Translate You vs WWWJDIC for Android
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Translate You
Translate You is a Translator App built with Material Design 3 (You). It supports multiple different translation engines such as LibreTranslate, Lingva, DeepL and more. In total, there are more than 200 supported languages across 6 different translation engines.
WWWJDIC for Android
Frontend for WWWJDIC. For more details, see the FAQ. Dictionary search supports romaji lookup, but you need a Japanese IME to use all features. * Full tablet support * Japanese pronunciation (via a separate, non-free app) * Text to speech for kanji and dictionary entry translations * Multi-radical kanji search * Kanji of the day widget * Japanese sentence translation * Example search with approximately 150,000 examples (Japanese/English pairs) * Example word breakdown/translation * Animated stroke order diagrams for over 6000 kanji * History and favorites with backup and restore * Favorites export to CSV and Anki * Handwriting recognition (via a separate, non-free app) * Optical Character Recognition (WeOCR; author's server) * OCR-based handwritten kanji recognition, does not require correct stroke order A proprietary analytics library was removed before building, so the analytics switch in the preferences isn't relevant. Anti-feature: Tracking. Crash reports are sent by default, though that can be disabled.
| Feature | Translate You | WWWJDIC for Android |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | Apache-2.0 |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | ProductivityTranslator | ProductivityTranslator |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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