It can't be free and your 1-star rating makes no sense. You're saying the product is good but rating it poorly because you can't afford it ... Imagine you said the same thing about a iPhone, "wow this phone is so good but wait, actually it sucks because it costs money ..."

you people are so weird, it baffles me. Just think for a single moment, how can it be possible for this extension to be free? I need to pay for server costs, for GPT4 translation costs, for GPU costs, for storage costs, for text detection costs and for my own time and energy spent working on this damn thing. What part of that allows for the extension to be free? Who will pay for all of the expenses? This extension will not exists and I will be broke. God I wish you random people were more reasonable because I hate seeing such reviews.

Sometimes mistakes happen either in the text detection phase or in the translation phase, but Torii should handle 95% of images very well. Instead of writing a "completely useless" review such as yours, you could have contacted me either via email or discord and I would have carefully addressed your issue and maybe even fix the bug. Might have even given you some free credits as compensation.

Yeah, this service cannot be free. It's not possible and it has to be sustained by the users. Translation and text detection and servers cost me money to run, so after a free trial you have to pay if you like it and want to keep using it.

It's not free yes, but your review is abysmal as well. You could have given the slightest bit of constructive criticism. What went wrong? Why didn't you like the extension? How can the experience be improved? Are you just mad it's not free? If that's the case, then some things simply can't be free - I have expenses to take care of. I rate your review 1 star.

Wow, that's the best possible compliment I could hear! Thank you so much dude :D

Please join the discord server if you'd like to chat - maybe you have a cool suggestion or feature request you'd like to see implemented in Torii, and I can hear you out :)

Thank you kind user!

Torii currently doesn't support custom api keys. But I'll think about it :)

Thanks for the 4 stars! Localized pricing is impossible for the simple reason that my own expenses are not localized. Everything is in dollars, such as GPT4 or Gemini, or server prices, or storage, or hosting. If I were to localize I would be losing a ton of revenue and Torii would die, since that's not sustainable. As for your other point, the inpainting and rendering are by far not the most intensive or costly parts. The character detection via OCR AI models is the most costly, followed by translation via the services of GPT4 or Gemini. Therefor it cannot possibly be made any cheaper than it already is, until I find just as good but cheap replacement models for those services. That should happen in the not too distant future, as AI improves globally, but as of right now, the current pricing is as low as it can go.

Thanks anyway, for the review, I really appreciate it. Especially since I've usually received 1-star reviews of this kind, such as "This sucks, it's not free, 1 star" lol

I really appreciate your kind review panos. Means a lot to me to hear something nice, haha. For a moment, there was a streak of bad reviews and I got worried. I don't know why people aren't more reasonable with their expectations. I guess everyone is annoyed that everything in their life wants their money, which I understand. Still, it's very disheartening to hear bad reviews after putting a whole year's worth of effort into improving Torii. Nonetheless, I'll keep improving Torii to make it the best on the internet and hopefully there will be people like yourself who appreciate it.

Thank you!

Thanks!

Hey, thanks a lot for coming to my defense :)
I don't really understand those people expecting everything in this world to either be free or unusable. The good things in life more often than not provide some value which doesn't come for free. People's labor needs to be rewarded for providing you with that value. High quality products cost money and should be fairly priced.

Also, I would say that Torii's translations are 10x better than the typical google translate result, haha. The reason is that Google's models are inferior to the modern capabilities of LLMs like GPT4 and Gemini, which is what Torii uses.

Torii offers a free trial to test things. It says right on the install page that some features are paid. Why would you leave a bad review just because it's paid? I can't pay for your usage, that is ridiculous. GPT-4 costs money, servers cost money, Gemini costs money, OCR costs money ... who is gonna pay for all those expenses? For Torii to sustain itself, it has to be a paid extension. That doesn't make Torii worth 1-star reviews. You should rate the product and provide constructive criticism that matters so I can improve the extension. Do you rate Netflix 1-star because it's a paid subscription? No, businesses have to sustain themselves, otherwise they die and no one can use them. Please remove your review.

I understand that. Thanks for the nice comment.

Thank you very much!

I think so too!

:)

I'm sad to hear about your experience. Let me address your points:

The button appears on hover and after translations and is translucent. You can also turn it off entirely and translate your images with shortcuts, Torii will still work without the button. Also what would you prefer? No button? How would you like to translate images?

While untranslated text does happen sometimes, it's very rare. Regardless, machine translation is simply not perfect and OCR is a difficult problem in and of itself. Sometimes texts have a weird font or size and can't be detected.

As for the translation taking 2 credits and not finishing, that should never have happened and had you contacted me I would immediately refund you your credits if that were the case. I am very available for anyone to contact me and there are 300 members on my discord server where you can easily and instantly contact me.

I e also experimented with rewarded video ads as you suggest but it's really not easy to implement and I don't think it's worth it. Torii has 2000 happy paying customers who use the extension daily and they rarely have any problems. Torii makes 30,000 image translations per day.

In any case, there are many extensions similar to Torii but we are definitely the highest quality and most stable one. That's why I'm disappointed in your review. I don't think you can find a better machine translator service.

Official human translations are super costly and not free. Usually costing a few dollars per image which is crazy. With Torii tour can do thousands of images.

I wish you would revisit Torii and maybe come talk to me if there's anything wrong with it. Have a good one.