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Life & fun · December 4, 2019

Mate 5 for iOS

Powerful translator app with desktop-grade Safari extension

Mate 5 for iOS launched on December 4, 2019 with 108 votes, #245 of 2,946 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

In plain words

Mate is a translator app for iOS that offers basic, advanced, and AI-powered translation modes integrated throughout the operating system. Users can translate words, text, speech, websites, and messages within iMessage and other apps like Safari, Mail, and Notes through Action Extensions. The AI mode provides contextual explanations of translations. The app is designed for people who need to translate content across multiple languages while working on their iPhone or iPad.

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From the sources

Mate is a powerful translator app that is deeply integrated with iOS. It lets you easily translate words, texts, speech, websites, chats in iMessage. Thanks to integrations via Action Extensions, you can use it in any app: in PDFs, Notes, Mail, Safari, etc.

Download Language Translator by Mate by Twopeople Software on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Language…

Choose Basic, Advanced, or AI right on the translate screen. AI reads context and explains what it translated. I paid for and installed this app to help me research websites and documents in German, Italian, Catalan, and Spanish. After sticking with it all week, and trying different ways of using it, I will now be deleting it and my subscription because the auto-translate does not correctly identify the source language, but more importantly it does not allow me to manually choose the language to help it out. For example, it consistently misidentifies the same Catalan-language page as Hungarian, then when I reloaded and tried again, it said the page was in Indonesian, next time it was…from apps.apple.com

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