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Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] 5/5 · US Good: Helpful when I don’t know a difficult language
2. [R14] 5/5 · US OVERPOWERED: This is the best translator to ever exist and NOTHING can change my mind. This app has been useful to me more times than I can count. If yall could add Navajo that would be excellent, but other than that, THE BEST EVER!!!!
3. [R34] 5/5 · US Better: This for me is VERY BETTER Than any other translation app
4. [R36] 5/5 · US Top tier: Great app function ability and translations
5. [R25] 5/5 · US Very useful: So besides the app being very useful I have four languages that hopefully can get on the list and they are- 1.Ingush: Similar to Chechen, closest relative to Chechen. 2.Adyghe: Spoken in Adyge Republic in Russia. 3.Gagauz: Spoken in southern Moldova, but is almost extinct, it is a Turkic language. 4.Dargin: Spoken in Russia, Dagestan. And these are the four languages that hopefull
6. [R42] 4/5 · US Best for technical transliteration: This is really the only option for school / technical work. In so much it is essentially worthless for IRL spoken word translation Ie in mandarin the hanzi for america is the combination of two symbols that taken alone read beautiful country… goog only understands the transliteration so it says beautiful country which is a flat out wrong translation.
7. [R46] 5/5 · US Love it but: Ok I love this translate app but what I find annoying is for some languages there is no sound and i don't know how to pronounce it, especially if it has the english letters, take Maori for example. AND HAWAIIAN. AND MORE.
8. [R53] 5/5 · US Greek: It has Greek yay
9. [R48] 5/5 · US Really valuable tool!: This app helped me *immensely* when I traveled to Mexico & needed to translate things. I love that you can use talk to text so I could translate other people‘s messages in real time. I also appreciate the bookmark feature so that I could easily access translations easily. Really thankful this exists!
10. [R2] 4/5 · US Lacking options: Huge miss is still the inability to select certain flavors of a language, such as Spanish, and also not being able to set gender specifications makes this something I just rarely use
11. [R11] 5/5 · US I love learning Spanish, but…: I love learning this for Spanish languages, but it won’t let me know what kind of Spanish I wanna use, like for example, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Chile), and Spanish (Argentina). It just randomly does it for me. I don’t understand this at all. So next time you do the update in the future, can you put like all the AI Spanis
12. [R12] 1/5 · US Ai made it worse: It used to be decent. Now it just gives unnatural ai sounding translations that doesn’t translate word for word your original input.
13. [R23] 2/5 · US Mid af: Doesn’t know half the words I ask. Bad with synonyms. Doesn’t work without data.
14. [R4] 1/5 · US Thumbs down: Stop recording conversation after a two second pause. should be able to override that. And have it set if we choose for continuous recording the person speaking. Not a good app
15. [R19] 3/5 · US Great tool, but Conversation Mode is broken. Bring back manual control!: The auto-detection in Conversation Mode is too aggressive. When sharing one phone with a friend, the app constantly cuts me off and blasts out translations while I'm still talking. It causes a confusing overlap of audio that ruins the conversation. Please bring back the manual recording controls and give us an option to disab
16. [R39] 1/5 · US Getting worse: This app is getting worse each update. I can no longer use the live conversation feature as it wants to stop before the person is done speaking. Also getting more words incorrect now. I used to depend on this app a lot, but now it’s time to find something more reliable
17. [R47] 1/5 · US Listening issues: They need to improve the app to not stop the listening option until the person is finished speaking. For both regular translating and the live conversation editor, it would stop randomly and translate when the person wasn’t even finished with what they’re saying. I feel like it should not pause and translate until the person finishes speaking. It also provides completely incorrec
18. [R16] 1/5 · US Stopped working: It stopped translating from camera photos!!! · translated
19. [R20] 1/5 · US Lens blurry when recognizing small text: The lens is blurry when recognizing small text (for example, small text on food packaging), making it completely unusable. At the same distance, my phone's camera can capture small text clearly, so this is not an Apple phone hardware issue. Frankly, I don't know what the problem is, it has just bothered me for a long time. My other phone is a very cheap Android, and it performs surprisingly well at recognizing and translating small text. I have to say, I'm very disappointed. Maybe I should take my Android phone instead of my Apple phone when I go out, after all, the products outside all have text I can't understand. · translated
20. [R59] 1/5 · US latest update makes the camera freeze: Never had my camera freeze before while translating
21. [R63] 2/5 · US Unusable Camera Translator: GT has been my go-to for auto translating as I read text in Japanese for some time. But recently, the camera is freezing constantly and forcing you to take a picture. The auto-translate as I go is essential, and this update has made reading in real time next to impossible. Too bad, since the translations are decent. Additionally, its ability to detect languages has ste
22. [R5] 4/5 · US I don’t understand why they moved the reverse translation.: It’s no longer simple to use; I don’t understand the change.
23. [R18] 2/5 · US They made the app worse and harder to use: You used to be able to switch back and forth between the original language and translation with a touch of a button. Now they have added extra steps, and made it harder. Nice job.
24. [R40] 1/5 · US Terrible update: I frequent a Latin country and this app was my go to. The last two weeks, the interface changed and it does not work properly. It is the most frustrating thing ever now that I’ve come to depend on it. Whatever this change is or was, is a terrible idea. For now I give it zero stars and 10 HATES!
25. [R49] 1/5 · US Apple is failing at UI, but still Google can’t beat them!: No, Google! There aren’t usability improvements in this update. It’s worse! Listen to spoken Japanese and show me the English translation! Minimalist design, but you can’t figure it out?!
26. [R95] 3/5 · US Ok but not reliable: Especially for English because it can't differentiate between British and American. I have to retranslate because I don't know British words. Google should fix this.
27. [R161] 3/5 · US 😞slight disappointment: As an Arab-American I know a decent amount of multiple dialects of Arabic but this one only had the original please add all dialects of Arabic soon so i can learn more about my country