Float Translate is a calm, fast desktop translator. Select text in any app — a small capsule appears next to your cursor with one-tap translate, copy, speak, and save. Multi-engine, OCR, workflows, plugins.
Float Translate is a lightweight desktop translation tool for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Select any text — anywhere on your screen — and a small capsule appears next to your cursor with one-tap translate, copy, speak, and save.
Highlight a word, sentence, or paragraph in any app — Mail, VS Code, Safari, a PDF — and a small capsule appears next to your cursor. One tap to translate. Configure triggers, actions, themes.
Float Translate is a lightweight desktop translation tool for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Select any text — anywhere on your screen — and a small capsule appears next to your cursor with one-tap translate, copy, speak, and save.
Run DeepL, Google, ChatGPT, and Claude in parallel — see all four translations the moment they return. Pick the best one, or use them as a sanity check.
Region capture for screenshots, images, and PDFs. Recognized text flows straight into translation, lookup, or your clipboard.
Compose translate, OCR, lookup, save, and AI prompts into reusable workflows. Trigger any chain with a single shortcut.
A small plugin runtime ships in-app. Add new engines, OCR backends, dictionaries, or actions — install from a folder or write your own with a tiny TypeScript API.
Yes. The app, Tesseract OCR, and the Local engine work offline. Cloud engines like DeepL or GPT need a network.
Everything — history, library, settings — is stored locally on your machine in an SQLite database. Cloud sync is opt-in (Pro).
Free engines (Google, Bing, Yandex) work out of the box. DeepL Pro / OpenAI / Claude need your own API key — paste once in Services.
Yes, MIT-licensed. Built with Tauri v2 + React 19. Plugin API is documented.
Float Translate is free. Pro is optional. No telemetry by default.