“Terrible Way too many Ads, things popping up trying to get you to download another app. I thought I downloaded a viruses with the amount of ads that pops up just to get a simple translation”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 495 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-07.
Translate - Translator
ZANKHANA PTE LTDTranslate - Translator is an accurate, fast and free translator app that supp…
4.7 ★45,980 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Translate - Translator is an accurate, fast and free translator app that supports text, voice, and photo translation.
With Translate - Translator in hand, you can easily translate 150+ languages offline, breaking the language barriers when traveling abroad, communicating with foreign friends, and learning new languages.
Try this free translate app now to translate all languages!
Features available to you: ✔ Translate text ✔ Translate voice ✔ Translate photo with text ✔ Offline translation ✔ Translate full-screen text ✔ Quick translation via floating ball ✔ 150+ languages supported ✔ Auto-detect input language ✔ Reverse translate ✔ Save & share translation results
📄 Instant text translation Get translate free across 150+ languages, catering to your needs for travel, business negotiations, and daily study.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 1.3.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-07 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.3.0, updated 2026-08-27.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 1.3.0, scanned 2026-09-14.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
3–9 found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 5 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: AppLovin MAX, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), InMobi, Meta Audience Network and 1 more
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
States a price, or offers a one-time purchase
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
What we saw: Offers a one-time or lifetime purchase: "One-time purchase"
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (2.2% of 495 reviews scanned)
In the app's own text: Countdown-timer purchase pressure
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
What we saw: Deadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Limited-Time Offer"
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“literally any other app won't force you to watch ads. stupid”
“There are too many ads. It's not worth using.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.3.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.