Translate anything you see, write, or say with one hotkey
Trancy Air is a shortcut-driven translator that sits ready on macOS and Windows. In any app: select what you can't read and it's translated; write in your own language and one key swaps it to another; too lazy to type, just talk. It also catches mistakes, polishes wording, reads text aloud and scores your pronunciation.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I've spent the last few years building Trancy, a browser extension for learning languages from YouTube and podcasts. I thought that covered the problem.
Then I kept hitting the same wall myself. A client's message in Slack. An error dialog in a screenshot. A reply I needed to write in English. None of that happens in a browser tab, and my own product couldn't help me.
So I spent two months building Trancy Air. One idea runs through all of it: translation should happen where you already are.
What it does:
⌨️ Translate in Place — type in your language, hit the hotkey, and the text in your input box is replaced with the translation. No copy-paste.
🔍 Select to translate — any word or sentence on screen. Words get an AI definition for that exact context; sentences get grammar breakdown and audio.
⚖️ Compare Engines — run up to 5 translation engines side by side when a sentence matters.
📝 Compose — a window for longer text, with grammar check for the language you're learning, and one-click send back to the input box.
📷 Screenshot OCR — drag a box over anything you can't select.
🎙️ Voice — speak instead of typing, translated in the same breath.
🗣️ Pronunciation Practice — turn any sentence on screen into speaking practice, scored word by word.
💾 Collections — everything you save syncs to Trancy's Learning Center with spaced repetition.
Native on macOS and Windows.
I'd love to hear what breaks and what's missing. I'll be here all day.
About Trancy Air on Product Hunt
“Translate anything you see, write, or say with one hotkey”
Trancy Air launched on Product Hunt on September 8th, 2026 and earned 82 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #22 on the daily leaderboard. Trancy Air is a shortcut-driven translator that sits ready on macOS and Windows. In any app: select what you can't read and it's translated; write in your own language and one key swaps it to another; too lazy to type, just talk. It also catches mistakes, polishes wording, reads text aloud and scores your pronunciation.
On the analytics side, Trancy Air competes within Productivity, Writing and Languages — topics that collectively have 734k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Trancy Air performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Trancy Air?
Trancy Air was hunted by Elidi Martin. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Trancy Air including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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