ASEAN
Size the unit, then see what inverter vs non-inverter really costs
SG / MY / HK / TW / CN / PH / ID / TH / VN · format check
Convert between Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia — with a False Friends panel that catches words like "pusing", "butuh", and "kereta" that mean different things in each country.
Calculate your BMI instantly using ASEAN health thresholds — metric and imperial.
Estimate your body fat percentage using the Navy method — with ASEAN-specific health ranges.
Calculate your daily calorie needs in seconds — enter your details and get your maintenance calories instantly.
Turn a one-time IT price into a monthly OPEX financing plan
Calculate your pregnancy due date and current week — enter your last period or conception date.
Add or remove GST and sales tax instantly — Singapore 9%, Malaysia 8%, Thailand 7% and more.
Find your ideal weight range using 5 medical formulas — with ASEAN-adjusted healthy ranges.
Convert between Mainland Mandarin (普通话), Malaysian Mandarin (马来西亚华语) and Singaporean Mandarin (Singdarin) — with loanwords, particles, and Cantonese-influenced word order.
Translate between Standard English, Manglish (Malaysian English), and Singlish (Singaporean English) — with lah, lor, leh, makan, paiseh, kiasu, and all the rest.
Pak Long position system + Javanese/Sundanese/Sumatran/Tionghoa
How much rain your roof could catch — and what a tank would deliver
Calculate Singapore (YA 2026) and Malaysia (YA 2025) personal income tax with CPF/EPF — side-by-side, with all current brackets and reliefs.
See generation, bill savings and the year your panels pay for themselves
Malaysia SST at 6% · 8% · 5% · 10% — inclusive or exclusive
Calculate your daily calorie needs based on age, weight, height and activity level.
Convert times across ASEAN and global timezones — perfect for remote teams and international meetings.
Business days with ASEAN holidays
Malaysia's sovereign LLM, tuned on rojak speech, launched by the PM
Kira AI
Litera Kira — AI contract analysis and clause extraction for lawyers
Open-weight Indonesian LLM built for data sovereignty, not benchmarks
SEA-LION
Open-source LLM family for 11+ Southeast Asian languages
Sider AI
AI sidebar for any browser
AI interior renders from a photo, built by a Bangkok design-tech team
Thailand's most-downloaded open Thai LLM; free API in beta
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