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 one for each text and falls back on its own. You can always choose manually in the menu.
On-device · 2.49 GB · No account
Google's translation model, running inside your Mac. One click to download, one click to remove it and get the space back. Works with no internet at all.
On-device · Instant · macOS 26+
Ready from the very first second, with nothing to download. Takes over on long text, where being instant matters more.
Safety net · No key needed
Covers the languages the others don't reach — Catalan, Galician, Basque — and steps in whenever anything above it fails.
macOS 13 Ventura or later · ~4 MB · No account required