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v0.6.0

Latest

Permissions, Offline Dictionary, and Help and Support

New

  • Added the ECDICT offline dictionary extension, with support for downloading or importing dictionary files.
  • Added a Permissions page. On Windows, choose normal startup or run FloatTranslate as administrator to improve text capture and Floating Capsule availability in apps running as administrator.
  • Added a Help and support button to the main window title bar for opening the Help Center in your browser.
  • Added a Hide history navigation option to Translation settings for hiding the previous and next history buttons in the translation panel.

Improved

  • Tencent Cloud text-to-speech now supports optional streaming playback, allowing playback to begin while audio is generated.
  • Improved failure messages and recovery handling for translation, OCR, extensions, permissions, and other operations.
  • Improved first-run guidance with progress for shortcut setup and hands-on translation tasks.

v0.5.1

Instant Selection Translation and Pro Purchases

New

  • Added Instant Selection Translation. Select text to translate it automatically in the Translation Panel or Mini Translation Panel.
  • Pro is now available for purchase.

Improved

  • Improved result retention and error messages when a translation is cancelled, interrupted, or a service fails.
  • Improved the Cursor Word Capture experience.
  • Improved the overall desktop experience and stability.

v0.5.0

Selection Capture, Floating Capsule, and Quick Actions

New

  • Added Clipboard Translation, Silent Selection Translation, Image OCR, and Clipboard OCR.
  • Added the Tencent Cloud extension. Configure a single set of credentials to access four capabilities: translation, OCR, language detection, and text-to-speech.
  • Cursor Word Capture now supports more languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.
  • AI translation now offers thinking levels such as Off, Low, Medium, and High when supported by the selected model.
  • The OCR panel now includes a quick-start page for starting recognition from a screenshot, imported image, dropped image, or pasted image.
  • The Windows installer now supports choosing a custom installation directory.

Improved

  • Improved the success rate of capturing selected text for translation.
  • Improved the success rate of Floating Capsule display.
  • Improved dynamic placeholder previews in extension details.
  • System workflows can now be edited directly and restored to their default version.
  • The tray menu can directly run Clipboard Translation, Screenshot Translation, Screenshot OCR, Silent Screenshot OCR, Image OCR, and Clipboard OCR, and quickly open the translation and OCR panels.
  • Incremental Translation can keep appending clipboard or selected text.
  • Background tasks such as Silent Screenshot OCR, Silent Selection Translation, and Silent Input Field Translation now show execution status.
  • Improved shortcut conflict status messages.
  • Improved the Cursor Word Capture algorithm for better accuracy.

Fixed

  • Improved window border rendering for the main, translation, and OCR panels on Windows 10.

v0.4.0

Workflows and Local Agents

New

  • Added Local Agent Translator, which uses Codex or Claude Code installed and signed in on this computer, without requiring an API key in FloatTranslate.
  • OCR steps in workflows can now choose their own recognition service and language, or continue using the global settings.

Improved

  • Refreshed the Workflows page so you can quickly see triggers and recent run status, search workflows, and start from a blank workflow or template.
  • Unified trigger configuration. On Windows, you can now double-press Alt, Ctrl, Shift, or Win to trigger an action, with clearer conflict warnings.
  • Translation and OCR history now share one History page, with easier date filtering, search, bulk management, and storage cleanup.
  • Improved desktop memory use when windows are hidden and when opening OCR and other auxiliary pages.
  • Refined streaming result rendering for concurrent translation services and long-form output.

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where some local data could remain after selecting Delete app data during uninstall.
  • Improved the reliability of app startup, launch at login, tray behavior, and floating windows.

v0.3.0

New

  • Floating Capsule appears beside selected text and can run translation, polishing, summarization, dictionary lookup, speech, copy, link, and system actions directly.
  • AI Translator supports 30+ AI providers, including OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), DeepSeek, Alibaba Cloud (Qwen), Moonshot AI (Kimi), Zhipu AI (GLM), OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, Ollama, and LM Studio, and provides presets for translation, polishing, rewriting, summarization, explanation, and technical translation.
  • Includes several built-in official extensions that are available now, such as AI Translator, Google Translate, DeepL, Bing Translate, MyMemory, Maimemo, Web Search, Eudic, Shanbay, Youdao Dict, and Web Speech TTS for translation, dictionaries, vocabulary, web search, and speech.
  • OCR supports screenshot recognition, image import, clipboard images, multi-image mode, recognition history, QR code detection, and common text cleanup for images, screenshots, and screen text that cannot be copied.
  • Clipboard monitoring can automatically translate text copied from other apps, with a configurable maximum captured text length.
  • The Statistics page shows translation counts, word counts, character counts, capability usage trends, source and target language distribution, and hourly activity.
  • Storage management in Settings shows translation history, OCR history, and service storage usage, with cleanup for data you no longer need.
  • Translation and lookup results support history, search, filtering, reuse, and saving, so frequently used words and phrases can be reviewed and managed in one place.
  • The account page supports signing in on desktop, managing devices, starting a trial, redeeming codes, and upgrading when needed.
  • Feedback and issue reports support optional diagnostics and image attachments.
  • The desktop app supports five interface languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
  • First-run setup helps new users finish basic desktop configuration.

Improved

  • The Extensions page supports browsing, configuring, and managing official extensions and services.

v0.2.0

Translation Extensions

New

  • Added the Bing Translate translation extension.

Improved

  • Improved Floating Capsule reliability after text selection.
  • Improved Windows 10 selection and window behavior compatibility.

v0.1.1

Workflow and OCR Polish

Improved

  • Improved cursor-based OCR capture to reduce screenshot friction.
  • Refined workflow setup previews for testing translation configurations.
  • Polished the translation panel, shortcuts, and selected-text flow.

v0.1.0

Initial Preview

New

  • Floating Capsule: appears beside the cursor after text selection.
  • Workflows: chain translation, OCR, and text processing capabilities into reusable steps.
  • Screenshot OCR: capture screen text and send it into translation.
  • Extension system: add engines and custom capabilities through the TypeScript API.