About the service

Translation happens on the device itself. What you type is not sent to any server: not to the Terminal, not to anyone. No account, no tracking, no ads.

The internet is only used to download, once, the models for each language pair, served by the Terminal itself.

In Chrome on a computer, Idioma uses the translator built into the browser. In every other browser, the iPhone included, it uses Bergamot: Firefox's translation engine, running in WebAssembly.

The models link each language to English. Between Portuguese, French and Spanish, the translation changes lines at English, like a transfer.

Once the models are downloaded, Idioma translates without the internet. From the browser's menu, use Install app or Add to Home Screen to keep it as an app; on the iPhone, that also keeps the system from deleting the models.

It's machine translation: good for understanding and being understood, not for official documents. Long texts take a few seconds; translations between two languages other than English are a little slower and less precise.

Translation models and the Bergamot engine: Mozilla Firefox Translations, from the Bergamot Project (University of Edinburgh, Charles University in Prague, University of Sheffield, University of Tartu and Mozilla; funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme).

Distributed unmodified under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

• License text (MPL 2.0)
• Bergamot source code
• Model registry