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: Login 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, 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, 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, Myanmar (Burmese), 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

Translate is a phenomenal tool for traveling abroad. Between voice translation, camera translation and just basic typing translation, it made my trip to Japan worlds easier. The one thing I would change about it (and the reason I only gave it 4 stars) is, when it gives definitions for words, it should give them in the language that you're trying to translate *to*, not *from*. Defining words from a language I am not fluent in, in that same language, is not useful.

since latest update, when you use the camera to translate images etc. you can no longer access any of the bottom menu (i.e. "send to translation home" "share") etc. this has rendered that feature useless. tried uninstall and reinstall and still doesn't work. it needs addressing. seems I am not the only consumer experiencing this. Update: as per the developer response. yeah, again my issue isn't that I do not know how to use the camera feature so referencing the article does nothing.

translations are inconsistent and if you save transactions, at some point you can't retrieve them. The app starts crashing. Knowing from previous experience the problem with keeping too much data, I selectively deleted some transcripts. The next day, I wanted to clean up a few more after adding the information to a notebook. I lost all the rest of the transcripts because none of the remaining would open again. The app just shut down whenever I tried to open anything.

What’s new

Bug fixes and improvements