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Quick Look

TransOver allows you to translate words or selected text instantly via hover, click, or selection, with optional text-to-speech.

AI Overview

Who is this for?

Users who frequently encounter foreign language content online and need quick, on-demand translations.

Key Features

  • Translate on hover, click, or selection
  • Text-to-speech functionality
  • Type and translate in a popup
  • Copy translation to clipboard
  • Reverse translate option

Reviews Analysis

Overall Sentiment

Mostly Positive

Users appreciate the convenience and functionality of TransOver for quick translations, though occasional glitches and UI issues are noted.

Note: AI analysis focuses on the substance and recency of reviews, which may differ from the overall store rating.


What Users Love

  • Convenient translation via hover or click
  • Useful text-to-speech feature
  • Versatile translation options

Points to Consider

  • × Occasional display or functionality bugs
  • × Popup positioning issues reported
  • × Some users prefer more explicit language controls

Official Description

From the Developer


Hover, click or select to translate (with text-to-speech). Translator.

Translate word (or text selection) from any language to the language of your choice by single click or hover over.

Also available:

  • text-to-speech
  • reverse translate: from your own language to the language of your choice
  • type and translate in a popup
  • copy translation to clipboard

SECURITY EXPLAINED

"Your data on all websites": TransOver should be able to read any word on a page - "Your data ..." - in order to translate it. On any website you want it working - "... on all websites".

100% CLEAN Softpedia award - https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Internet-Applications-Addons/Chrome-Extensions/TransOver.shtml#status

There is also a Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/transover-ff/

CHANGELOG

1.74

  • Better popup positioning 1.73
  • When reverse translating, tts now speaks "target" language, as opposed to the "source" one 1.72
  • Fix double translation (flicker) when translating selection 1.71
  • Make tts great again
  • Add more languages 1.70
  • Fix for google translate api changes 1.69
  • Add 'Disable everywhere' toggle 1.68
  • Upgrade Google Analytics from UA to GA4 1.67
  • Fix "only show when key pressed" having no effect in some cases 1.66
  • Fix not working on youtube.com 1.65
  • Fix typo in the api fallback 1.64
  • Prevent Chrome page translation tool from translating popup (see https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/17256; thanks https://github.com/dotdioscorea) 1.63
  • Fix remember language in "type and translate" popup being scoped to a particular site 1.62
  • Fix translation popup sometimes not appearing 1.61
  • Remember language options in "type and trasnlate" popup
  • Fix double translation popup showing in certain scenarious 1.60
  • Remove unnecessary required "tabs" permission. 1.59
  • Re-enable clients5 API (it magically started working again). But keep the fallback to rate limited API in case it breaks again. 1.58
  • Fix "not working on youtube" 1.57
  • Fix usage tracking
  • Show error in the popup when google translate API rate limit is hit 1.56
  • Better usage tracking (to see how many people hit Google Translate API rate limit)
  • Fix chrome build (production webpack generates invalid UTF-8 build) - this time for real 1.55
  • Fix chrome build (production webpack generates invalid UTF-8 build) 1.54
  • Fix API url 1.52
  • Works on Firefox (involved numerous cleanups) 1.49
  • Show translated noun gender where applicable 1.48
  • Fix hover menus closing unintentionally 1.47
  • Add ability to configure font size 1.46
  • remove youtube fix - it seems to be no longer required 1.45
  • fix not working on youtube 1.44
  • make "translate into" field look more like a required field
  • fix occasional exception showing up in dev tools 1.43
  • Add "disable on this page" checkbox to type-and-translate popup.
  • Changing options no longer requires to reload pages.
  • Fix web components deprecation warnings. 1.42
  • Change google translate API url. The old one seems to be getting blocked more and more. 1.41
  • Fix regression. T&T popup wasn't showing translation. 1.40
  • Optionally show "translated from" language in a popup. Because source langage autodetect often makes funny choices and then people blame TransOver for incorrect/missing translations. This will hopefully act as a hint to go and change "translate from" option from autodetect to a set language. 1.39
  • Add "copy translation" feature 1.38
  • Fix errors in developer console 1.37
  • Add option to translate on whitelisted sites only (credit https://github.com/yamanq/translate_onhover) 1.36
  • Fix "reverse translate to" dropdown not being fully populated 1.35
  • Fix TTS looping when key is pressed and held 1.34
  • Smaller and crispier font 1.33
  • if site is added to "don't translate on these sites", don't inject template elements. So that they don't show up in OWA new email form 1.32
  • attempt to fix template content being appended to contenteditable body (OWA new email form) 1.31
  • fix certain sites (e.g. facebook, youtube) being subtly broken for extit{some} users. By not using html imports, since Chrome appears to be buggy in that respect. 1.30
  • fix selection translation appearing in the corner
  • fix "letter-spacing" parent style leaking into the popup
  • dismiss popup on scroll 1.29
  • new icon
  • slower tts
  • inner refactoring: iframes -> web components 1.28
  • use Speech Synthesis API for text-to-speech 1.27
  • add "from" to type-and-translate popup
  • don't use chrome.tts. Like ever again 1.26
  • use chrome.tts api 1.25
  • get back "Translate from" option 1.24
  • fix exception showing up in js console 1.23
  • fix showing only first sentence of selection translation 1.22
  • fix hotkey setup
  • less ugly "type and translate" popup
  • better way to figure out unsuccessful translation 1.21
  • support new google api 1.20
  • configurable tts key 1.19
  • rollback z-index increase - previous value was the correct maximum 1.18
  • max z-index so that popup always stays on top 1.17
  • revert "cache regexp" optimization 1.16
  • don't use chrome.tts 1.15
  • count apostrophes as word characters. So that d'abord, don't, etc. get proper translation.
  • fix tts 1.14
  • skip editable divs (fixes google+, youtube, etc. comments) 1.13
  • redirect to options after install 1.12
  • fix tts for "type and translate" 1.11
  • fix occasional exception in chrome js console 1.10
  • fix xss security issue 1.9
  • allow disabling reverse translate if "translate from" is chosen 1.8
  • add option to choose show popup trigger (previously, 'alt' was the only option) 1.7
  • fix large selection translation not getting proper height 1.6
  • fix broken single word translation 1.5
  • only show type-and-translate popup in top frame (so that bits of it do not show up in facebook, g+ buttons)
  • upgrade jquery to get rid of source map exception in dev console 1.4
  • fix broken tts for multiword translation
  • better "don't translate clicking links" 1.3
  • don't translate when clicking on links 1.2
  • track source langage properly 1.1
  • add google analytics 1.0
  • better popup implementation (possibly fixes wrong popup size)
  • smaller dependencies 0.44
  • fix "choose target lang" broken link 0.43
  • fix missing icons 0.42
  • improve popup layout in g+
  • smaller package (so it installs faster) 0.41
  • fix tts 0.40
  • fix broken popup layout on latest chrome and chromium 0.39
  • fixed major brokenness caused by google api changes
  • add option to only translate selection when alt pressed
  • add reverse translate when 'autodetect from word' is chosen 0.38
  • translate all frames 0.37
  • make 'Oops.. no translation' optional 0.36
  • better ignore editable divs 0.35
  • fix tts not working for type and translate mode 0.34
  • ignore gmail and g+ editable divs 0.33
  • button for 'type and translate' popup
  • popup more resilient to current page style (been moved to iframe) 0.32
  • set text direction right-to-left for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu and Yiddish
  • save options on Enter 0.31
  • only offer to choose language once (per page load) 0.30
  • change default autodetect method from locale to word 0.29
  • add Esperanto 0.28
  • translate in a popup 0.27
  • fix broken translation for text that contains regex special characters: ), $, etc. 0.26
  • bring back 'translate from' option 0.25
  • reverse translate
  • reliable source language autodetect; as a result, getting rid of manual source language option
  • 'do not translate on sites' option is less confusing 0.24
  • change 'translated only if X pressed' from 'shift' to 'alt' 0.23
  • make Text-To-Speech optional and disabled by default 0.22
  • expose 'translate from' option
  • redesign options page to hide advanced options behind separate link 0.21
  • text to speech on ctrl press 0.20
  • jquery updated to 1.7.1 0.19
  • fix adjustment for parent font-size going not quite as planned 0.18
  • fix translating wrong word (not the one behind cursor) in rare cases (that was due to extit{} style font-size being different from element font-size)
  • hit between the lines confuses javascript getElementFromPosisition, resulting in visibly broken html after translation. Fixed. 0.17
  • ignore mouse 'noise' movements (so popup does not flicker)
  • enable 'delay' option only when 'translate by point at word' and not 'shift only'
  • fixed unescaped html. again. 0.16
  • 'translate by click' option added
  • fixed performance issue on pages with large text nodes 0.12
  • selection translation popup no longer shows up anywhere on the page (#17) 0.11
  • updated available languages 0.10
  • gotten rid of calls to Google Translate API (since it is deprecated) 0.9
  • proper cased (as opposed to always lower case) translation (#16)
  • make sure translation popup doesn't get out of the window (#14) 0.8
  • more prominent translation popup (#13)
  • no longer attempts to translate selection in text inputs (#12) 0.7
  • translation no longer changes styles of underlying text (#11). Thanks to Dmitriy Kostikov for pointing in the right direction 0.6
  • no more explicit 'translate from' option - autodetect is good enough. Also fixes #8
  • fixed: erases closing tag on html/xml listing (#6)
  • fixed: part of speech is now bold on every page (#9) 0.5
  • text selection translate (#4)
  • fixed: drops text selection (#7) 0.4
  • report translation fail. As opposed to simply not showing anything to user
  • hide translation on page scroll
  • prompt user to choose target language, in case it isn't set. Useful for new installs
  • source language is now a configurable option (defaults to 'autodetect')
  • translation delay is now configurable option
  • remove "don't translate from these languages" option
  • gotten rid of explicit api call to detect language. Turns out dictionary api can do it itself.
  • popup fadeIn/fadeOut. As opposed to hide/show 0.3
  • reduced delay before translation start

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Key Info

  • Rating:
    4.5/5.0

    1.8K ratings

  • Users:100,000
  • Version:1.74
  • Updated:Feb 04, 2024

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