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.
Quality
How a council of models beats a single one
One model gives you its best guess. Traxlate runs several, has them argue, and a judge picks the winner — the same idea behind why a committee catches mistakes an individual misses.
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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 questions people actually ask
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.
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How-to
Translating a PDF without uploading it
Most “translate PDF” tools upload your file to a server. For a contract, a medical record, or an unpublished draft, that is the whole problem. Here is how to do it locally.
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Privacy
What “on-device translation” actually means
Most apps that say “on-device” still send your text to a server when the model finds a sentence hard. Here is what the phrase should mean, and how to tell the difference.
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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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