Translate Selected Text

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Status
Live on Store
Description from extension meta

Translate selected text with Google Translate

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Translate Selected Text
Description from store

This extension allows you to translate the text selection using Google Translate whenever you want.

When the extension is installed select some text from a website, right click and select to which language you want to translate the selected text.

** FAQ: **
Q: Why choose this extension and not another one?
A: I designed this extension so that it didn't prompt the user for permissions. This way the final user knows that the extension doesn't have the permission to access the content of web pages and monitor the user activity on the Internet (other extensions of this type prompt for this permission). This extension has access only to the content of the selected text when the user clicks the extension context menu and it is used to create a Google Translate app with the text autocompleted.

You can configure from the options page which languages you want to show in the context menu.

** Open Source **
This extension is now open sourced! You can check out the source code, contribute, and fill in bugs in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/avm99963/translateselectedtext

** Bugs **
Please, report any bugs or feature suggestions here: https://github.com/avm99963/translateselectedtext/issues

** Note **
Google Translate is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.

** Beta version**
As this extension has so many users I've decided to upload a Beta version of the extension to the Chrome Web Store so I can test it before uploading any update to the stable version! This way I can make sure the stable version of the extension is 100% bug-free.

If you want to test the bleeding edge of this extension before everybody else, join the Google Group and download the extension (there may be bugs, you've been warned):
* Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gtranslator-beta
* Translate Selected Text (Beta): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/translate-selected-text-b/pckjhlclhnnhdadoockkhgfkceeljnkg

** Changelog **
Changelog available in the following website: https://github.com/avm99963/translateselectedtext/wiki/Changelog

** Credits **
https://github.com/avm99963/translateselectedtext/wiki/Credits

Latest reviews

Nhan Nguyen 2025-04-16

This extension is great for my daily working and surfing!

Benjamin S 2024-07-25

Handy and helpful, thank you, would love to adjust the popup frame height and width as default setting

Ella Sunny 2024-07-04

Not bad, But I using TinaMind instead, which is an AI-based translation extension and even more powerful

Lecko Mio 2024-03-28

This is nice and at least for me the nearest solution I was looking for. I was actually looking for a translation extension that automatically translates a selected text and replace-in-place in text editors of web pages. This is not working with this plugin unfortunately and so far no one seems to produced something like this. It would help if this plugin could add a hotkey

cristian alexandru provincialul 2024-03-02

exceptional!! :))

Laptev walrus 2024-02-08

Please add hotkey functionality

Ali Bakhtafarid 2023-09-28

Excellent!

Ali Bakhtafarid 2023-09-28

Excellent!

Günther Bosch 2023-08-10

Hi, Translate and Paste in one step would be great. Or at least Translate and Copy to Clipboard. Would make it easier to translate many text snippets when they are separated by images, table cells, ...

Günther Bosch 2023-08-10

Hi, Translate and Paste in one step would be great. Or at least Translate and Copy to Clipboard. Would make it easier to translate many text snippets when they are separated by images, table cells, ...

David N. 2023-08-03

Justo lo que buscaba, un traductor que no pida permiso para leer y modificar los datos de las páginas.

M. A.A. 2023-07-10

Używam już od dłuższego czasu ,wg. mnie to najlepszy szybki tłumacz zaznaczonych tekstów . Jest szybki i lekki i działa też na stronach które normalnie są z działania takich tłumaczy wyłączone np. w tym sklepie.

Jakob 2023-07-05

One has to wade through such garbage to occasionally chance upon something worth while, and this is the best application of its kind.

Jakob 2023-07-05

One has to wade through such garbage to occasionally chance upon something worth while, and this is the best application of its kind.

Dmitrij Nikonov 2022-12-20

спасибо

Roger Campanera 2022-10-31

A customizable shortcut would make this extension complete.

Степан Константинов 2022-09-27

Идеально выполняет свою работу. Разрабу спасибо!

Checker Pig 2022-05-27

Noch nicht mal die Einstellungen funktionieren.

Jose L. Castillo Olivera 2022-02-15

Solo es un acceso directo a Google Traductor, que mal! no trabajaron nada en esta extensión

Gino Saurré T. 2021-12-28

La idea es buena, pero en la pestaña abierta con la traduccion, sale el lenguaje detectado (por ejemplo aleman) y la traducción es al mismo lenguale (ej. aleman) lo que hace que tengamos que hacer clic en el lenguaje objetivo (en mi caso español)... podría tener un lenguaje target por defecto (ej. el lenguaje de chrome por defecto)

Fernando Quiñonez 2021-12-15

eselete

Tj Gonz West 2021-09-30

Just need the translation on the page, no popup or tab. Its possible in Edge, Im sure it can be done!

Tj Gonz West 2021-09-30

Just need the translation on the page, no popup or tab. Its possible in Edge, Im sure it can be done!

Niraj Sanghvi 2021-09-08

Thank you for making this privacy-focused extension versus the other translate extensions that are available. It works great and I wish more of the negative reviewers here understood that compromises were made deliberately to achieve the goal of requiring the minimum amount of permissions, which I really appreciate!

Niraj Sanghvi 2021-09-08

Thank you for making this privacy-focused extension versus the other translate extensions that are available. It works great and I wish more of the negative reviewers here understood that compromises were made deliberately to achieve the goal of requiring the minimum amount of permissions, which I really appreciate!

Petter Nerman 2021-07-28

Desperately needs a "translate text" option to be used in conjunction with the extension shortcuts at chrome://extensions/shortcuts, because as it stands now, you're forced to right click and scroll down to the translate option via the pop-up menu every time you want to translate something which simply isn't practical at all. With the addition I am suggesting you'd be able to translate at the press of a button. Not sure why this hasn't been added as it's an obvious improvement.

Petter Nerman 2021-07-28

Desperately needs a "translate text" option to be used in conjunction with the extension shortcuts at chrome://extensions/shortcuts, because as it stands now, you're forced to right click and scroll down to the translate option via the pop-up menu every time you want to translate something which simply isn't practical at all. With the addition I am suggesting you'd be able to translate at the press of a button. Not sure why this hasn't been added as it's an obvious improvement.

Muhammad Taqawi 2021-07-11

Nice and simple extension

Muhammad Taqawi 2021-07-11

Nice and simple extension

Ajay Meena 2021-07-01

good yess

Ajay Meena 2021-07-01

good yess

Roman 2021-06-03

the best of translation. very convinient, when translation opens in new small window

Roman 2021-06-03

the best of translation. very convinient, when translation opens in new small window

Abed Asadi 2021-05-21

Very good this program

Abed Asadi 2021-05-21

Very good this program

Vedran Icanovic 2021-05-20

Way to go if you want to bypass Google and third parties to spy on everything you visit on Web.

Vedran Icanovic 2021-05-20

Way to go if you want to bypass Google and third parties to spy on everything you visit on Web.

Tony Nguyen 2021-04-08

It works great! Thanks. It'd be great if it could preserve newlines. I copy text with newlines and they are removed in the Google Translate window. Also, despite the option, it always opens in a new tab. What's the difference between this extension and Translate Selected 2, which has the same icon as well. Thanks.

Tony Nguyen 2021-04-08

It works great! Thanks. It'd be great if it could preserve newlines. I copy text with newlines and they are removed in the Google Translate window. Also, despite the option, it always opens in a new tab. What's the difference between this extension and Translate Selected 2, which has the same icon as well. Thanks.

Adrian Victor 2021-03-03

AWENSOME!!!!!!!!!!!

Adrian Victor 2021-03-03

AWENSOME!!!!!!!!!!!

qwe qwe 2021-02-01

love

qwe qwe 2021-02-01

love

Felice 2020-12-14

Does exactly what I want. Copies the text and opens a google auto-translate tab with it. Some people want it to happen on the page itself, but that requires letting an extension read and modify any page you read, which is a scary thing to ask me for. Great compromise.

Felice 2020-12-14

Does exactly what I want. Copies the text and opens a google auto-translate tab with it. Some people want it to happen on the page itself, but that requires letting an extension read and modify any page you read, which is a scary thing to ask me for. Great compromise.

Alex Nits 2020-12-04

Ok! 5+! :)

Alex Nits 2020-12-04

Ok! 5+! :)

Dali Dali 2020-11-22

I mean maan I don't need to translate a lot of text. Usually just 1-4 words.

Dali Dali 2020-11-22

I mean maan I don't need to translate a lot of text. Usually just 1-4 words.

JP W 2020-10-30

Redirecting you to Google Translate is just pure lazy. I'll find a better extension that actually shows you the translation as a modal/the actual content overwritten. Disappointed.

Statistics

Installs
100,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
Rating
3.82 (768 votes)
Last update
2024-06-02
Version 3.0.0-stable
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