Jump to the address bar, type 't', press space or tab, and start typing things like 'fr Hello' or 'en Bonjour'
Bar Translate is a Chrome Extension which allows you to translate anything and in any language directly in the address bar (also called Omnibox).
1. Jump to address bar (omnibox)
2. Type 't', and press space or tab
3. (optional) Prefix your query with any ISO language code
You can also use the '>' operator to specify source and target
And get the translation as you type!
Examples:
"hello" => "bonjour" (takes the browser language by default, French for this example)
"en bonjour" => "hello" (English)
"es hello"=> "holà" (Spanish)
"zh hello"=> "你好" (Chinese simplified)
"en>es four" => "cuatro" (from English into Spanish)
"fr>es four" => "horno" (from French into Spanish)
Quick tour (animated Gif!):
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maximelebreton/Bar-Translate/images/tour.gif
To retrieve a code language, just start typing its English name, for example if you type "chi", it will suggest "Chinese simplified (zh)", and "Chinese traditionnal (zh-TW)"
Features:
- instant translating
- everything happens in the address bar / omnibox (you can translate anything without leaving your current tab)
- support ~100 languages
- uses Google Translate API (Yandex and Bing coming soon!)
- the default translate language is your browser language
- language auto-completion (to find quickly its ISO code)
- specify source and target language with the '>' operator
- right click context menu, to translate text selection (translation appears in a native notification, so you don't have to leave your current tab!)
Bar Translate is Open Source, with a "Try > ♥ > Buy" pricing model (inspired from Kirby).
Try as much as you want, and if you like, buy a license.
By the author of Quick Javascript Switcher (+250 000 users): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-javascript-switcher/geddoclleiomckbhadiaipdggiiccfje
Changelog
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1.7.0: improved behaviour on same translations, and add secondary target language option
1.6.0: Options added to configure the default behaviour for source and target languages
Latest reviews
- (2022-01-27) Rogerio M. Souza: Excellent! Very good!
- (2021-08-09) Alexander Kadah: This is the only app I know of that lets you translate directly from the search bar. Pretty useful.
- (2021-04-15) Vũ Trương Quang: Exactly what i need, because sometimes there are words on image then how can i click on it to translate XDDD ?? thank you you're a genius, i'll definitely spread the word about your extension.
- (2019-11-24) joseph dunn: It's awesome. All you need is the language two letter code and type your word then voila, your answer is right below apart of the omnibox. For a true example: I wanted the Russian word for dolphin and all I did was type the t in the omnibox hit my spacebar typed RU (for Russian) a space then I typed dolphin and voila my answer was right below. Now you can click on your answer to take you to Google Translator page if you want to hear the pronunciation of the word.
- (2019-01-15) Just what I wanted