{"id":211455,"date":"2026-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/a-privacy-focused-alternative-to-google-translate\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T05:50:08","slug":"a-privacy-focused-alternative-to-google-translate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/a-privacy-focused-alternative-to-google-translate\/","title":{"rendered":"A privacy-focused alternative to Google Translate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fastcompany.co.za\/co-design\/2026-02-09-discover-kagi-translate-a-privacy-focused-alternative-to-google-translate\/\">A privacy-focused alternative to Google Translate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fastcompany.co.za\/co-design\/2026-02-09-discover-kagi-translate-a-privacy-focused-alternative-to-google-translate\/\">https:\/\/fastcompany.co.za\/co-design\/2026-02-09-discover-kagi-translate-a-privacy-focused-alternative-to-google-translate\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-09 00:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"fastcompany.co.za\">fastcompany.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The notion of instant on-the-go translation is nothing new for most of us, thanks to the now-ubiquitous Google Translate service.<\/p>\n<p>But a scrappy Google competitor thinks it can do better.<\/p>\n<p>\u279c This week, a company called<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>Kagi<\/strong>\u200b<span>\u00a0<\/span>is officially launching its \u200bKagi Translate app for both<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>Android\u200b<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>and<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>iOS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca1 The app mirrors most of the same features Google Translate offers, with a few interesting new touches and one key point of distinction: It is<span>\u00a0<\/span>all about<span>\u00a0<\/span>protecting your privacy\u2014with no ads, no trackers, and no data being monetized or repurposed in any way.<\/p>\n<p>Oh\u2014and it\u2019s free, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u231a You\u2019ll need all of<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>two minutes<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>to take it out for a test-drive.<\/p>\n<p>Psst: If you love these types of tools as much as I do, check out my free<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>Cool Tools<span>\u00a0<\/span>newsletter<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>from<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>The Intelligence<\/strong>. You\u2019ll be the first to find all sorts of simple tech treasures!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Instant translations\u2014plus privacy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve got the Kagi Translate app on your device, it\u2019s really quite intuitive to use. At its core:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can type or paste any text into its main translation box to have the text translated from and to any language you like.<\/li>\n<li>You can tap the camera icon in that same box to take a photo of text in the real world\u2014on a document, a menu, a whiteboard, you name it\u2014and then have the language auto-detected and translated into your native tongue from there.<\/li>\n<li>A document icon in that same area lets you upload a file from your phone (or any connected cloud storage) for speedy on-the-fly translation.<\/li>\n<li>And a microphone icon lets you speak aloud\u2014or have someone<span>\u00a0<\/span>else<span>\u00a0<\/span>speak aloud\u2014for real-time translations of the words as they\u2019re uttered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kagi Translate\u2019s main screen is one simple prompt\u2014with plenty of power around it.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, Kagi Translate offers some interesting extras\u2014for instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you tap the three-line settings icon within the main translation box, you can change between a \u201cnatural\u201d and \u201cliteral\u201d translation style, a formal or informal voice (for languages where&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fastcompany.co.za\/co-design\/2026-02-09-discover-kagi-translate-a-privacy-focused-alternative-to-google-translate\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A privacy-focused alternative to Google Translate https:\/\/fastcompany.co.za\/co-design\/2026-02-09-discover-kagi-translate-a-privacy-focused-alternative-to-google-translate\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-09 00:00:00 Source Domain: fastcompany.co.za The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/iol-prod.appspot.com\/image\/c298b0a6b002f77de95a9b86e37200f2d2a79032\/1000\/jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211457,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211455\/revisions\/211457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}