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https://github.com/cheerlessDreamer/kwiktrans

A menubar app for macOS that provides quick translations of short snippets of text into a desired language.
https://github.com/cheerlessDreamer/kwiktrans

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A menubar app for macOS that provides quick translations of short snippets of text into a desired language.

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# KwikTrans

> A menubar app for macOS that provides quick translations of short snippets of text into a desired language.

![Screenshot from KwikTrans](https://github.com/cheerlessDreamer/kwiktrans/blob/1b115746f6655c79f6009ac25349b020d76dd389/kwiktransScreenshot.png)

*I'm a Brit living in Sweden and although I'm comfortable reading Swedish, occasionally a new word or phrase crops up that I can't understand. **Enter KwikTrans!***

Previously, I would manually copy and paste the text into Google Translate, but it always felt cumbersome to fire up a whole browser session just to translate a single word or idiom. KwikTrans takes the contents of the clipboard and translates the text much faster than manually using Google Translate!

As an interesting beginners test for myself, I also implemented a 'Random' function, where you can guess the correct language out of a choice of three, just for fun.