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@seoyeon_tyo · 2h
도쿄 3년차인데 아직도 신주쿠역에서는 길을 잃는다. 출구가 200개도 넘는다는 게 말이 됨? 🗼
그래도 결론은 하나: 야마노테선만 붙잡으면 어디든 간다. 오늘의 동선 저장.
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Translate social media screenshots
Translate the screenshot.
A chat screenshot, post, comment or meme with the text inside the image. On a PC, select the area with Ctrl + Shift + T and the translation appears over the original. On a phone, Google Lens does the job.
Download free for WindowsPricingX, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, LinkedIn, WhatsApp Web · it works on the screen
Illustrative animation: the app selects part of the screen — a map, an article, a post, an error log or a game — and shows the translation in the same place as the original.
Ctrl + Shift + Tanchored translation · live
Direct answer
How do you translate a screenshot?
On a phone, open the screenshot in Google Lens or the Google Translate camera and tap Translate: the translated text appears over the image. On a Windows PC, Sincron Screen Tools does the same over any window: press Ctrl + Shift + T, drag over the screenshot and the translation appears in place of each passage, keeping track of who said what. It works with posts, comments, chats and memes, and uses your own OpenAI or OpenRouter key.
The problem
Why the browser translator does not fix your feed
The text lives inside the image
Chat screenshots, news cards and memes have no selectable text. The page translator ignores every one of them.
The thread gets lost on the way
Opening each post in another tab to translate it breaks the sequence and you forget where you stopped.
Passing it on is a chore
Explaining the post to your group takes a screenshot, a crop, a translation and a caption, across four different tools.
How it works
From a screenshot in another language to one you can send
Select the whole post
Grab the full card: author, text, quoted image. Context helps the translation get the tone right.
Read it in your language
The translation covers each passage in the same position, so who said what stays clear. The source language is detected on its own.
Understand what sits behind it
With Ctrl + Shift + S, the summary explains the joke, the local reference or the controversy in a card, when a literal translation is not enough.
Send it already translated
Copy the translation as text or save the translated image as a PNG, with margin and background, to send to your group.
Features
Details that matter in a feed
Text inside images
Chat screenshots, screen captures inside posts and captions burned into pictures all read the same way.
Language detected for you
Korean, Japanese, English or Arabic: you do not pick the source language, you just select the area.
Without leaving the feed
The translation opens on top of the browser. No window switching, no losing your scroll position.
Ready to pass on
The translated image comes out as a PNG with margin, rounded corners and a background, in the format that travels well online.
Comparison
Screenshots in another language: before and after
| What matters | Traditional flow | With Sincron |
|---|---|---|
| Screenshot of a post or comment | Retyping the text into a translator | Select the image, translation in place |
| Long thread or conversation | Translating message by message | One selection covers what is visible |
| Who said what | Easy to lose in detached translations | The translation sits on each bubble |
| Source language | Picking the language for each lookup | Detected on its own |
| Sharing the translation | Screenshot plus pasted text, separately | Saves the translated image as a PNG |
Questions from people who live in the feed
Does it translate text inside the post's image?
Yes. That is exactly the case page translators miss: reading starts from what is on screen, so screenshots, memes and captures all work.
How do I translate a screenshot on my phone?
Use Google Lens or the Google Translate camera: open the screenshot, tap Translate and the text appears translated over the image. Sincron is Windows-only and has no phone version.
Does it work in desktop apps as well as the browser?
It works over any Windows window: a social client, WhatsApp Web, Discord, Telegram, or an emulator running the phone app.
Can it translate a video with burned-in subtitles?
It can, frame by frame: pause on the line and select it. Reading comes from the still image, not from audio, and subtitles that change on their own in real time need another tool, such as Translumo.
Is the post I selected stored somewhere?
No. The selection goes with your key straight to the AI provider you set up (OpenAI or OpenRouter), and Sincron stores nothing.
What if the screenshot mixes several languages?
The source language is detected on its own and the translation comes out in your language. When a conversation mixes many languages, quality depends on your key's model, so check the passages that matter.
Is the translation saved?
Not on its own. To keep it, copy the translation as text or save the translated image as a PNG.
Do I need to paste the screenshot into a website?
No. You select the area on your own screen, with no manual upload to an online translator. The selection goes from your PC straight to your key's provider.
Content last updated in August 2026.
Related reading
Best screenshot translators for social media
Translating the post is half the job. The other half is forwarding the screenshot, readable, to someone who does not speak the language.
Sincron Screen Tools vs Google Lens
Both read text inside images. The difference is what each one can reach, and what is left after the translation.
Translate Korean straight off the screen
Games, webtoons, social posts, online stores. Hangul is the easiest of the three Asian systems — and it still has two traps.
Other use cases
Scientific papers and figures
Charts, tables and captions the PDF will not let you copy.
Technical docs and errors
Docs in Japanese, ERP consoles, stack traces, internal dashboards.
Games, manga and subtitles
Menus, dialogue and speech bubbles that never got a version in your language.
Explore the tools by task
Screen translator for Windows
Read text in images, apps and PDFs translated in place, without copy and paste.
Summarize screen content
Turn charts, tables, and dense interfaces into a short explanation.
Annotate screenshots on Windows
Arrows, highlights and text on a screenshot, with background and shadow. Free and unlimited.
Privacy and cost
Your screen never becomes our database.
Your selection goes straight from your computer to the AI provider you picked — with your key. We do not store the content, we do not train on it and we have no way to read what you translated.
▸Your OpenAI or OpenRouter key stays on your machine, encrypted by Windows. Support will never ask for it.
▸Every translation and summary shows the cost before and after. No surprise invoice at the end of the month.
▸Annotating and capturing work with no key and no internet. No capture is saved unless you save it.
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Translations today
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Cost so far
$0.42
Captured content is never stored. Only the usage counter stays on your computer.
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- Capture, annotate and draw: free, with no limits
- Translate and summarize: 5 a day, with your own OpenAI or OpenRouter key
- No credit card; annotating and capturing work with no internet
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- Unlimited use of every feature
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