Crow Translate

Crow Translate 4.1.0

Efficient Translation Tool with Unique Features

  • By KDE e.V.
  • Open Source
  • Updated Aug 26, 2026
Download for Windows

About Crow Translate

Crow Translate is a simple and lightweight translator written in C++ / Qt that allows you to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex, Bing, LibreTranslate and Lingva translate API.

What's new in 4.1.0

Changelog:

  • Translate through any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with the new LocalAI backend.
  • Recognize text in images with a vision model, as an alternative OCR engine to Tesseract.
  • Open, drop or paste an image to recognize text from it.
  • Show what is currently running, and what failed, in a status strip.
  • Use an API key with LibreTranslate, either through Mozhi or directly.
  • Report a bug from the tray menu.
  • Fix the capture area on Windows with multiple monitors at different scaling.
  • Fix the missing application icon on Windows and macOS.
  • Fix starting up again after an unclean shutdown.
  • Fix the translate selection shortcut on Wayland.
  • Name icon-only buttons for screen readers, and make error messages translatable.

Full release notes »

Technical details

PublisherKDE e.V.
AuthorHennadii Chernyshchyk
Version4.1.0
Release date2026-08-26
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Installer typenullsoft
Architecturex64
Package IDKDE.CrowTranslate

Links & install command

Install Crow Translate from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=KDE.CrowTranslate -e

bingdictionaryenglishgooglelibretranslatelingvarussiantranslatetranslationtranslatoryandex

Older versions

  • 3.0.0
  • 2.11.1
  • 2.11.0
  • 2.10.10
  • 2.10.8
  • 2.10.7
  • 2.10.6
  • 2.10.5
  • 2.10.4

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