First of all, you will probably tell me that the best thing to do is to learn this language, well yes, obviously, the bad thing is that I am very lazy for this, I can only learn a few things in English and then I get overwhelmed haha.
That said, before I never used a translator as I was always in Spanish communities, until I started to diversify more and now I need one, I am currently using DeepL as it has been useful for jargons that I don’t know, for more privacy I use it through an API key to use it in Translate You, but I heard that their privacy policy is a bit murky…
I’ve also heard of Simplytranslate but I think it uses Google’s servers in the same way…
For simple things, the local translation in Firefox has been more than enough. Go to
about:translations. It’s pretty limited compared to Google’s frankly impressive language list but I’ve used it almost exclusively since it’s added the languages I need to translate most frequently.Just a tip: this app implements the same offline translator from Firefox, and it allows also
https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.davidv.translator/
You could share that on the best_fdroid_apps community maybe. Look pretty cool
That all looks good, but I wanted to specifically mention the most simple barebones and decent option that’s already included in software more of us use. I’d think if we’re installing more things we would be looking at something more powerful.