Guide
Translate anything you can point at
Plenty of text on a Mac cannot be selected: subtitles, button labels, the error in a dialog, a line in a PDF. Point at it, press ⌥T, and read it in your language.
Do it
- Point at the text. Do not click, do not pause anything.
- Press ⌥T.
- The translation appears beside the pointer, ready to copy.
Where this saves you
- Watching a talk with foreign subtitles. The line you missed is translated while the video runs on.
- An error message you cannot copy. No more retyping it into a search box word by word.
- An app that was never localised. Point at the menu item and find out what it does before clicking it.
- A PDF that refuses to highlight. Scanned pages, protected documents, viewers with their own ideas about selection.
- Learning a language. The translation appears next to the original, in context — which is how words stick.
Good to know
It works over any app, and the words you already had on the clipboard stay where they are.
Jarq asks for the Accessibility permission on the first run — that is what lets it read text outside its own window. If nothing appears, grant it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility and press ⌥T again.
Prefer the shortcut and nothing else? The buttons that appear on a selection can be switched off without touching the shortcut.