Stop the copy-paste loop. ScreenTranslate is a lightweight macOS utility for instant on-screen translation. Inspired by ScreenHint’s seamless capture, I built this to solve a personal pain: translating uncopyable text in images, video frames, and locked PDFs. 1)Drag-to-Translate: Instant results by dragging over any area. 2)Stay in Flow: No more switching to Google Translate tabs. 3) Privacy-First: Native macOS experience with no data collection.
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It does the same with audio files, I saw videos being mentioned in the description, how does that work? Kudos on having it as a pop-up so that we do not have to jump between tabs, that takes some frustration away
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@viktorgems Hi Victor! Thanks for the kudos on the pop-up UX—I’m thrilled to hear that it’s helping you stay in the flow, as that was exactly my goal!
Regarding your question about video and audio: I apologize for any confusion in the description. Currently, ScreenTranslate focuses on translating the 'visual text' within the video screen (like subtitles or on-screen captions) rather than translating the audio or speech itself.
It works by capturing the text appearing on the screen in real-time. I’ll make sure to clarify this in the description to avoid further misunderstanding. I really appreciate you pointing that out, and thanks again for the support!
That’s cool Changmin congrats on your 1st launch 👏
Quick question
How many languages does it currently support?
Also, any plans to release a version for Windows users?
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@jivitharsan_suresh Thank you so much for the kind words and great questions! 🙏
Languages: ScreenTranslate currently supports 20 languages — Arabic, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian,Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese — all powered by Apple's built-in Translation framework, processed entirely on-device.
I actually just updated the website with a Supported Languages section since I realized this info was missing.
Apologies for the oversight — This is my first launch and I'm still learning!
I'm also planning to add optional third-party OCR engines so users can unlock even more languages beyond the current 20 (which is limited by Apple's built-in OCR).
Windows: I'd love to bring ScreenTranslate to Windows someday! However, one of the core values of this app is 100% on-device processing — and that's possible on macOS thanks to Apple's built-in Translation and Vision frameworks. Windows unfortunately doesn't have an equivalent system-level on-device translation API yet, so achieving the same privacy-first, offline experience would require a fundamentally different approach. It's definitely something I'm keeping an eye on, but for now I'm focused on making the macOS version the best it can be.
Thanks again for the feedback!
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Very Cool! nice work .
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@matthew_price7 Thank you so much, Matthew! Glad you liked it. Hope ScreenTranslate helps you save some time in your daily workflow!