FluentMe lives in your menu bar (or system tray). 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 friction.
Works on top of any window — browser, PDF reader, terminal, IDE, chat client. If you can see it, FluentMe can translate it.
On macOS, translation runs entirely on-device via Apple's Translation framework — your screens never leave your machine. On Windows, translation goes through our minimal-data service. No accounts, no analytics, no ads.
Native 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 menu bar (macOS) or system tray (Windows) and disappears when you don't need it.
Pick any modifier combination plus a key. Change source and target languages, output behaviour, and capture actions 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.
A handful of the most common questions.
No — your screen captures stay on your machine. On macOS, capture, OCR, and translation all run on-device. On Windows, capture and OCR are local; only the recognised text is sent to our translation service, which never stores it.
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.