Reviews for Google Translate

I liked the app for when I am reading a story in my internet browser and one of the characters says something in another language. It easy to highlight and click in the drop down menu to have it translated. Been doing this for 2 years. But since the last up date it no longer automatically trys to guess the language. It use to be pretty good at guessing. Now it just defaults to the last used. This really unhelpful because now I have to guess and sometimes I don't know the name of the language.

The new version lacks the useful dropdown language menu and the easy, one tap switch from one language direction to the other. Now language modules need to be downloaded, a slow and unnecessary process, compared to the old version. In Chinese, the pinyin is no longer presented simultaneously with the hanzi (character) and the copy tool is missing. The writing tool is unnecessary, typing is faster and more accurate. Developers couldn't have made worse choices for these so called improvements.

Great translator app for many dialects. It is better than many dictionaries you find now. It is text based, and also reads it in voice aloud. It is supposed to have a voice input reading feature, too. Only the online version does much. It worked much better on the Android phone than the PC browser window for a while, in some ways. The offline version lacks a lot of the features. That would be a big bonus to add (have the whole thing - at a subscription?). PC already has a fee offline version.

I am amazed at how this works! I am currently playing a Japanese game called "Tales of Phantasia: Cross Editon" on PSP and this app can actually take pictures of the text on the handheld's screen and translate it. I know the story well enough (have played the GBA version that was in English) to know that the translation is highly accurate. On top of that, when you highlight what you want translated, it shows on a separate screen what it was and can match the original.

It has been okay in the past, but this new update made it so bad I ended up deleting it and using another apps translator. It had it's ups and downs, but now with the multiple translations (male and feminine) and the much larger typing area, you cannot even see what you are typing. On top of that, the "suggested" phrases of what you are trying to type automatically change what you are trying to translate, even if it's incorrect. Unfortunately, every time an update is done, the app gets worse.

This app used to be good, however in the last few updates it's leaving lots at the table. The icon won't stay put on the screen, the translations aren't always accurate. I have to turn on the icon each time i want to use it. I hit the slider to keep it on the screen but invariably it's gone in a minute or two. And then i have to keep doing it over and over. There are times when I'm using the Gboard translator and it goes nuts and starts typing crazy things. I was very happy with this before.

Great for those moments where I don't know how to communicate properly. Instead of blowing them off I can just hit the talk button, records what I say and transfers it into any language you need to translate. Fast, Easy, Reliable, Honestly best app I've used to communicate with other languages. It even helped me to pick up words/sentences myself!!!

This app helps me a lot learning English, super helpful and very easy to use. I don't know why but about a month, this app has been so slow. When I try to translate a new word, it loads much slower than ever. It was super fast translation, liked showing the results right away. I still trust and only use it but I feel very annoyed waiting. Please check and fix it. Thank you so much!

This app can be a superpower when it works correctly. Unfortunately, it often doesn't. So many times I've lost count, I've had languages downloaded for offline use only to find they've disappeared when I need them. It has happened over and over, repeatedly, without explanation, and I frequently have difficulty getting the app to re-download the missing languages even when I'm reconnected.

Useful but not fully trustworthy, and a pain to use on my phone. On my S8 the window for editing the text shrinks down to practically nothing (just barely 2 lines of text visible), making it really hard to work with. Also sometimes when I type the whole sentence the app doesn't translate a word in the middle (usually one I need) but when I delete part of the sentence sometimes it translates that same word. Also doesn't translate grammar well if the construction in the first language doesn't exist in the second. If the translations it gives to English sound so rough, I don't trust it to translate correctly to another language.