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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, plus text recognition, speech, a dictionary and an encyclopedia.

Requires macOS 14 or later · 7-day free trial · One-time purchase, no subscription

TransOne translation window on macOS
Features

Everything in the menu bar

No main window, no Dock icon. TransOne lives quietly in your menu bar and is one shortcut away.

Four ways to translate

Type or paste in the translation window, 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 no extra permissions are needed to get started.

Your choice of engine

Pick from 27 translation engines: traditional ones like Apple’s on-device translator, DeepL, Google, Tencent and Baidu, plus AI models like OpenAI, Claude and Gemini, and reach local or your own services through Ollama, LM Studio or the custom API.

Translate your screen

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.

Favorites & history

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.

Native to macOS

Built in SwiftUI for macOS, using only Apple system frameworks. Light on resources, quick to launch, launches at login, and available in multiple languages.

Global keyboard shortcuts

Run any action without reaching for the mouse. Assign your own global shortcuts for the translation window, selection, screen capture and OCR, then call TransOne from any app.

Screenshots

See TransOne in action

Real screenshots from the app. A quiet window, your engines, and every translation kept close.

More

More than a translator

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.

Text recognition

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.

Speech synthesis

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.

Dictionary

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.

Encyclopedia

Get the bigger picture. Pull richer context on names, places and terms from Wikipedia, Wikidata, or any MediaWiki site, right next to your translation.

Pronunciation

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.

Language detection

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.

Engines

Pick your translator

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)Apple (on-device)
DeepLDeepL
GoogleGoogle
MicrosoftMicrosoft
TencentTencent
BaiduBaidu
YoudaoYoudao
AlibabaAlibaba
Volcano EngineVolcano Engine
AmazonAmazon
OpenAIOpenAI
ClaudeClaude
GeminiGemini
DeepSeekDeepSeek
Azure OpenAIAzure OpenAI
KimiKimi
DoubaoDoubao
QwenQwen
ERNIEERNIE
HunyuanHunyuan
GroqGroq
OpenRouterOpenRouter
302.AI302.AI
AiHubMixAiHubMix
OllamaOllama
LM StudioLM Studio
Privacy

Private by design

No account, no backend, nothing collected. Your text and your keys stay yours.

Direct connections only

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.

Keys in the Keychain

API keys, tokens and secrets are stored in the macOS Keychain, never in plain files, never sent anywhere except the engine they belong to.

Sandboxed, zero deps

Always runs in the App Sandbox and uses only Apple system frameworks. No third-party SDKs, no analytics, no surprises.

Works fully offline

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.

Translate from your menu bar today.

One download, your engines, no subscription.

Download TransOne

Available on the Mac App Store · Requires macOS 14 or later · 7-day free trial