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Select anything on your Mac — a word, a page, a part of the screen, a video — and see what it means right where it is. The original stays the original.

Select a phrase in the sentence — its meaning and reading appear right under it.Or try:

東京には美しい公園がたくさんあります。

Prepared text on this page. In the app: text you select in your apps, or any part of the screen. Drag the panel: the line keeps hold of the phrase.

Press ⌘C twice — or a shortcut of your own.

How it works

  1. Select a word or a sentence in an app…

  2. …press ⌘C twice, or your own shortcut…

  3. …and the meaning appears right there.

Everywhere you read

Sites, chats, documents, video and sound

1 · A site

Both: the translation under each line, as an interlinear. Translation: it takes the original’s place — point at a line, and the original comes back.

2 · A chat

Apps that won’t let you select: drag over them, and the translation lies over each message.

3 · A document

Paste text, drop a text file or up to five pictures: each paragraph with its translation under it. Point at a glossary term, and both sides light up.

4 · Burned-in subtitles

Your language on a band under the picture, line under line.

5 · Sound

Speech from an app you choose, or the whole Mac, with subtitles as it is said. The gray phrase is still being heard.

知らない世界を読む。

Read a world you don’t know.

We sell understanding, not a model.

立入禁止No entry
Sometimes you need the translation before you go in. tachiiri kinshi
猫の手も借りたいSwamped
Explain will tell you it isn’t about cats. neko no te mo karitai — “I’d borrow even a cat’s paws”
美味しいdelicious
No need to know the language to order a second one. oishii
愛してるI love you
Some things are better understood correctly. aishiteru

Features

23 ways to understand

Understand

Popup
Select text and press your shortcut: the translation appears next to it and never takes your focus.
Quick and Natural
Quick is Apple Translation. Natural lets Apple Intelligence make it read naturally.
Explain
Idioms and slang: what it really means, in your language.
Reading
Romaji, pinyin or Latin letters under the text.
Read aloud
The translation in a system voice, at your speed.
Pin
Keep a translation on screen while you work.

Write

Tone
Write in your language and choose how it sounds in theirs.
Shorter, more polite
Refine the result in one click.
Context
Who is writing to whom, and where: a friend, a work chat, a customer.
Proofread
Corrections, each one shown.
Replace
The translation takes the place of the text you selected.

Screen

Any part of the screen
Drag over pictures, chats and apps that won’t let you select.
Both and Translation
The translation under the original or in its place; point at it to see the original.
Follow
The translation keeps up as the window scrolls and changes.
Burned-in subtitles
Subtitles in your language under the video.

Sound

Live subtitles
Speech from an app you choose, or the whole Mac, translated as it is said.
Transcript
Everything said, with its translation, to read back.

Window

Text and pictures
Paste, or drop a text file or up to five pictures: their text, paragraph under paragraph.
Glossary
Your terms, kept the way you translate them.
History
Find what you translated last week. It stays on your Mac; turn it off or clear it whenever you like.

Mac

Services
Translate, Explain Translation and Proofread from the Services menu of the app you are in.
Shortcuts
Translate Text and Translate Clipboard as actions for your automations.
Your shortcut
Double ⌘C, or any shortcut you set.

* In the version from this site.

Where your text goes

Every result says which engine translated it — and where, whenever that is known.

History stays on your Mac. Turn it off, and nothing new is saved; clear it, and what was saved is gone.

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For your Mac

anymado translate needs macOS 27. Coming to the Mac App Store and to this site.