ConveyWhy Not Just Prompt ChatGPT? Convey's Real Usage Numbers
A fair question: general LLMs already handle nuanced translation well, so why use a dedicated app at all? The honest answer is about what happens when translation isn't a one-off task but an ongoing conversation.
The reprompting problem
Getting a good tone-aware translation from a general chatbot means describing what you want, every time — "translate this casually," "make this sound sincere, not stiff." That works for a single message. It gets tedious and inconsistent across a real back-and-forth conversation, where you're translating message after message and don't want to re-explain the tone each time. A dedicated mood picker set once, versus re-prompting every message, isn't a small convenience difference over a real conversation — it's the difference between a tool you actually keep using and one you give up on by the third message.
Real usage, not a pitch
As of this writing: hundreds of unique individual devices and tens of thousands of submitted translations. The top language pairs are English↔Thai, followed by English↔Khmer, Indonesian↔English, Swedish↔English, and Tagalog↔English — real, ongoing cross-language conversations, not one-off lookups. Tracked the same honest way we track everything (unique devices and submitted translations, not raw API hits) — and growing.
Bottom line
General LLMs are genuinely good at translation when you're willing to prompt carefully each time. Convey exists for when that's not practical — an ongoing conversation where you want the tone handled once, not re-explained every message.
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