Twinread puts the English under each paragraph.

Both languages, or just the translation

Translate the page once, then change the view whenever you like. Nothing is translated again.

• Bilingual view: the translation under each paragraph, the original left as it was
• Translation only: the translation in place of the original
• Show original brings the page back untouched with one click
• Links in the original stay clickable
• Code, forms, editable areas, hidden text and one-word menu labels are left alone. Text already in your language is skipped

Four looks for the translation

• SubtleTea arrived in Europe through Portuguese and Dutch traders in the early seventeenth century.Il tè arrivò in Europa tramite commercianti portoghesi e olandesi all'inizio del diciassettesimo secolo.
• UnderlineTea arrived in Europe through Portuguese and Dutch traders in the early seventeenth century.Il tè arrivò in Europa tramite commercianti portoghesi e olandesi all'inizio del diciassettesimo secolo.
• HighlightTea arrived in Europe through Portuguese and Dutch traders in the early seventeenth century.Il tè arrivò in Europa tramite commercianti portoghesi e olandesi all'inizio del diciassettesimo secolo.
• Dim the originalTea arrived in Europe through Portuguese and Dutch traders in the early seventeenth century.Il tè arrivò in Europa tramite commercianti portoghesi e olandesi all'inizio del diciassettesimo secolo.

One sentence, one paragraph, or the whole page

You do not have to translate everything to read one line.

• Select text on any page and a small card shows the translation, with a copy button
• Alt+Shift+S translates the selection from the keyboard
• Hold Alt over a paragraph to translate only that paragraph
• Alt+A translates the whole page. Visible paragraphs come first, and text that loads as you scroll is picked up

Video subtitles in two languages

The caption line the video shows, with its translation under it, over the video. Where the site provides no captions, there is nothing to translate.

• Works with captions the site provides: plain HTML5 video, and YouTube with captions switched on (the CC button)
• Follows the video into fullscreen. You set the text size, and a chip on the player turns it on and off
• The translation comes from the browser's on-device translator, like everything else. Twinread does not listen to audio
• Free has no daily limit and translates the first 10 minutes of each video. Pro translates the whole videoPro

A PDF reader with the translation beside it

Open the reader from the popup, choose a PDF or drop it on the page, and read it paragraph by paragraph. It reads PDFs that contain text. There is no OCR, so a scan that is only pictures of text has nothing to read.

• Each paragraph with its translation beside it, or under it on a narrow window
• Two-column pages are read left column first. Running headers, footers and page numbers are left out
• A paragraph is translated when you scroll to it
• A PDF you choose is read and translated on your computer. On a tab that shows a PDF, a button opens it in the reader when the site allows the download; otherwise save the file and drop it on the reader
• Free reads the whole document. A paid pass saves it as a bilingual HTML pagePro

Keep the phrases you look up

For reading in a language you are learning. A kept phrase stays with its sentence, ready for review.

• Keep a word or phrase from the selection card, with the sentence it came from and its translation
• A Kept phrases page to search, filter by language pair, edit and delete
• Open at source: the page at the phrase's sentence, or the video at its second
• Free keeps 200 kept phrases; Pro has no limit
• Kept phrases are marked in yellow on every page you read, with the translation on hover
• Export to Anki or CSV, with the sentence on the cardPro

Pick a language pair and go

The toolbar popup sets the languages, the view and the look of the translation.

• Swap the two languages with one button
• The page language is detected for you, and you can set it by hand
• Shortcuts can be remapped in the browser
• Always-translate works on as many sites as you like, free
• Keep phrases with their sentence, marked on every page and reviewed as flashcards; a paid pass exports them to Anki

Your browser translates it, on your computer

Twinread has no translation server. It hands the text to the translator built into Chrome or Edge and puts the result back on the page.

• No account and no API key
• The browser downloads a small language model once for each language pair. After that, translation works without a connection
• Works in Google Chrome 138 or later and Microsoft Edge 148 or later, on desktop. On first use the browser fetches its translation engine, about 20 seconds
• At install it has no access to any website. It gets access to the tab you use it on, and asks for one site at a time if you switch on Always translate