Select text in your current Mac window or capture text you cannot copy, then open the translation panel with a shortcut. Trans2 brings selected-text translation, screenshot OCR, and live system audio captions to your menu bar for reading, software interfaces, and foreign-language audio.
Selected text and OCR screenshots open a dedicated translation panel. System audio translations appear in a floating caption window.
Trans2 is a standalone macOS app. Free covers desktop reading and OCR, while Pro adds follow-up questions in the translation panel and live subtitle translation.
Press ⌥D by default to read the current selection, open the dedicated translation panel, and translate automatically.
Press ⌥S by default to select a screen area, recognize text with Vision OCR, and translate text that cannot be copied.
Ask follow-up questions, get explanations, organize ideas, and rewrite the source and translation in the translation panel. Available with Pro once account connection is restored.
Press ⌥A by default to capture system audio, transcribe it with Speech, and display translations in a draggable floating caption window.
Choose selected text, a screenshot, or system audio based on the content you are working with.
When reading foreign-language documents, web passages, or email, select the text you want to understand and open the translation panel.
Ask AI is a Pro feature and will be available once account connection is restored.
For text you cannot select in images, software interfaces, or scanned PDFs, capture the visible area and translate the text recognized by OCR.
This workflow translates a captured area. It does not produce a translated PDF file with the original document layout.
For foreign-language audio playing on your computer, Pro can transcribe and translate system audio in a draggable floating caption window.
Captions come from system audio recognition. This does not modify native YouTube subtitles or translate SRT or ASS subtitle files.
Understand the workflow, Free and Pro features, and how translation data is handled.
Trans2 is a standalone macOS menu bar app. Use selected-text translation for text you can copy from a webpage, or try screenshot OCR for text you cannot select. These are selected-text and screenshot workflows, rather than a full-page bilingual layout extension.
Select email text and press ⌥D to read the translation. Ask AI lets you ask follow-up questions, get explanations, or rewrite the current source and translation. It is a Pro feature and will open once account connection is restored.
Screenshot text recognition runs locally on your Mac, but the recognized text enters your chosen translation service. The default Trans2 AI provider sends text to BitBear’s translation service. Local OCR does not mean fully offline translation.
Free covers selected-text translation and screenshot OCR. Pro adds Ask AI and live system audio captions. Website sign-in and app connection are currently paused, and website Pro purchases are temporarily unavailable.
TransChat is a separate product focused on real-time translation for Telegram groups.
