Playto Standard is now available in Early Access

The wait is over

Playto Standard (the paid version) has cleared Steam review and is now available in Early Access. Launch week is 10% off.

What Standard adds over Lite

If you’ve been using Lite (the free version), everything you know carries over. Standard removes the limits and adds the bigger capture modes:

Cursor Follow: a flexible reading region that follows your mouse while playing
Image Recognition: reads text from the image itself, so it can pull words from stylized UI elements too
Text+: text reading combined with image recognition
All 8 quiz modes (Lite has flashcards only)
Pronunciation testing and AI assistant integration (MCP)
Unlimited wordbook and unlimited game packs

Cursor Follow is the one to try first if you play mouse-driven games.

New since Lite launched: the Home screen

The biggest change since the Lite release isn’t a capture feature — it’s what happens between sessions. Playto now opens on a redesigned Home screen built around one question: what should I do today?

A daily review goal (capped, so a backlog never becomes a wall) with your due words one click away
A recommended game — the one where a few minutes of review moves your retention the most
A maturity funnel showing each saved word progressing from New to Learning, Young, and Mature
A memory retention curve that decays when you stay away and recovers as you review

Words you meet while playing feed the queue; a few minutes of review a day makes them stick. The more you play, the more your own dictionary grows — and Home is where you watch it turn into vocabulary you actually keep.

Full walkthrough: Home screen docs.

About Early Access

Playto stays in Early Access for now. Word lookups are reliable; longform meaning hints are still a scaffold rather than a finished translation — game text lacks the speaker and tone context human translators rely on, and per-game packs are how you tune that. Known rough edges are listed on the Known Issues page, and updates will keep coming at the current pace.

How to start

Grab Playto on the Steam store page — or try the free Lite build first to see if it fits the way you play
On first launch, the model files download and a tutorial walks through the basics
Play something — then come back to Home the next day and review what you found

Bug reports / questions

To everyone who tried Lite and sent feedback over the past couple of weeks: a lot of it shipped in this build. Thank you.