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Plae

Plae

The missing translation app for macOS

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Plae is a macOS menu bar app for on-device translation. Private, fast, always one shortcut away. $4.99 one-time purchase on the Mac App Store.
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Yash
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My partner and I speak different languages, and there were no good options available for the macOS that did what I wanted. I wanted something simple, always available, fast, offline and most importantly designed to show another person the translation from across the room. This is what I came up with, should work with most Macs. You can use the in-built translation by Apple, use Apple Intelligence if you have it available, or you can use the local in-built LLM for translation (Google TranslateGemma powered llama.cpp)
Michael Nash

@butttons Congratulations on the launch! As somebody who is also in a multi-lingual partnership, I can definitely see the benefit of this. It's great that you took your life experience and translated it (no pun intended) into something actionable!

Has the product had a noticeable effect on the communication between you two?

Yash
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Maker

@michael_nash2 Oh 100%. It's too early to say, but I'm constantly using it and it is noticeably faster than doing the usual ritual of normal browser translations.

The different models also give different kinds of results. Some give more professional responses, some give more casual ones and it's great to ask my partner the differences.