Blog
On translation that stays on your machine.
Plain writing about how private, on-device translation actually works — the trade-offs we make, the ones other tools hide, and how to do the private version of the thing you came to do.
Product
What changed in the first week of September
A work queue that takes anything in any number, a guide with a page per tool, and a page per language with a measured quality score.
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Trust
How we keep our own documentation honest
We wrote a guide for a product we built, and eighteen sentences in the first drafts were not true. Here is the check that caught them.
· 4 min read
Quality
Why a translation that checks itself wins
One guess is one guess. Traxlate drafts a sentence, scores the alternatives, translates the winner back to check the meaning, and shows you what it found.
· 2 min read
How-to
How to translate subtitles and keep the timing
Translate an .srt or .vtt file so the captions still line up with the video — on your device, with the timestamps untouched. A step-by-step guide.
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FAQ
Private translation: the real questions
Does it really work offline? Is my text ever uploaded? Why is the download so big? Straight answers to the common questions about on-device translation.
· 2 min read
How-to
Translating a PDF without uploading it
Most “translate PDF” tools upload your file to a server. For a contract or a medical record, that is the problem. Here is how to do it on your own device.
· 1 min read
Privacy
What “on-device translation” actually means
Most apps that say “on-device” still send your text to a server when a sentence is hard. What the phrase should mean, and how to tell the difference.
· 2 min read
Product
Why we support 66 languages, not 130
Padding a language list is easy and dishonest. We count only the languages we tune and measure — and the app refuses the rest rather than guessing badly.
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