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 LibreTranslator, Linguee, Microsoft Translator and Yandex Translate.

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  1. Bing Translator icon
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    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.

    120 Bing Translator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. DocTranslator icon
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    Free, online service which translates office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF, OpenOffice, text) into multiple languages, preserving the original layout. Supported file formats: Word: doc, docx; PDF: pdf; Excel: xls, xlsx; Powerpoint; ppt, pptx; Text xml, txt....

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    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

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    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • Java Mobile
    • Symbian S60
    • Blackberry
     
  4. Translator.gr icon
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    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
     
  5. Translate.eu icon
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    Free online multilingual translation for English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and many other languages. Powered by bing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
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    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...

    53 Online Translator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. BabelNet icon
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    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
     
  9. Lingviny icon
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    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
     
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    Translate words and phrases between more than 50 languages using Google Translate Element.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Blackberry
     
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    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
     
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