Translator

Releases

• Sep 9, 2026 0.8.5
  - Fix language suggestions being too aggressive
• Sep 6, 2026 0.8.4
  - Support Belarusian TTS - Support Georgian (v1, not very good yet, share feedback) - Fix transliteration for Chinese/Japanese
• Aug 26, 2026 0.8.3
  - Make automatic language detection less pushy when uncertain - Local HTTP API: force UTF-8 for encoding - Fix transliteration not working immediately upon sharing text - Update app translations - Improve handling of Assistant / A11y overlay for landscape users - Include date and time on the filename when sharing a translated image from the app
• May 23, 2026 0.6.1
  This is a reproducibility fix for 0.6.0 --- OCR: - Massively improved OCR capabilities; go to 'manage languages' to update the models - Implemented "live camera translation" - Add button to see original image after OCR

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  Misc: - Sped up Kokoro TTS voices ~3x; download the faster Kokoro voice in 'manage languages' - Add a 'How to use' screen - Fix System TTS feature not respecting chosen voice/playback rate
• May 21, 2026 0.6.0
  OCR: - Massively improved OCR capabilities; go to 'manage languages' to update the models - Implemented "live camera translation" - Add button to see original image after OCR Misc: - Sped up Kokoro TTS voices ~3x; download the faster Kokoro voice in 'manage languages' - Add a 'How to use' screen - Fix System TTS feature not respecting chosen voice/playback rate
• May 10, 2026 0.5.2
  - Improve handling of screen translation (OCR by default) - Fix text wrapping in settings page when using large fonts - Web translator: offer to translate images - Add demo for voices - Allow multiple voices to be downloaded for the same language - Expose app as system TTS
• May 6, 2026 0.5.1
  - App now shows as a 'browser', to translate links - Built-in browser can now clear browsing data on exit - Fix ARMv7 build - Pasting a link now translates the content - Improve the image cropper UX - Translate images that are _inside_ PDFs (also translate scanned PDFs)
• May 3, 2026 0.5.0
  New: - 'Auto' language source Fix: - Translated PDFs to non-latin were missing fonts and rendering as '?' (#155) - Image share sometimes not translating (#152) Improve: - Translation speed - Translation of websites and documents

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  - Translated PDFs have better layout matching
• Apr 30, 2026 0.4.0
  New features: - Translate website - share a URL and it will be translated - Translate document - supports ODT, PDF (digital, not scans), txt - TTS on input field - Can now launch the app from a persistent notification, or a quick settings tile Improvements: - Better TTS pacing - Fix use-after-free on CLD2 causing crash on GrapheneOS
• Apr 21, 2026 0.3.2
  - Small UI fixes - Improve TTS pacing
• Apr 12, 2026 0.3.1
  - OCR: support vertical Japanese text (re-download the lang to get the new model) - TTS: Add models for every language - TTS: Add control for voice / speed (long press speaker icon) Let me know if a voice is weird, it's hard to test all of them
• Apr 10, 2026 0.3.0
  - Allow unidirectional languages to be used (Adds Belarusian and Norwegian Nynorsk -> English) - Implement TTS via Piper When using TTS, I recommend skipping the 'high quality' voices (they are downranked in the app) because they are much slower. These languages are not yet supported in TTS (I didn't find voices for them yet): Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Croatian, Estonian, Gujarati, Hebrew, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Tamil, Thai
• Apr 5, 2026 0.2.6
  Translate on-screen text directly via 2 mechanisms: - Accessibility hooks - Device Assistant role Fix crashes if the default camera is uninstalled. Lower minimum Android version from 9 to 5.0, add ARMv7 support, and remove minimum Android version requirement from transliteration.
• Mar 30, 2026 0.2.5
  Update languages: - Add Thai and Chinese (Traditional) support - Add dictionaries for: - Bosnian - Croatian - Norwegian Bokmål (nb) - Norwegian (no) - Serbian - Thai (th) - Vietnamese (vi)

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  In the 'Dictionaries' tab, you need to pull-down to refresh the index. It does not refresh automatically.
• Mar 23, 2026 0.2.4
  Update base URL and language downloading logic; original GitHub repo got archived.
• Oct 15, 2025 0.2.3
  - Implement cropping for OCR images - Implement 'share' for the translated image (@jheld) - Add option to add spaces for Japanese kanji transliteration - Fix external storage usage for Android 10 - Allow starring 'English' - Adds support for x86 (x86-64 was there already, this is for Android 9 testing) - Prevent double-translate when doing image OCR, should be a bit faster Update Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish (needs redownload)