MenuBar Translate is a very simple app that lets you have a quick shortcut to Google Translate in your OS X menu bar and integrate it with the OS X "Services" menu. Its main purpose is to allow you to have Google Translate by hand at all times, without needing to open a new browser window.

One click, and you're ready to translate.

You can open the application from your menubar, as well as from OS X contextual service ("Services > Translate in MenuTranslate"):

The app has no tracking at all (well, except the one that Google will do on the Translate instance loaded in the embedded WebView - but nothing by me). Code-wise it might also serve you as a blueprint to implement a embedded webview, with a service to receive text from other contexts.

• cmd + a to select all
• cmd + c to copy
• cmd + v to paste

Get the last binary in the releases section. Unzip the file, and drag&drop to the Applications folder. Ready!

The project just solves a personal need I have: I am Spanish and live abroad (first in The Netherlands, now in Denmark), so often I need to translate texts or words I don't know yet.

If this project is useful for you and you would like to get it improved, feel free to create an issue, or open a PR straight away. It will be more than welcome!

The icon in the menu bar:

The embeded window open:

The Finder service integration

MIT License, available in license.md.