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 update just greatly reduced the quality of the app for photo applications. I want to highlight selected Chinese characters and see the English pop up, and then be able to click the translation and see *within the app* the Pinyin and English translations of the characters. Instead, it now takes me to web browser just to read the Pinyin. Bring back the old button for "scan" text. Edit: thank you for your attention to this

The UI in this app is not very well done. Why must I hide the keyboard to reverse translate or to copy the text. There should also be a way to keep the mic open longer. I cannot tell you how many times someone is speaking and they pause just for a second and it cuts them off. I figured through the years someone would have addressed these issues by now. I guess not.

Very easy to use. Only reason I didn't go 5 stars is because it's wasn't easy to figure out how to save conversations and the feature isn't even mentioned/advertised. Could've saved a lot of time I spent on screenshots if I would have known sooner. Other than that works great and translations, according to some of my Hispanic employees are about 90% accurate or better.

What's new

Bug fixes and improvements