A good alternative to Immersive Translate

What is the same

Both put the translation under each paragraph or show the translation only, translate selected text and input boxes, read text in images, and add bilingual subtitles to YouTube. Both translate PDFs with their layout kept, ebooks, and manga with the translation in the bubbles.

What is different

Blab Translation lets you pick the part of a site to translate, or a part to leave alone, and remembers it for that site. Its image OCR runs on your device. Web translation uses Chrome's built-in translator or your own AI key, and neither needs a Blab account.

Immersive Translate offers more than 20 engines, including DeepL, meeting subtitles for Google Meet, Zoom and Teams, and subtitles on Netflix and other video sites. Its Pro plan is $9.99 a month or $119.88 a year; comic translation and PDF Pro are paid features.

Where Blab Translation falls short

• No DeepL, Google or Microsoft engines, and no meeting translation.
• Subtitles are translated on YouTube and on video players that publish text tracks, not on Netflix-style players.
• Chrome only: no Firefox, Safari or mobile app.
• A much smaller user base, so fewer sites have been tested by readers.