What's New

A new tool is now open — Text Behind Image. A neural network separates the person or object from the background and the lettering slips behind it, giving the sense of depth you see on posters and album covers. It works on photos and on video.

We also reworked the editor: the sliders are easier to see and to hit, text layers can now be reordered with the arrows or by dragging, and the settings panel adapts to the space available — a portrait shot no longer sits between empty side margins.

Now a question for you. Lately we have spent a lot of time on photo tools. Should we keep going that way, or turn to something else?

If you picked "Something else", tell us in the comments what exactly. And if you have a specific task you currently solve by hand or in some heavy program, describe it. Messages like that are what most of our new tools grow out of.

— The Tembrica team

For several months we've been building a tool that finds anglicisms — English loanwords — in your text and suggests native replacements: Anglicism Checker.

It reads context. It tells homonyms apart — a word that is native in one sense and borrowed in another is not flagged blindly. On our test set it holds 100% precision: native words are not flagged by mistake. There is a live editor with one-click replace and a whole-site scan.

Nine languages, one dictionary. Almost 8000 curated modern loanwords across 9 languages. Russian is the deepest so far — the others are still growing.

Help us make it better. Try it and test us — and if you know your language's loanwords, suggest a new word for the dictionary or point out a miss right in the tool.

Every one of you has an employer — someone who pays your salary at the end of the month. We don’t. There are just two of us, and above us — no one: no company, no investor, no manager sending us a paycheck. You are our employer. And our salary is your Premium account, for six months or a year.

Let me be honest, without pretty words. Every single day our server costs us real money — just so the site will open. Behind that cost are two people who work on the site morning and day, evening and night, like some of you. Whether that’s a lot or a little to ask — that’s for you to decide. But it’s more honest to ask than to pretend.

Some will say a site like this should be free — you’ve already paid for the internet. Then let me ask in return: what will the internet be worth, once sites like ours are gone from it? Ten years ago you could run a site on advertising. Today that money went to influencers. Games and apps become paid one after another — and the ones still called “free” too often hide viruses inside. So here’s our promise: we will not hide viruses to call our site free. We’d rather ask you plainly.

And in return you get more than a line on a price list — you get two real people. We take every letter to heart — and there are dozens every day. We fix what breaks in hours, not weeks. Under every tool we put a button: “improve this one for you personally” — and we truly sit down and improve it. Buy Premium, and you don’t just get the tools. You get the team.

We’ll keep the site open for those who can’t pay too — but honestly, the quality there is lower. The best we save for those who keep us afloat. We never set out to make everything free for everyone. Our goal is greater — to make it right for everyone. There are thousands of tools online, but only a few ever become truly convenient; and our whole advantage comes down to one thing: two people can see every single person who writes.

If you have a better idea — how we can keep from disappearing and pay for the servers where the code lives — write to support@tembrica.com, or anywhere you like on the site. We read every last letter. We build Tembrica together with you — and everyone who’s here becomes part of it. This is a unique place, and it’s yours as much as ours.

And if you don’t need Premium but still want to support the site — light a Wishing Star: leave your wish for a small contribution, quietly or for all the world to see.

And one last thing — something I truly believe. Every kindness comes back to you, sooner or later. These aren’t just pretty words: psychology calls it the “boomerang effect.” We set it in motion every day. Now you set it too. Thank you for being with us.

We launched Video Dubbing: it recognises the speech in your clip, translates it into another language and re-voices it — keeping the music and background, with a line-by-line editor, speed and pitch controls, and an original / result side-by-side comparison.

The tool is available only to Premium accounts. It may be a bit raw and get some things wrong — but we tried to anticipate your wishes and built in a lot from the start: 29 of our studio voices plus in-browser voices for 32 languages, the original kept quietly under the translation, your own background music, a preview of the uploaded video and export of the finished video, a separate audio track and subtitles. You can additionally use OpenAI and Yandex voices, or carry the speaker's timbre straight from the video (voice clone).

Who it helps: creators and bloggers reaching an audience in another language; teachers and specialists localising training videos; anyone who needs a clip voiced in another language, in their own voice or someone else's. We want to save you hours of manual work — and we'll keep doing that.

If a feature is missing, tell us in the comments. We listen first to Premium and Pro accounts.

— The Timbrica team

He is all alone. Ahead: ice that cracks under his feet, black open water, walruses that only look sleepy (do not trust them), thieving arctic foxes and a blinding blizzard. And somewhere beyond the horizon — a shining mountain no one from the colony has ever reached. So begins Penguin Quest, our pixel arcade in the spirit of the 8-bit consoles: 10 chapters, story scenes between them, and an ending we will not spoil.

Fish here is not points — it is warmth: miss it and you freeze. Courage pays: the fattest fish waits right at the edge of danger, a perfect chapter earns an S rank, and collecting all three crystals unlocks a secret Fish Rain. Once the story is done, there is an endless migration through changing landscapes, and the Daily Challenge — a new level with a new tune every day, the same for everyone. The music, by the way, is composed by the code itself, following music-theory rules the way NES-era composers did.

Now, honestly. I am no games specialist — this is our first serious attempt at the genre. So please: play a couple of minutes and say it like it is. Boring? Penguin not cute? Music gets annoying? Controls infuriating? Too hard, too easy? Every detail matters — I will personally read every reply.

Write in the comments under this post, or without signing in — through the suggestion form at the bottom of the game page.

Arrows or WASD in any keyboard layout, Space to jump; on the phone — on-screen buttons. Progress is saved in your browser.

We have opened video colorization — a neural network colours black-and-white footage: family archives, newsreels, old films and cartoons. Upload a video and you will see a coloured frame before the full render: drag the before/after slider, browse the scenes, and flip through six film-stock styles — each one shown on a frame from your own clip, from Kodachrome ’55 to warm sepia.

Preview first, long render second. Hit “Preview 5 seconds” and the tool genuinely colorizes the opening seconds so you can judge the colours in advance. Next to the button sits an honest time estimate, measured from the speed of your own device.

What is inside. Processing runs right in your browser. Temporal colour stabilization removes flicker — the usual curse of automatic colorization. Cartoons and anime get their own engine. You can steer the palette with a reference photo, adjust skin tones, paint colour hints with a brush and add film grain. Export as MP4, WebM, GIF or a frame archive — the original audio track is preserved.

If the network gets a scene wrong, tell us in the comments: colorizing old film is a hard problem and we keep improving it.

Meet a new tool — the Face Maker. Build a three-dimensional human head: shape, color, expression and pose are set with sliders, and the result downloads as an image, a video or a 3D model.

How it works. Inside is an open statistical model of the human head: 30 “dimensions” of face shape (width, jaw, nose, cheekbones…) and 45 expression parameters — eyelids, lips, tongue and even pupil size. Every slider move instantly recomputes 17,821 points of the 3D mesh right in your browser.

Gallery and random faces. Seven ready-made faces with live 3D thumbnails — start from them or hit “Random face”: the variations are practically endless. All faces are synthetic; they are not photos of real people.

Color and details. Six skin tones, six eye colors and a separate pupil-size slider. The lips automatically adapt to the chosen skin tone.

Export anywhere. A 1080×1080 PNG — with a transparent background if you like, a ready avatar. A 360° turntable video for social media. And for 3D editors — a GLB or OBJ model that opens in Blender and other apps.

Share a face with one link. The “Share” button packs all the settings into a link — open it on any device and the face is restored exactly. Your latest work is saved in the browser automatically.

Tell us in the comments what is missing — we will keep improving the tool.

Create your face →

We have opened the endless piano — a generator of calm piano music. It is not an mp3 file and not a playlist: the melody is composed on the fly by an algorithm built on the rules of classical harmony — question-and-answer phrases, real cadences, suspensions and resolutions. Start it now and the music will not end and will not loop: even a hundred years of continuous play would never repeat. And it sounds like a real grand piano — the notes are studio recordings of a concert instrument.

Who it is for. Anyone who works, studies or falls asleep to music — there is a sleep timer with a gentle fade-out, and it takes any duration: even 7 hours 35 minutes. Owners of studios, workshops and small venues who need unobtrusive background sound without music licenses or streaming subscriptions: open the tab, and your theatre studio has a live, never-repeating piano all evening. The music keeps playing in a background tab, too.

Four moods — calm, dreamy, melancholic and nostalgic — plus tempo, reverb and octave range. Tell us in the comments what you would play it for — we will shape it around real scenarios.

We have opened a new tool — virtual drums. Play it with the mouse, the keyboard, touch, or a MIDI controller. Inside: acoustic kits built from real samples with several velocity layers, electronic 808 and 909, a world-percussion mode (cajón, bongos, congas, darbuka), a metronome, grooves, lessons that score your timing, a tempo trainer, a looper with overdub, a mixer, and recording with export to WAV, MP3 or MIDI.

A request to people who actually play drums. What we lack is the ear of a practitioner. Play for a couple of minutes and tell us in the comments:
— is there noticeable latency between the hit and the sound (from the keyboard, and from a MIDI controller)?
— how alive do the acoustic kits sound, are there enough velocity layers?
— is the key layout comfortable?
— did your MIDI controller connect, and did the notes land on the right pieces (tell us the model)?
— what is missing: a floor tom, a rimshot, a ride bell, swing in the looper?

And a question for everyone. Is it worth building musical instruments at all — or is this a niche for a narrow circle, and the effort would be better spent elsewhere? Please answer in the comments: it will directly shape what we build next.

I am grateful to everyone who supports this project — those who pay and those who simply use it. The project is growing, and I hope our users are growing together with us. The site is young, but many have already discovered how much is inside it.

From today we are launching Premium accounts. Premium gives you raised limits, personal and attentive support through the chat right here on the site, more stable file processing on some tools, and access to features that are closed for free accounts. It is a single payment for six months — no auto-renewal, no card kept on file — and on the payment page you can take a full year straight away. The exact price in your currency is on the pricing page.

Premium accounts are the main fuel of our site. The price, in our view, is far outweighed by what you get in return.

The load on our servers grows every month and with every new tool. We are forced to reduce it by giving free accounts lower limits. Please forgive us for that.
We have already upgraded our server plan three times, buying more power each time. What Premium earns goes precisely into making everything work reliably, without errors, for every user. At the same time, we want Premium and Pro accounts to receive more visible advantages.

We are adopting advanced technology and we already compete with large companies. For us that is more stress; for you, it is a better service.

Any user can send us wishes about which features they are missing here. If you are used to something elsewhere, send us the link. We will try to make it better than theirs.

There are already more than 500 tools on the site, and we will try to build at least 50 more this month.

Please buy Premium accounts. Together we are building Tembrica for ourselves.

And we also need volunteers. If you have free time, any ideas and a desire to help people, please write to support@tembrica.com. We need lawyers, psychologists, testers, writers, bloggers, teachers and many others.

Grammar is usually learned in scraps: an article with a list of rules that leads nowhere, or an app where everything useful sits behind a subscription. And almost nowhere is it clear what to actually learn at your level — or what you have already covered.

We have launched the English Grammar Course by CEFR level. Pick your level — A1 to C2 — and get exactly that level's grammar as a course you can finish: every topic has a clear explanation in your language, real examples, common mistakes to avoid and an interactive quiz. Score 80% and a topic is marked mastered; a level ring shows your progress and what is left. It all saves in your browser, no sign-up needed.

Topics follow the Cambridge English Grammar Profile — the order in which the language is actually acquired, without gaps or overload. And the key English forms in each explanation are highlighted, so you see the point at a glance.

Lower levels are free; the advanced topics (towards C1–C2) are part of Pro. Not sure of your level? There is an English level test right next door.

Open it, start with your level — and tell us in the comments which topic was the hardest.

Our planet is alive and never still: every few minutes an earthquake strikes somewhere — usually a small one nobody felt. We normally hear about them only when one is big enough to make the news. Now you can see the whole picture at once.

We've launched a live earthquake map: every quake from the last 24 hours is a dot on the world map, sized by magnitude and colored by depth. A new event flashes with a pulse the moment the networks record it. Tap any circle for its magnitude, depth, place and how many minutes ago it struck, with a link to the official event page.

We merge data from two global seismic networks — USGS and EMSC — so both major quakes worldwide and smaller inland tremors across Europe, the Mediterranean and Asia show up on one map. One tap jumps you to the biggest or the most recent quake — or to whatever is near you.

It's an informational map, not a warning service. Open it, spin the globe — and tell us in the comments the strongest quake on the map right now.

Remember sparklers on New Year's Eve? Wave one in the dark and a glowing line hangs in the air for a split second — and as kids we wished it wouldn't fade, that we could just draw in the air, in the sky, with a finger.

Now you can. Turn on your camera, raise your hand — and a neon line follows your fingertip. No stylus, no screen to touch: you draw in the air, with a gesture. Pinch your thumb and index finger and the pen comes down; open them and it lifts. A little ring sits on your fingertip so you always see where you're drawing and whether the pen is down.

Pick a color, change the thickness, rub things out with the eraser. Flip on dark canvas and the camera fades away, so your lines glow as if in the night sky. Save the result as an image.

It's brand new, so it may stutter or misread a gesture here and there. Give it a try and tell us how it went. Draw in the air →

Look up. This very second, 400 km above you, the ISS — the International Space Station, with real astronauts inside — is racing past. Faster than a bullet, all the way around the Earth in 90 minutes.

And the most amazing part — you can see it with your own eyes. On the right evening, a bright "star" glides silently across the whole sky. It's not a plane (a plane blinks) — it's people passing over your house. It shines because down where you are it's already night, while up there the Sun is still lighting it — like a mirror in the sky.

Our satellite tracker shows hundreds of spacecraft on a live map — for real, not an animation — and tells you exactly which minute to step outside and where to look to catch the station.

Go outside tonight and look up. Open the satellite tracker →