Multilingual driver license PDF · 12 languages · $35
It's 11 PM at the Hertz desk in Phuket. Your license is in Cyrillic. The agent calls a supervisor; the supervisor wants a translation; ninety minutes later you walk out with the keys. That's the scene IDP Companion was built for — a $35 multilingual PDF that translates your real driver license into the 12 languages most often required at the desk in front of you. Issued in two minutes online. Carried alongside your physical license. We're not a government IDP under the 1949 Geneva or 1968 Vienna Convention — we say so on every page of this site, and we'll tell you exactly when you need one instead.
See full pricing details →From $35 per document. No subscriptions, no recurring charges.
You’ll receive an International Driving Permit companion document — not a government-issued IDP. Generated from your real driver license and designed for international travel.
One-time payment. No subscriptions.
A printable single-page PDF that presents your driver license in 12 languages — English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai. The languages a rental agent in Bangkok, a police officer outside Athens, or a hotel clerk in Phuket is most likely to read in the seconds before they hand you the keys or wave you through.
An IDP Companion is a privately-issued multilingual PDF that presents your driver license details in 12 languages. The same name, license number, class, and validity that appear on your home license — translated into the languages most often required at rental desks and roadside checks abroad.
It is a translation document. Not a credential, not a permit, not a license itself. The legal authority to drive comes from your physical home-country license, which you carry alongside the PDF. The PDF's job is to make the home license readable to someone who doesn't speak your language.
It is not a government-issued International Driving Permit under the 1949 Geneva or 1968 Vienna Conventions — those are issued by authorized national bodies in your home country. IDP Companion fills the practical gap between 'don't strictly need a government IDP' and 'need a faster handoff at the rental desk than my home license alone gives me.'
Concrete situations where IDP Companion shifts a 90-minute argument into a 90-second handoff. Documented from real travelers' rental-desk and roadside reports.
The agent reads your license in their language. Hertz, Avis, Sixt, Europcar, and Budget all explicitly recommend or require a multilingual translation alongside non-Latin-alphabet licenses at their airport branches across Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Mediterranean.
Officers verify your name, license number, and expiry without translation apps or thirty minutes on the phone with their dispatch. In countries that recognize translation documents practically (most non-Schengen tourist destinations), the printed booklet routinely satisfies the verification.
Hotels in resort areas often hold an extra deposit when they can't verify your license format — especially when you use the license as secondary ID. A multilingual companion document removes the ambiguity and routinely cuts the deposit-hold conversation in half.
When something happens — accident, theft, dispute — the rental and insurance paperwork references the documents you presented at pickup. A multilingual translation in that pile is a document the insurer's claims team can read on the first pass, which speeds up everything that follows.
Average session: 2 minutes
Your trip is coming up. Skip the four-week mail wait.
Direct answer: a government IDP is a paper booklet issued by your country's authorized national automobile body under a treaty. IDP Companion is a private multilingual translation document issued by us, online, in two minutes. They serve different purposes and the right one depends on your destination.
| IDP Companion | Government-issued IDP | |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery method | Instant digital PDF | Mail or in-office pickup |
| Processing time | ~2 minutes online | 1–14 days · US: ~4 weeks by mail |
| Office visit required | No | Often yes (passport-style photo) |
| Price · 1 year | $35 | $20–$79 |
| Multi-year plans | 1, 3, or 5 years | Usually 1 year only |
| Legal compliance · 1949/1968 treaties | No — translation only | Yes |
| Multilingual translation pages | 12 languages (treaty + practical) | Geneva 1949 standard set |
| Works at rental desks | Yes — most international chains | Yes |
If your destination's law explicitly requires a 1949 Geneva or 1968 Vienna Convention IDP (Japan, Thailand stays over 90 days, parts of South America), get the government one from your country's authorized issuer. Our destination pages tell you exactly which countries that applies to and which authorized body issues there. For every other situation — when a translation document is operationally useful even though not legally mandatory — IDP Companion is the faster path.
Five steps online, about two minutes end to end. Each step is broken down in detail in our how-it-works guide.
Choose where your driver license was issued and how long you want the companion document to remain re-downloadable from your account. The same PDF ships on every plan — only the validity differs.
Phone photo or scan works. OCR confirms it's a real license; AWS Rekognition (85% threshold) confirms it belongs to you. Both inputs are deleted within 1 hour by automated rule.
Card, PayPal, Apple Pay, or USDT/USDC/BTC/ETH. PDF is generated on-demand the moment payment confirms — no waiting list, no email back-and-forth. Same browser tab.
A single-page PDF (~150 KB) optimized for both printing and phone display. Identical document on every plan — only the validity duration differs.
English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Thai — the languages most often required at rental desks worldwide.
Your actual name, license number, class, expiry, and country of issue — extracted from the license photo you uploaded, not a generic template filled with placeholder text.
A4 or US Letter print. Fold-style modeled on the 1949 Geneva Convention IDP layout. Phone display works as backup for in-car checks.
Free regeneration if your license details change (renewal, name change). Unlimited re-downloads from the purchase receipt during the validity period of your plan.
A small product team — engineers and travelers who spent too much time at rental desks where the agent didn't read our license. The product is honest about what it is and direct about what it doesn't replace.
Answer-first responses to what travelers ask before they buy.
Yes — for most non-EU destinations from a US, UK, or Russian license, either a government IDP or a multilingual translation document is required or strongly recommended at rental desks.
Specific destinations (Japan, Thailand for stays over 90 days, parts of South America) legally require a 1949 Geneva Convention IDP from your country's authorized national body.
For every other situation — most rental desks in tourist destinations, most traffic stops, most hotel check-ins — a multilingual translation companion document does the same practical job at a fraction of the cost and time.
Two key differences: legal status and process. A government IDP is a formal document issued under the 1949 Geneva or 1968 Vienna Convention treaties through your country's authorized national body. IDP Companion is a private multilingual translation document issued by us.
Different legal status, similar practical function: both make your license readable in foreign languages. The right choice depends on whether your destination legally requires a treaty-recognized IDP or merely operationally needs a translation.
Our destination pages document which case applies for each country we cover.
Major international chains — Hertz, Avis, Sixt, Europcar, Budget — accept multilingual translation companions at most airport branches across destinations where the document applies.
Smaller local agencies vary; some require a government IDP regardless. Our destination pages document agency-by-agency policies for popular routes.
If a rental agency refuses your IDP Companion for a reason we didn't flag on the destination page, we refund — see Refund Policy.
About 2 minutes from start to delivery.
The PDF is generated on-demand at the moment payment completes — you download it directly in the same browser tab. No waiting list, no manual review queue, no email back-and-forth.
The fastest sessions complete in under 90 seconds; even with retries the longest finish in under 5 minutes.
$35 for 1 year, $45 for 3 years, $55 for 5 years. One-time payment per plan.
No subscriptions, no recurring charges, no upsells at checkout. The plan length determines how long we keep your document available for re-download from your account.
The PDF you download is yours to keep regardless of plan expiry — the plan controls re-download availability, not the validity of the document already on your disk.
12 languages on a single page: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai.
The selection covers the documented requirements of major rental chains and tourist-area police across Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and the EU.
Same 12 languages on every plan — no per-language upsell, no premium language tier.
Re-download IDP Companion anytime from the purchase receipt email during your plan's validity — print a fresh copy at any hotel or print shop.
For your physical license, contact your home country's licensing authority (DVLA for UK, DMV/RMV for US, ГИБДД for Russia). IDP Companion alone is not a substitute for your physical license.
Rental agencies and police will require the original alongside any translation companion.
Yes — license photo and selfie are deleted automatically within 1 hour of submission, as a hard automated rule.
We never share or sell license images, never build a face database, and never retain biometric data after the single verification check. Card details never touch our servers — Gumroad and NOWPayments handle checkout end-to-end.
Servers are EU-hosted (Frankfurt), TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest, GDPR-compliant. See our security page for the full breakdown.
Your trip date is the deadline
Two minutes online, $35 for one year, instant PDF in your inbox. Carried alongside your real driver license, designed for the moment in front of you at the rental desk.
Translation companion document. Not a government-issued International Driving Permit under the 1949 Geneva or 1968 Vienna Conventions. IDP Companion is not affiliated with AAA, AATA, PayPoint, RosAvtoKlub, ADAC, or any other authorized national IDP issuer or government transport agency.
