Alternatives to Papago
Naver's web translator for text, images, documents, voice and websites, strong in Korean. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Papago
Naver's web translator for text, images, documents, voice and websites, strong in Korean.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Papago.
Google Translate
Google's machine translation service for translating text, documents and websites between languages.
Google Translate is free with no sign-up for text, documents and websites, without Papago's Korean focus or glossary feature.
DeepL
An AI translator and writing assistant for text, documents and speech, with desktop, mobile and browser apps.
DeepL adds desktop, mobile, browser extension and Office apps plus a writing assistant, with text processed on DeepL's servers.
Microsoft Translator
Microsoft's translation apps for text, speech, conversations, signs and documents, with offline language packs.
Microsoft Translator adds apps for Android, iOS and Windows with offline packs and a multi-device live conversation mode.
Yandex Translate
Yandex's online machine translation service for text, documents and images.
Yandex Translate is a free browser service for text, documents and images, without voice translation or a glossary listed.
Reverso
An online translation, contextual dictionary and rephrasing tool for many languages.
Reverso shows translations in real example sentences with a dictionary and rephrasing tool, rather than image or voice translation.
LibreTranslate
An open-source machine translation API and web app that you can run on your own server.
LibreTranslate is open source and can be self-hosted offline, though translation quality can trail large commercial services.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Immersive Translate
A translation extension and app that shows bilingual side-by-side translations of web pages, PDFs and videos.
TranslateLocally
A machine translation app that runs translation models on your own device instead of a server.
PDFMathTranslate
An AI tool that translates scientific PDFs while keeping formulas, charts and layout intact.
Wenxin Assistant
Baidu's Chinese-language AI assistant for writing, image creation, document reading and agent apps, formerly ERNIE Bot.
