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HoverTranslate - YouTube Subtitle Translator

by Kozii · Education
FeaturedManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Learn languages on YouTube: hover over a subtitle word to see its translation, save it to your word list. Free, no account needed.

Users
4,000
0 in 30 days
Rating
4.8 / 5
−0.02 in 30 days
Ratings
35
+1 in 30 days
Store rank
#15K
#13K among extensions
Version
1.2.0
updated 6 Oct 2026

Users

monthly, 2 years
02,5005,000Jan 2025Dec 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 4,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 2 years
01835Jan 2025Dec 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 35 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About HoverTranslate - YouTube Subtitle Translator

HoverTranslate – a YouTube subtitle translator for learning languages from videos Watching a video with Spanish or Japanese subtitles and hit a word you don't know? Just hover over it, and the translation appears right above the subtitles. The video pauses while you read and plays on as soon as you move the pointer away. No copying words into a translator, no losing the thread – you keep watching and understand more. What HoverTranslate does: • Translates single words and whole phrases. Found an idiom or a set expression? Hold Shift and sweep the pointer across the words. If you'd rather not hold Shift, you can switch that on in the settings. • Builds your personal word list. Click a word, and it's saved together with its translation. Export the list as CSV or JSON to review your new words later. • Works with auto-generated subtitles too – the ones YouTube creates itself – so videos without subtitles from the creator work as well. • Not just on YouTube itself: when a video is embedded in a blog post, an online course or a news article, just hover over a word the same way. • Handles Chinese, Japanese and Thai: even though they're written without spaces between words, you get the translation of one word, not the whole line. • Translates into more than 240 languages and detects the subtitle language on its own. • Blends in: the translation looks just like your YouTube subtitles. Want something different? Pick your own font, color and size. • Fits the way you watch: auto-pause can be turned off, and a click can copy the word or its translation instead of saving it. Translation that understands context Choose Google, Bing or DeepL. With DeepL (you'll need your own free API key), each word is translated in the context of its whole subtitle line, so a word with several meanings gets the one it has there: "bank" in "we sat on the bank of the river" is a riverbank, not a bank. Your key is stored only on your device. Free, with no sign-up HoverTranslate is completely free: no accounts, no subscriptions, no ads. It's open source – the code is on GitHub. Questions and suggestions: hovertranslate@gmail.com Source code: https://github.com/kozii-d/hover-translate Changelog: https://github.com/kozii-d/hover-translate/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md Install HoverTranslate, open any video with subtitles and hover over the first word you don't know. Enjoy watching!

Growth

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30 days0+0.0%+1−0.02
6 months0+0.0%+60.00
1 year+3,000+300.0%+16+0.04

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where HoverTranslate - YouTube Subtitle Translator appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
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hover#73−20
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Version history

17 versions recorded
1.2.06 Oct 2026
1.1.1425 Sep 2026
1.1.1320 Sep 2026
1.1.1224 Aug 2026
1.1.1123 Aug 2026
1.1.103 Mar 2026
1.1.921 Oct 2025
1.1.828 Aug 2025

Details

Category
Education
First seen
10 Jan 2025
Size
576 KB
Languages
de, en, id, vi, tr, es, fr, it
Pricing
Free
Extension ID
jbddomeagbjjdoaehkdffdhifdhnmfic

Permissions and risk

Low riskimpact 1, likelihood 1
Permissions
storage

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