Better Translator (Lite & Pro) 1.0 released!

This is the very first stable release of both free and pro versions.

Better Translator aims to be the complete solution for translation needs on Android. Through its simple yet powerful user interface, translations can be accomplished with the minimum of fuss!

  • Supports both Google Translate and Bing Translator engines
  • Auto detect language using either engine or use “Auto” which combines both engines to achieve the most reliable detection
  • Voice recognition (if available)
  • Text-to-speech
  • Reverse translate - for checking the accuracy of a translation
  • Translation history
  • “Starred” translations - your favorite translations easily accessible
  • Language pair history - long-click on button between languages to access recent language pairs

Pro version has all the features plus the following benefits:

  • No ads!
  • Extensive support for SMS messages - one-touch translation and/or auto-translate SMS as it arrives. Optionally append translation to original message

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The main thing we wanted to achieve was a better user-experience than with Google Translate. Here are some of things we think it does better:

1. Text-to-speech support for source text (not just translated text) 2. Bing Translator (we actually find this much better for some languages - for example Chinese.) 3. Language detection combines both Google and Bing to get a more reliable language-detection result 4. When the language cannot be detected, a convenient language selection dialog is displayed 5. Reverse-translate - for checking whether a translation is reasonably likely to be correct 6. When viewing translations in history, far nicer way to view the translation - side-by-side, original language (possibly detected language), target language and translation engine used.

Pro version only: 7. Much better (compared to Google Translate) support for SMS messages. Optionally append original message with translation. Also, optionally append translation as message arrives in Inbox.

Here is what we think Google Translate does better:

a) Google Dictionary for one word translations b) Web Translations - no idea how they do this - would like to know! c) Searching history - how useful is this? d) Better Translate Lite has ads (and doesn’t support SMS translations); Better Translate Pro is not free