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TransOver

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

4.51,800 reviews~100K+ usersEducationBy TransOver
Free
Updated 2026-09-01

TransOver screenshots

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Overview

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 _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

Pros

  • AI-powered

Cons

  • Chrome-only

Who should use TransOver?

Pricing

TransOver is free. There is no paid tier to consider.

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Frequently asked questions

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Yes, TransOver is free to use.

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