Google Translate
Is Google Translate free? Actually Free.
Pricing: Google Translate exposes no Google Play in-app purchases; the listed translation features are available without app-native payment.
Google Translate is a genuinely free translation utility with no Google Play in-app purchases. It supports typed translation, Tap to Translate, offline language packs, camera and photo translation, conversations, handwriting, phrasebook syncing, and transcription. Reviewers still find it useful and easy to use, although recent complaints mention offline/network failures, Lens instability, voice-recognition limitations, and disliked interface changes.
- Broad text, camera, voice, conversation, and handwriting translation features
- Offline translation is supported for many languages
- No app-native purchases or subscription paywall
- Some recent reviewers report offline or network-related failures
- Camera/Lens behavior can be unreliable for some users
- Interface changes and translation quality for particular languages draw complaints
Google Translate exposes no Google Play in-app purchases; the listed translation features are available without app-native payment.
- Text translation across supported languages
- Tap to Translate in other apps
- Offline translation for supported languages
- Camera/photo translation
- Bilingual conversation translation
- Handwriting, phrasebook, syncing, and live transcription features
ā¢ Text translation: Translate between 108 languages by typing ā¢ Tap to Translate: Copy text in any app and tap the Google Translate icon to translate (all languages) ā¢ Offline: Translate with no internet connection (59 languages) ā¢ Instant camera translation: Translate text in images instantly by just pointing your camera (94 languages) ā¢ Photos: Take or import photos for higher quality translations (90 languages) ā¢ Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly (70 languages) ā¢ Handwriting: Draw text characters instead of typing (96 languages) ā¢ Phrasebook: Star and save translated words and phrases for future reference (all languages) ā¢ Cross-device syncing: Login to sync phrasebook between app and desktop ā¢ Transcribe: Continuously translate someone speaking a different language in near real-time (8 languages) Translations between the following languages are supported: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dhivehi, Dogri, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Konkani, Korean, Krio, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maithili, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Mizo, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Odia (Oriya), Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Sanskrit, Scots Gaelic, Sepedi, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Tsonga, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu Permissions Notice Google Translate may ask for the following optional permissions*: ā¢ Microphone for speech translation ā¢ Camera for translating text via the camera ā¢ External storage for downloading offline translation data ā¢ Contacts for setup and management of your account *Note: The app may be used even if optional permissions are not granted.