DeepL Translate

67 of 100 · reviews
4.8of 5 · store
13,275ratings on the App Store
492reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

The best text translator in this batch for accuracy, which users with professional language knowledge confirm. Camera works but is slow (about 5 seconds per frame). Voice synthesis sounds dated. The app stopped remembering the language pair between sessions after one update.

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What people use it for

People who translate carefully and care about precise wording rather than speed.

What reviews praise

Translation accuracy when handling nuance: alternative phrasings, gender agreement, and register are all taken into account.

What reviews complain about

After every launch the app resets the language pair to the default and does not remember your preference.

What users experience

3 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

Use it for French. Very accurate and I love the option for alternative words and sentences. But the sound of the voice playback is horrible and sounds like a robot. This seems unacceptable in the age of AI. The sound of the voices in Google Translate sound like real humans and are far superior.

Much better at translating than Google and nearly all other competitors, however, the speed of camera translation is way too slow so I almost always choose Google instead. In most real world use cases time is critical, and waiting/freezing for almost 5 seconds isn't really acceptable.

The app is 100% accurate but why is it so hard to get dialects? I am trying to translate words into American English yet it translates into the British version and it is really hard to try to choose the dialect, I have to struggle in order to get the one I am trying to translate.