13 Best Free Online Google Translate Alternatives

Here is a list of the best free online Google Translate alternatives. Google Translate is a language translation service by Google. It supports around 130 languages from around the world. This also includes multiple variations of some languages such as Chinese, Kurdish, etc. It offers voice input and text-to-speech functionalities. Along with text translation, it can also translate images, documents, and websites. All that makes it a really good translator. But there are other translators out there as well.

This post covers 13 online language translator services that you can as alternatives to Google Translate. Some of the translators provide a similar set of features that you get with Google Translate. Some translators excel in particular areas such as accurate translation, an option to save the translation, and more. I briefly covered each service highlighting their features and limitations. You can go through the list and explore them yourself.

My Favorite Online Google Translate Alternatives

Yandex Translate is my favorite Google Translate alternative for online language translation. It goes toe-to-toe with Google in terms of functionality. It includes text, documents, images, and domain translation. Similar to Google Translate has voice input with translation history. And, it allows you to translate up to 10000 characters per translation which is twice the limit on Google Translate.

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Comparison Table:

Name	Languages Supported	Text/Voice Input	Additional Features
Yandex Translate	~100	Text, Voice	Translates Docs, URLs, Images
IBM Watson	~57	Text	Translates Docs, URLs
Bing Translate	~128	Text	-
Libre Translate	~30	Text	Translates Docs
Apertium	~45	Text	Translates Docs, URLs
Reverso Translation	~26	Text	Translates Docs, Grammar Check
DeepL Translator	~31	Text	Translates Docs
Systran Translate	~50	Text	Translates Docs, URLs
Translate.com	~111	Text	Translates Docs (paid)
PROMT.One Translation	~22	Text	-
iTranslate	~101	Text	-
Lingva Translate	~133	Text	-
TREX	~41	Text	-

Yandex Translate

Yandex is a Russian-origin internet company that offers similar services to Google including search, browser, maps, music, news, video, translation, and more. Yandex Translate is a free alternative to Google Translate. This free online translation service works with ~100 languages. You can directly add the text or use the voice input feature to add your input. Then you can translate it into any of the supported languages almost instantly. After the translation, you can listen to the input text and output text. Below that, it lists the usage examples of your input along with a dictionary, and similar words. Apart from text translation, Yandex Translate also translates DOC, DOCX, PDF, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, and other files up to 5MB in size. It can translate websites as well. Last, but not least, it can also translate text from images. You can upload an image and translate the text from that into any language.

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~100 languages.
• Language Detection: Available.
• Character Limit: 10,000 characters per translation.
• Voice Feature: Voice Input and speech for input and output.
• Translate History: Yes.

Additional Features:

• Translate Documents: You can upload a translate a document file up to 5 MB in size.
• Translate URL: You can add a URL to translate a website.
• Translate Image: Upload an image to translate the text on it.
• Shows usage examples, dictionaries, and related words.

IBM Watson Language Translator

You might have heard about IBM Watson, it is a data analytics processor that uses natural language processing, a technology that analyzes human speech for meaning and syntax. You can access a demo of the IBM Watson Language Translator online. This translator supports around 57 languages. You can add text containing up to 10,000 characters and translates it into any of the supported languages. After the translation, you can copy the translated text. Apart from text translation, you can also use this translator to translate documents and URLs. In the case of document translation, it supports .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .xls, .xlsx, .rtf, .odt, .odp, .ods, .pdf, .htm, .html, .xml, .json, and .txt file format. You can easily upload a file up to 2 MB and translate it into the desired languages.

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~57 languages.
• Language Detection: Available.
• Character Limit: 10,000 characters per translation.
• Voice Feature: Not available.
• Translate History: Yes.

Additional Features:

• Translate Documents: You can upload a translate a document file of up to 2 MB in size.
• Translate URL: Translate a URL into any of the supported languages.

Bing Translate

Bing Translate is Microsoft’s alternative to Google Translate. The web version of this translator is quite limited in terms of features. It works with ~128 languages from around the world. It has auto-detect functionality for input. You can add your text input there and pick the language to which you want to translate. It translates as you type. After the translation, you get a few options for the translated text. You can listen to it, copy it, search it, and suggest an edit. The translation is limited to 1000 characters per translation. After one translation, it starts suggesting widely used phrases in the input languages that you can quickly translate.

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~128 languages.
• Language Detection: Available.
• Character Limit: Up to 1000 characters per translation.
• Voice Feature: Text-to-speech for output.
• Translate History: No.

Additional Features:

• It lists widely used phrases for the selected translation.

Libre Translate

Libre Translate is an online language translator that supports ~30 languages. This online translator can translate text up to 2000 characters. You can simply add the text and translate it into any selected language. Apart from text, it can also translate documents. It works with TXT, ODT, ODP, DOCX, PPTX, EPUB, and HTML file formats. Libre Translate provides a self-hosted, offline-capable API that you can run on your own API server in just a few minutes. It shows API requests and responses for each translation

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~30 languages.
• Language Detection: Available.
• Character Limit: 2000 characters per translation.
• Voice Feature: Not available.
• Translate History: No.

Additional Features:

• Translate Documents: Supports.txt, .odt, .odp, .docx, .pptx, .epub, and .html file types.
• It also provides Open Source Machine Translation API.

Apertium Open-source Machine Translation

Apertium Open-source Machine Translation is another free translation service that can serve as an alternative to Google Translate. This translator works with ~45 languages. You can simply add the text input of any length and translate that into any of the supported languages. While doing so, you get an option to mark unknown words in the translation. This translation also works with documents and web pages. It can translate TXT, RTF, ODP, ODS, ODT, XLSX, PPTX, and DOCX file formats. However, it does not work with PDF and earlier versions of DOC file format.

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~45 languages.
• Language Detection: Available.
• Character Limit: No limit.
• Voice Feature: Not available.
• Translate History: Yes.

Additional Features:

• Translate Documents: Supports .txt, .rtf, .odp, .ods, .odt (LibreOffice/OpenOffice), .xlsx, .pptx, .docx (Microsoft Office 2003 and newer).
• Translate URL: Add and translate a URL.
• It has the option to mark unknown words in the translation.

Reverso Translation

Reverso Translation is another online service for text translation. This service supports ~26 languages that you can translate back and forth. To perform a translation, you have to add the text and select the input and output languages. It has a maximum limit of 2000 characters in one translation. When you add the input, it also runs a spelling check on that. This lets you have all the correct words for translation. This service does not voice input but it can speak the input as well as output in selected languages. Along with that, it can translate documents as well. It supports 12+ file formats including PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, TXT, PHP, Java, Flex, CSV, and more.

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~26 languages.
• Language Detection: Not available.
• Character Limit: Up to 2000 characters.
• Voice Feature: Text-to-speech for input and output.
• Translate History: No.

Additional Features:

• Translate Documents: Supports 15+ document formats including PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, etc.
• Grammar Check: Automatically checks grammar for added input text.

DeepL Translator

DeepL Translator is another free online Google Translate alternative. This online translation service can translate text and documents into ~31 different languages. In terms of text, you can add up to 3000 characters for translation. It automatically detects the input language and then converts that to selected languages. After the translation, you can click on a word to look that up in the built-in dictionary below the translation. Apart from text, you can also translate document files. It supports PDF, DOCX, and PPTX with a size limit of up to 10 MB. But you only get 5 free file translations per month.

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~31 languages.
• Language Detection: Available.
• Character Limit: Up to 3000 characters.
• Voice Feature: Text-to-speech for selective languages.
• Translate History: No.

Additional Features:

• Translate Documents: Supports PDF, DOCX, and PPTX file formats.

Systran Translate

Systran Translate is a free online translation service. This service supports ~50 languages and has an auto-detection functionality for the input. You can add text as long as 5000 characters and translate that into a desired language. After the translation, you can listen to the translated text. Along with the text, it can also translate files. You can upload a DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, or other supported file and translate that to any of the supported languages. However, you can only translate 3 files per month for free.

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~50 languages.
• Language Detection: Available.
• Character Limit: Up to 5000 characters.
• Voice Feature: Text-to-speech for output.
• Translate History: No.

Additional Features:

• Translate Documents: Supports DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, etc.

Translate.com

Translate.com is another language translation service that you can use as an alternative to Google Translate. This service supports around 111 languages. However, it limits the free use of the service. It allows free translation of up to 15000 characters per day. You can do that in one translation or multiple. After the translation, you can also download the translation as a text file. This website also offers document translation but it is not free. It charges per-word basis with 24-hour delivery.

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~111 languages.
• Language Detection: Not available.
• Character Limit: Up to 15000 characters per day.
• Voice Feature: Not available.
• Translate History: No.

Additional Features:

• It allows you to download the translation as a text file.

PROMT.One Translation

PROMT.One Translation is an online language translator that can serve as an alternative to Google Translate. This service works for plain text translation and supports ~22 languages. It puts a 1000-character limit for the input text and automatically detects the languages of added text. This limit is for each translation, you can perform any number of translations for free.  You can directly add your text to the tool, select the output language, and perform the translation. After the transition, you get a print icon in the output section. You can use that to print the translated text directly.

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~22 languages.
• Language Detection: Available.
• Character Limit: 1000 per translation.
• Voice Feature: Not available.
• Translate History: No.

Additional Features:

• It lets you print the translation output.

iTranslate

iTranslate is a free language translation service that works with over a hundred languages. It has two section side by side for the input and translated output. It lacks the auto-detection functionality so you have to select the language of the text you add. there is no character limit though, you can add and translate long text to a selected language. For selected languages, it provides a text-to-speech feature that you can use to listen to the pronunciation.

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~101 languages.
• Language Detection: Not available.
• Character Limit: No limit.
• Voice Feature: Text-to-speech for selected languages.
• Translate History: No.

Lingva Translate

Lingva Translate is another free online language translator. This translator has a neat and clean interface with a light and dark theme toggle. It supports a combination of ~133 languages, this also includes multiple variations of a single language. When you add the input, it automatically detects the added language. In the middle of the input and output sections, there are two buttons. The top button translates the added text to the selected language. And the bottom button enables automatic translation as you type. There is no mention of how long text you can translate using this service. However, it does crash for large text. The limit is somewhere around 3000 characters per translation, which is pretty good. This tool is hosted on Vercel and you visit its source on GitHub.

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~133 languages.
• Language Detection: Not available.
• Character Limit: Limited (not specified).
• Voice Feature: Text-to-speech functionality.
• Translate History: No.

TREX.me

Instead of a regular translator, TR-EX.me is a bilingual contextual dictionary. It is not ideal for text translation but it s really good for learning and practicing a new language. It supports around 41 languages. You have to set the input and output language and then add the sentence that you want to translate. In the results, it contains translations of variation of the added phrase. It also provides examples of using that in various sentences. This all makes it a really handy tool not only to learn a new language but to also improve vocabulary.

Highlights:

• Languages Supported: ~41 languages.
• Language Detection: Not available.
• Character Limit: Limited
• Voice Feature: Text-to-speech for selected languages.
• Translate History: No.

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