Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Open-source and privacy focused offline translation in the browser
I'm launching Linguist Translate, an open-source, full-featured translation solution with an embedded offline translator based on the Bergamot Project created by Mozilla. Site: https://linguister.io GitHub: https://github.com/translate-tools/linguist Today, Linguist is launched on ProductHunt. Check it out: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/linguist-translate Linguist is not just a wrapper over Google Translator like many other extensions. You can use any translation service with Linguist, thanks to custom translators! You may even deploy any…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Open-source and privacy focused offline translation in the browser launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A privacy‑focused, full‑featured translation in your browser
2024 · linguister.io · its alternatives →
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A few years ago, right after high school, I decided to try to make a simultaneous translation app for Android as a side project, it took longer than expected (about 2 years) and I had to make a lot of compromises (I had to use Google's API and therefore make users use a developer key because at the time there were no free solutions for speech recognition and translation that had good quality). At the end of university, I decided to pick it up again and finally, using OpenAi's Whisper for speech recognition and Meta's NLLB for translation (with both running locally on the phone), I managed to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Free to download, offline capable and easy to setup. Run your own API server in just a few minutes.
2021 · libretranslate.com · its alternatives →
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Lingoedit 2.0▲445Simplify translation and editing: your AI language companion
2024 · its alternatives →
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TranslateGemma ▲275Open translation on Google models, supporting 55 languages
Jan 2026 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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An open-source language translation system for 200 languages
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RTranslator▲170Open-source and offline simultaneous translator for Android
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Weglot Translate▲399Translate your website instantly, no code required
2019 · weglot.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source offline translation library written in Python - argosopentech/argos-translate
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Translate your live events and meetings into any language
2024 · langfinity.ai · its alternatives →
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2020 · librelingo.app · its alternatives →
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AntiLang is an interpreted programming language written in Go. The basic idea of this is to keep all the logical parts of a language same, but reverse the structure of it. The idea for this project came when I was having a long midnight conversation with my friend and thought of writing such a weird language. The initial draft was far worse than the current implementation; we thought of reversing the brackets and the language would be read from bottom to top. I'm happy that I dropped that idea Technical details: As the interpreter is written in Golang, I compiled it to WASM, and the whole…
2025 · siruscodes.github.io · its alternatives →
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Localizer▲119Free self-hosted open-source crowd-translating service
2020 · localizer.dev · its alternatives →
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TransLite▲98Hello ! David from Spain here :) I built TransLite because I was tired of breaking my flow every time I needed to translate something before sending it. The usual workflow was: copy → open a browser tab → paste → translate → copy again → paste back. I've created a small macOS menubar app that lets you translate the current clipboard instantly using a keyboard shortcut, in any app. It works locally and supports using your own OpenAI / Claude API key. It’s intentionally simple — no accounts, no tracking, no subscriptions. Happy to answer any questions. Best regards, David
Feb 2026 · translite.app · its alternatives →
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Translator▲114Translate any video to 30+ languages with latest AI
Jan 2026 · translator.tools · its alternatives →
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Your professional English copilot
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Facebook Translator bot, supports more than 10 languages
2017 · messenger.com · its alternatives →
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In June 2023, I found myself in an awkward situation. We used a custom database on a project, and I needed a simple query builder to create complex queries dynamically and ensure security against user input. I discovered that there were no solutions to that problem on the JavaScript platform at all.
2023 · vitonsky.net · its alternatives →
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Translate anytime, anywhere – even without internet!
2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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A realtime, live transcription and translation app that works locally using a browser. Built with Huggingface Transformer.js and Supabase Realtime. Realtime in-browser speech-to-text with OpenAI Whisper! Broadcast to subscribed clients with Supabase Realtime. Translate to 200 languages with Meta's NLLB-200! Demo & source code https://supabase.link/realtime-ai-yt Shoutout to @xenovacom for building Transformers.js and providing plenty of examples at https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers.js/en/index#example...
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built an alternative to Google translate that's fast, accurate, and 1/30th the price. 20+ supported languages, not billed until 100k tokens, and already used thousands of times with real language learning users. The landing page has a demo for you to test performance yourself for free with no card required. (Also landing page says 1/13 the price because had to account for all 3 big names, with varying prices each). I built this as a workaround for my language learning startup, and it was perfect at a fraction of the cost. Hopefully it can help other devs in accessibility…
2023 · translateapi.web.app · its alternatives →
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