Observed arrival · 2026-11-06
Transparent puts a translation pane over your Mac apps
Transparent is a Mac overlay that translates text beneath it in place, so the underlying app stays as it was.
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$Paid
†Ads
✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
- For
- Mac users reading chats, forms, PDFs, and game text across languages
- Worth noticing
- The browser demo uses prepared translations; the site says live reading happens in the Mac app.
Field notes
The page stages examples as chat, registration forms, research excerpts, PDFs, and game chat, with language pairs including Japanese, Chinese, German, and English. Its browser demo does not perform the reading step: the site says those translations are prepared, while the Mac app reads the real text beneath the overlay. The download is labeled for macOS 15 or later, Intel and Apple silicon, and the page says an activation code is needed.
Observed signals
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