Mate: Universal Tab Translator

Name: Mate: Universal Tab Translator
Rating: 0 (0 reviews)
Author: Twopeople Software

Translate in menu bar, browser

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

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Twopeople Software
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Mac

Stop tabbing to translation websites and start using Mate! Select text in any app and translate it. Join the other 850k users worldwide that are already using Mate. Mate can understand 103 languages! Translate selected text and clipboard contents with Mate. Open it above all other apps.  • Right-click on selected text in almost any app to translate it.  • Press Alt+Shift+T to translate your clipboard.  • Press Alt+Shift+T to open Mate above all opened apps, too. Stop tabbing to Google Translate for translations, just use Mate!  TRANSLATE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES  • Mate understands 103 languages and also teaches you how to pronounce words correctly. • Get translations for Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian and more! • See the phonetic transcription and transliteration of words and text. • Mate can speak out words and texts with correct accents to help you learn faster.  CREATE A CUSTOM PHRASEBOOK  • Language learners and travelers! Create custom word lists for each language and keep them handy whenever you need. • Mate Phrasebook – Easily create and curate word lists which are available even offline. USE MATE ANYWHERE • Don’t navigate to translation websites anymore when you’re reading an article in Safari or editing a document in Pages. Just use Mate everywhere you go! • Select any text in any app and get a translation by hitting the “Translate with Mate“ button in the context menu.  SYNC TRANSLATIONS ACROSS ALL DEVICES  • Keep all of your translation and dictionary data synchronized across all your devices. • Automatically synchronize your data between all your iPhones, browsers and Macs. No matter what you need translated, a word, a book or a friends’ message, no compromise! Now “Mate it,” will mean, “Come on man, just use this awesome app and forget about using translation websites.” Use Mate for all your translation needs!  Download Mate today to get your ultimate translation helper!

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Right away I have a feature request
09/03/2018

Dead Write
Downloaded this a few days ago & decided to bite the price bullet, even though there is at least one other decent translation app for Mac out there that costs significantly less. What sold me on this one is the interdevice (Mac OS & iOS) sync capability and that there are things I like about the display options. For example, when I add a word to translate, the translation includes a list of related words indicating overlapping meanings. So I learn that rather than use “pedir” for “ask”, I might want to use “invitar”. The other app does this, too, but not as concisely and immediately visible, i.e., you have to scroll down the page.But there is one significant (for me) feature that as far as I can tell this app lacks. That feature is that there is no way to unmoor the popup window from the Mac menu bar and move it around the desktop. So I can’t move that window around when it covers a part of the screen with information I am working with. This is a problem, for example, in Safari when the info I want to be able to see is at the very top of the page. I can deal with this a lot of the time by repositioning Safari (but then I have to reposition it when I am through) and by moving the Mate app in the menu bar, but all that that is klutzy. So if I could unpin the dropdown window & place it anywhere on the screen, where it would stay till I got rid of it, that would be great!
Right away I have a feature request
09/03/2018

Dead Write

Downloaded this a few days ago & decided to bite the price bullet, even though there is at least one other decent translation app for Mac out there that costs significantly less. What sold me on this one is the interdevice (Mac OS & iOS) sync capability and that there are things I like about the display options. For example, when I add a word to translate, the translation includes a list of related words indicating overlapping meanings. So I learn that rather than use “pedir” for “ask”, I might want to use “invitar”. The other app does this, too, but not as concisely and immediately visible, i.e., you have to scroll down the page.But there is one significant (for me) feature that as far as I can tell this app lacks. That feature is that there is no way to unmoor the popup window from the Mac menu bar and move it around the desktop. So I can’t move that window around when it covers a part of the screen with information I am working with. This is a problem, for example, in Safari when the info I want to be able to see is at the very top of the page. I can deal with this a lot of the time by repositioning Safari (but then I have to reposition it when I am through) and by moving the Mate app in the menu bar, but all that that is klutzy. So if I could unpin the dropdown window & place it anywhere on the screen, where it would stay till I got rid of it, that would be great!
Pretty good
07/24/2022

Johoboo
I have tried every single Mac translator app that is free or allows a free trial. This is the only acceptable one. It's not perfect, but it works for me. The keyboard shortcut works in Calibre reader, which is very important since the mac dictionary does not work in there, but I wish I didn't have to copy the text first. The shortcut should automatically translate the selected text in my opinion. I like the popup when selecting text in safari. Problems: The sound does not work for russian. Also It does not translate offline; when my internet went out, this app was useless.

Developer Response
Thanks for the review! We appreciate your feedback! :)
Pretty good
07/24/2022

Johoboo

I have tried every single Mac translator app that is free or allows a free trial. This is the only acceptable one. It's not perfect, but it works for me. The keyboard shortcut works in Calibre reader, which is very important since the mac dictionary does not work in there, but I wish I didn't have to copy the text first. The shortcut should automatically translate the selected text in my opinion. I like the popup when selecting text in safari. Problems: The sound does not work for russian. Also It does not translate offline; when my internet went out, this app was useless.
Developer Response 09/13/2022
Thanks for the review! We appreciate your feedback! :)
Seamless, Accurate Translator
03/11/2021

barexaminee
I text a client in Spanish offline and this translator works seamlessly. I can copy or type text in, and set it so it translates instantly and copies automatically to my clipboard so I can just paste right into a text on my computer. I can actually type and translate so quickly on my computer that I actually have to slow down to accommodate a person texting with their fingers on a phone. It is much faster and more private than a web-based translater, and more accurate translation, too. And it also identifies which language I'm translating from instantly, so no clicking a button to switch from translating my language to theirs, to translating their language to mine. This is a very well designed app and makes it possible for me to work in another language without trying to use a live translator - which I do have access to - but which takes a lot of time and there are platform compatability issues there. LOVE THIS APP.

Developer Response
Thank you very much! Reviews like yours keep us energized to make Mate even better! 🤩
Seamless, Accurate Translator
03/11/2021

barexaminee

I text a client in Spanish offline and this translator works seamlessly. I can copy or type text in, and set it so it translates instantly and copies automatically to my clipboard so I can just paste right into a text on my computer. I can actually type and translate so quickly on my computer that I actually have to slow down to accommodate a person texting with their fingers on a phone. It is much faster and more private than a web-based translater, and more accurate translation, too. And it also identifies which language I'm translating from instantly, so no clicking a button to switch from translating my language to theirs, to translating their language to mine. This is a very well designed app and makes it possible for me to work in another language without trying to use a live translator - which I do have access to - but which takes a lot of time and there are platform compatability issues there. LOVE THIS APP.
Developer Response 05/26/2021
Thank you very much! Reviews like yours keep us energized to make Mate even better! 🤩
Unacceptable
12/03/2024

Nai-De
To sell an app, at a rather hefty price nonetheless, as a life-time purchase, just to switch later to a subscription model, is unconscionable.I don’t need translation services often, as I’m multilingual myself. So for the rare occasions, the original purchase would have been worth it. But I certainly won’t need the high subscription cost, when I might just as well ask ChatGPT to translate text for me, with similar quality.Worse, the barely used "forever" translation functionality, which I paid for, is now gone. For the few text passages I got to translate, that must have been the most expensive translations I’ve ever had done.It’s bogus what they do, and it’s bogus Apple allows them to switch the business model on existing customers.Other companies stopped selling their "forever" apps, and made available free downloads associated with a subscription service, while maintaining and keeping up the original deal with those who bought a "forever" app.To change the business model, without a refund, is not acceptable. If they had refunded the original purchase price in the process of switching to a subscription model then that would have been a nuisance, but at least somewhat fair, even though changing the terms of a contract post-fact would remain dubious.But to have people who paid for a service which they now don’t get, that’s bordering on the fraudulent.
Unacceptable
12/03/2024

Nai-De

To sell an app, at a rather hefty price nonetheless, as a life-time purchase, just to switch later to a subscription model, is unconscionable.I don’t need translation services often, as I’m multilingual myself. So for the rare occasions, the original purchase would have been worth it. But I certainly won’t need the high subscription cost, when I might just as well ask ChatGPT to translate text for me, with similar quality.Worse, the barely used "forever" translation functionality, which I paid for, is now gone. For the few text passages I got to translate, that must have been the most expensive translations I’ve ever had done.It’s bogus what they do, and it’s bogus Apple allows them to switch the business model on existing customers.Other companies stopped selling their "forever" apps, and made available free downloads associated with a subscription service, while maintaining and keeping up the original deal with those who bought a "forever" app.To change the business model, without a refund, is not acceptable. If they had refunded the original purchase price in the process of switching to a subscription model then that would have been a nuisance, but at least somewhat fair, even though changing the terms of a contract post-fact would remain dubious.But to have people who paid for a service which they now don’t get, that’s bordering on the fraudulent.

Fixed an issue with Safari page translation

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