Live on-screen translation.
The whole screen. Automatically.
AFKLiveTranslate 2 detects on-screen text by itself, reads it locally, and paints a clean translated overlay in place, live, up to 20 times per second. It taps your GPU (about 5%) to grab the screen and speed up reading, then works on the CPU (about 15%) and in memory, light enough to leave your game's performance untouched.
Note: the overlay is not captured by standard screen recorders — demos are filmed with a phone.
Average CPU
Real-time translation that leaves your processor room to breathe.
GPU load
It uses the GPU to grab the screen and accelerate reading, so your game keeps its power.
Live updates
Up to 20 translation passes per second, per screen.
From “draw a region” to a live translation layer
Version 1 translated a region you drew, on demand. Version 2 watches the screen for you and keeps the translation live.
Version 1 — region OCR
- ×You draw a region, then translate on demand
- ×One capture at a time
- ×Single-region focus
- ×Manual re-trigger when text changes
Version 2 — live auto-detect
- ✓Automatic text detection plus optional multi-region drawing when you need it
- ✓Continuous live overlay, up to 20 Hz per screen
- ✓Multi-monitor auto-detected, pick your screen
- ✓Featherlight ~15% CPU, ~5% GPU, real-time, no cloud OCR
Key features
Automatic detection
Finds the text zones on screen by itself and keeps up as they change. Need precision? Draw one or several regions yourself for the cases that call for it.
Featherlight engine
It taps your GPU to capture the screen and speed up reading, then translates on the CPU and in memory: GPU load stays around 5%, CPU around 15%. No Tesseract, no cloud, every frame kept.
Clean overlay
The translated text sits in place while the background stays visible, so you never lose context.
Safe reader
A validation stage blocks unreadable or garbage text, so the overlay only shows what's actually reliable.
How it works
One full pipeline runs per screen, from capture to overlay.
Capture
The selected screen is captured live.
Detect
Text zones are located automatically.
Read
Text is read locally, straight from the image.
Validate
The safe stage blocks junk before translation.
Overlay
A clean translation is painted in place.
Always current
22 languages
A curated base set ships in the app, ready offline after first run, see the full list.
Weekly language & glyph packs
Signed packs update automatically in the background, language and glyphs together.
Regular optimization updates
The app checks for and applies signed program updates from a button in the menu.
See it live
The base languages are ready right away, extra packs download once per language and may take a few minutes depending on your connection.
Once it's running, right-click the AFKLiveTranslate 2 icon to open the settings and pick your screen.
Point it at text that stays on screen for a second or more: game menus and dialogue, visual novels, documents, web pages, or subtitles burned into the video image. Auto-generated rolling captions, like YouTube's, redraw word by word and are the hardest case. They are actively being worked on.
Because the overlay isn't screen-capturable, video demos are filmed with a phone.
Supported languages
22 languages. Each one can be read from your screen, and each one can be the language you read in, 462 language pairs in all. You pick the two; the app handles the rest.
The base set ships with the app and works offline after the first run. Any other pack downloads once, automatically, the first time you select it. Latin, Cyrillic, Japanese and Chinese scripts are read directly from the image, no OCR engine to install.
Current release: version 1.0.2 — 6 August 2026.
Questions
How do I open the settings and controls?
Right-click the AFKLiveTranslate 2 icon (the small floating button) to open the menu, pick the screen to translate, choose your languages, and reach every setting from there.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Capture, recognition and translation run entirely on your PC. The included base languages work offline after first run; the network is used only to fetch pack updates and check your license.
Do I need a powerful PC or a GPU?
No. It uses your GPU to capture the screen and accelerate reading (around 5% load), while translation runs on the CPU (typically around 15%) and in memory. No dedicated graphics card needed, and it won't steal frames from your game. Windows 10/11 64-bit.
Does it handle multiple monitors?
Yes. Screens are detected automatically, you pick which one to translate when you start.
Why isn't the overlay visible in a screen recording?
The overlay is rendered in a way that typical capture software doesn't record. For demos, film the screen with a phone.