What’s new
What changed, including what was broken.
Fixes are listed as fixes. A changelog that only announces triumphs is marketing, and nobody reads it twice.
Local-only, and a smoother first run
11 August 2026
- BetterServer translation is gone entirely. There is no longer any path — consented or otherwise — that sends your text to our server to translate. The pack on your device is the engine, full stop. Every page that still described the old fallback has been corrected.
- BetterThe install banner now tells you the whole size up front, and the progress bar runs once from 0 to 100% across everything it downloads — it no longer jumps back when the second model starts.
- FixedPressing Translate before a pack was installed printed a note below the fold and did nothing. It now takes you straight to the install button, with your text kept.
- FixedThe very first translation after install showed a blank pane while the engine loaded. It now says what it is doing.
- NewThe pricing FAQ, the docs and the manifesto now answer the privacy question the same way, because there is only one answer: your text never leaves your device.
Finding your way around
6 August 2026
- NewA bottom bar on phones — switching between Text, Files, Subtitles and Dub is now one tap instead of two.
- NewYour account page opens on your actual work: translations, PDFs and desk jobs, each one a link.
- NewSign out of every other device in one action, for when you think someone else is signed in.
- BetterDevices are listed as “Chrome on Windows” instead of a wall of browser jargon.
- NewA status page that does real checks and admits when something is broken.
- BetterErrors now tell you what to do next. After a failed export, the message says explicitly that nothing was lost.
On-device translation, and telling you the truth about it
5 August 2026
- FixedThe language pack could not be installed at all — the files were not being served. On-device translation now works end to end: install once, then translate offline.
- FixedThe homepage demo asked first-time visitors for permission to send their text to our server. It no longer does: the on-device path comes first, and the server is a choice you make, never a gate.
- FixedTranslations sometimes gained a sentence nobody wrote — including one case that invented a consequence on a safety instruction. Fixed by installing the second engine that checks the first, and by tightening the check that catches an over-long answer.
- NewPassword reset by email, receipts for payments, and a warning before a failed card affects anything.
- NewA guide, a support page, and real Terms, Privacy and Refund policies.
- BetterEvery page now says “66 languages” from the actual list. The site previously claimed 400+, which was never true.