Photo Translator - Translate

22 of 100 · reviews
4.4of 5 · store
26,792ratings on the App Store
472reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

A photo translator with working OCR for simple text, but the free version is deliberately capped at three translations per day. Accuracy drops on complex fonts and long paragraphs. Ads are aggressive.

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What people use it for

Someone who wants to read one label or sign a day and does not mind ads. Not suitable for regular use.

What reviews praise

Recognizes text from photos quickly and handles short printed text in popular languages.

What reviews complain about

The 3-photo-per-day limit cuts off functionality before the user can even evaluate quality.
Camera focus is unstable, and Japanese and Chinese characters in long paragraphs translate poorly.

What users experience

1 excerpt from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

The app is fine, but it depends on the language and length of what you are trying to translate. For example: I was trying to transite these two russian words from my sheet music. The app worked. However, when i needed it to translate a paragraph of Chinese, the translation was awful.