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Translate between up to 249 languages. Feature support varies by language:
• Text: Translate between languages by typing
• Offline: Translate with no internet connection
• Instant camera translation: Translate text in images instantly by just pointing your camera
• Photos: Translate text in taken or imported photos
• Dictation: Translate spoken words and phrases
• Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly
• Transcribe: Continuously translate someone speaking a different language in near real-time
• Handwriting: Draw text characters instead of typing
• Phrasebook: Star and save translated words and phrases for future reference
Permissions notice:
• Microphone for speech translation
• Camera for translating text via the camera
• Photos for importing photos from your library
Translations between the following languages are supported:
Abkhaz, Acehnese, Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alur, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Avar, Awadhi, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Balinese, Baluchi, Bambara, Baoulé, Bashkir, Basque, Batak Karo, Batak Simalungun, Batak Toba, Belarusian, Bemba, Bengali, Betawi, Bhojpuri, Bikol, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chuukese, Chuvash, Corsican, Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic), Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dhivehi, Dinka, Dogri, Dombe, Dutch, Dyula, Dzongkha, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Fon, French, French (Canada), Frisian, Friulian, Fulani, Ga, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hakha Chin, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Hunsrik, Iban, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Inuktut (Latin), Inuktut (Syllabics), Irish, Italian, Jamaican Patois, Japanese, Javanese, Jingpo, Kalaallisut, Kannada, Kanuri, Kapampangan, Kazakh, Khasi, Khmer, Kiga, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kituba, Kokborok, Komi, Konkani, Korean, Krio, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Limburgish, Lingala, Lithuanian, Lombard, Luganda, Luo, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Madurese, Maithili, Makassar, Malagasy, Malay, Malay (Jawi), Malayalam, Maltese, Mam, Manx, Maori, Marathi, Marshallese, Marwadi, Mauritian Creole, Meadow Mari, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Minang, Mizo, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nahuatl (Eastern Huasteca), Ndau, Ndebele (South), Nepalbhasa (Newari), Nepali, NKo, Norwegian, Nuer, Occitan, Odia (Oriya), Oromo, Ossetian, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Quechua, Qʼeqchiʼ, Romani, Romanian, Rundi, Russian, Sami (North), Samoan, Sango, Sanskrit, Santali (Latin), Santali (Ol Chiki), Scots Gaelic, Sepedi, Serbian, Sesotho, Seychellois Creole, Shan, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Susu, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tahitian, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamazight (Tifinagh), Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tetum, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tulu, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Twi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Venda, Venetian, Vietnamese, Waray, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yakut, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya, Zapotec, Zulu
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Deep-Dive FAQs
What is Google Translate?
Google Translate is a digital product or tool described as: Google
Where did Google Translate originate?
Data for Google Translate was aggregated directly from the Apple App Store community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was Google Translate publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for Google Translate within our tracked developer communities was recorded on February 8, 2011.
How popular is Google Translate?
Google Translate has achieved measurable traction, logging over 83,955 reviews and facilitating 4 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define Google Translate?
Based on metadata extraction, Google Translate is categorized under topics such as: Reference, Travel.
Is Google Translate recognized by media or academic researchers?
Yes. It has been covered by media outlets like Android Central. This indicates the concept has reached a level of mainstream or scientific viability beyond just developer forums.
What are some commercial alternatives to Google Translate?
Our semantic intelligence engine identifies potential commercial alternatives in the SaaS space, such as Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, which offers overlapping value propositions.
How does the creator describe Google Translate?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "Translate between up to 249 languages. Feature support varies by language:
• Text: Translate between languages by typing
• Offline: Translate with no internet connection
• Instant camera translatio..."
Community Voice & Feedback
I’m not happy because this app does not allow you listening to the structures of languages I’m blind and cannot listen to my screen reader say mispronounced words fix this or I’m deleting your app sorry but this is not a good app for me anymore. It used to work so good but now it just doesn’t want to work. I can’t figure out why it’s doing this, but to speak test button says dimmed and live. Translate says dimmed and every and I can’t listen to the words pronounced why is it like this?
Thank you for making me buy the wrong food item by lying about the translation. Just amazing. I should get compensated for this bs.
I use this a lot in Japan. I speak the language pretty decently as a third language but I need translation tools still for complex sentences or at times contextual translations. Translate is so limited in functions or defaults to really bad literal translations that it’s frustrating to use when you need something quickly in a situation. Punching it in Google Search to let Gemini do it has yielded better results so I don’t know why the product teams can’t get it right. Actually I do know since I worked many years there; it’s a disaster and it’s no wonder Google products get worse and worse.
Someone I know is trying to learn a few things in Tagalog and searched for it in the app. It wasn’t there. Instead, we had to search for “Filipino”. That’s not what the language of the Philippines is called…
Helpful when I don’t know a different language
How could it not support Finnish? How’s there Anything it can’t support? Not like it doesn’t exist so you’re just being lazy. Idk how it takes 15 mins to translate a paragraph either. Auto caption? Complete garbage. Works perfectly on website, anywhere else, hardly
No auto switch, no AI translation, shame for 2026
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Всё хуже и хуже и хуже, такое ощущение что вы специально уничтожаете программу, у вас есть новый проект?
Ayuda y Enseña…
It really helps me remember new vocabulary in a foreign language if there is a brief description of the etymology of the foreign word included right below the translation. Studies have long shown that including the etymology helps language learners retain new vocabulary at a much higher rate than learners presented with the translation alone, so adding this feature would benefit all users of this app. Any chance we’ll see this in a future update of Google Translate?
On an iPhone 16e running iOS 26.5, after enabling "Reduce Motion" and "Prefer Crossfade Transition" in system settings, a large blank area appears at the bottom of the screen when translating any word and pressing Enter.
With such an old app and such a rich company, this definitely shouldnt be an issue where certain words are straight up untranslatable or unrecognizable, yet google does it. It does work well for image capturing and translating but direct words are very difficult to use
How come for some languages I can’t just listen to the robot speak? Huh? Google? Are you even caring about the languages out there like Dhivehi and Fula? But I guess it’s fine overall
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The same button as the texting swap. Thank you.
Best translator other than this.