Guide

Show the buttons only when you ask

Jarq offers its buttons whenever you select text. If you select a lot of text for other reasons, that is one popup too many. Switch it off and keep the shortcut.

Select as much as you like. Nothing appears until you press the key.

Switch it off

Open Settings → Text Capture.
Turn off Show buttons on selection.
From then on, select the text and press ⌥T when you want the buttons.

When this is the better setting

You edit for a living. Selecting a sentence to move it is not a request to translate it.
You read with the mouse. Some people select text while reading, the way others use a finger.
You are sharing your screen. No popup appears over the document you are presenting.
You only need it now and then. Translation is occasional; the shortcut is enough.

Good to know

The shortcut keeps working everywhere, including the apps where the buttons never appeared anyway — Figma, terminals, Telegram — and over text you cannot select at all.

The shortcut itself can be changed in the same place, if ⌥T collides with something you already use.

Halfway house: leave the buttons on and give yourself fewer of them. Switching actions off in the row makes the popup smaller without making it disappear.