What's new in Mate Translate 7.1.0
Nov 27, 2020
- Are you as excited about Apple Silicon Macs as we are? Mate now natively runs on brand-new M1 processors.
- How about Big Sur? A Big Yes. We neatly optimized Mate for the latest macOS and redesigned the app icon from scratch to reflect its Big Sur'ness. We also smoothened Mate's menu bar and Safari toolbar icons.
- We also squashed a few pesky bugs:
- Mate could randomly open when you woke up your Mac from sleep or turned it on.
- Some entries in Phrasebook could be improperly truncated.
New in Mate Translate 7.0.0 (Jul 24, 2020)
- Mate goes Netflix:
- Can you learn languages while binge-watching favourite Netflix shows? Now you can. We've made a revolutionary integration. Mate pairs with Netflix player in Safari and lets you look up translations in a very unobtrusive way – by clicking on words or selecting sentences.
- This update is all about the Safari extension, so we further improved and fixed some other things, too:
- Toolbar button doesn't do nothing anymore. It translates text that you selected on the page.
- Clicking on flags in the translation tooltip now invokes the language picker.
New in Mate Translate 6.2.0 (Mar 1, 2020)
- If on-page translation in Safari is loading for too long, you can now dismiss it, so it's not cluttering the page forever. Click elsewhere or press Esc to dismiss.
- On-page translation tooltip supports swapping now.
- We localized the app to new languages: Swedish, Turkish, Arabic, Thai, Vietnamese, Dutch, Danish, Polish, Romanian, Italian, Indonesian.
- Previously, if you started the speak out for a long text and minimized the app, it'd keep talking, now it won't.
- Speak out button for the original text was sliding down and up every time you translated something causing misclicks if you wanted to clear the input field. We made that panel more stable – it won't jump around anymore.
- Issue with the wrong Mate's window positioning on multiple displays was fixed. Previously, Mate could pop up on the wrong monitor. Now it won't.
- Safari extension wasn't localized (more precisely, localizations weren't loading properly). Now they load properly.
- No Google and Facebook sign-in methods. We removed them for privacy and maintenance reasons. More here: http://blog.gikken.co/were-removing-third-party-login-methods-from-mate/
New in Mate Translate 6.1.0 (Sep 19, 2019)
- Full-page translation in Safari is here! Just right-click on any page and select "Translate this page". Please note this feature is in beta now. Also, it may not work on certain pages like [Medium.com](http://medium.com) due to Safari's technical limitations.
New in Mate Translate 6.0.2 (Apr 14, 2019)
- Fixed a bug that led to losing recent languages and settings for some users.
New in Mate Translate 6.0.0 (Apr 9, 2019)
- NEW: Mate's Safari extension.
- Translate words by double clicking on them on web pages in Safari. Translate sentences by highlighting them. Enable the extension in Safari preferences for this.
- NEW: China-friendly.
- Mate should work in Mainland China without VPN now. Also, we localized the app into Chinese.
- The speak-out feature now works a few additional languages: Hebrew, Ukrainian and Bulgarian. Learning pronunciation has become easier!
- A couple of pesky bugs were squashed, too. The app should be more stable and slick now.
- Please send us feedback at [email protected]. And, tell a friend about Mate if you like it! It will go a long way in supporting us.
New in Mate Translate 5.1.2 (Dec 31, 2018)
New in Mate Translate 5.1.1 (Aug 28, 2018)
- Bug fixes & performance improvements.
New in Mate Translate 5.1.0 (Aug 19, 2018)
- Fixed a couple of bugs and made some improvements.
New in Mate Translate 5.0.0 (Jul 21, 2018)
- Are you on the dark or light side? Actually, it doesn't matter anymore. Mate supports both now.
- Yes, yes! Meet the all-new Mate dark mode. Just switch on dark mode in your macOS, Mate will auto-switch to it, too.
- Fixed:
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It was crashing on El Capitan sometimes. Now, it isn't.
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Translation layout was collapsing after a couple of consequent language changes. Now, it isn't.
New in Mate Translate 4.0.8 (Apr 10, 2018)
- Fixed a bug with long text translations.
New in Mate Translate 4.0.7 (Mar 20, 2018)
- Memory usage was optimized. Mate should now barely eat any of your precious RAM.
- Shortcuts fixed. Previously, you were able to re-assign a shortcut only after clearing the previous one. We agree it was not very intuitive, our bad. Now, you can just click on the field and re-assign them easily.
- Speaking out works again. For some languages, text-to-speech stopped working some time ago. We fixed it. Now it's working again and even with better speech quality!
- For sharp eyes only: we fixed a few minor UI bugs, too.
- Fixed a bug that caused a crash on El Capitan
New in Mate Translate 4.0.0 (Dec 4, 2017)
- We’ve got a massively Instant Translate update here! Now it’s called Mate. And it’s literally going to become your mate who always has your back with translations, believe us. We made a significant redesign of the app which resulted in vastly improved readability, contrast, and the UX. Every single user-interface element became more perceptible, readable, and understandable.
- Of course, we also added some amazing features you’ve been asking for. The major one is the synchronization of all your translation history and Phrasebook. Mate now synchronizes all your translations so that you can reference them wherever you want. You can install Mate on a variety of devices and Mate will synchronize between all of them.
- Sign up to stay synchronized and up to date with all our future updates!
- We also ditched lots of nasty bugs that some of you were reporting about. For example, Mate now properly works in full-screen apps and when the menu bar is hidden. We’re always trying to improve the app to deliver you the best translation experience ever.
New in Mate Translate 3.1.0 (Aug 23, 2017)
- Bug fixes
- Portuguese TTS now uses Brazil pronunciation
- Instant Translate now works in China
New in Mate Translate 3.0.2 (Jul 31, 2017)
- Bug fixes
- Stability improvements
New in Mate Translate 3.0.1 (Jul 8, 2017)
New in Mate Translate 3.0.0 (Jul 8, 2017)
- Create wordlists for a language pair and fill them with words or phrases that will be available even offline! Good old phrasebook format brought to your Mac.
- A perfect solution if:
- you go abroad: to have a categorized phrasebook with words pre-saved for different situations;
- you visit language classes: to have wordlists for every class at your fingertips with text-to-speech and search;
- you are learning a new language on you own and need to save new words to learn in a very convenient way.
- To start using the phrasebook feature, click on the new book icon in the top right corner on the main screen.
New in Mate Translate 2.0 (Jun 9, 2017)
- Now, you can copy translation in just one click, select languages using Return and swap languages with the Control+S shortcut.
- Also, we now support translations of texts up to 20 000 characters long, that’s 4000 words in average!
New in Mate Translate 1.3.0 (May 12, 2017)
- Improved the quality of the app and fixed a few insignificant bugs.
New in Mate Translate 1.2.1 (Apr 28, 2017)
New in Mate Translate 1.2.0 (Apr 25, 2017)
- UI and UX improvements
- Shortcut field behavior fix
- Transliteration for Arabic language
- Bug fixes
New in Mate Translate 1.1.3 (Feb 26, 2017)
- Fixed Spanish TTS
- Auto-detected language is now shown
New in Mate Translate 1.1.2 (Feb 1, 2017)
- Bug fixes
- Stability improvements
New in Mate Translate 1.1.1 (May 25, 2016)
New in Mate Translate 1.1 (May 18, 2016)
- Insert the clipboard contents instantly with a shortcut
- Support of 13 new languages
- Interface improvements
- Bug fixes
New in Mate Translate 1.0.6 (Mar 22, 2016)
- Select text anywhere and translate it from the context menu
New in Mate Translate 1.0.5 (Mar 16, 2016)
- Bug fixes
- Long texts are shown properly in history
New in Mate Translate 1.0.4 (Jan 6, 2016)
- Autorun bug fix
- Clear input tick
- Stability improvements
New in Mate Translate 1.0.3 (Nov 11, 2015)
- Better stability
- The app is now opened on right-click on the status bar icon
- If there's no internet connection, the status bar icon turns grey
- Spinners added while playback is activated
- Control+s shortcut to swap languages
- Various improvements and bug fixes