Apertium is a rule-based machine translation platform. It is free software and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
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Google Translate Alternatives for Linux
Google Translate is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Apertium, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Google Translate and ten of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Google Translate are Crow Translate, Argos Translate, QTranslate - Free Translator Software and Pot Translator.
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106 Crow Translate alternativesCrow 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.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
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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.
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
United States
105 QTranslate - Free Translator Software alternativesFree, 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).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
WebExtensions for translating text on web pages. Contribute to sienori/simple-translate development by creating an account on GitHub.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MPL-2.0)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
S3.Translator is a browser extension offering automatic translations, language learning, and subtitle translation in YouTube through Google Translate, supporting over 100 languages while preserving HTML formats for text, phrases, and web pages. Features include text-to-speech and language auto-detection.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- Mozilla Firefox
Fast and secure translation on your local machine with a GUI, powered by marian and Bergamot.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Mozilla Firefox
United Kingdom
A simple and fast translation app for KDE Plasma that helps you translate text between different languages.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- KDE Plasma
Portugal- EU
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Linux
- elementary OS
- Flathub
- Flatpak
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