pages. The app keeps all twelve of its languages.

Fixed

Translation memory reaches the model. Since memory launched in June, matches were found and listed under each block, but a missing template kept them out of the translation prompt. They now reach the model. Versions written by workflows and AI runs also feed memory (only versions you picked by hand did before), each block in a batch keeps its best match, and a comment thread’s memory entry follows it when it is resolved, reopened, edited or deleted. See Translation memory.
A proofread on one language version uses that language’s glossary. On a document translated into several languages, the scan could cite the glossary terms of another language.
Proofread ignores outdated notes. A note written before the block’s current text, or a terminology note written before the glossary changed, no longer leads to a fix.
Word exports keep emphasis where it was. The bold or italic of a paragraph’s first run could spread across the whole translated paragraph. A paragraph that is italic because of its Word style, such as a quote, now stays italic in the translated preview too.
Your sentence edits are saved. An edit to a single sentence could be lost when it landed at the same moment as another change to that sentence. Typing while the cursor sat just outside the text could also show characters that were never saved.
A missing Google, Notion or Figma connection no longer signs you out. Export to Google Docs without a connected Google account logged you out; it now offers to connect. Uploaded files with accented or non-Latin names keep their names.
Sign-in inside the Instagram and Facebook browsers. Signing in with Google there could land you back on the login form even though it had worked.
A button in an HTML email no longer fails the run.
Vision Proofread keeps going when the AI provider can’t read a page’s screenshot: it scans that page as text instead of failing.
Literess answers “why” from the record. Asked why a block changed, she now opens its history (what made each version, the notes it answered, the glossary that applies today) before answering. Long answers no longer stop mid-word, and she appears in dialogs such as Upgrade again, where her place had been blank.
Import errors say what went wrong and what to do about it, instead of “Unknown error occurred”, and one failed upload reports once. Text files and PDFs containing stray null characters import.
Run what fits on plain Translate could fail on its first block when the run had set aside most of your balance.
On phones, Android Back closes a full-screen panel such as the Literess chat instead of leaving the page, and her messages arrive as a banner you can swipe away.

Have a request or hit a snag? Ask Literess in the app, or write to support@transept.ai.