Photos and screenshots
Menus, street signs, receipts, chat screenshots, a page of a textbook, or a whole album at once. The bot reads the text in the picture and translates it, keeping the line breaks.
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Translate any Telegram message, post or photo to English
Forward the message or send a screenshot, tap English, and read it a few seconds later. The bot recognises the original language by itself.
Open in Telegram
Free to start. Nothing to install, no sign-up.
你好！明天我们几点在车站见面？
English
Hi! What time are we meeting at the station tomorrow?
Spanish
¡Hola! ¿A qué hora quedamos mañana en la estación?
Russian
Привет! Во сколько завтра встречаемся на вокзале?
Forward it, get English back
You don’t need to know what language a message is in. Forward it to the bot from any chat, group or channel, tap English, and the translation appears in the same chat. The bot keeps your most-used languages at the top of the list, so English is always one tap away.
The same works for pictures: a screenshot of a post, a photo of a document or a meme with text. The bot reads the text in the image and translates it to English too.
Where it helps most
People use it every day for things like these:
- News and analysis in Russian, Ukrainian or Persian channels.
- Suppliers and shops writing in Chinese, with price lists as pictures.
- Arabic, Turkish or Indonesian group chats after a move or a trip.
- Messages from friends and family in Hindi, Spanish or Portuguese.
Natural English, not word salad
The translation is made by an AI model that reads the whole message first. Slang and idioms are rendered by meaning, names stay names, and numbers, dates and prices are kept as they are. If you need the text in another language afterwards, tap another language under the same message.
How it works
- Open the bot in Telegram and tap Start.
- Send a text, a photo, a screenshot or a file, or forward a message.
- Tap the language you need. The translation arrives in the same chat a few seconds later.
What you can send
Text messages
Type or paste any text, or forward a message from another chat or channel. The bot works out the source language by itself.
¿Dónde está la estación?Where is the station?
PDF, Word and text files
Send a PDF, DOCX or TXT file, scanned pages included. The translation comes back in the chat or as a file you can open anywhere.
MietvertragRental agreement
Summary and downloads
Under every translation there is a button for a short summary of it, and buttons to save it as TXT, DOCX or PDF.
Rapport annuel, 42 pagesThe main points in ten lines
Group chats and any chat
In a group, reply /tr to a message to read it in your language. In any other chat, type @world_translate_bot and your text to send it already translated.
Bis später!See you later!
Free to start
Every month you get free translations. If you need more, you can buy them right in the bot with Telegram Stars. A translation that fails never counts.
Questions
How do I translate a Telegram channel post to English?
Forward the post to the bot and tap English. If the post is mostly a picture, the bot translates the text in the picture as well.
Do I have to tell the bot the original language?
No. It detects the language automatically, even when a message mixes two languages.
Can it translate from English into other languages too?
Yes. Every message can be translated into any of 86 languages; English is just one of the buttons.
Does Telegram have a built-in way to translate to English?
Yes, the Translate button translates text messages into your app language. It does not work on photos and screenshots, and translating whole chats needs Premium. See how Telegram’s translation works.
Try it on the next thing you can’t read
Open the bot, send a picture or a message, pick a language. It takes about ten seconds.
Open in Telegram
Free to start. Nothing to install, no sign-up.