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Translate · Android, iPhone and the web

From your language and back. Straight into your cards.

Don’t know how to say something? Type it in your own language to get a translation into the language you’re learning. Come across an unfamiliar word? Type it as it is to get a translation into your own language. Either way, pick a translation and save it to your inbox, ready to become a flashcard.

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repeat.cards has a Translate button in the corner of the app’s screens. Press it and type a word or phrase in any of your languages. The app identifies the language and offers several translations to choose from. Save your choice to the inbox, where you can later turn it into a flashcard. If you type in your own language, the translation becomes the word to learn. It works on Android, iPhone and the web.

Translate your first word

How does Translate work?

Most words worth learning do not arrive in a book or a video. They come up in a conversation, in a shop, in your own head while you try to say something. Translate is for those: one button, wherever you are in the app, and the word is saved before you forget it.

  1. Press Translate. The round button sits in the bottom-right corner. The sheet opens over the screen you are on, and that screen stays as it was.
  2. Type a word or a phrase. In the language you’re learning or in your own, whichever comes to mind. The app identifies the language and translates your text into the other language of your deck.
  3. Pick a translation and save it. Several translations come back; choose the one you mean and press Save to inbox. Undo is there for a few seconds if you change your mind.
The Translate sheet on a phone: a typed word, the languages it is translated from and into, and several translations to choose from
Type in either language, choose a translation, save it to the inbox

One word, from your head to a card

Here’s the full journey of a word you wanted to say but didn’t know how to say.

Press Translate

What happens
The sheet opens over the screen you are on

Type the word in your own language

What happens
The app recognises the language and translates it into the one you learn

Choose one of the translations

What happens
It becomes the word to learn, with what you typed as its translation

Press Save to inbox

What happens
The word waits in the inbox, and the box is ready for the next one

Open the inbox later

What happens
Turn the word into a card in the deck for that language

What Translate does for you

  • No language to pick first. Type in any language of your decks and the app works out which one it is. If it guesses wrong, choose the language under From and it translates again.
  • Both directions. Type a word in the language you learn to find out what it means, or in your own to find out how to say it. Either way the card is saved the right way round: the word in the language you learn, the translation in yours.
  • Several translations, your choice. A word rarely has one translation. Pick the one you mean; for a word in the language you learn you can keep more than one. A phrase of up to 500 characters is translated as a whole.
  • On every screen. The button waits in the corner of the app, and Translate is also on the Capture screen. Training, the reader and the video player have their own tap-to-translate, so the button steps aside there.

What it costs

Translating uses AI and runs on coins, like the other AI features; saving a word to the inbox and turning it into a card cost nothing. Prices are on the pricing page.

Translate FAQ

Which languages can I translate?
You can translate between the languages of your decks — the languages you’re learning and your own. Each deck defines a language pair. For example, a deck for learning Spanish from English lets you type in either Spanish or English. If the text is in a language outside your decks, the sheet asks you to select its language. repeat.cards supports more than 100 languages.
What happens if I type in my own language?
The app translates it into the language you learn, and the translation you choose becomes the word on the card, with what you typed as its translation. Only one translation can be chosen then, because two words on the front of one card would read as one.
Where is the Translate button?
In the bottom-right corner of the app’s screens, on Android, iPhone and the web, once you are signed in. It is not shown during training, in the book reader or in the video player, which translate a word you tap on their own, and it steps aside while a sheet or a dialog is open.
Can I hide the button?
Yes. Switch the Translate button off in the app’s settings. The switch is kept on that device only, so you can keep the button on the website and hide it on your phone. Translate is still on the Capture screen.
Does Translate cost anything?
Translating uses AI, which runs on coins: every account starts with some, more come in one-off packs, or you can use your own OpenAI or Google key. Saving a word to the inbox, undoing a save and turning a word into a card cost nothing.

Keep the word you just needed.

Create an account and a deck for the language you learn, and every word you look up can become a flashcard. Free to start, no credit card.

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Either language · Several translations · Android, iPhone and the web

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