Language Translator by Mate

Frustrating to use

Can’t even use the app without signing up

Was listed in top free extension apps but requires a subscription to use (with 7day free trial)

Advertised as free but demands a subscription immediately after using. Is not free for a week. Despite the dev response.

The safari extension of this app is great. Webpages can be translated easily into your chosen language. I've noticed there is a one off charge for the app now. I had been using it since it was free and the developers have given all users who supported them from the beginning a free pro subscription which was very generous. If you need a translator regularly this app is well worth purchasing.

I am not sure why I find this so easy to use but it is. I am learning both French and German (C1 level) and try to read three news articles a day. This app just makes checking words I don’t know very easy. Plus, by giving several,choices for single terms it makes it easier to get a feel for the meaning.

I hope they can bring one time process back and the prices for subscription are a bit expensive.

A neat app that has potential. Firstly, I would very much love the ability to keep the list of pronunciations but still be able to reverse the order at will as I will often find myself typing a word or sentence and it becomes irksome having to scroll through all the others in the list to get to the one you actually want to see. Sounds like a first-world problem gripe but honesty often helps more than sappiness. I am testing the Arabic on Mate at the moment and I find the voice probably one of the tinniest, most robotic sounding text-to-speeches I've heard to the point I end up going to alternative apps to check pronunciation like Forvo and Google Translate. I was hoping for one of the most highly-priced apps in its subject area that the quality would be better so I really hope they spend time improving the Arabic or at least fixing this feature for Arabic and the others that have the same level of distortion. Naturally, I would love Levantine Arabic and Egyptian Arabic to be added as well as Pashto and Dari, however I understand they need to role out and improve the features for the more popular languages first and whether the industry even has TTS for those is unlikely. I just hope this isn't the line used to perpetually put off expanding and giving attention to any of the languages that aren't Spanish and French. They really do get overepresented in language apps to the point it could be potentially seen as false advertising to show so many if 95% don't have the same quality or number of features down the track. Just to note… Arabic varieties can be different enough from Media Arabic / MSA / Fusa / Classical that it would be like conflating Italian / French / Spanish / Romanian just because they all stem from Latin or Mandarin being the ‘only’ Chinese which no one does. There is intelligibility amongst Arabic varieties for sure (maybe a little more) but they are definitely seen as seperate languages. Notably, Moroccan Arabic is possibly the most divergent but others are different enough that it is worth having more than just one type of Arabic and it would show understanding from the West to the East — a region we don’t always understand very well. If one could whittle them down to five main varieties it would be: Levantine, Egyptic, Maghrebi (Moroccan), Mesopotamian (Iraqi) and Peninsular (Hijazi, Najdi and Gulf).

Very disappointed in this at a premium ($40+) specifically for the Macedonian language only to find the audio example quality is terrible, almost impossible to understand. Definitely impossible to understand the correct pronunciation. German, French etc are obviously very clear though.. You’ve advertised support for the Macedonian language on your website but arguably the most important feature doesn’t work. Shame as it is a very polished app otherwise, I have requested a refund

Amazingly, this app translates a huge array of languages and phrases. Wonderful and easy!