Google Translate vs Ox Dictionary App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Google Translate
Instantly translate text, voice, and images between hundreds of languages. Features include offline translation, real-time conversation translation, and the ability to save frequently used phrases.
- Text translation
- Offline translation
- Instant camera translation
- Photo translation
- Voice translation
- Conversation translation
- Phrasebook
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Translate between up to 249 languages. Feature support varies by language: • Text: Translate between languages by typing • Offline: Translate with no internet connection • Instant camera translation: Translate text in images instantly by just pointing your camera • Photos: Translate text in taken or imported photos • Dictation: Translate spoken words and phrases • Conversations: Translate bilingual conversations on the fly • Transcribe: Continuously translate someone speaking a different language in near real-time • Handwriting: Draw text characters instead of typing • Phrasebook: Star and save translated words and phrases for future reference Permissions notice: • Microphone for speech translation • Camera for translating text via the camera • Photos for importing photos from your library Translations between the following languages are supported: Abkhaz, Acehnese, Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alur, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Avar, Awadhi, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Balinese, Baluchi, Bambara, Baoulé, Bashkir, Basque, Batak Karo, Batak Simalungun, Batak Toba, Belarusian, Bemba, Bengali, Betawi, Bhojpuri, Bikol, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chuukese, Chuvash, Corsican, Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic), Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dhivehi, Dinka, Dogri, Dombe, Dutch, Dyula, Dzongkha, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Fon, French, French (Canada), Frisian, Friulian, Fulani, Ga, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hakha Chin, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Hunsrik, Iban, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Inuktut (Latin), Inuktut (Syllabics), Irish, Italian, Jamaican Patois, Japanese, Javanese, Jingpo, Kalaallisut, Kannada, Kanuri, Kapampangan, Kazakh, Khasi, Khmer, Kiga, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kituba, Kokborok, Komi, Konkani, Korean, Krio, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Limburgish, Lingala, Lithuanian, Lombard, Luganda, Luo, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Madurese, Maithili, Makassar, Malagasy, Malay, Malay (Jawi), Malayalam, Maltese, Mam, Manx, Maori, Marathi, Marshallese, Marwadi, Mauritian Creole, Meadow Mari, Meiteilon (Manipuri), Minang, Mizo, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nahuatl (Eastern Huasteca), Ndau, Ndebele (South), Nepalbhasa (Newari), Nepali, NKo, Norwegian, Nuer, Occitan, Odia (Oriya), Oromo, Ossetian, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Quechua, Qʼeqchiʼ, Romani, Romanian, Rundi, Russian, Sami (North), Samoan, Sango, Sanskrit, Santali (Latin), Santali (Ol Chiki), Scots Gaelic, Sepedi, Serbian, Sesotho, Seychellois Creole, Shan, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Susu, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tahitian, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamazight (Tifinagh), Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tetum, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tiv, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tulu, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Twi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Venda, Venetian, Vietnamese, Waray, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yakut, Yiddish, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya, Zapotec, Zulu
Ox Dictionary App
This application provides access to over 30 standard dictionaries worldwide, supporting numerous languages. It features a simple interface for easy use and offers multiple search methods, including keyboard, camera text recognition, and speech recognition.
- Over 30 standard dictionaries
- Simple and easy-to-use interface
- Keyboard search
- Camera text recognition search
- Speech recognition search
- History search
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Ox dictionary application is a standard dictionary application to let love around the world. Over 30 kinds of standard dictionaries are installed in this application worldwide. If you install this dictionary, you can say that it can handle nearly all dictionary searches. [Feature] - Eliminate complicated functions as much as possible, making it an interface that is simple and easy to use. - By minimizing screen transitions, it is a screen configuration suitable for continuous retrieval. - In addition to keyboard search, you can search using the camera's text recognition, speech recognition function. [function] - Standard keyboard search. - History search. - Automatic text recognition search by camera. - Automatic speech recognition search by microphone. [Installed dictionary list] - British English - American English - Apple dictionary - Arabic - English - Simplified Chinese - Simplified Chinese - English - Traditional Chinese - Traditional Chinese - English - Danish - Dutch - Dutch - English - French - French - English - German - German - English - Hebrew - Hindi - Hindi - English - Italian - Italian - English - Japanese - Japanese English - Korean - Korean - English - Norwegian - Portuguese - Portuguese - English - Russian - Russian - English - Spanish - Spanish - English - Swedish - Thai - Turkish
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Google Translate at 41% against Ox Dictionary App's 0%. Google Translate also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). Ox Dictionary App's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Ox Dictionary App sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Google Translate asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ox Dictionary App holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Translate has 84K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of Google Translate's written reviews are positive against 0% of Ox Dictionary App's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Google Translate ships an update weekly, Ox Dictionary App every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Translate | Ox Dictionary App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (84K ratings) | 4.7 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 84K — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #1 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 294 MB | 435 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hayato Shimizu | |
Customer experience
Google Translate
Ox Dictionary App
Bugs and requests
Google Translate
Reported bugs
4 issues- 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
Requested features
5 requests- 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
Ox Dictionary App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Translate
No in-app purchases
Ox Dictionary App
- Remove Ads$3.99
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