Translate a whole note
Right-click a note, pick a language, and Yaps writes the translation into a new note beside it. Your original is never changed.
Translation
Translate on your computer. Not in the cloud.
Yaps translates your notes, a selected paragraph, or a subtitle file on your own computer. Download a language pack once and it keeps working offline, with no API keys and no cost per word. Available in the Yaps desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Translate
Original note
Send the updated notes to the Berlin team before Friday. The offline build is ready to test.
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New note
Running on this computer
Desktop feature
Translation runs in the Yaps desktop app on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It is not part of the Yaps mobile app yet.
Where translation shows up in Yaps
Six places you can translate something, all running on the same on-device models.
Translate a selection
Select a paragraph in the editor, right-click, and translate just that. Replace the selection, insert the translation below it, or copy it.
Translate subtitle files
Translate an .srt file with timestamps and cue numbering preserved exactly, so it drops straight back into your video editor.
Translated subtitles from Studio
Already have a Studio transcript? Export translated subtitles straight from it, with no round trip through another tool.
Batch translate a set of files
Drop a set of .md, .txt, and .srt files into the Translate tab and run them all at once. Good for a docs folder or a season of transcripts.
Command line and coding agents
Translate from your terminal, or let a coding agent do it through the Yaps CLI and the Codex plugin. Same models, driven by a script.
The whole thing runs on your machine
Most translation tools work by sending your text to somebody else's computer. Yaps does not.
Nothing is uploaded
The text you translate never leaves your computer. There is no translation server in the loop, so there is nothing to leak, log, or retain.
Works with no connection
Once the language pack is downloaded, translation works on a plane, on a train, or on a locked-down network. Nothing waits on a request.
No API keys, no per-word cost
There is no key to paste and no meter running while you work. Translate a paragraph or a folder of documents at the same cost.
Two language packs. Check which one has your language
Pick a language pack the first time you translate something. It downloads once, then lives on your computer and works with no connection. The two packs cover different sets of languages, so check that yours is in the one you download.
Standard
RecommendedThe languages most people reach for, in the smaller download. This is the one Yaps recommends if you are not sure, and the only pack with Khmer, Lao, Malay, and Burmese.
Extended
A wider set of European and Indian languages, plus regional variants of Portuguese and Chinese. It does not include Khmer, Lao, Malay, or Burmese.
The two packs are different sets, not one inside the other. Khmer, Lao, Malay, and Burmese are in the Standard pack only. You can install both packs if you need languages from each.
In the Standard pack
28 languages, in the smaller download.
Europe
CzechDutchEnglishFrenchGermanItalianPolishPortugueseRussianSpanish
Middle East
ArabicHebrewPersianTurkish
South Asia
BengaliHindiUrdu
East and Southeast Asia
BurmeseChineseIndonesianJapaneseKhmerKoreanLaoMalayTagalogThaiVietnamese
Only in the Extended pack
The Extended pack covers 53 languages. It has most of the Standard list as well, plus the languages below and regional variants of Portuguese and Chinese. It does not have Khmer, Lao, Malay, or Burmese.
Europe
BulgarianCatalanCroatianDanishEstonianFinnishGreekHungarianIcelandicLatvianLithuanianNorwegianRomanianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSwedishUkrainian
South Asia
GujaratiKannadaMalayalamMarathiPunjabiTamilTelugu
Africa
SwahiliZulu
Southeast Asia
Filipino
What people translate. And why
Translation is most useful when the text is yours and the words matter.
Subtitles for video
Translate a finished .srt file into another language without breaking the timing. Cue numbers and timestamps come back exactly as they went in, so the file is ready to load.
Working across a team
Write a note in your own language and hand a colleague a version in theirs. Both notes sit in your vault, so you can go back to the original whenever the wording matters.
Documents that cannot go to a cloud service
Contracts, patient notes, HR records, and internal reports often cannot be pasted into a web translator. On-device translation keeps the text on the machine it was already on.
Reading source material
Translate a saved article, a research paper, or a set of notes into a language you read comfortably, then keep both versions for reference.
A folder of documentation
Batch translate a directory of Markdown and plain text files in one pass instead of feeding them through a web form one at a time.
Travelling and working offline
The language pack lives on your machine, so translation still works on a plane, in a hotel with bad wifi, or on a network that blocks outside services.
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Your words stay yours. Every time
Download a language pack once. Translate notes, selections, and subtitles offline, on your own computer.
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