I’m looking for a robust translation app that respect privacy and doesn’t collect user data or send text to servers.
I’ve tried a few options, but I’d like to hear about your experiences: What do you actually use?
Thanks in advance 🙏
I run libretranslate and used to run mozhi both are good and you can find mobile clients on fdroid
I believe Firefox allows you to point your local LLM (that you self host) as the “ai assistant”, so that when you click translate, your own machine (localhost) does the work. I’ve found the Qwen3 series models (Qwen3-4B) to have been quite capable at translation; I imagine the newer ones are even better.
I wanted to be the funny person to answer with: the dictionary.
But aside of the bad joke, I want to say thanks for the question and thanks for all the answers in this thread!I wasn’t thinking about this as privacy concern (while obviously is), and I am really happy to see this issue is already solved several different ways!
I use Translator from the Fdroid store.
It downloads the Mozilla language packs and translates locally.
This seems a great option, thanks.
I use Translate You installed from Droid-ify.
I suspect local AI models are the answer, but only second best to learning the language.
