Google Translate vs Yandex Translate
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
Yandex Translate
Translate text between over 100 languages, both online and offline. Features include photo translation, voice input, a built-in dictionary with usage examples, and website translation. Save your favorite translations and access your history easily.
- Offline translation for 10+ languages
- Translate text from photos
- Voice input and output
- Built-in dictionary with examples
- Website translation
- Translation history and favorites
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Yandex.Translate Free translator that can work offline and translate text from photos • Translate between any pair of the 100 languages when you’re online. • Translate from French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and other languages to English while offline: download these languages for free and enable the offline mode in Settings. • Speak words or phrases in Russian, English, or Turkish to translate them into any of these languages, or have the app read the translations to you. • Learn new words and their meanings through usage examples in the app’s dictionary (available for most of the currently supported languages). • Take a picture of a menu, road sign, book page or choose a photo with text from your Camera Roll to view its translation right over the image (only available when you are online). • Translate entire sites directly in the app or in Safari. • Read books, news, or articles in a foreign language together with Yandex.Translate on your iPad using Split View. • Read transliterated Arabic, Armenian, Farsi, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, or Chinese Pinyin. • Enjoy the app’s time-saving predictive typing function and automated language detection. • Save translations in Favorites and view your translation history at any time. • Speak to your Apple Watch to see your words translated on its screen. Currently supported languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bashkir, Belarussian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Bosnian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese, Chuvash, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Elvish (Sindarin), English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hill Mari, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latin, Latvian, Lao, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malaysian, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mari, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Papiamento, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Scots, Singhalese, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yakutian, Yiddish, Zulu.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Yandex Translate at 4.7 against Google Translate's 4.3. Yandex Translate also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (66% vs 42%). Google Translate's advantage is chart position (#3 vs #179) and ratings volume (84K vs 7.5K). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Yandex Translate 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 7.5K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Google Translate's written reviews are positive against 66% of Yandex Translate's.
Google Translate ships an update weekly, Yandex Translate fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Google Translate | Yandex Translate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (84K ratings) | 4.7 (7.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | 65.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 84K — better | 7.5K |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #3 — better | #179 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 244 MB | 215 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Direct Cursus Computer Systems Trading | |
Customer experience
Google Translate
Yandex Translate
User reviews
Google Translate
From 84K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Spoken Cantonese & Jyutping recently added
- 🚀 Fantastic for translating on the go
- 👍 Easy to navigate
- 👍 Useful for learning languages
- 👍 Offline translation available
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inaccurate translations for some languages
- 🐛 Buggy camera/image translation
- 🐛 Inconsistent translation of formal/informal language
- 🐛 Slow performance, especially offline
- 🐛 Cluttered interface, poor UX design
Yandex Translate
From 7.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent translation quality
- 🔒 Offline mode availability
- 👍 Convenient features (e.g., camera translation, word examples)
- 👍 Helpful for language learning
- 👍 Accurate Russian-English translations
Room to improve
- 🐛 Slow performance after updates
- 🐛 Issues with webpage/image translation
- 🐛 Inconsistent pronunciation quality
- 🐛 Problems with certain language pairs (e.g., Chinese, Punjabi)
- 🔒 Blocking VPN usage
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
Yandex Translate
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when trying to listen to pronunciation
- Inability to paste text into input field
- Inconsistent behavior when translating websites
- Incorrect translations for some language pairs
Requested features
5 requests- Add more language options (e.g., Swiss German, Pashto)
- Improve pronunciation quality
- Allow customization of translation output (e.g., formal/informal, gender)
- Add widget/home screen integration for quick access
- Improve translation of idioms and context-dependent phrases
In-app purchases
Google Translate
No in-app purchases
Yandex Translate
No in-app purchases
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