MenuBar Translate is a very simple app that lets you have a quick shortcut to Google Translate in your OS X menu bar and integrate it with the OS X "Services" menu. Its main purpose is to allow you to have Google Translate by hand at all times, without needing to open a new browser window.
One click, and you're ready to translate.
You can open the application from your menubar, as well as from OS X contextual service ("Services > Translate in MenuTranslate"):
The app has no tracking at all (well, except the one that Google will do on the Translate instance loaded in the embedded WebView - but nothing by me). Code-wise it might also serve you as a blueprint to implement a embedded webview, with a service to receive text from other contexts.
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Get the last binary in the releases section. Unzip the file, and drag&drop to the Applications folder. Ready!
The project just solves a personal need I have: I am Spanish and live abroad (first in The Netherlands, now in Denmark), so often I need to translate texts or words I don't know yet.
If this project is useful for you and you would like to get it improved, feel free to create an issue, or open a PR straight away. It will be more than welcome!
The icon in the menu bar:
The embeded window open:
The Finder service integration
MIT License, available in license.md.