Naver Papago - AI Translator

Translate words, speech and images

Naver Papago is a translation tool for people who need help understanding or communicating in another language. It translates typed text, spoken conversations, handwriting and text captured with the camera. It can also translate websites and documents, and offers offline translation for supported languages. Study tools and a dictionary add ways to review words and meanings.

Useful in different situations

For travel, Papago can help with signs, menus or a face-to-face conversation. For study, it can turn a photographed passage into material to review. Voice and conversation translation are suited to spoken exchanges, while text and website translation can help with reading. The app supports Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French and other languages; check within the app for the language options available for each feature.

Permissions to consider

Some functions need access to parts of your phone. Papago requests microphone access for voice and conversation translation, and camera access for image translation. It may request location to provide information about places in images. Notifications support features such as Papago Mini, offline content downloads and document-processing updates. The listing also describes file and media access for saving photos on older Android versions. You can weigh these requests against the features you plan to use.

Before you choose

NAVER Corp. is the developer. The app is listed in Tools and has a 4.5-star rating from about 179,000 reviews, with more than 10 million installs. Those figures show broad use, but they do not tell you whether a translation will suit a particular context. The supplied details do not specify in-app purchases or how often ads appear, so check the Google Play listing for current information on costs and advertising before deciding.