Tooligan now speaks 9 languages
Quick answer
Tooligan now runs in nine languages. English stays where it always was, and the other eight live behind a short code in the address: /es for Spanish, /defor German, and so on. Open any tool and there’s a little globe menu near the top. Pick your language and the same tool reloads, translated. No account, no pop-up asking you to “set your region.”
Why translate a pile of calculators
Numbers are supposed to be universal. The interface around them isn’t. If you grew up reading “tasa de interés”instead of “interest rate,” a calculator that only speaks English makes you do a little translation tax in your head before you get to do the actual math. That’s a dumb tax. So we got rid of it.
Most of Tooligan’s traffic already comes from outside the English-speaking world. People were splitting restaurant tabs in São Paulo and converting kilometers to miles in Tokyo on tools labeled entirely in a language that wasn’t theirs. The tools worked. They just weren’t friendly. Translating them was overdue, and it fits the whole point of this site: free, no sign-up, no watermark, and now no language wall either.
The nine languages
Nine to start, picked by where people actually are. Here’s the full list, with the code that goes in the URL:
| Language | In its own words | URL code |
|---|---|---|
| English | English | (none, the default) |
| Spanish | Español | /es |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Português (BR) | /pt-BR |
| French | Français | /fr |
| German | Deutsch | /de |
| Italian | Italiano | /it |
| Japanese | 日本語 | /ja |
| Hindi | हिन्दी | /hi |
| Simplified Chinese | 简体中文 | /zh-CN |
English is the default, so it has no code at all. The other eight sit behind their code. The unit converter in German lives at /de/converters/unit-converter; the compound interest calculator in Spanish at /es/finance/compound-interest. Same tool, same math, different words.
What’s translated (and what isn’t)
The tools are the thing that got translated, top to bottom: buttons, labels, the headings, the little explainer paragraphs, the example values. Everything you touch while you’re actually using a calculator or a converter.
Two honest caveats. First, where a particular string hasn’t been translated yet, it quietly falls back to English rather than showing you a broken placeholder. So you might catch the odd English word in a sea of your own language. That’ll keep shrinking. Second, this blog stays in English. Translating evergreen prose well is a different job than translating an interface, and I’d rather not feed you a robot’s idea of Italian. The post you’re reading is the one place on the site that won’t flip languages on you.
How to switch languages
Two ways, and they end up in the same place.
- Use the language menu.Every tool has a small globe button near the top that shows your current language with a little chevron. Click it, pick from the list, and the same tool reloads in that language. It keeps you on the exact page you were on, so you don’t lose your spot.
- Type the code into the address.If you’d rather, drop the language code in front of the path yourself.
tooligan…/finance/loan-calculatorbecomes…/fr/finance/loan-calculatorfor French. Handy when you want to bookmark a tool in a specific language or send a friend a link that opens in theirs.
A couple of things worth knowing. The site won’t guess your language from your browser settings and redirect you. You land on English by default and choose from there, which means a link you share opens in the language you sent, not whatever the other person’s phone is set to. And the menu doesn’t show up on this blog, since the blog only speaks English.
Try it in your languageOpen the unit converter →Use the globe menu up top to flip it into Spanish, German, Japanese, or any of the nine. No account, no watermark.What’s next
Nine languages is a starting line, not a finish. More will follow where the traffic asks for them, and the English-only gaps inside the current eight will fill in over time. If a tool reads awkwardly in your language, that’s a translation worth fixing, and hearing about it helps. In the meantime, the QR code generator and the rest of the toolbox are sitting there in your language, waiting. Go split a tab, size a loan, convert something. In words that sound like home.
Updated . Written by Wyatt Hutchins.