Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Translate

Google Translate is a multilingual Neural Machine Translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications.

Google Translate is proprietary software and requires a net connection. One of the reasons for using Ubuntu Touch rather than Android is to move away from Google.

Translate for Ubuntu Touch is an app that offers good translations with a bit more privacy than with Google Translate. It’s free and open source software.

Features include:

• Very simple interface which looks good on all screens.
• A native app – avoid the bloat of using a web browser to perform translations.
• Anonymization: It uses Lingva Translate API, so you get Google Translate results with a degree of privacy.

Website: github.com/walking-octopus/translate-ut
Developer: walking-octopus
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

We evaluated Translate on the Volla Phone Quintus, a smartphone powered by the Mediatek Dimensity 7050 with 8 cores, 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, running Ubuntu Touch 24.04.

Eligibility criteria

For an Ubuntu Touch app to be awarded our love, it must satisfy the following criteria:
	High quality with a good set of features, stable in operation;
	No charge to use the app;
	No intrusive ads in the program;
	Open source and proprietary software can be included;