# thedaviddelta/lingva-translate

Alternative front-end for Google Translate

Repository: https://github.com/thedaviddelta/lingva-translate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lingva-translate
Homepage: https://lingva.thedaviddelta.com
Language: TypeScript
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2023-08-01T10:39:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2003, "days_push": 1128, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1840, forks 174 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:43.095704+00:00)

## What it is
Lingva Translate is a free and open-source alternative front-end for Google Translate that supports over a hundred languages. It scrapes Google Translate without accessing any Google services directly, preventing tracking, and can be self-hosted as a Next.js application.

## Use cases
- translate text without being tracked by google
- self-host a private google translate frontend
- use google translate without ads or tracking
- deploy an open-source translation web app
- access google translate translations via a clean interface
- avoid google services while translating text

## When to choose
- you need translation without Google tracking or ads
- you want to self-host a privacy-respecting translator
- you need a free alternative front-end for Google Translate with many languages

## When to avoid
- you need official Google Translate API features or guarantees
- you require translation quality beyond what Google Translate scraping provides
- you need a maintained product with recent releases (last release was 2023)

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, http-server, ssr, graphql, frontend-framework, ui-components, e2e-testing
- domain: web-development, privacy, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, browser
- tags: google-translate, translation, privacy-frontend, nextjs, react, chakra-ui, natural-language-processing, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- thedaviddelta/lingva-translate (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:43.095704+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 2026-08-30T03:18:05.752757+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thedaviddelta/lingva-translate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:43.095704+00:00, sha 835e689c84ba)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.