A menu bar translator for macOS

Translation, right where you work.

TranslateBar keeps everyday translation one click away, without accounts, advertising, or sending your text to a third-party translation service.

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Designed for macOS 15 and later

TranslateBar translating Chinese text into English from the macOS menu bar — Type, paste, or dictate. Your translation stays close to the task at hand.

Focused by design

Everything useful. Nothing in the way.

TranslateBar is built around the small moments when leaving your current app would be a distraction.

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Always nearby

Open the translator from the menu bar or a global keyboard shortcut.

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Flexible input

Translate text you type, copy, select, or dictate without changing your workflow.

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Easy to reuse

Select, copy, or listen to the result, then get straight back to what you were doing.

TranslateBar preferences for launch behavior, local translation, and keyboard shortcut — Simple preferences, with a shortcut you choose.

Made to feel at home

A compact utility with native Mac behavior.

Choose whether TranslateBar launches at login, appears in the Dock, or watches the clipboard. The interface follows your Mac and stays out of the way until you need it.

Global keyboard shortcut
Optional clipboard translation
Optional dictation and spoken results

Private by design

Your words are not our data.

Translation is handled by technology built into macOS. TranslateBar has no accounts, analytics, ads, trackers, or translation servers of its own.

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