Tamil
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Translate your set into Tamil without rebuilding the layout. Locale ta, captions run 25 to 40% longer than English, set in Noto Sans Tamil.
1,884 screenshots designed here so far
The same five-frame set, rendered in Tamil. Real output from the pipeline, not a mockup of one.
தமிழ்
Tamil is an official language in Singapore and Sri Lanka as well as an Indian state language, so the ta localization reaches a genuinely international audience including the relatively high-spending Singapore storefront. That combination makes it the strongest revenue case of the South Asian set.
India, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Malaysia.
This localization did not exist before 31 March 2026. Apple added it in the eleven-language expansion it framed around India, so most listings in this market are still English by default rather than by decision.
A translator returns a spreadsheet of strings.You get finished frames.
What breaks in Tamil
Tamil expands more than any other Indic localization on this list. It uses far fewer conjuncts than its neighbours, spelling out sequences that Devanagari or Telugu would fuse, and it is agglutinative, so grammatical relationships that English spends a preposition on become suffixes glued to the word. A six-word English headline routinely needs a smaller size or an extra line.
Tamil expands up to 40% against English, the largest growth of any Indic localization, so headlines overflow rather than merely re-wrap
Agglutination produces very long single words that cannot break on a space, because there is no space to break on
Vowel signs attach on both sides of a consonant, so a naive left-to-right truncation cuts a letter in half
The pulli (்) marks a bare consonant and is easy to lose in a font substitution, which changes the word
You type. The canvas builds.
Describe your app, see your first set, then ask for Tamil. The layout survives the language change because you are editing the same set, not starting a new one.
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Tamil sets, handled
One localization reaching four storefronts, including high-spending Singapore
Captions laid out against the real 25 to 40% expansion rather than English metrics
Noto Sans Tamil rendering verified in exported pixels, with the pulli intact
Long agglutinated words break at the character level rather than overflowing the box, matching what the renderer actually does
Exports at the exact dimensions App Store Connect requires for the ta localization
Questions & Answers
Why is my Tamil headline so much longer than the English one?
Two reasons that compound. Tamil spells out consonant clusters that other Indic scripts fuse into one glyph, and it is agglutinative, so what English says with a preposition Tamil says with a suffix on the same word. Together that is commonly 25 to 40% more width. The fix is a layout that reflows, not a translation that gets shortened until it fits.
Which storefronts does the ta localization reach?
India, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Malaysia all have significant Tamil-speaking populations, and one ta upload serves every Tamil-language device across them. Singapore is the reason this localization has a stronger revenue case than its neighbours.
What happens to a very long Tamil word at the end of a line?
It breaks at a character boundary, because there is no space inside it to break on. That is also exactly what the underlying renderer does, so our line count agrees with the painted result. A model that assumed such a word occupied one line would under-reserve the box and the last line would be silently clipped.
When did Tamil become available on the App Store?
On 31 March 2026, in Apple’s eleven-language expansion. It is new enough that competitive research done before that date will show no Tamil listings at all.