Frequently asked questions

Swift Translate is an Android app that translates anything on your screen — chats, subtitles, photos, and games — with a floating bubble, without switching apps. It has 10M+ downloads and a 4.5★ rating from 83,000+ Google Play reviews.

Over 100 languages with automatic detection — including Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Turkish, and German.

Yes — download language packs once and drag-to-translate keeps working without internet.

Install Swift Translate and drag its floating bubble over any WhatsApp message — it translates in place. Chat Mode can also translate incoming messages automatically, and reply mode sends your typed message in the other person’s language. See the WhatsApp translator guide at swifttranslate.app/whatsapp-translator.

That is exactly what a screen translator is for: the bubble reads text straight off the screen, so games, images, and locked text all translate the same way as normal text.

Yes — draw a box around the subtitle area once and captions translate live as they change (Android 11+).

Yes. Use the camera or import a screenshot; OCR finds the text and translates it in about a second.

Android’s accessibility service is the only way an app can read text on your screen to translate it in place. Swift Translate uses it solely for translation while you use the feature, and does not collect, store, or share your messages or personal data.

No. Translations happen transiently; your conversations are not collected or stored by us. Full details are in the privacy policy.