Translate Selected Text

Translate selected text with Google Translate

What is Translate Selected Text?

"Translate Selected Text" is a Chrome extension offering a seamless translation experience. It enables users to quickly translate any selected text on web pages using Google Translate. User-friendly, the extension requires no permissions for installation, so you, as the user, can retain full control of your personal data. The language options are customizable. Moreover, it is open source, allowing for contributions from community, and uses a separate beta version to test stability before updates.

Download

Stats

By: Adrià Vilanova Martínez (avm99963)

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 100,000+

Rating: 3.82 (767)

Version: 2.0.1-stable (Last updated: 2022-11-21)

Creation date: 2016-06-26

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus
storage
notifications

Size: 1.22M

Email: cw*****@avm99963.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Stats date:

Chrome-Stats Rank

# 1963 ▼ 9

Other rankings

#136 in Education ▼ 2

#18 in changelog keyword 15 ▼ 1

#21 in translate keyword 82 ▼ 2

#23 in selection keyword 25 ▼ 6

#31 in google translate keyword 83 ▼ 1

Upgrade to see more rankings

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Translate Selected Text (v2.0.1-stable)

4.00 (5) 6,059+

Want to check extension ranking and stats more quickly for other Chrome extensions? Install Chrome-Stats extension to view Chrome-Stats data as you browse the Chrome Web Store.

Summary

Analyze keywords

This extension allows you to translate the text selection using Google Translate whenever you want.

When the extension is installed select some text from a website, right click and select to which language you want to translate the selected text.

** FAQ: ** Q: Why choose this extension and not another one? A: I designed this extension so that it didn't prompt the user for permissions. This way the final user knows that the extension doesn't have the permission to access the content of web pages and monitor the user activity on the Internet (other extensions of this type prompt for this permission). This extension has access only to the content of the selected text when the user clicks the extension context menu and it is used to create a Google Translate app with the text autocompleted.

You can configure from the options page which languages you want to show in the context menu.

** Open Source ** This extension is now open sourced! You can check out the source code, contribute, and fill in bugs in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/avm99963/translateselectedtext

** Bugs ** Please, report any bugs or feature suggestions here: https://github.com/avm99963/translateselectedtext/issues

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Privacy-focused extension
Works great
Simple and fast translation

Cons

Lacks hotkey functionality
No option to translate text without pop-up or tab
Some settings do not work

Most mentioned

Hotkey functionality
Translate and Paste in one step
Privacy-focused extension

Recent reviews

One has to wade through such garbage to occasionally chance upon something worth while, and this is the best application of its kind.

Jakob, 2023-07-05

This is nice and at least for me the nearest solution I was looking for. I was actually looking for a translation extension that automatically translates a selected text and replace-in-place in text editors of web pages. This is not working with this plugin unfortunately and so far no one seems to produced something like this. It would help if this plugin could add a hotkey