Hi Product Hunt, I'm Alexey. 15 years of writing software, first Mac app, and I built it for myself before anyone else.

My work happens in languages that aren't my native one, and a lot of it lives in PDFs. Every unfamiliar paragraph meant copy, switch to a browser, paste, read, switch back. Dozens of times a day.

Awnsy puts the translation where you're reading. Select text in any app, press ⌘C twice, and the translation streams into a small popup over the window. Switch the language or the model right there, or have it read the result aloud. For text you can't select (images, scanned PDFs, video), drag a box around it. 78 languages.

The part I won't compromise on: the model runs on your Mac, not on a server. No account, no key, works offline, your text stays on your machine. I wrote a script to compare local translation models and kept the fastest as default, Hy-MT2 1.8B: about a second per sentence on an M1 MacBook Air. Larger 4B models scored about the same but ran 2 to 5 times slower. Want cloud quality instead? Bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic key, or point it at any OpenAI-compatible server like Ollama.

What it isn't: a dictionary. It's new, so no reviews yet. Needs macOS 15 and Apple Silicon.

Text translation is free. Screen area translation is free for 10 tries, then Pro at $1.99 a month, $14.99 a year or $29.99 once.

Product Hunt readers get 3 months of Pro free with the code PRODUCTHUNT, or just open this link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6805945103&code=PRODUCTHUNT (new subscribers, until Oct 19).

One question for you: which language do you translate most, and did it work? That's how I decide which languages to test next.

Awnsy

Offline AI translator for Mac. Press ⌘C twice, done.

Offline AI translator for Mac. Press ⌘C twice, done.