Virtual try-on in Malay

Malay shoppers and your product pages

Malay is the official language of Malaysia and Brunei and one of Singapore's official languages, where it also holds national-language status. Everyday commerce is written in Rumi, the Latin alphabet without diacritics, so it renders cleanly in any font your theme already uses; Jawi, an Arabic-derived script, exists alongside it but Rumi is the standard online. Malay and Indonesian are closely related and share most of their grammar, yet vocabulary and spelling diverge enough that shoppers notice which one your storefront speaks. If you serve both markets, treat them as two translations rather than one.

What Looksy's language support covers

The Looksy listing counts 47 supported languages and names Malay among them. It does not specify how deep that support goes — the shopper-facing try-on interface and the merchant dashboard may not be translated to the same extent, and the listing leaves this undocumented. The sensible move is to confirm rather than assume: switch a test storefront to Malay and complete a try-on on the Free plan, which never charges per generation. Keep in mind that the output is a photograph-style image of the shopper in your product; that part communicates without any translation layer.

Setting up for Malay-speaking shoppers

Set Malay as a published language in Shopify's settings so the storefront around the try-on — menus, cart, checkout — reads consistently. Looksy adds itself as a theme app extension block: enable it in the theme editor, place it on product pages, and no theme code is touched; uninstalling is equally clean. Because Malay uses unaccented Latin script, rendering problems are unlikely, so testing shifts to wording and fit. Run through the flow on the Free plan, check the try-on button label and prompts in Malay, and watch for strings that run longer than their English equivalents in tight layouts.

The try-on flow in any language

The flow a Malay-speaking shopper walks through is the same one every language gets. They upload one photo, and the try-on result appears on the product page in about 20 seconds; there is no app to install, no account to make, and no camera permission involved. Retry, feedback, download, and share are built in. The Free plan allows unlimited try-ons with Looksy branding and up to $100 in additional revenue; paid plans run $14.99, $29, and $79 per month, with the $79 Scale plan adding Realtime video try-on and lifting the revenue cap entirely. Billing is usage-based via Shopify.

Sources: the public Shopify App Store listing for Looksy, which enumerates all 47 supported languages. Last checked 29 July 2026.