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Details
- External ID
- 1254495
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- No copy/paste; HOLD SHIFT and select
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, User Experience, Education
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
BubbleTranslate is a lightweight desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux. Select text in any app and a bubble appears at your cursor with the translation. 10 free translations a day free trial dayly; go unlimited with Pro from $2/month or $20/year.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai translation and localization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- shift-and-select inline translation tool for web browsing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the UI and translation API integration are straightforward, global OS-level event listening and context extraction across macOS, Windows, and Linux require native system hook development and OS permission handling.
What it would actually take: A cross-platform app using Electron, Tauri, or native code (C++/Swift) leveraging OS accessibility APIs (like macOS AXUIElement or Windows UI Automation) to hook global keyboard and mouse events and extract highlighted text across disparate applications. The system needs reliable cross-platform native bindings and handling of OS-level permission prompts (Accessibility and Input Monitoring).
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 112 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #50 of 113 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.
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- TransPeek · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- PriceTag: Currency translator · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ChatTranslate · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- TextGrab · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- TranslateEPUB · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Polyglot · ph · 2026-09-25 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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