Open Source Google Translate Alternatives for Android

There are many alternatives to Google Translate for Android if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Android alternative is Apertium. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Google Translate and five of them are open source and available for Android so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Android alternatives to Google Translate are Translate You, SimplyTranslate, RTranslator and Offline Translator.

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Google Translate alternatives are mainly Translators, but if you're looking for Text to Speech Services you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Mac, Android, Android + Free, Linux and Android + Open Source. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Google Translate.
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  1. Apertium icon

    Apertium

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    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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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
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    Guest
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    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...

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    RemovedUser
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    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.

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

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    • Most users think Apertium is a great Google Translate alternative.

    • Apertium is the most popular Linux alternative to Google Translate.

    • Apertium is the most popular Open Source alternative to Google Translate.

    • Apertium is Free and Open SourceGoogle Translate is Free and Proprietary
    • Apertium is Privacy focused and LightweightGoogle Translate is not according to our users
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    Translate You

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    e5tcadpv5
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    Foss, 200+ languages supported with multiple translation engins, unfortunately no offline translation and voice translation isn't the best

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

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    • Almost everyone thinks Translate You is a great Google Translate alternative.

    • 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
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    SimplyTranslate

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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • F-Droid
    • Android
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    RTranslator

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
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    Offline Translator

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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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