I’m looking for a robust translation app that respect privacy and doesn’t collect user data or send text to servers.
I’ve tried a few options, but I’d like to hear about your experiences: What do you actually use?
Thanks in advance 🙏
I use Translator from the Fdroid store.
It downloads the Mozilla language packs and translates locally.
This seems a great option, thanks.
https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.davidv.translator/
It’s super fast, offline and has å API so other apps can use it too.
I’m using it to translate my SMS automatically, forked Fossify Messages and integrated this offline translator into it: https://git.jeena.net/jeena/sms-translate/src/branch/feature/upstream-translation-patch/README-translation.md
I use Translate You installed from Droid-ify.
For pages and documents, Firefox does it locally by using a small model for each language you can download once. Which is great and private.
If you want to type something an get it the translation, perhaps DeepL, but your text is sent to their server, which is not great.
And, as several others mentioned, these same models can be downloaded in an offline app called offline translator in fdroid.
I suspect local AI models are the answer, but only second best to learning the language.
