Features
Everything Thailo does
Built around one promise: land in Thailand able to actually talk. Everything below works offline except speaking practice and AI grading, which need a connection.
The journey
Ten destinations, in the order your trip needs them
The home screen is a route through Thailand. Arrival teaches airport and greeting Thai; Night Market Eats gets you fed; Getting Around covers taxis, tuk-tuks and the BTS; Money & Market handles numbers and haggling. 4,105 words across 36 categories, every one validated against a real Thai dictionary.
The phrasebook
A phrasebook organized by what's happening around you
460 phrases in 17 situational packs: first arrival, ordering, bargaining, spice and allergies, the pharmacy, temple etiquette. Each with Thai script, honest romanization and formality guidance. Where it matters, you also get the reply you're likely to hear back. Searchable and instant, for the moment you need it mid-trip.
AI practice
Say it, and find out if a local would get you
Two rounds. A guided read-aloud after every lesson and in any phrasebook pack: the phrase stays in front of you and you say it out loud. Then, once you have learned a pack's words, Test Yourself hides the phrase and asks you to produce it cold. Speak it or type it, and the AI grades whether a Thai speaker would have understood you, showing a more natural way when there is one. Single-shot graded practice, not an open chatbot.
The guide
The grammar, explained: for when you want the why
Not sure why Thai puts the adjective after the noun, or how a question gets built? The grammar guide explains how the language actually works (sentence structure, negation, questions, tense, classifiers, particles, pronouns, politeness) in plain English with real examples. It reads like a short textbook, and it's one tap away from your lessons, the phrasebook and the review screen whenever a pattern trips you up.
Live Challenges
Real-world missions that end in Thailand, not in the app
Finish a destination and its Live Challenge unlocks: go order at a real stall, ask a real question, haggle for a real price, with a phrase toolkit in hand. Mark it done yourself and stamp your passport. Practice that ends in Thailand, not on a screen.
Progress
A passport that fills as Thailand opens up
Streaks, destination stamps, spaced-repetition review that resurfaces words right before you'd forget them, and a passport screen that doubles as your trip diary.
Review
Everything you've learned, in one place
One home for the words already behind you: read them all back with audio, flip through a quick Practice over a random mix, and let spaced review resurface the ones you're about to forget, exactly when they're due. Always a tap away, right next to Continue.
The script
Read menus and signs, if you want to
Two tracks, chosen at onboarding. Speak-first keeps everything in romanization. Read-too teaches the 44 consonants, vowels and five tones glyph by glyph, with audio at full and turtle speed.
Make it yours
Repaint the sky, and study day or night
Coins you earn from lessons unlock sky themes that repaint the background behind every screen: sunrise apricot, jade morning, Andaman blue. Two of them are midnight skies that flip the whole app into a warm, cream-on-dark night mode: bright enough to read on the plane, easy enough on the eyes to study in bed. Personalization that's earned, not another paywall.
See it on your own phone
Thailo is coming to iOS with a 7-day free trial. Join the waitlist for launch access and the TestFlight beta.
Launching on iOS. One email when it's out. Maybe two, if something's truly worth telling you.