Yandex Translate

Actually does

• ✓Translation85% of reviews
• ✓Offline-first15% of reviews
• ✓Speech-to-text8% of reviews
• ✓OCR / Document scan25% of reviews
• ✓Сохранение переводов в избранном8% of reviews

Claimed, but not confirmed by reviews

• ⚠Text-to-speech
• ⚠Dictionary
• ⚠Перевод веб-сайтов
• ⚠Транслитерация для нелатинских алфавитов
• ⚠iPad-optimized
• ⚠watchOS support
• ⚠История переводов
• ⚠Автоопределение языка

Common complaints

• ✗Translation quality degraded after updates40% of mentions

  «I used to love using your translator, but now these translations have become so awful that I switched back to Google Translate»

• ✗Poor text recognition in photos15% of mentions

  «From photos it reads 30% (although others read 100%), and translates in such a way that you don't even roughly understand the meaning of words»

• ✗Doesn't work abroad due to restrictions12% of mentions

  «Now Yandex Translator doesn't work abroad»

• ✗Doesn't work with VPN enabled8% of mentions

  «The app became useless because it doesn't work with VPN enabled. I deleted the app.»

• ✗Slow app response abroad8% of mentions

  «Sometimes it just refuses to translate, or rather nothing happens, you can wait forever for the translation»

What people praise

• ★Helps with learning foreign languages

  «I had an English test and I didn't understand some words very well, so I quickly decided to google a photo translator and was very glad I found Yandex Translator»

• ★Works conveniently with Apple Books and text highlighting

  «When I read books in Apple Books there are many books in English, I highlight the text and read it in Russian. You can also highlight text on paper and read it»

• ★Works without internet for major languages

  «Works well, only sometimes the translation translates incorrectly (especially when there's no internet)»

• ★Overall the app works well

  «In principle, everything works perfectly»

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