AI product
WhaleRead is a local-first macOS workspace for translating and reading TXT, Markdown, and EPUB books. It displays the source and translation side by side, preserves reading position, bookmarks, notes, review history, EPUB chapters, images, and styling, and supports switching between source, translation, and bilingual views.
Book translation runs on-device with Hy-MT2 7B; the page also describes a user-controlled self-hosted 30B route, which is not included in the public download. Its review workflow keeps model suggestions separate from the book: users can highlight a passage, inspect the source evidence and model reasoning, edit or discard a suggestion, and apply a revision only after confirmation. Ask AI can answer questions about selected passages through a compatible endpoint configured by the user, with the prepared context shown before sending and answers saved as reading notes without automatically changing the book.
The public preview is for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 13 or later. The page says the preview is ad-hoc signed and not yet notarised by Apple, and that the 7B model is downloaded separately.
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A local-first Mac workspace for translating and reading TXT, Markdown, and EPUB books. It translates on-device, displays source and translation side by side, preserves notes and bookmarks, and lets users review AI translations before applying changes.
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