Plae

Plae produces translated text on your Mac without sending anything off the machine, and it works with no internet connection.

It is a macOS menu bar translation app that runs every translation locally, so your text stays on your computer.

You trigger it with a global keyboard shortcut and translate without leaving the app you are working in.

Plae gives you three translation engines to pick from.

Apple Translation is the native option.

Apple Intelligence adds context-aware results.

The third is an independent built-in AI model based on Google's TranslateGemma, which is useful if you want something that does not depend on Apple's own systems.

A full-screen presentation mode lets you show a translation to someone else, such as across a table or a desk.

Translation history keeps past results within reach.

Because it sits in the menu bar and is tied to a shortcut, Plae suits quick, repeated lookups better than long document work.

It is Mac only, so Windows and Linux users are out of luck.