SwifT lives in your menu bar and translates any selected text with ⌥⌘T. No copy-paste. No browser tabs. No interruptions.
macOS 13 Ventura or later · No account required · Free forever
Notes · ES
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Select text in any app — Xcode, Safari, Slack, PDFs — press ⌥⌘T and you're done. Works everywhere, system-wide. Not your thing? Remap it to any combo in Settings.
Writing in Spanish but need it in English? SwifT detects the language direction automatically and flips when needed. Bidirectional, always.
Uses Apple's on-device Translation framework on macOS 26+. Falls back to Google Translate gracefully — no API key, no setup, no account.
Lives quietly in the menu bar. No Dock icon, no onboarding screens, no subscriptions. Set it up once, forget about it. Launches at login.
In any app — Safari, Xcode, Slack, Notes, Terminal — select the text you want to translate.
Your global shortcut. Works even when SwifT is not the focused app. Fully customizable.
Translation appears as a macOS notification. Optionally replaces the selected text in-place.
SwifT picks the best available engine and falls back automatically. You can always choose manually in Settings.
On-device · Private · macOS 26+
Runs entirely on your Mac using Apple's Translation framework. No data leaves your device.
Fast · Reliable · No key needed
The world's most used translation service. No API key, no account, works out of the box.
Open · Always available
Open translation API with 5,000 characters/day on the free tier. Ultimate fallback.
macOS 13 Ventura or later · ~4 MB · No account required