Screen Translator
Free on-screen translator for Windows, Mac and Android
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Reads the text on your screen with OCR and draws the translation right over each text block, so you can keep using your computer or phone normally. Translate with Google or DeepL, or fully offline with Argos or TranslateGemma. Shortcuts, a region picker, a game/video mode and speech translation included. Free and open source (MIT).
PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: translation and localization tools · 195 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -31% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Windows
- Open Source
- Languages
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial The settings, shortcuts, and translation flow are vibe-codeable, but the real product needs native screen-overlay rendering on Windows, Mac, and Android, plus offline OCR and translation models that are hard to integrate and optimize.
What it would actually take: Use a native shell (Electron or Tauri for desktop, Kotlin for Android) with Tesseract or a platform OCR API and Google or DeepL translation APIs. The hard parts are a transparent always-on-top overlay that aligns with on-screen text, and running offline models such as Argos or on-device Gemma-class models efficiently with acceptable latency. That requires systems and ML-inference experience, not only prompting.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 443 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #157 of 444 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 355 days after the earliest competitor.
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