TapTranslate

: an iOS screen translator

Tap to translate

Any screen, in your language.

Double-tap the AssistiveTouch button and TapTranslate captures whatever is on screen, reads the text, and lays the translation back over the original — in place, so the layout you were reading still makes sense.

Download on the App Store

For iPhone and iPad · iOS 17+ · 3-day free trial, then lifetime access

TapTranslate's floating result sheet showing a Korean web page translated into English

1.2M

translations

4.5

global rating

50K+

downloads

Two ways to translate.

On-device mode
The on-device shortcut's detail screen in TapTranslate
AI mode
The AI shortcut's detail screen in TapTranslate
  On-device AI
SpeedInstant2–3× slower
Works offline Yesonce installed No
PhrasingLiteralNatural, context-aware
Text leaves the device No Yesto ChatGPT
Requires iOS 17+ iOS 26+ and Apple Intelligence

Where the result appears.

Floating Screen Full Screen

Two iPhones side by side: on the left, the Floating Screen result sheet over a Chinese page; on the right, the Full Screen result over a French page

A compact sheet over whatever you were doing, without opening the app. The result inside TapTranslate, with zoom, copy, save and the original.

TapTranslate's full-screen result: a French page translated into English, with a recognized block boxed and the copy and save controls at the bottom

What you can do

A translation you can work with.

  • 60+ languages

    Automatic detection picks the source language, or you set the pair by hand.

  • Tap to zoom

    Tap any recognized block to zoom into it.

  • Long-press a block to copy

    One block, or all the translated text at once (Full Screen only).

  • Show Original

    Toggle between the source text and the translation.

  • Save Result

    Keep the translated image, ready to share.

  • Style the overlay

    Colour, stroke, corner radius, bounding boxes, minimum scale.

Also works on iPad.

An iPad showing a Korean constitution page with the English translation overlaid in place

Stop copying text into a translator.

Double-tap instead.

Download on the App Store