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 Lingva Translate, LibreTranslate, SimplyTranslate and Translate You.

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  1. Apertium icon

    Apertium

     52 likes

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

    101 Apertium alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • ONLYOFFICE
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    Apertium vs Google Translate Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
    8

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

    Top Negative Comment
    RemovedUser
    5

    With Google Translate, we can translate any language to any language. Apertium only allows the translation of specific languages to other specific ones. Eg.: Portuguese to only Catalan, Spanish and Galician, but not English, French or German like Google Translate does.

    Paul
    Positive
    0

    A good free and open source alternative to Google Translate and DeepL.

    3 of 5 comments
    • Apertium is Free and Open SourceGoogle Translate is Free and Proprietary
    • Apertium is Privacy focused and LightweightGoogle Translate is not according to our users
  2. Lingva Translate icon

    Lingva Translate

     44 likes

    Alternative front-end for Google Translate, serving as a Free and Open Source translator with over a hundred languages available

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    Discontinued

    The latest update is from 2022 and the official website is down.

    Lingva Translate vs Google Translate Comments
    Darlene Sonalder
    Positive
    3

    It's basically Google Translate without all the tracking !

    • Lingva Translate is Free and Open SourceGoogle Translate is Free and Proprietary
    • Lingva Translate is Privacy focused and LightweightGoogle Translate is not according to our users
  5. SimplyTranslate icon

    SimplyTranslate

     26 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • F-Droid
    • Android
    Light theme
     
  7. Translate You icon

    Translate You

     29 likes

    Translate You is a Translator App built with Material Design 3 (You) using the LibreTranslate API.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    Translate You vs Google Translate Comments
    e5tcadpv5
    Positive
    0

    Foss, 200+ languages supported with multiple translation engins, unfortunately no offline translation and voice translation isn't the best

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    It's foss app and works good! Really great thing is backend change option.

    • Translate You is Free and Open SourceGoogle Translate is Free and Proprietary
    • Translate You is Privacy focused and LightweightGoogle Translate is not according to our users
  8. Crow Translate icon

    Crow Translate

     37 likes

    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.

    103 Crow Translate alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  9. Offline Translator icon

    Offline Translator

     9 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  10. Linguist icon

    Linguist

     11 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
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  11. LibreTranslator icon

    LibreTranslator

     13 likes

    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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
    LibreTranslator screenshot 1
     
  12. RTranslator icon

    RTranslator

     10 likes

    Open source real-time translation app for Android that runs locally.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    Translate voice in real time
     
  13. Argos Translate icon

    Argos Translate

     8 likes

    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.

    96 Argos Translate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Argos Translate screenshot 1
     
  14. QTranslate - Free Translator Software icon

    QTranslate - Free Translator Software

     6 likes

    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).

    104 QTranslate - Free Translator Software alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Everything at once
     
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