# crow-translate/crow-translate

A simple and lightweight translator that allows you to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex Bing, LibreTranslate and Lingva.

Repository: https://github.com/crow-translate/crow-translate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/crow-translate
Homepage: https://crow-translate.github.io/
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: qt5, windows, linux, google, yandex, bing, translator, dbus-api, ocr, libretranslate, lingva
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-07-04T15:06:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3113, "days_push": 790, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1978, forks 177 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:01.542758+00:00)

## What it is
Crow Translate is a lightweight C++/Qt desktop translator that translates and speaks text using Google, Yandex, Bing, LibreTranslate, and Lingva APIs. It offers a GUI with global keyboard shortcuts, OCR-based screen translation, a rich CLI, and a D-Bus API, and has migrated under the KDE umbrella.

## Use cases
- translate selected text with a hotkey
- translate text from screenshots via OCR
- speak translated text aloud
- translate text from the command line
- use a self-hosted LibreTranslate instance
- bind translation actions to global shortcuts on Linux

## When to avoid
- you need a browser-based or mobile translation app
- you require macOS support
- you want a full translation memory or CAT tool

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: ocr, cli, gui, speech-recognition
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: translator, qt5, text-to-speech, dbus-api, screen-translation, libretranslate, lingva, kde, localization, natural-language-processing, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- crow-translate/crow-translate (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.542758+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:04:44.204592+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/crow-translate/crow-translate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.542758+00:00, sha 4fe0cfe1bdf4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.