translate-shell
Leading#4 in Open sourcemedium confidence
Command-line translator wrapping Google/Bing/DeepL and more; a Unix-workflow staple for quick terminal translation (~7.5k stars).Our read
Why it ranks #4
About 7.5k GitHub stars and long-standing Unix adoption keep it a recognizable terminal translator, but the last tagged release and main development activity are several years old.Here is the catch
External engine changes can break backends
Community issues document stale or unreliable voice and engine paths
No modern GUI, document, or layout-preservation workflow
Does this well
Fast, scriptable, and well suited to Unix pipelines
One CLI covers several translation engines
Small footprint and permissive Unlicense
Pricing
Checked by hand on 2026-07-23. Prices in this category change often — if this looks wrong, it probably is.
Key features
Command-line translationGoogle, Bing, Yandex, and Apertium backendsAutomatic language selectionPronunciation and text-to-speech output
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Quick facts
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- 5OpenNMT-pyResearch-grade neural machine-translation toolkit for training and serving your own translation models (~7k stars).
- 6Argos TranslateOffline neural translation library (the engine under LibreTranslate) usable as a Python lib, CLI, or GUI (~6k stars).
- 7Huanshere/VideoLingoSelf-hosted pipeline that cuts, translates and time-aligns video subtitles with WhisperX, then optionally dubs them with cloned voices.