Changing Languages: App Interface vs. Story Language
ToonyStory has two separate language settings — the interface you click through, and the language each book is written in
ToonyStory has two language settings, and they live in different places. Changing one does not change the other.
| App interface | Story language | |
|---|---|---|
| What it controls | Buttons, menus, labels, settings — the app's own chrome | The words in the book: page text, title, dedication |
| Where you set it | Account Settings → Language | The Language row in the story creation flow |
| Scope | Everything you see, saved per device | One book at a time |
| How many | 12 languages | 19 languages |
Change the app interface language
- Click your profile icon in the top-right corner of the dashboard
- Click Settings
- In the Language card, click the language you want
The app reloads in the language you picked. Available: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Arabic, Hebrew, and Korean.
The choice is saved to the browser you are using rather than to your account, so a phone and a laptop can each sit in a different interface language.
Change the language a book is written in
Language is set per book, when you create it. In the story creation flow, open the Language row — it sits with the other story details, alongside Reading level, Tone and Page count — and pick from the list.
Available: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu.
Both settings start from a sensible guess
- Interface: on your first visit, ToonyStory reads the language your browser or device asks for and matches it to the closest one it ships. Your pick in Settings replaces that from then on.
- Story: as you type your story idea, ToonyStory reads which language you wrote it in and moves the Language row to match — so an idea typed in Spanish produces a Spanish book without you touching the picker. It needs a sentence or so to go on, and it leaves the row alone when the evidence is thin rather than guessing.
Choosing a language yourself always wins. Once you pick from the Language dropdown, typing further ideas will not move it back.
Right-to-left languages
- Interface: Arabic and Hebrew lay the whole app out right-to-left — navigation, menus, and every screen.
- Books: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu books read right-to-left, both on screen and in the printed PDF.
A book keeps its own reading direction whatever the interface is doing, so an English book stays left-to-right inside the Arabic interface, and an Arabic book reads right-to-left inside the English one.
The two are independent
You can mix them freely. Set the interface to Arabic and write a book in English, and you get Arabic menus and settings around an English, left-to-right storybook. The reverse works the same way: an English interface, an Arabic book.
What language Toony replies in
Toony, the in-app assistant, opens in your interface language. Write to it in a different language and it answers in the language of your message, judged message by message.