TransOne
Translate anything on your Mac, right from the menu bar.
Type, select text, or grab a screenshot. TransOne translates instantly with your choice of engine, and rounds it out with text recognition, speech, a dictionary and an encyclopedia. Native, sandboxed, zero third-party dependencies.
No main window, no Dock icon. TransOne lives quietly in your menu bar and is one shortcut away.
Type or paste in a popup, select text in any app, capture a screen region to translate, or OCR text straight out of an image. Each has its own global keyboard shortcut, and selection translation also works through the macOS Services menu, with no extra permissions needed.
Pick from 14 translation engines: Apple’s on-device translator, DeepL, Google, Microsoft, Tencent, Baidu, Youdao, Alibaba, Volcano Engine, Amazon, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or any local OpenAI-compatible model via Ollama or LM Studio. Set a first and second language and let TransOne pick the direction.
Draw a box anywhere on screen and TransOne translates the text inside it, right where you’re working, handy for apps, games and images you can’t select. Save the captured region as a PNG, too.
Every translation is saved and searchable. Star the ones worth keeping into Favorites, revisit anything from History, and copy the source or result with a click.
Built in SwiftUI for macOS, using only Apple system frameworks. Light on resources, quick to launch, launches at login, and available in multiple languages.
Run any action without reaching for the mouse. Assign your own global shortcuts for the translation popup, selection, screen capture and OCR, then call TransOne from any app. It’s always one keystroke away.
TransOne bundles the everyday language tools you’d otherwise juggle across apps: recognition, speech, pronunciation, a dictionary, an encyclopedia and language detection, each with its own choice of engines.
Lift text out of any image or screen region. On-device with Apple’s Vision, or cloud engines like Google, Baidu, Tencent, Volcano Engine and Youdao for tougher scans and handwriting.
Hear how it sounds. Read the source or the translation aloud with Apple’s built-in voices, or natural cloud voices from Google, Microsoft, Tencent and Volcano Engine.
Go beyond a flat translation. Look words up for definitions, parts of speech and examples, from Merriam-Webster, Youdao, the free dictionary, the offline ECDICT, or an AI model.
Get the bigger picture. Pull richer context on names, places and terms from Wikipedia, Wikidata, or any MediaWiki site, right next to your translation.
Say it right. TransOne shows the phonetic spelling next to a word (IPA for English, pinyin for Chinese), so you can read it aloud with confidence, then play it back.
Skip choosing a source language. TransOne recognizes what you typed or captured on its own and translates in the right direction, with no guessing and no menus.
From a private on-device model to the best cloud APIs. TransOne talks to each engine directly with your own keys, with no relay server in between.
Apple (on-device)
DeepL
Google
Microsoft
Tencent
Baidu
Youdao
Alibaba
Volcano Engine
Amazon
OpenAI
Claude
Gemini
Ollama
LM Studio
Text goes straight from your Mac to the engine you chose. TransOne has no backend and collects nothing, so there’s no account to create.
API keys, tokens and secrets are stored in the macOS Keychain, never in plain files, never sent anywhere except the engine they belong to.
Always runs in the App Sandbox and uses only Apple system frameworks. No third-party SDKs, no analytics, no surprises.
Prefer nothing to leave your Mac? Use Apple’s on-device translator or a local model via Ollama or LM Studio, and your text is translated without ever touching the cloud.