MacLinguist Alternatives

MacLinguist is described as 'Linguist is a light-weight translator for Mac OS X and Windows. It works by pointing your mouse cursor over some (possibly selected) text fragment and pressing Control button twice. Linguist shows a popup with a translation right where your mouse cursor is' and is a Translator in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to MacLinguist for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, iPhone, Windows, Android and iPad apps. The best MacLinguist alternative is Google Translate, which is free. Other great apps like MacLinguist are Yandex Translate, Linguee, LibreTranslator and Microsoft Translator.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Alternatives
Get a badge for your siteMacLinguist alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Bing Translator icon
     11 likes

    Bing Translator (previously Live Search Translator and Windows Live Translator) is a service provided by Microsoft as part of its Bing services to translate texts or entire web pages into different languages.

    142 Bing Translator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Good alternative?
     
  2. Advanced English Dictionary is better than other dictionaries, not just because it contains far more words than a conventional paper dictionary, but because it uses a radically new approach to searching for words.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • Java Mobile
    • Symbian S60
    • Blackberry
    Good alternative?
     
  3. Translator.gr icon
     3 likes

    Translate while you are typing by using Bing Translator. You no longer have to click on the translate button every time you edit the text. Getting real time feedback helps you improve the original text by making minor changes, so you get a better translation easily.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Good alternative?
     
  4. Select word or phrase with Alt key pressed - then hover over an icon below the selection. Almost instantly you will see a tooltip with the translation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    Good alternative?
     
  5. BabelNet icon
     1 like

    BabelNet is both a multilingual encyclopedic dictionary, with lexicographic and encyclopedic coverage of terms, and a semantic network which connects concepts and named entities in a very large network of semantic relations, made up of about 15 million entries, called Babel...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Good alternative?
     
  6. A free online translator that can translate text into many different languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simp.), Chinese (trad.), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Good alternative?
     
  7. Translation is a handy little app that takes care of all your language translation needs. The app lives in your Mac's menubar and is instantly available at the click of a button. Searching the web for translation services will be a thing of the past once you make the switch...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Good alternative?
     
  8. Translate Now! by AccelaStudy ( http://www.accelastudy.com/ ) is a free translator that translates words and sentences into 43 languages!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    Good alternative?
     
  9. Lingviny icon
     1 like

    Lingviny helps write email in another language. Whether it is an email to a friend, a relative, a business partner, or a customer - now you can be sure that your message is understood.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
    • Gmail
    Good alternative?
     
  10. Translate words and phrases between more than 50 languages using Google Translate Element.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Blackberry
    Good alternative?
     
  11. WorldLingo gives you the power to communicate via your website in the languages spoken by 90% of Internet users including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Russian.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
You are at page 2 of MacLinguist alternatives