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Parallel read a page with SnapPara

SnapPara shows a whole page in another language with its translation beside it, sentence by sentence. The original is on top and the translation below. Use it when a page is a little beyond you and looking up word by word would be slow.

It works on photos, screenshots, web articles and pasted text.

Read a photo or screenshot

  1. Capture a page with the camera, or import a screenshot. The photo opens with its text recognized.
  2. In the top bar, tap the book icon (tooltip “Read in SnapPara”).
  3. The photo appears on top and the translation below.

If the book icon is greyed out, the page and your target language are the same. Pick a different target language in More options (⋮) first.

Read a web article

  1. In your browser, open the article and tap Share → SnapVerbo. (Or copy the link, tap the keyboard icon on the Capture screen, paste it, and tap Read in SnapPara.)
  2. The page opens inside SnapVerbo. (On iPhone, tap SnapVerbo on the panel that slides up, then open SnapVerbo; see iPhone and Android.) If the page asks you to accept cookies or sign in, do that as usual.
  3. When the page has loaded, tap Read in SnapPara at the bottom.
  4. The article opens as clean text, with its translation below.

The browser stays on the site you opened. A link to another site opens in your phone’s default browser instead. To read that page in parallel too, share it to SnapVerbo from there.

If SnapPara says “No article found”, the page isn’t laid out as an article (a home page or a search result, for example). Select the text you want, copy it, and paste it as below.

Read pasted or shared text

  1. Tap the keyboard icon on the Capture screen and paste a few paragraphs, or share text to SnapVerbo from another app.
  2. Tap Read in SnapPara above the text.

Reading

  • The original is on top and the translation below; the bar between them shows each half’s language.
  • Scroll either half and the other follows.
  • Drag the bar to give more room to one side. Turn the phone sideways to read the two side by side.
  • Tap a sentence to highlight it in both languages.
  • Tap a word in the highlighted sentence. A card shows its meaning (with the dictionary’s when you translate into English) and a speaker button. Tap Save to add it to your vocabulary, together with the sentence and its translation.

Saved words come back on your flashcards with that sentence and its translation on the back. Words saved from a photo also keep a crop of the photo.

Adjust the word, or save a phrase

The word card has two pairs of arrows, ‹ › on the left and ‹ › on the right. The left pair moves the start of the word, the right pair its end.

  • Chinese, Japanese and Korean: a tap picks the whole word, not a single character. If it picked too much or too little, each arrow adds or drops one character. In Korean, that’s how you drop an ending: 도서관에서 becomes 도서관 (library).
  • Other languages: each arrow adds or drops a whole word, so you can save a phrase. Tap Beispiel, then the left ‹, and the card shows zum Beispiel (for example).

The meaning updates as you go, and Save keeps whatever the card shows.

Copy a sentence

With a sentence highlighted, tap the copy icon at the top and choose Original, Translation or Both. Translation and Both wait until the translation has arrived.

Find a word, and see your place

These work on web articles and pasted or shared text, not on photos.

  • Find: tap the search icon at the top and type a word. The count shows how many times it appears; the arrows step through them, and each one lines up with its translation. Accents and capitals don’t matter: strasse finds Straße. Back closes the search.
  • Your place: the bar between the halves shows how far through the text you are, from 0% at the start to 100% at the last sentence.

Languages

SnapPara reads English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean (written across the page, not in vertical columns), and translates into many more. Russian and Ukrainian photos and screenshots work on iPhone; on Android, paste or share the text, or share a link to the page, instead. It detects the page’s language. The translation goes into your default target language (Settings → Default target language), or into your phone’s language if you haven’t set one.

Change the languages

Under the SnapPara title, the two language codes (for example DE ▾ → EN ▾) are buttons:

  • Tap the first to tell SnapPara the page’s language, if it guessed wrong. On a photo, choosing Japanese or Korean also reads the page again in that script.
  • Tap the second to read the page alongside a different language.

A page that’s already in your target language, say an English article on a phone set to English, doesn’t stop there: SnapPara says so and offers Choose a language. Pick Spanish and you read the English article with Spanish beside it.

Each language pair is translated and kept separately, so switching back to a pair you’ve already read is free.

Credits

Translating a page uses credits. A typical page takes 1; a long article takes 2 or 3. Reopening something you have already read is free: translations are kept on your phone.

When you run out, SnapPara offers a short ad to earn more. Tap Not now and the reader stops, without charging anything. See Earn AI credits with ads.

How translation works

The first time you use SnapPara, it tells you how translation works and asks you to continue. To translate, the text you are reading is sent to SnapVerbo’s server, which uses a third-party AI service. SnapVerbo doesn’t store the text, and it isn’t used for ads or to train AI models. Details are in the privacy policy.

Tips

  • Photograph one page at a time, straight on. Recognition is better, and so is the translation.
  • For a long article, read it in the in-app browser first and tap Read in SnapPara only when you want help. The page itself costs nothing.