Translate You

Translate You is a translation app from You Apps, a group of open-source Android projects led by the developer Bnyro. Its README calls it a “Privacy focused translator app built with MD3”. It doesn’t translate anything itself: it is a front end for online translation services, which you can switch between, or point at your own server. It is actively developed; version 20.0 came out in November 2026.

The services it works with

The code of 20.0 lists 15 services: Mozhi (the default), LibreTranslate, Lingva, DeepL (free API, paid API or the website), Kagi, MyMemory, Yandex, SimplyTranslate, Wikimedia’s MinT, Glosbe, Apertium, OneRing, PONS, LaraTranslate and the new Iciba engine. Several of them, such as Mozhi, Lingva, LibreTranslate and SimplyTranslate, are open-source servers that anyone can run, which is why the app lets you type in a server address. You can also have several services translate the same text side by side; that option is off by default.

What it does

• Over 150 languages, depending on the service, with a history of your translations.
• Text from images: it recognises text on the phone with the open-source Tesseract engine, then translates it. The recognition data for each language is a separate download from Tesseract’s project on GitHub, which you choose in the settings. Taking a photo goes through your camera app, so Translate You itself has no camera permission.
• Read aloud: the services that offer speech, such as Mozhi and Lingva, send audio; otherwise it uses your phone’s text-to-speech.
• Voice input uses the speech recognition app on your phone; without one, the microphone button doesn’t show.
• Works from other apps: the Translate option in the text-selection menu, sharing text or images to it, opening translate.google.com links, and a Quick Settings tile.

What goes online

From the 20.0 code:

• The translation service you chose, and only it, unless you turn on several. By default that is the public Mozhi server mozhi.aryak.me. Automatic translation is on by default: about 0.8 seconds after you stop typing, the text is sent, so you don’t need to press a button. You can turn this off in the settings.
• The language list of that service, when you open the translator.
• GitHub, when you open the text-recognition settings, to list the available language data, and when you download it.

There are no analytics, crash reports or update checks. The developer’s privacy policy lists nine services and doesn’t mention Mozhi, the default. Two details in the code: the app allows plain-HTTP servers and trusts certificate authorities you added yourself, so that you can use your own server; and this release writes the full content of each request and reply, your text included, to Android’s system log. Ordinary apps can’t read that log, but it can be read over ADB, with root, or by preinstalled system apps that hold the permission for it.

About this file

• This is the developer’s own build of version 20.0, via IzzyOnDroid, byte for byte the APK on the project’s GitHub release and signed by You Apps. F-Droid builds Translate You from source, checks that the result matches, and ships the same developer-signed file, so this file, F-Droid’s and GitHub’s update one another.
• It isn’t on Google Play.
• Version 20.0 adds Iciba and makes it the first SimplyTranslate backend because the release notes say its other providers were broken when this version was prepared. It also fixes the engine and theme dialogs disappearing when the system theme changes.
• The 9.9 MB file runs on Android 6.0 and later on 32- and 64-bit ARM. Version 20.0 compressed the Tesseract native libraries and excluded x86 binaries, sharply reducing the APK size. It asks for three permissions: internet, the microphone (only when you use voice input) and one that the AndroidX library adds for internal use. Our scan found no trackers.
• Translate You is licensed under the GPL-3.0. The screenshots come from the project’s listing and show the app as it looked in early 2023.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones).

Versions currently kept in the IzzyOnDroid repository. We host and check only the newest one. Full changelog.