Monday, March 16, 2026

Spanish No Longer Needed To Travel To Costa Rica Thanks To Google

With Google translate and your smartphone's camera translate text instantly in 29 languages, on or offline.
With Google translate and your smartphone’s camera translate text instantly in 29 languages, on or offline.

QTECH – When travelling to Costa Rica or in any foreign country, simply hold your smartphone camera up anything – a sign, a menu, a document, etc., even your computer screen –  and it will be instantly translated.

And the best part: it’s free, thanks to Google.

A few years back, a company called Quest Visual debuted a little app called World Lens. Now Google has bought it, made it part of Google Translate and made it available to everyone for free.

With the app, free at the  badge-ios Apple and badge-android Google stores, users can translate the world, App can translate between 103 languages by typing, 52 languages when you have no internet. Smartphone users, using the camera can translate text instantly in 29 languages.

The app isn’t perfect, it does make some mistakes, however, most of the time it will get the point across.

This is a screenshot of this story instantly translated on my iPhone 7SE.
This is a screenshot of this story instantly translated on my iPhone 7SE.

Because it isn’t known how long the app will remain for free on the stores, recommend that you pick it up as soon as possible, particularly if you travel internationally.

From the internet
From the internet

See the video in 2010 by  Quest Visual 2010 introducing World Lens

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  1. Everyone is always acting like they know what the next iPhone is going to look like, or what features have been “leaked” I mean come on lets be real, time after time when there’s been “leaks” they end up looking totally different. Honestly though, I’d still be using android if I didn’t get my iPhone for free at http://www.iphoneoverstock .com apparently some company overstocked on iPhones so they’re doing it as a publicity stunt

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