The Best Open Source Google Translate AlternativesTop Translators & Text to Speech Services like Google Translate

The best open source alternative to Google Translate is Apertium. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Google Translate and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Google Translate are LibreTranslate, SimplyTranslate, Lingva Translate and Translate You.

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  1. Apertium icon
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    Apertium is a rule-based machine translation platform. It is free software and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • ONLYOFFICE
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  2. SimplyTranslate icon
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    SimplyTranslate offers a lightweight alternative frontend for Google Translate, supporting 108 languages and Text-To-Speech, catering to privacy-conscious users with diverse needs. It also integrates Reverso Context and iCIBA to broaden language learning tools.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • F-Droid
    • Android
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  3. Alternative front-end for Google Translate, serving as a Free and Open Source translator with over a hundred languages available

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Translate You icon
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    Translate You is a Translator App built with Material Design 3 (You) using the LibreTranslate API.

    106 Translate You alternatives

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  5. Use Firefox Translation Models for on-device translation on Android. This is app is not developed by Mozilla. It depends on firefox translation models and Tesseract OCR.

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  6. Crow Translate icon
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    Crow Translate is a simple and lightweight translator programmed in C++ / Qt that allows to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex and Bing translate API.

    106 Crow Translate alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  7. Linguist icon
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    Linguist is a browser extension that translates pages and text, potentially replacing your current translation service. It offers real-time page translation, selected text translation, manual input translation, and a dictionary to save important translations.

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    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  8. LibreTranslator icon
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    Android translation app using the LibreTranslate engine for translating text across 16 languages, with UI in English and German, five customizable themes, no ads, offline privacy, direct sharing of results, open-source code, lightweight performance and regular updates.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
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  9. RTranslator icon
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    Open source real-time translation app for Android that runs locally.

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    • Android
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  10. Open source offline translation app written in Python. Uses OpenNMT for translations, SentencePiece for tokenization, Stanza for sentence boundary detection, and PyQt for GUI. Designed to be used either as a GUI application or as a Python library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Free, open-source desktop translation tool. Select text anywhere, press Ctrl+Q, translation appears — no browser needed. Plugin-based, so when a service breaks you swap the plugin. Includes Google, Bing, and AI plugins (Gemini, GPT, Mistral, Claude).

    105 QTranslate - Free Translator Software alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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