Google Translate

Google LLC

About this app

• Text translation: Translate between 108 languages by typing
• Tap to Translate: Copy text in any app and tap the Google Translate icon to translate (all languages)
• Offline: Translate with no Internet connection (59 languages)
• Instant camera translation: Translate text in images instantly by just pointing your camera (94 languages)
• Photos: Take or import photos for higher-quality translations (90 languages)
• Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly (70 languages)
• Handwriting: Draw text characters instead of typing (96 languages)
• Phrasebook: Star and save translated words and phrases for future reference (all languages)
• Cross-device syncing: Log in to sync phrasebook between app and desktop
• Transcribe: Continuously translate someone speaking a different language in near real time (8 languages)

Translations between the following languages are supported:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dhivehi, Dogri, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Konkani, Korean, Krio, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maithili, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Mizo, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Odia (Oriya), Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Sanskrit, Scots Gaelic, Sepedi, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Tsonga, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu

Permissions Notice
Google Translate may ask for the following optional permissions*:
• Microphone for speech translation
• Camera for translating text via the camera
• External storage for downloading offline translation data
• Contacts for setup and management of your account

*Note: The app may be used even if optional permissions are not granted.

Ratings and reviews

The app and service is super helpful. One hand UX could be further improved. Absolutely annoying language suggestions: e.g. when I have rus-eng settings and type a (quite common) English word, the app may suggest absolutely exotic language instead of just swapping the language pair. And if I accidently accept it, then I'll spend a bunch of time setting back my language pair. I like that I can save words, but this is just a useless long list of words (can't download, no learning features, ..).

Cam be very useful but there are some major issues. Arabic lacks the diacritic harakat (vowel) sounds. If a person needs a translation app, they likely need the fully written language. The translate image gives a "No internet connection" error, while online. Downloading the language pack, as suggested does not change that error. A nice to have would be the ability to share an image to the Translate app for translation.

Problems after most recent update. As you are dictating or typing the app suddenly freezes at a certain point and you cannot continue with the typing or the dictation until you reset the location of the text cursor! Also problems translating English to Spanish because I get two boxes with both English but no way to select Spanish to be the language to translate the English to and I consistently paste text in a language and the output is also the same language. Still doing that.

What's new

Bug fixes and improvements