About Screen Translate: OCR & Live
Translate all on-screen text instantly with just a tap! Whether you're playing Japanese games, reading raw manga or webtoons, chatting, shopping, or catching up on the news—simply move the floating handle to the text you...
Translate all on-screen text instantly with just a tap!
Whether you're playing Japanese games, reading raw manga or webtoons, chatting, shopping, or catching up on the news—simply move the floating handle to the text you want to translate.
No copy-pasting. No switching apps. Just real-time translation.
Detects text at word, sentence, or paragraph level for accurate translation.
Core features are free — one short ad unlocks an entire ad-free session.
Understand the world in 110+ languages with a single touch.
Screen Translate is a powerful real-time translation app that supports accurate translations in 110+ languages.
It removes language barriers across any app screen—social media, messaging, blogs, shopping, games, news, and more.
With support for popular apps like Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Threads, and Twitter(X),
you can instantly translate on-screen text without switching between translation apps.
Translate incoming messages and write replies naturally in the recipient’s language.
✅ One short ad per session — then ad-free until you close the app
✅ Core features are free forever
✅ No copy-paste, no switching apps
🧠 Auto Language Detection
Don’t worry if you don’t recognize the language on screen—
the app automatically detects the language and translates it accurately.
🌐 5 Powerful Translation Engines
Google translation is built in and free. Prefer another tone? Connect your own DeepL, OpenAI (GPT), Gemini, or Claude API key.
🤖 AI Translation
Bring your own OpenAI, Gemini, or Claude API key to translate with the latest AI models —
natural, context-aware translations even for slang and casual phrasing.
💬 Chat Translation
Automatically detects and translates text from chat windows, input fields, and clipboard in apps like
WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, LINE, Signal, KakaoTalk, Snapchat, Viber, Discord, and more.
You can even write responses in the other person’s language instantly.
Tap the reply button on the translation window, type in your language, and it comes out in theirs — copy, paste, done!
🎯 Floating Bubble Translation
Move the floating bubble across your screen to translate any visible text in real time.
Detect words, sentences, or paragraphs—or manually select a region for translation.
🎮 Game Translator
Play Japanese, Chinese and Korean games that were never translated. Point at dialogue, menus and quest text, or pin a Fixed Area over the subtitle box and it re-translates automatically whenever the text changes—great for gacha games, RPGs and visual novels.
📖 Manga, Manhwa & Webtoon Translator
Read raw manga, manhwa and webtoons in your language. Vertical Japanese text, speech bubbles and unusual comic layouts are handled smoothly.
🖼️ Image & Screen Text Recognition
On-device OCR reads text in images and on screen—now including Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian and Thai.
🔊 TTS Voice Playback
Enjoy text-to-speech playback for each supported language.
Choose your favorite voice and download additional ones as needed.
💎 Free to Use
All essential features are free, with no usage limits.
Watch one short ad when you start a session, and translate ad-free until you close the app.
🌍 Supported Languages (110+)
Auto, Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bangla, ...
Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu
(Check the full list in the app)
🎯 Perfect for gamers, manga and webtoon readers, social media power users, shoppers, news readers, and travelers.
📥 Download Screen Translate now and enjoy all the world’s content—no language barrier.
🔓 Source Code
The source code is available on GitHub for personal and other noncommercial use:
👉 https://github.com/AidanPark/screen-translator
Have questions or suggestions? We’d love to hear from you:
📧 handwritingdictionary@gmail.com
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Screen Translate: OCR & Live since it was posted on our website on 2019-11-06 13:23:33.
The latest version is 2.8.11 and it was updated on 2026-10-16 07:23:35. See below the changes in each version.
Screen Translate: OCR & Live version 2.8.11
Updated At: 2026-10-15
Changes: - Stability and performance improvements.
Screen Translate: OCR & Live version 2.8.8
Updated At: 2026-10-06
Changes: - The first translation with Claude, Gemini or OpenAI starts faster.
- Removing an API key now reliably switches the engine back to Google Translate.
- Stability and performance improvements.
Screen Translate: OCR & Live version 2.8.2
Updated At: 2026-09-29
Changes: - Auto reads English and other Latin-script pages much faster.
- With Claude, Auto and languages the app can't read on screen (Hebrew, Bengali, Georgian and more) are translated straight from the screen.
- Area selection reads multi-column text in the right order.
- Paste and clear buttons for API keys; updated Claude model choices.
- Recognition and stability fixes.
Screen Translate: OCR & Live version 2.7.3
Updated At: 2026-09-23
Changes: - Moving the handle now stops the translation already running, so the result always matches where you are pointing.
- Voice playback, reply and text direction now work when the source language is set to Auto.
Screen Translate: OCR & Live version 2.6.4
Updated At: 2026-08-29
Changes: - Fixed voice preview and read-aloud staying silent after restarting the service.
- Stability improvements and crash fixes.
Screen Translate: OCR & Live version 2.6.2
Updated At: 2026-08-23
Changes: - New TTS voice picker: tap a voice to select it and hear a preview.
- Added a How to Use guide in Settings.
- Other improvements and fixes.
Screen Translate: OCR & Live version 2.5.1
Updated At: 2026-07-29
Changes: - Removed premium (paid) features.
- You can now use your own API key.
Screen Translate: OCR & Live version 2.4.2
Updated At: 2025-07-23
Changes: 🎞️ 2.4.0 - Ads Added!
Now you can watch ads to extend your premium trial.
Screen Translate: OCR & Live version 2.3.0
Updated At: 2025-05-11
Changes: 🎬 2.2.0 - New Feature Added!
Select a fixed area on your screen—any changing text there will be auto-detected and translated in real time.
Perfect for movie subtitles, game dialogues, and video captions.
Just drag to select, tap Start, and done!
The translated text appears seamlessly on screen.
Screen Translate: OCR & Live version 2.1.1
Updated At: 2025-04-09
Changes: ✨ New feature: You can now write a reply and translate it instantly!
🐞 Fixed a bug where translation would not start.
⚙️ Double-clicking the handle now opens the settings screen.
