Tools that work offline, on your own device — 中文

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Translate Peek

Live

Lets Mac users translate on-screen text like manga or menus in place instead of retyping it into a separate translator, fully offline.

Works offline

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What's different: strong Japanese, Korean, and Chinese support; live mode keeps translating a changing region in real time

Watched for 1 day · last checked 1d ago

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Trace

Live

A private life journal for memories, people, and plans

Works offlineNo ads

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How it works: A private life journal combining journals, to-dos, goals, important people, and dates in one timeline, capturing photos, voice, places, and tags, with an On This Day view.
What's different: Works fully offline or syncs only through the user's own private iCloud, with no ads, tracking, public profile, or content server.
Pricing: 24 of the themes are free.
Best for: People who want a private journal that doesn't run through a company's own cloud servers.

Watched for 9 days · last checked 3d ago

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An offline translation and survival-guide app for foreign travelers in China — menu photo translation, speech/text translation, transit and payment guidance — instead of needing a VPN or a fluent local guide.

Works offlineNo ads

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How it works: Translates Chinese menus into actual dish names, ingredients, allergens and spice levels from a photo, translates speech or text into 16+ languages, and provides an offline guide covering WeChat Pay, SIM cards and bullet trains from official government sources, with one-tap links into Amap, Baidu Maps or Google Maps.
What's different: Menu translation gives real dish descriptions instead of literal names, and works offline without a VPN.
Pricing: Free trial, no ads.
Best for: Foreign travelers navigating menus, transit and payments in China without a VPN or local guide.

Watched for 9 days · last checked 3d ago

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Mispher

Live

An on-device dictation, rewriting, translation and local AI agent tool for Apple Silicon Macs - free and open-source (MIT), with no cloud, no accounts, and MCP support.

FreeWorks offlineOpen source

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How it works: Runs on-device dictation, rewriting, and translation using multiple transcription models (Parakeet, CTC, Nemotron, Qwen3-ASR), plus a local agent that plans and calls tools like Apple Notes, clipboard, files, and MCP.
What's different: Fully local processing with no cloud and no accounts, and lets you swap or customize any underlying model or prompt.
Pricing: Free and open-source (MIT license).
Best for: Apple Silicon Mac users who want dictation and an AI agent without sending data to the cloud.
Watch out: Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 26; some listed models (Gemma 4, Qwen3.6, Ornith 1.0) are described as coming next, not yet available.

Watched for 17 days · last checked 11d ago

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Purupuru Maker

Live

Turns a still image into a wobbly animated GIF or video by letting you paint which area should move, entirely in your browser without uploading the image.

Works offlineCan export my data

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How it works: Paint the area to animate, pick a motion style, export as GIF/MP4/WebM
What's different: Runs fully locally, no image upload

Watched for 5 days · last checked 4d ago

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ToText - Image to Text OCR

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An offline OCR app that extracts text from images on-device across dozens of languages, with no internet connection required and nothing sent to the cloud.

Works offline

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How it works: An offline OCR app that extracts text from images entirely on-device, supporting dozens of languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, and more.
What's different: Works fully offline with no internet connection required, so nothing leaves the device.
Best for: People who need to extract text from images in many languages without sending images to the cloud.

Watched for 18 days · last checked 9d ago

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Inktyper

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A Mac hold-to-talk voice typing tool that transcribes on-device for privacy.

Domain registered 4 months ago

FreeWorks offlineNo subscription

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How it works: Hold Option, speak, release, and text appears at the cursor; SenseVoice transcription runs on-device for free, offline, private use, or bring your own OpenAI Whisper or SiliconFlow key for cloud accuracy.
What's different: Strong on mixed Chinese-English transcription.
Pricing: Free to start; one-time Pro purchase plus optional AI Plus.
Watch out: Requires macOS 14.6 or later.

Watched for 9 days · last checked 6d ago

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AI TelePrompter Pro

Offline AI teleprompter that auto-scrolls a script by listening to your voice, with English/Chinese support.

Works offline

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How it works: Uses on-device voice recognition to auto-scroll a teleprompter script as you speak, with no cloud upload or internet required, plus adjustable text size/speed, reading guide, and mirror modes.
What's different: Supports English and Simplified Chinese scripts.
Best for: Creators, presenters, streamers, and broadcasters needing an offline teleprompter.

Watched for 3 days · last checked 1d ago

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