For every moment you need translation — travel, business trips, language learning —
bring along Papago, the smart parrot that speaks many languages.
▶ The Meaning of 'Papago'
"Papago" comes from Esperanto and means "parrot," an animal known for its exceptional language abilities.
Papago currently supports translation across 14 languages: Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), Spanish, French, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Russian, German, Italian, and Arabic.
▶ Key Features
1) Text Translation
Type the text you want to translate and get real-time results.
2) Image Translation
Just snap a photo and tap the button — Papago automatically recognizes and translates text within the image.
3) Voice Translation
Speak the phrase you need translated and get real-time results.
4) Offline Translation
Use text translation even without an internet connection.
5) Conversation Translation
Have a 1:1 conversation with a foreign speaker — both parties can speak in their own language simultaneously.
6) Handwriting Translation
Just write characters with your finger, and Papago will tell you what they mean.
7) Website Translation
Enter the URL of any foreign website to translate the entire page automatically.
8) Document Translation
Upload a document and get a translation that preserves the original formatting.
9) Edu
Take a photo of study material to create your own notes with text and vocabulary learning features.
10) Dictionary
View additional meanings of words alongside translation results through dictionary information.
Travel with confidence, anytime, anywhere — with your translation partner, Papago!
▶ Required Permissions
· Microphone: Required for voice and conversation translation features.
· Speech Recognition: Required for voice translation features.
· Camera: Required to take photos for image translation.
· Photos: Required to save translated image files to your device.
· Location: Required to view nearby place information from photos captured for image translation.
* To provide voice and conversation translation in Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Russian, and Italian, we use the 'Speech Recognition' permission provided by the mobile OS. When you use voice or conversation translation in these languages with 'Speech Recognition' permission granted, voice data is transmitted to Apple in accordance with Apple's policy. No other information is transmitted.
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※ Requires iOS 17.0 or later
※ Also available on PC/mobile web: https://papago.naver.com
※ Dark mode is supported for comfortable use in low light.
※ Report issues or errors: https://goo.gl/YqHMTi
※ Developer email: naver_market@naver.com
※ Developer phone: 1588-3820
※ Address: 95, Jeongjail-ro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, NAVER 1784, 13561
This translator is great, I use it mainly to help me learn Japanese or just to check the meaning of words. An improvement (which no other translator has, as far as my knowledge goes) would be a selection of moods you want to express e.g. from English to Japanese. For example the simple sentence 'I dropped the plate' could be either translated neutral 'お皿を落とした' OR with regretful emotion using the grammar ~てしまう as in 'お皿を落としてしまった'. It's very hard to have a "natural" phrasing otherwise. If anybody can build a technology that is something like this, is Naver Papago! Overall I love this app and the new features added, I can't wait to use the 'study camera' when (hopefully!) there will be a Japanese option.
Worth the install
zaltaria
I’m been using this app for a year now and it’s definitely the best way to complement my learning of korean. The interface is near perfect and the translations very rarely disappoint, it’s a million times better than any other apps I’ve used before.
Papago is a really promising translator
McEilish/DrMe4nswell
Naver Papago is a translator that is near-impeccable for many reasons: it has succeeded in providing accessibility options; convenience; tolerable text-to-speech “Male” and “Female” voices; the minimal and attractive UI; and its ability to improve with the “Voting Translation” feature. It has also built its reputation as not just the top Korean translator but also, one of the most recommended in translating Japanese as well.While it is significantly better than Google Translate, it does falter in quality with some of the other languages (especially SEA and Eurasian ones, Hindi), and with Korean long paragraphs to English. Naver has potential to better its service and it seems Papago is in one of their main priorities.
Works better with some languages than others
Somein
It’s not brilliant at picking up words unless you really over pronounce them so I don’t use the verbal feature much. Works better with writing and scanning words from pictures. I think it’s pretty decent for Korean to English but the other way round could use improvement. I can’t speak for the other languages but I did try speaking French to it and it didn’t understand me at all so...It doesn’t give you alternate translations of a word so it definitely can’t replace an actual dictionary but it’s simple to use and fast as well. It will read whatever you write/translate back to you which is quite useful.
- App stability improvements
Version 1.13.1
The developer, NAVER Corp., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Provider
NAVER Corp.
Size
209.2 MB
Category
Reference
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
