For bloggers and newsletter writers
Translate the next post without losing your voice
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Literess, the AI editor in Transept
You: Make Grandma grumpier.
Literess: Done. She doesn’t just say it anymore. She grumbles it. sagte → raunzte
Ask in plain words. You approve every change. Meet Literess →
How does a newsletter writer translate an issue?
For essayists, newsletter writers, and bloggers who want to publish in more markets without becoming a different writer in each one.
Import from where you write
Bring in a Notion page, a Google Doc, or an HTML or Markdown file, or paste your text. The post keeps its formatting: headings, callouts, blockquotes, and image references.
Build a voice styleguide from your past work
Paste in two or three of your posts that are already translated, and Transept proposes a styleguide that fits your tone: your sentence rhythm, your idioms, the habits you’d struggle to name yourself.
Translate with the styleguide steering every sentence
Choose Standard or Pro mode. Pro has the model think each passage through before it writes, and it is worth it for nuanced writing: essays, opinion pieces, anything where the voice is the point.
Pick alternatives, then polish
Go through the sentences that matter most (the opening, the closing, the lines you’re proudest of) and pick from the alternatives. Run a polish pass on the rest.
Publish where the original lives
Export back to Notion as a new translated page, or to Google Docs and paste it into Substack’s editor, which accepts formatted text. Markdown works for Ghost or your own static site. The formatting comes back.
For essayists, newsletter writers, indie publishers, and writers whose readers speak more than one language, translation has been a hard choice: pay a translator $200+ per post and wait a week, or run it through ChatGPT and accept a flattened voice. Neither works on a weekly publishing schedule. This workflow sits between the two. Translate the post in Transept with a styleguide built from your past writing, pick alternatives where the rhythm matters, polish it until it reads naturally to native speakers, and send it back to Notion, Substack, or wherever the original lives, with the formatting and your voice intact.
Why do writers stop dreading translation?
Your voice survives
The styleguide carries what makes your writing yours: sentence shape, rhythm, idiom.
Native readability
A polish pass smooths out the awkward spots that translation leaves behind, without turning into an AI rewrite.
Notion in, Notion out
Your draft lives in Notion. The translated version lives next to it. No copy-paste, no formatting cleanup.
10 languages, one weekend
We translated Transept itself into ten languages over three days, running our own pages through the same editor, glossary, and memory this site describes. If you are reading this in German, Japanese or Chinese, it came through that workflow.
Field notes from the weekend— Don’t take our word for it —
The editor, in miniature
A working slice of the real app: Literess, the glossary, the styleguide, workflows, and translation memory are all live. Click around.
Show how much of it is yours
Working with AI is not the same as letting it write for you. Transept keeps a record of every document: what the AI drafted, what you changed and what you checked. Download it as a PDF when a client, an editor or a publisher asks how the translation was made.
- Counted by word. The words the AI wrote, the words you changed and the paragraphs you wrote yourself, each counted on its own.
- Every step on record. Translations, rewrites, fixes, your edits and your approvals in one list, each line marked as yours or the AI's.
- Your sign-off, dated. Before the PDF downloads, Literess asks whether you read the translation through. Say yes and the report records it.
Two reports on the Free plan, unlimited on every paid plan.
Originality report
Chapter 3 · Ukrainian → English
Reviewed in full by the author, confirmed on Oct 21, 2026
Simple pricing
1 credit = 1 source word. Pro mode costs 3 credits per word. What each action costs
Free
Always freeFor your first projects
Unlimited users
Translated and proofread on Standard. About five with Pro.
- Pro mode: the model thinks each passage through, 3 credits per source word
- Standard quality: fast, accurate, faithful
- Translation memory: your past translations, reused to keep new ones consistent
- Glossary, styleguide, QA, import / export: all included
- Notion, Drive, TMX / XLIFF: import, export, and bring your own memory
- 68 languages: from Spanish to Tagalog
- Paragraph-by-paragraph translation in every mode
- Literess, your AI literary editor: 10 messages free, then credits
- Originality reports: 2 included
- No card required
Lite
The pocket edition
Unlimited users
- Whole pages and documents in one run
- Unlimited originality reports
- Workflows: chain translation, proofreading, and checks into one run
- API, MCP & webhooks: automate runs, or let AI assistants work in your account
- Teams: create as many as you need and invite anyone for free
- Top up anytime: pack credits never expire
Starter
Most popularFor regular client work
Unlimited users
- 3× Lite’s credits: for weekly work
- Teams: invite anyone for free; add €29/$33 seats to fund a shared credit pool (80,000 credits a month each)
Pro
For higher volumeFor agencies & large catalogs
Unlimited users
- 3× Starter’s credits: headroom for batch work and full catalogs
- Priority support: a direct line and faster replies
- Predictable bill: most months need no extra credit packs
FAQ
- It shouldn’t. The styleguide carries your tone into every sentence, and where a line still sounds off, you pick the alternative that sounds like you. The aim is a translation of your post, not a generic rewrite.
- A 1,500-word post in Standard mode uses 1,500 credits, about 1.9% of the 80,000 credits the Starter plan gives you each month. Pro mode uses 3 credits per source word, so the same post uses 4,500. One month of Starter credits covers several months of a typical newsletter.
- With batch translation, one post can go into six languages in a single run, with the same styleguide applied to all of them.
- Upload the post as an HTML or Markdown file and its headings, links, and emphasis come through. To publish, export the translation to Google Docs and paste it into a new Substack post: Substack’s editor accepts pasted formatted text.
- Paste in two or three posts you’ve had translated before (or posts written directly in the target language), and Transept proposes a styleguide that captures your tone, rhythm, and idiom choices. Refine it once, then reuse it for every future post.
- Bring the post in as an HTML or Markdown file, or from Google Docs or Notion if you draft there, and translate it in Transept. Then export the translation to Google Docs and paste it into a new Substack post: Substack’s editor accepts pasted formatted text. The same route works for other newsletter editors that take pasted text.
- No. Properly localized content with hreflang tags is a positive SEO signal for international readers. On your own site, set up a subdomain or subdirectory for each language in your CMS; on a newsletter platform, publish each language as its own publication.
- Substack’s built-in translation is convenient for casual use, but it doesn’t apply your styleguide or let you pick alternatives. For posts where voice matters, translating in Transept gives noticeably better results. For quick translations of news-style posts, Substack’s own feature is fine.
- Every post keeps a record of what the AI translated and what you changed, and the originality report turns it into a PDF with the share of words you wrote or edited. Two reports are free, every paid plan has no limit.
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Your writing stays yours
You own the translation
Transept claims no rights to your text or its translation, and our terms say so.
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Your text is never used to train AI, not by us and not by any provider we use, and it stays out of our logs. Delete your account and your text is deleted with it.
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