iOS 8 Translator Keyboard Lets You Translate Text From one Language to Another

Since iOS 8 public release, we’ve seen many third-party keyboard apps like Swype, QuickType and today we are going to add iOS 8 Translator keyboard to the list. Made and developed by Steven Barnegren and it works on iPhone/iPad and iPod Touch running on iOS 8 or later..

Just like the name of the app say, this $1.99 app makes it easy to translate any text you want to 44 different languages (and translate from 30 languages) by choosing your source and target language straight from the keyboard.

Because third-party software keyboards on iOS 8 are available in any app, you can literally get translated text as you type in any app, without using a dedicated translation software. To switch between languages, just swipe on the keyboard.

According to MacRumors, the app uses Microsoft Translate, an “industry leading translation API,” and even auto-corrects your spelling in any given language.

The downside to auto-correct is its aggressiveness, requiring you to fix every misspelled word. Barnegren is aware of the problem and confirmed to MacRumors that the option to disable auto-correct will be added in a future update.

Key features include: 

• Fast and accurate online translation using industry leading translation API
• Translate to 44 different languages
• Translate from 30 different languages
• Change source and target language straight from the keyboard
• Translator Keyboard’s autocorrection will correct your spelling in whichever language you are writing in

The initial version supports translation to the following languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong Daw, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Klingon, Klingon (pIqaD), Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh.

Translation from the following languages is supported:

Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Haitian Creole, Hmong Daw, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Klingon, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese and Welsh.

[App Store via MacRumors]