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24 alternatives to Lingo

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Lingo.dev▲1,048

    ⚡️ Ship apps translated in every language, in minutes!

    2025 · lingo.dev · its alternatives →

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    Lingo▲471

    File hide in folders, visuals live in Lingo

    2016 · lingoapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Lingo▲77

    Look anything up, fast

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Fluent▲821

    Learn a new language by browsing the web

    2020 · fluent.co · its alternatives →

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    Simplify translation and editing: your AI language companion

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Translate your website instantly, no code required

    2019 · weglot.com · its alternatives →

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    Effortlessly translate any language

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Lingoedit▲304

    Simplify translation and editing: your AI language companion

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    BiRead▲302

    An easy tool for instant bilingual reading

    2024 · biread.com · its alternatives →

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    Acquire languages on the go from the news, videos etc.

    2025 · lingochampion.com · its alternatives →

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    Highlight any text to instantly translate and explain it.

    2025 · explaintxt.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn languages while browsing

    2025 · highlightranslator.com · its alternatives →

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    Fluensa▲117

    Make the entire internet a space for language learning

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    A privacy‑focused, full‑featured translation in your browser

    2024 · linguister.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Just wanted to share a tool i've been working on to help with my own study routine. It’s a browser extension called Lingoku. The idea is simple: we spend hours browsing the web in English every day. This tool replaces some of the english words with Japanese vocabulary based on your japanese level (Similar to Toucan, but with a better user experience). It’s basically an attempt to make the "i+1" method actually passive, you understand the sentence because it's mostly english, but you pick up Japanese words naturally from the context. It uses an LLM in the backend to make sure the…

    Dec 2025 · lingoku.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hover any word on the web. Get an instant translation.

    Jul 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I made Lingo - the SQLite of semantic search. I'm a self-taught developer and researcher who left school at 16, and I've spent some time exploring a first-principles approach to system design for various frontier problems. In this case it's AI that challenges the 'bigger is better' transformer paradigm. Lingo is the first piece of that research, a high-performance linguistic database designed to run on-device. The full technical overview and manifesto is here: https://medium.com/@robm.antunes/bcd1e9752af6 The paper has been archived on Zenodo with a DOI:…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Easy software localization for web and mobile apps

    2014 · lingohub.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn the words you translate with one click

    2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    An easy tool for instant Bilingual Subtitles

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Translate documents, images and text into 112 languages

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Quickly translate text to Morse code, and see flash signal

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Your professional English copilot

    2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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