Yandex Translate vs DeepL Translate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
DeepL Translate
Instantly translate text from your camera, photos, speech, or files. Explore alternative translations, save favorites, and hear translations read aloud. Offers advanced features like glossary and tone selection with a paid plan.
- Real-time camera translation
- Photo translation
- Speech dictation and text-to-speech
- File translation
- Alternative translations
- Saved favorites and history
- Glossary and tone selection (paid)
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- Real-time camera translation: point your camera at text to instantly translate what you see - Photo translation: translate text in taken or imported photos - Dictation: translate what you speak out loud - Text to speech: hear your translated text read out loud - File translation: translate text from files - Quick detection: translations begin as you type - Alternative translations: explore different options for single words and short phrases - Favorites: save words and phrases for future reference - History: easily find, edit, and reuse past translations - Transliteration: read translations of non-Latin languages, such as Japanese or Russian, in the Latin alphabet - Glossary: translate key words and phrases as defined by you or your organization (available with a paid plan) - Tone: choose a formal or informal tone (available with a paid plan) - Handwriting: draw text characters instead of typing (available on iPad) - DeepL Write: get intelligent writing suggestions to help you create clear, error-free, and impactful texts with ease Feature support varies by language. Currently available: Acehnese, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Aragonese, Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese (simplified)*, Chinese (traditional)*, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English (American)*, English (British)*, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French*, Galician, Georgian, German*, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian*, Japanese*, Javanese, Kapampangan, Kazakh, Konkani, Korean*, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Lombard, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Maithili, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian (bokmål), Occitan, Pangasinan, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese*, Portuguese (Brazilian)*, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sicilian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish*, Spanish (Latin American), Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa *Also available for DeepL Write Free to download - access core features without cost! - Enjoy more translation features with a DeepL account - Log in to your organization's team account via SSO - To unlock all features, you may need a DeepL paid plan Terms & Conditions: https://www.deepl.com/app-terms Privacy Policy: https://www.deepl.com/privacy DeepL Support: https://www.deepl.com/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Yandex Translate at none against DeepL Translate's 8. Yandex Translate also leads on review sentiment (66% vs 53%) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. DeepL Translate sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $10.49 per month. Yandex Translate asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Yandex Translate against 4.8 for DeepL Translate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7.5K and 13K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Yandex Translate's written reviews are positive against 53% of DeepL Translate's.
Yandex Translate ships an update fortnightly, DeepL Translate weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Yandex Translate | DeepL Translate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7.5K ratings) | 4.8 (13K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.9% of reviews — better | 53.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7.5K | 13K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #181 | #73 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 215 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Direct Cursus Computer Systems Trading | DeepL SE |
Customer experience
Yandex Translate
DeepL Translate
User reviews
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
DeepL Translate
From 13K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Accurate translations
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Useful translation history
- 🚀 Fast and efficient
- 👍 Helpful for language learning
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy after updates
- 👎 Cluttered interface
- 👎 Inconsistent translations
- 👎 Limited language support
- 👎 Subscription required for some features
Bugs and requests
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
DeepL Translate
Reported bugs
5 issues- Camera translation not working
- Disappearing buttons and features
- Frequent app crashes
- Connectivity issues
- Autocorrect interfering with foreign language input
Requested features
6 requests- Add more languages, especially less common ones
- Improve translation quality for certain languages
- Allow offline translation
- Implement a way to report poor translations
- Add text-to-speech with adjustable speed
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- Integrate with other apps for seamless translation
In-app purchases
Yandex Translate
No in-app purchases
DeepL Translate
- Monthly3 Days trial$10.491 Month
- Monthly14 Days trial$13.001 Month
- Monthly3 Days trial$23.991 Month
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- Monthly$38.001 Month
- Annual3 Days trial$104.991 Year
- Annual14 Days trial$131.991 Year
- Annual3 Days trial$209.991 Year
- Annual$384.991 Year
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