# Google Translate — user reviews > 1,400 indexed App Store user reviews of Google Translate by Google, rated 4.30/5 from 83,511 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/google-translate/id414706506/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/google-translate/id414706506.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 59,664 · 4★ 8,182 · 3★ 4,456 · 2★ 2,943 · 1★ 8,266 ## What do users think of Google Translate? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Spoken Cantonese & Jyutping recently added - 🚀 Fantastic for translating on the go - 👍 Easy to navigate - 👍 Useful for learning languages - 👍 Offline translation available **Cons** - 🐛 Inaccurate translations for some languages - 🐛 Buggy camera/image translation - 🐛 Inconsistent translation of formal/informal language - 🐛 Slow performance, especially offline - 🐛 Cluttered interface, poor UX design **Commonly reported bugs** - Camera translation not working without internet connection - Inability to select and translate specific text in images - Inconsistent translation of words with multiple meanings - Predictive text feature providing inaccurate suggestions **Most requested features** - Add more language support, especially for minority languages - Improve accuracy of translations, especially for Asian languages - Allow manual selection of text in image translation - Add option to toggle between formal and informal language - Improve offline performance and functionality ## Newest reviews (10 of 1,400) ### 2/5 — Siri Shortcuts *2026-08-22, version 10.34.371* 2-3 times a day I get a shortcut message from Siri reminding me to use the translate camera, despite my removing ALL Siri Shortcuts and clearing Translate via settings each time I still get them. ### 3/5 — Excellent written. Very poor transcription *2026-08-16, version 10.33.161* It does quite a good job translating written material from a camera or if you write down what you want. However when it comes to translating the spoken word, particularly in transcription or ongoing conversations it’s mostly rubbish. Even if the speaker is right on top of it, the results are random. Used for the other areas it’s quite good, but use good complete sentences not shorthand phrases. ### 4/5 — UI for Downloads *2026-08-14, version 10.33.161* Please remove the selection interface for downloading or removing downloaded languages to another screen besides the main interface, because being prompted to routinely to delete for selecting the language I want to translate is unbelievably dumb. ### 2/5 — Argentina Spanish *2026-08-13, version 10.33.161* I recently moved from Texas to Argentina. Google Translate frequently gets the translation completely wrong. Argentine Spanish is different from any other Spanish. Please create translation mode for Argentina! ### 2/5 — Cuts off mid sentence *2026-08-12, version 10.33.161* This used to be a good app. But lately, it’s become more of an aggravating experience!! ### 1/5 — A *2026-08-11, version 10.33.161* App đọc s nghe như z ### 1/5 — Japanese translation *2026-08-06, version 10.31.311* Terrible at translating sentences with emojis. Especially the laughing emoji it never transfers it over ### 5/5 — San Win *2026-08-06, version 10.31.311* Than ### 1/5 — Terribly incorrect *2026-08-06, version 10.31.311* I promise that this translator is getting dumber as we progress Translating between 3 European languages (including English) this app have no idea and is totally useless. Shame on you google, you can catch someone saying a bad word in a second but can’t translate most common word 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 ### 1/5 — Crash *2026-08-05, version 10.31.311* Why is my app not working I can’t translate ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Nightmare UI *2026-08-21, version 10.34.371* Honestly cannot imagine a more nightmarish user experience. The GUI just keeps changing as you use it. It’s like having to learn to use six different apps, any one of which could manifest on the screen at any moment. ### 1/5 — wrong writing? *2026-08-20, version 10.34.371* I had translated my language english to vietnamese and (did thats not my problem if you don’t like it) it translated to something different FIX IT ### 1/5 — Not accurate *2026-08-20, version 10.34.371* I speak French, but needed help with some words. Not syntax grammar etc. I typed in a phrase and it completely changed my original text. Adding words I did not write. It’s suppose to translate and not paraphrase or rewrite. Hence the name Google Translate not google editor 😵‍💫👎 ### 1/5 — Bring Gemini to this App *2026-08-19, version 10.34.371* It’s very nonsensical nowadays translate word by word! ### 1/5 — Stop deleting downloaded languages *2026-08-19, version 10.34.371* Once again, google deleted or invalidated my downloaded languages in favor of me updating them which left me with no translation available in another country with terrible reception. Terrible choices reflecting on a bad company. ### 1/5 — Terrible Japanese translation *2026-08-18, version 10.34.371* Stop removing the laughing emoji and replacing it with this character when translating “（笑）” if we clearly typed a laughing emoji that means we want to keep it ### 1/5 — Read *2026-08-18, version 10.34.371* Can you not automatically close the microphone? I can’t even finish the damn sentences ### 1/5 — Previous version was good.. *2026-08-15, version 10.33.161* After serval update and live translation in conversation.. app not let us to finish our conversation and start to translate in middle of your sentence.. Befor version in very good always take time to finish your sentence and then start translate.. you have to repeat sentence again to complete translation.. very upset after update ### 1/5 — Pronunciation recognition *2026-08-14, version 10.33.161* It can’t recognize the pronunciation what word words world. ### 1/5 — This is a prejudicial system *2026-08-13, version 10.33.161* They won’t even translate the name of God into Hebrew. Not Yahweh. They’ll give you Elohim, they’ll give you Muhammad or Buddha but not Yahweh. Explain that one, devs ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good *2026-08-21, version 10.34.371* Its really helpful ### 5/5 — The future *2026-08-18, version 10.34.371* You should just fuse this app with Gemini now and update Gboard with AI ### 5/5 — กานแปร พาสา *2026-08-18, version 10.34.371* บางค้งแปรไม่ตรงกรับคำทีเขียนออกไป ### 5/5 — i want the live translate version *2026-08-17, version 10.33.161* i want the live translate version ### 5/5 — ksjd *2026-08-15, version 10.33.161* r r f g ### 5/5 — I love this *2026-08-11, version 10.33.161* The best translation app ever it helped me with a lot of things ### 5/5 — New throat goat *2026-08-10, version 10.31.311* Thanks to this lovely piece of technology. I was able to blow a foreign ladies back out a couple times. I would definitely recommend:) ### 5/5 — Ahamed *2026-08-09, version 10.31.311* Naseer ### 5/5 — Google *2026-08-09, version 10.31.311* Translate ### 5/5 — Comprar casa home most popular *2026-08-07, version 10.31.311* Most popular home --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*