Show HN: GemmaTrans – On-device translation for macOS, built with MLX

Category: infrastructure

Tags: machine-translation, offline, macos, apple-silicon, mlx

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

GemmaTrans is an on-device translation tool for macOS that leverages Apple Silicon's MLX acceleration to run local translation models like Gemma 4 and Hy-MT2 entirely offline. It offers a menu bar app with global hotkey translation, a local HTTP API compatible with popular tools, and smart language detection, making privacy-focused translation both practical and performant.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/Rand01ph/gemma-trans · Swift · 3 stars

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