# Babylon Reviews **Vendor:** Babylon Software Ltd. **Category:** [Machine Translation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/machine-translation) **Average Rating:** 3.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 11 ## About Babylon Babylon desktop translator is available as a free download and provides translations in over 77 languages. The translator works both online and offline, delivering instant results without ever having to change applications. With just the simple click of a mouse, your requested translation will instantly appear. Babylon's unique desktop tool was developed using OCR (Optical Character Recognition), an innovative technology that enables the system to identify both the term you want to translate as well as the text surrounding it. What this means, is that the software is able to provide contextual translations with an unmatched level of accuracy. Feature upgrades can be added on to your desktop tool for enhanced translation results. The most popular upgrades are full text translation and the new document translation feature, which provides users with accurate file translations while retaining the original document's formatting. Additional add-ons include Human Voice pronunciation and premium dictionaries from world renowned publishers . Human voice offers clear and accurate pronunciation by reading the text aloud to you. Premium dictionary add-ons, available in the languages and brands of your choice, enrich your translation results by providing you with definitions from your preferred publishing house. ## Babylon Reviews ### 1. Great tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Javier A. | Coordinador de Comunicaciones y Marketing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Babylon?** I've been using Babylon for a couple of years now, and I can just say it is an excellent tool for work and academic translation duties. **What do you dislike about Babylon?** Nothing to dislike! It's an efficient tool and hope it keeps improving in the future. **What problems is Babylon solving and how is that benefiting you?** It saves a lot of time for work and academic translations. ### 2. Reliable and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick D. | Control Systems Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Babylon?** Excellent translations. The software simple works well with no fussing around **What do you dislike about Babylon?** There's not really any negatives about the software, it does exactly what it's supposed to do **What problems is Babylon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dealing with clients around the world with requirements to address user interfacing it is excellent to know that we are writing the correct details for users ### 3. A good tool for translate and business foreign languages **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Olderico C. | ceo, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Babylon?** Babylon is a good toolfor translate and business foreign languages, easy to use and with good customer support **What do you dislike about Babylon?** don't like the UX must to be adapted to the new competitors **What problems is Babylon solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used a lot in past and we solved the problem to translate documents and to manage business documents, but now we left the tool because we use google translate and chatgpt ### 4. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Babylon?** If I need to translate a word it's easy to switch it from english to another language and helps to make sure I've got it spelled and used correctly. **What do you dislike about Babylon?** It's possible to pick the wrong translation if you're not very familiar with the language and than your sentence will be difficult to follow **What problems is Babylon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Translate instructions or sayings in documents to make sure I fully understand. ### 5. Desktop translator with double clicked on a word **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fatih A. | Sap Business Warehouse Business Intelligence Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Babylon?** double clicked translation where ever all windows . **What do you dislike about Babylon?** double clicked translation not work last installation **What problems is Babylon solving and how is that benefiting you?** translate word and sentence for me. ### 6. Babylon is the one of best translate applecation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Xin S. | Architect, Human Resources, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Babylon?** It supports multi-languages. Pick word on the screen. Just use hotkey combine right mouse click. **What do you dislike about Babylon?** After a few years, it becomes larger and larger. **What problems is Babylon solving and how is that benefiting you?** When you opened the webpage, I didn't know what language webpage you would meet. So the Babylon Application is always there to help you. ### 7. A trusted workhorse **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert R. | Naturalist & Editorial Illustrator / Ilustrador Editorial & Naturalista, Translation and Localization, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2018 **What do you like best about Babylon?** This review is for the standalone version 7.x I use: It's always there when you need it, it's quite pleasingly customisable (app and background colors, font size for readibility, window size and placement on your screen, and even transparency, if you must...), plus you can search and add free specific dictionaries that people have put together online. It has a small footprint and remains as you installed it. It can even be reinstalled over the years with no fuss as all software used to be, amazing! It also shows defitinions from wikipedia (when they exist), which is quite handy, too. If you're a translator that does not care for the new stuff and if you can still find it, purchase version 7.x so you can keep it and forget newer versions with the online integration options, etc. I have not checked its new versions, but it seems to translate up to 13 languages and works with all major OSs. You can use its default shortcut key (F10) to call it up, say within Microsoft Word, though this does not always work if other apps you have conflict with it. As a real plus it can also convert any currency, measurement or time values to your local. It's a handy swiss-army tool for a translator for quick searches. For technical translations you can add to its power with the free area-specific dictionaries and glossaries you can plug-in to it, as I mentioned above. It also has word-to-speech that you use to pronounce a given word, though it is, of course, computer speech. **What do you dislike about Babylon?** As an old workhorse it has some bugs... especially if you stay with the older version 9 (as I have) and have not allowed any of the updates that "integrate" you online and so on (and spoil what was good, IMHO) that I really dislike and, for my use as a translator, is an annoying way to use such a tool. I like to have it siting in my tray to be called up when needed and that's all! That said, these are the bugs which were never corrected since way back the app moved on to other more modern versions of itself: It often insists on showing dictionary definitions you never chose and can't disable, such as translations vietnamese and hebrew, you get the picture....! So, in this sense, for some reason it does not stick to the language pair you've chosen upon installation or later. The search field is bugged when it comes to hitting the back key to retype a word, say to change spelling etc., it just does not work. After a while you'll get used to not trying to and just select and retype the entire word again. When searching for a word or expression, it sometimes does not turn up any results even for a rather common term or expression used in the corporate world, for instance.. If one could count on updates for version 7.x that did not spoil or change the app, that would be wonderful, however I do not risk that. Integration with the likes of Linguee and Google Translate in its results panel and with style/grammar apps such as Whitesmoke would also be great. Tools for translators who work 'in the cloud' or with teamwork or machine translation at a distance are probably available in newer versions, though thse are not necessary if you work in your own way or just want a handy tool for such. Some anti-virus and tuneup software (like system mechanic and avg) don´t like babylon for some reason and though they do not interfere with its workings, they do always offer to uninstall it or rate its as a 'poor' (2 star) app, drawing from their user base, but these notions are arguable and don't apply to everyone's use of it. **Recommendations to others considering Babylon:** If you're a "normal" user, go for the standalone 7.x version which is old but handy. If not, google the new versions and see if they fit your bill. **What problems is Babylon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Translation equivalents on the fly, working alongside my word processor. ### 8. Paid version doesn't work on Mac and their support just ignore you **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kielse N. | Development Team Manager, Computer Games, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Babylon?** In the past I used this software on windows and it was great. It worked well and it helped me when I was learning a new language. That was many years ago and looks like the company has changed a lot, because my experience today isn't good at all. **What do you dislike about Babylon?** Nowadays the software doesn't work on Mac, despite they sell that it works. Their support doesn't reply my messages and worst: their customer service sent their tech support messages that also were ignored :/ **Recommendations to others considering Babylon:** Don't buy it. It doesn't work on Mac and they wont give any support. We asked refund and they ignore it as well. **What problems is Babylon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Unfortunately none. I was expecting to use this software to help me learn a new language (French), but the app doesn't work on many different macbooks Pro that I tried with different Mac OS versions. **Official Response from Ran Eyal:** > Dear Kielse N. Please accept our apology for any inconvenience caused to you by this matter. We have gone through a reorganization process in our support department and we believe that our support has improved since. I believe that our support team have contacted you in regards to the matter. Please check your inbox for an email from Babylon-Software Support. I hope that we will be able to resolve the issue you are facing ASAP. Best Regards, Babylon-Software ### 9. An average translation software **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Babylon?** Good quality of translations, doesn't change the context, auto-detection of language, has a free version and most importantly has a big range of languages. **What do you dislike about Babylon?** Price is somewhat high, unresponsive customer service. It gets detected by anti-malware software as a threat also its toolbar is considered adware. **Recommendations to others considering Babylon:** It's an average translation software so in case you want a good one you could give it a try but I recommend you first check if they handled and fixed their customer service issues **What problems is Babylon solving and how is that benefiting you?** I personally use it to translate words and phrases for various articles and proposals either for work or free reading and having it always in my desktop saved me a lot of time instead of having to open a translator using the browser ### 10. All the translation I need in one place **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Babylon?** It has a very accurate translation as it doesn't change the context as much as some of its counterparts. has a variety of languages to translate from and to. it gets very well integrated with the browser so that I can just translate any word I want with one click. **What do you dislike about Babylon?** Despite how amazing the software is, its support is not that great though. **Recommendations to others considering Babylon:** babylon will save you a lot of time and effort if you use language translation on daily basis or frequently **What problems is Babylon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Translating from one language to another has always required using the default software which was no longer efficient but after using babylon, the translation process became much more efficient and saved us a lot of time. ### 11. Babylon works **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Babylon?** The use of babylon is crucial in my interpreting and translation jobs. **What do you dislike about Babylon?** The cost of babylon is higher than i expected. **What problems is Babylon solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to translate quicker and more effectively. - [View Babylon pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/babylon/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+05%3A21%3A19+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=28901ac7-2101-49b4-b77b-a251c6ee12e3&secure%5Btoken%5D=79852cfea374503a13d545b95c1ccead606e0042110c0e62dbd52837d9a1c164&format=llm_user) ## Babylon Features **Translation Options** - Direct Text Translation - Document Translation - Real-time Translation - Batch Translation - Auto-Detect Language - Customer Service Focused - Machine + Human Translation **Offering Type** - Browser Application - Downloadable Software - Pay-Per-Use - Free Offering **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text-to-Speech - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - Machine Translation** - Autonomous Task Execution - Natural Language Interaction ## Top Babylon Alternatives - [Google Translate](https://www.g2.com/products/google-translate/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (554 reviews) - [DeepL Translate](https://www.g2.com/products/deepl-translate/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (160 reviews) - [Microsoft Translator](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-translator/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (87 reviews)