LangLens

Menu-bar translation for macOS

Translate anything
on your screen.

Press a hotkey, drag-select any text, read it in up to two languages. On-device OCR meets instant machine translation. The text never leaves your control.

Apple Silicon · macOS 13+

LangLens result bubble translating an English sentence into German and Ukrainian at the same time.

Three keystrokes from foreign to familiar.

  1. Space

    Press

    One global hotkey freezes the screen and hands you a crosshair.

  2. Select

    Drag a box around any text: a PDF, an app, a video frame, anything.

  3. Read

    A bubble shows the translation in one or two languages at once. Dismiss it and nothing remains.

Nothing copied.
Nothing saved.

Text is recognized on your Mac with Apple's Vision engine. Only the words you select are sent for translation. Never written to your clipboard, never stored, never logged.