Translator

The Translator is Diglot’s signature feature: draft in your stronger language, then refine into English — side by side, in the same editor. Unlike a one-shot translation tool, Diglot keeps your original and your English together, learns your preferred phrasing, and gets faster and more consistent the more you use it.

How to find it

There are several ways to translate:

• Split view — switch the editor to a two-pane layout with your language on one side and English on the other.
• Translate tab — open the Translate tab in the right panel, select text, and translate it inline.
• Selection menu — highlight any text and choose Translate from the floating menu.
• Cowriter — just say “translate this paragraph” in chat.
• As you type — when you type in another language, word translations appear in a dropdown.

Translation is available on every plan. Plans differ in how many words you can translate per month and the quality level you get.

What it does

Select text and Diglot translates it — a single word, a phrase, a sentence, or several paragraphs. You can translate from your native language into English or the other way around. Common phrases translate instantly after the first time, because Diglot remembers them.

Your personal glossary

As you accept translations, you can save the word pairs to your glossary — teaching Diglot how you want specific terms translated. Your glossary always takes priority, so your key terms stay consistent across every document. Each writer has their own glossary.

Detecting your language

Diglot figures out which language you’re translating from automatically. For languages that share an alphabet (like English and Spanish), very short text can be ambiguous — when Diglot isn’t sure, it asks you to confirm with an Override option.

Replacing safely

When you click Replace, Diglot doesn’t silently overwrite your text. Instead it shows a preview: green for the new translation, red strikethrough for the original. It accepts automatically after about 5 seconds, and you can click Reject before then to keep your original. Insert below works the same way, adding the translation as a preview.

Reverse-check

Want to make sure your English kept your meaning? Reverse-check translates your English back into your source language so you can compare. If something looks off, click Discuss this to open Cowriter with the context already loaded, so you can ask why the meanings differ.

Choosing quality per translation

A small quality picker in the Translator panel lets you bump a single translation up or down without changing your default setting. Options above your plan appear grayed out.

Supported language pairs

Your language	To English	From English
Russian	Well-tuned	Well-tuned
Ukrainian	Well-tuned	Well-tuned
Spanish	Well-tuned	Well-tuned
Chinese (Simplified)	Good for everyday writing	Good for everyday writing

The more your language differs from English, the more the side-by-side workflow helps compared to a single-shot translation.

Plans and limits

Translation uses a monthly word allowance. Every way you translate — the panel, inline, the typing dropdown, or Cowriter — draws from the same monthly bucket, which resets on the 1st of each month.

Plan	Words per month
Free	5,000
Spark	50,000
Pro	100,000
Max	2,000,000

Limitations

• Word lookups can miss very specialized vocabulary; Diglot falls back to translating the full sentence when a single word is ambiguous.
• It’s a single-writer editor — no collaborative translation yet.
• Your glossary is personal to you.
• Translating English back into your language works well, but the main strength is your language into English.
• Very short text in same-alphabet languages can be ambiguous; Diglot will ask you to confirm when it isn’t sure.

Common questions

How is this different from a regular translator? One-shot translators give you an answer and forget it. Diglot remembers your translations, so the next one is faster and more consistent — and you keep your original draft visible for reference.

Can I import my own glossary? Not yet — importing a glossary is on our roadmap. For now, your glossary builds up naturally as you accept translations.

Why is the first translation slower than the second? The first time, Diglot translates fresh. After that, it remembers — so repeated or similar phrases come back almost instantly.

What happens to my translations if I delete my account? They’re deleted with your account. Documents you’ve explicitly Certified follow the Authorship Certificate’s retention rules instead.

Why does Replace show a preview instead of just replacing? For your safety. You see exactly what changes before it sticks. There’s a short auto-accept timer, or you can reject to keep your original.

Can I translate from Cowriter chat? Yes. Say “translate this paragraph to English” and Cowriter handles it with the same quality and limits as the panel, choosing word, phrase, or sentence translation automatically.

What does the Discuss this button on reverse-check do? It opens Cowriter with your translation already loaded, so you can ask about any difference between your translation and the back-translation.