Naver Papago - AI Translator

Name: Naver Papago - AI Translator
Rating: 4.7 (3420 reviews)
Author: NAVER Corp.

By: NAVER Corp.

A smart AI translator

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Features & Capabilities

Naver Papago AI Translator is your multilingual companion, supporting 14 languages (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Russian, German, Italian, Arabic). It delivers real-time text, image, voice translations, offline mode, and handwriting input to translate on the go.

Use Papago for live conversations, website translation, and language study with Edu notes and a built-in dictionary. Available on PC and mobile, it’s ideal for travel, study, and business communications.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

NAVER Corp.

Rating:

4.70

(3,420) 3 new ratings

Version:

1.11.15 Last updated: 2026-06-25

Version code:

887067226

Creation date:

2016-09-11

Compatible devices:

Size:

253.01MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-04

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 32,567 ▼ 67

Other rankings

#12 in translations keyword 77 #15 in translate keyword 79 ▼ 3#27 in google translate keyword 54 ▼ 1

Other platforms

Naver Papago - AI Translator (v1.11.13)

36,795,058 4.53

(173,048)

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Developed by:

NAVER Corp.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/naver-papago-ai-translator/id1147874819

User Reviews

Users broadly praise Papago for strong translations, especially for Asian languages, and for its handy image/text translation workflow. The app is easy to use, with no sign-in required, and is valued as a practical tool for learners and travelers. But recurring concerns include unreliable voice input, inconsistent translation accuracy, study mode language constraints, and the lack of a way to overlay or save translated text on images. Reliability issues during load and use are also noted by several reviewers.

Pros

High-quality translations, especially for Korean, Chinese, and Japanese, with many reviewers saying Papago outperforms Google Translate for Asian languages.
Strong image/text translation capabilities with fast results and seamless workflows (drag-and-drop, slide-over, and translating text in photos).
Easy to use with an intuitive interface and no sign-in required, making it feel hassle-free.
Helpful for learners and real-world use, supporting communication across languages and being a practical tool for travelers and professionals.

Cons

Voice input is unreliable and inconsistent; it often fails to recognize speech or misses parts of sentences, especially in Korean.
Translations overlaid on images are not saved or shown directly on the image; lacks an option to save a translated image with overlays.
Study mode has language-pair limitations (e.g., cannot do Japanese↔English; Korean tends to dominate), limiting learning scenarios.
Translation accuracy can be inconsistent; it may guess or pick wrong words and misinterpret similar-sounding words.
Reliability issues like the app failing to load or start listening, and mid-translation cutoffs.

Recent reviews

It does reasonably well. It thinks too hard with spoken words and wants to use more commonly used words similar to an autocorrect feature. It will start out with what you expect, then change it to a more common similar sounding words. With similar sounds from words like 쭉, 죽 and 죽, Papago wants to change them all to 죽. It would be nice to turn off the autocorrect feature and have a feature that displays whatever is spoken. Have a pronunciation learning section as well. Autocorrect is very helpful with complete words. Not always with word parts or word symbols.

by RT*****, 2026-06-08

It helps learn languages and practice!

by A *****, 2026-06-05

저는 한국어 원어민입니다. 파파고를 태국어 또는 영어 인터페이스로 설정해서 사용하고 있는데, 한국어를 입력하면 자동으로 로마자 표기가 함께 표시됩니다. 한국어를 완전히 읽고 쓸 수 있는 사용자에게는 이 기능이 전혀 필요하지 않으며, 오히려 화면이 지저분해 보여서 불편합니다. 앱 언어를 한국어로 설정했을 때는 로마자 표기가 나타나지 않는 걸 보면, 인터페이스 언어에 따라 자동으로 활성화되는 것 같습니다. 한국어를 모르는 사용자에게는 유용한 기능일 수 있지만, 원어민 사용자에게는 선택 사항이 되어야 한다고 생각합니다. 로마자 표기를 켜고 끌 수 있는 설정 옵션을 추가해 주시면 정말 감사하겠습니다