iTranslate has earned its place on a lot of phones: voice mode for ordering in a restaurant, camera translation for street signs, phrasebooks, and a keyboard that translates inside your messaging apps. Then you get back to your desk with a contract to read or a client email to answer, and a pocket translator starts to feel small.
Lexibird is built for the translating you do at a desk. The biggest differences are quality control and scope: you choose which leading AI model translates your text, and you can translate whole documents, recordings, and screenshots in the same app, with glossaries keeping your terminology consistent.
At a glance
| Lexibird | iTranslate | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Web, macOS and Windows apps, browser extension | Mobile-focused apps and a translation keyboard |
| Text translation | 200+ languages | 100+ languages |
| Translation engine | Choose Claude, GPT, or Gemini models, or let Auto pick | No model choice |
| Dictionary | Lookups, alternative translations, transliteration, spell-check | Lookups, alternative translations, transliteration, verb conjugations |
| Images | Photos, screenshots, and screen-region capture on desktop | Camera and AR mode |
| Audio | Transcribe recordings, dictate, listen with adjustable speed | Voice translation |
| Terminology | Team glossaries | Personal phrasebooks |
| Teams | Shared workspaces, admin roles, single sign-on on Business | Individual use |
What is Lexibird?
Lexibird is an AI translator for the work that happens at a computer: emails, reports, screenshots, and recorded calls. You choose the AI model, pick a formal or informal tone, and keep a dictionary and your team's glossaries in the same app.
What is iTranslate?
iTranslate is a translation app that covers more than 100 languages for text. Its Pro tier adds voice translation, offline translation, camera and AR translation, alternative translations, verb conjugations, dictionary tools, custom phrasebooks, and a keyboard for translating inside other apps. It's popular with travelers and language learners.
1. Choose the AI model for the job
iTranslate keeps things simple: type, get a translation. Lexibird lets you pick between Claude, GPT, and Gemini model families, or leave it on Auto, with premium models on paid plans.
That matters most when wording carries weight. Imagine a support reply in English: "Sorry for the hassle. We've fixed it on our end, so you're good to go." Translated word by word into Spanish or French, it can come out stiff or oddly literal. Lexibird's AI translation keeps the apologetic, relaxed tone and finds a natural equivalent for "good to go". Switch to the formal tone and the same message becomes appropriate for a corporate customer.
2. Documents, not just phrases
iTranslate's features center on text, voice, camera input, and conversations, and file translation isn't part of its core workflow. Much of the content people need translated at work lives in files.
With document translation, you can upload a supplier contract as a PDF, a Word report, a PowerPoint deck, or an Excel sheet and get it back translated with the layout preserved. Send several at once if you need to, with files up to 40 MB each. Files are deleted after 24 hours.
3. Glossaries instead of phrasebooks
iTranslate's phrasebooks help you remember a translation. A glossary helps everyone produce the same one.
Say your company sells a plan called "Starter" that must stay in English everywhere, and your engineers always translate "deployment" into German as "Bereitstellung". With glossaries, you add those preferences once, and each text you translate in Lexibird, whether on the web or on the desktop, sticks to them. Share the glossary across your team workspace so support and marketing stay in sync, or start from a list you already have in a spreadsheet.
4. Built for the computer you work on
iTranslate shines on a phone. Lexibird is designed for the desktop. Picture an export manager with a supplier's spec sheet in one window and an order form in another. The Lexibird app for macOS and Windows stays out of the way until she needs it: copy a line from the spec sheet, press the shortcut, and the translation is waiting. For a label inside foreign-language software that won't copy, she snips that part of the screen instead.
On the web, the Lexibird extension translates text you highlight and can read the result aloud, which helps when you want to hear how a supplier's name or product is pronounced.
5. Audio you can work with
iTranslate's voice mode helps two people understand each other in the moment. Lexibird treats audio as material: upload an interview, a voice note, or a recorded meeting (mp3, m4a, mp4, wav, and more, up to 25 MB) and get a transcript you can translate, quote, and save. Voice dictation and text-to-speech with adjustable speed round it out.
For travel without a connection, iTranslate's offline mode is a genuine strength, and Lexibird doesn't work offline.
Which one should you choose?
If you need a translator on your phone for travel, offline use, or practicing verb conjugations, iTranslate fits that well.
Choose Lexibird if you want:
- Desk-side translations that keep tone and idioms intact, from a model you choose
- Contracts and reports translated as whole files
- A team glossary instead of a personal phrasebook
- Recorded calls turned into transcripts you can translate and save
- A dictionary with transliteration and spell-check beside your translations
Try Lexibird with your next document or support reply.
