FluentMe lives in your menu bar. Hit a shortcut and it captures the active window, recognises the text, and overlays a translation — right where you're looking.
No copy-paste into a browser. No switching apps. No cloud round-trips.
Works on top of any window on your Mac — browser, PDF reader, terminal, IDE, chat client. If you can see it, FluentMe can translate it.
Uses Apple's native Translation framework. Your screens never leave your machine. No accounts, no API keys, no cloud.
Vision-based text recognition picks out the words, FluentMe preserves their layout, and the translation overlays exactly where the original text was.
Skip the translation and grab a clean screenshot of the active window. Save it to the Desktop, copy it to the clipboard, or both.
No dock icon. No window clutter. FluentMe sits quietly in the status bar and disappears when you don't need it.
Pick any combination of ⌘ ⌥ ⌃ ⇧ plus a key. Change source and target languages, output behaviour, and reveal-in-Finder action at any time.
Four steps. Under a second.
Default is ⌘ ⌥ R for capture + translate, ⌘ ⌥ A for plain capture.
ScreenCaptureKit grabs a pixel-perfect image of the window under your cursor.
Apple's Vision framework finds every text block and hands it to the translator.
The translated text is drawn in place, keeping the original layout intact.
Free while in beta. Windows and Linux coming soon.
A handful of the most common questions.
No. Capture, OCR, and translation all happen on-device. Apple's Translation framework uses the language packs you've installed locally via the Translate app. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Plain screenshot capture works on macOS 14 Sonoma and later. Translation features require macOS 15+ because they rely on the system Translation framework.
Any pair supported by Apple's Translate app on your Mac. That currently includes English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean, Arabic and several more. You install the packs once, FluentMe uses them.
Yes. Open Settings from the menu bar icon and pick any combination of ⌘ ⌥ ⌃ ⇧ plus a key for both 'Capture' and 'Capture + Translate'. Defaults are ⌘ ⌥ A and ⌘ ⌥ R.
Yes. FluentMe captures whatever window has focus — browsers, PDF readers, games, terminals, IDEs, video players. If it's on your screen, it can be captured and translated.