Translation

Translation language support

ActionClip offers Apple on-device translation, Microsoft Translator and Youdao, plus your configured AI providers. Availability depends on the selected model and translation direction.

Looking for the app interface language? ActionClip supports 19 interface languages. App language is separate from the translation target. Learn how to change the ActionClip app language.

Translate & Reply in ActionClip 2.3.6

Translate a message, then choose Reply to compose a response and translate it into the other language. Language support is checked before choosing the initial provider. Online providers receive your reply draft when online actions are enabled; Apple translation needs the relevant supported languages installed.

Follow the Translate & Reply steps.

Which translator ActionClip uses

Automatic starts with Microsoft for fewer than 200 characters, Youdao for 200–3,999, and Apple Fast for 4,000 or more. Availability, supported direction and Allow online actions determine the bounded fallback. With online actions off, Automatic and Youdao use only Apple on-device translation.

Youdao supports 16 language/script options: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian, Arabic, Thai, Dutch, Indonesian and Vietnamese. Unsupported languages or rejected directions use Microsoft or Apple when available. A temporary Youdao service error offers retry.

Apple Fast (on-device) and Apple Higher Quality (on-device) stay on your Mac. They use different Apple models and matching language downloads where supported by your macOS version and language pair; availability is checked in the app.

Open Actions → Translate → gear → Offline language packs. Select the Apple strategy you want, review the source → target status, and choose Install where offered. Two-language mode checks both directions. Changing the Apple strategy may require different downloads; installing one strategy does not install every model or language. Unsupported Apple pairs cannot be fixed by downloading a pack.

Apple on-device languages

38 locale choices · 22 language families

These Apple locale choices describe language families; Fast and Higher Quality model availability can differ. The app checks the selected strategy and direction before installation and execution.

Arabic

United Arab Emirates ar-AE

Chinese

Simplified / generic zh, Hong Kong zh-HK, Taiwan / Traditional zh-TW

Danish

da

Dutch

nl

English

Generic en, Australia en-AU, Canada en-CA, United Kingdom en-GB, Ireland en-IE, India en-IN, New Zealand en-NZ, Singapore en-SG, South Africa en-ZA

French

Generic fr, Canada fr-CA

German

Generic de, Switzerland de-CH

Hindi

hi

Indonesian

id

Italian

Generic it, Switzerland it-CH

Japanese

ja

Korean

ko

Norwegian Bokmål

nb

Polish

pl

Portuguese

Brazil / generic pt, Portugal pt-PT

Russian

ru

Spanish

Generic es, Mexico es-MX, United States es-US

Swedish

sv

Thai

th

Turkish

tr

Ukrainian

uk

Vietnamese

vi

Microsoft Translator languages

138 language variants

Microsoft supports the languages below. Search the merged language picker in ActionClip; availability still depends on the provider and direction.

Availability notes