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Readable
✓ verifiedPaid
Instant English-to-Japanese PDF translation preserving layout; useful focused tool.
87K visits/mo177 saves
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NoteAI
✓ verifiedFreemium
An AI summarizer that turns YouTube, video, audio, PDFs and webpages into notes, transcripts, translations and mind maps.
1.3M visits/mo
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AITranslator.com
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free AI translator by Tomedes that compares 22 models to pick a consensus translation, with paid Pro for unlimited use.
154K visits/mo1.6K saves
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RewriteBar
✓ verifiedFree trial
macOS menu-bar AI writing assistant that fixes grammar, translates, and runs custom text-rewriting actions in any app via keyboard shortcut.
15K visits/mo37K saves
Pricing
Pro Standard (Yearly): 800 /month
Pro Premium (Yearly): 4,000 /month
for Business: Contact for Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Standard: $29 one-time (1 device, 35,000 one-time credits)
Pro: $59 one-time (3 devices, 3,000,000 credits/month, includes 1-year AI Gateway subscription)
Extra Device add-on: $19 one-time
RewriteBar Gateway: $40/year (53 AI models, 3,000,000 credits/month)
Free trial available
Human in the Loop: $15 per million characters
Adaptive: $15 per million characters
Localization Teams: $100 per million characters
Individual Translator: $25 per month
Core features
- ✦Instant PDF translation
- ✦Layout preservation
- ✦Side-by-side English and Japanese viewing
- ✦Chrome extension for one-click translation
- ✦Translation without DeepL subscription (optional)
- ✦YouTube summarization and transcripts
- ✦Video and audio summarization
- ✦PDF and webpage summarization
- ✦Mind map generation
- ✦Translation and knowledge extraction
- ✦Export to MP3, MP4 or structured notes
- ✦SMART consensus across 22 AI models/LLMs
- ✦Text and document translation with layout retention
- ✦Per-word quality scores and side-by-side comparison
- ✦Optional human verification and glossary/tone control
- ✦API access on Pro and Tailored plans
- ✦Grammar and spelling correction triggered from any app
- ✦Translation across 500+ languages
- ✦Custom, chainable AI actions (e.g., summarize, humanize, fix JSON)
- ✦PopClip integration and global keyboard shortcuts
- ✦Support for local AI models (Ollama, LM Studio, Apple Intelligence)
- ✦One-time license options instead of mandatory subscription
- ✦Side-by-side comparison of rewritten vs. original text
- ✦Dynamic adaptation for real-time learning
- ✦Human-in-the-loop innovation for continuous improvement
- ✦Document-level translation
- ✦Support for 200 languages
- ✦Simple API for integration
- ✦Quality estimation
- ✦Language identification
Use cases
- →Translating English research papers into Japanese
- →Translating technical specifications from English to Japanese
- →Quickly understanding English documents in Japanese
- →Summarizing YouTube lectures for study
- →Extracting notes from PDFs and articles
- →Turning long content into mind maps
- →Get trusted translations without relying on a single engine
- →Translate business and marketing content at scale
- →Integrate translation into apps via API
- →Mac users wanting quick grammar and tone fixes without leaving their app
- →Multilingual users translating text inline while writing
- →Developers wanting one-click JSON error fixing or ASCII art generation
- →Privacy-conscious users preferring local AI models over cloud APIs
- →Improving translation quality for enterprises
- →Boosting productivity for translators
- →Adapting to specific terminology and context
- →Integrating machine translation into existing workflows
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