Google Translate finally has a modern design

Google Translate has evolved rapidly over the past few years. What started as a simple app to translate words and phrases now lets you have multilingual conversations and even more practice new languages. Despite these new features, Translate’s home screen and overall app design have remained largely unchanged, and it’s starting to look dated compared to Google’s other apps. Android apps. Now, it looks like Google is finally rolling out a much-needed update to Translate.

While exploring version 10.25 of Google Translate for Android, we found a redesigned home screen that modernizes the interface and better highlights the app’s growing feature list. Google has also reorganized the translation tools across the app, and while the redesign hasn’t been released yet, it looks like the company is actively working on this new look.

The first thing you’ll notice is the new navigation bar at the bottom of the screen. Instead of using a traditional full-width bottom bar with tabs like many other Google apps, Translate gets a pill-shaped bottom bar with four sections:

• Translate for the main translation screen.
• Live for real-time conversations.
• Camera for visual translation.
• Practice to learn the language.

Another major change is moving the language selectors to the top of the interface. This gives more space to the translation area and makes the layout feel cleaner and less cramped.

Meanwhile, the translation input box moves to the bottom rather than the large text field that dominates the center of the screen. The card contains quick actions, including a three-dot menu for additional options, a Paste shortcut, and a microphone button for voice input.

Above the input card, Google also displays some contextual shortcuts. If you have been recently to practice the languageyou will see a card to continue your experience. Likewise, recent conversations can be resumed via the “Return to Chat” shortcut, which takes you directly to Live Translation.

Another small but noticeable change can be seen in the upper left corner. The old standalone Saved shortcut has been removed and replaced with a traditional hamburger menu. This will likely give Google more room to organize additional options in the future without crowding out the main interface.

Tapping the hamburger icon now opens a new “Your Activity” screen that combines your translation history, saved translations, and saved transcripts in one place. Previously, saved transcripts were stored in the account switcher, while translation history can be accessed from the home screen or by scrolling down in the account switcher menu. Consolidating everything on a dedicated activity page should make revisiting past translations and conversations much easier.

Google has also moved several helpful tools to the new translation access card. The three-dot menu to the left of the input box now includes a Translation model selector that lets you switch between available translation models, as well as a Handwriting option to type or type text instead of speaking. This keeps the main interface clean while ensuring that these features are only a tap away.

The redesign doesn’t stop at the home screen. Google has also updated the text input screen that appears when you start typing a translation.

Compared to the current interface, the new screen looks more modern, several UI elements have been changed to make better use of the available space. The language selectors remain pinned to the top, while the translation area takes the form of a large, circular card that matches the rest of the redesigned interface. Your latest translations now appear directly on the input card as you type.

Google is also redesigning the screen that appears after translating something.

Compared to the current interface, the new translation results page adopts the same circular card-based design seen in the redesigned app. Instead of displaying source text and translated text directly on the page, each now lives in its own card, giving the screen a cleaner, more organized look.

Layout is also mixed around. Several action buttons have been relocated while the language selector remains pinned at the top, allowing you to quickly switch languages ​​or start another translation without leaving the page.

Google has also removed the top bar by moving some options to the overflow menu. Previously, there were special icons in the History and Save app panel. In the new interface, both options are included in the three-dot menu, along with operations such as Reverse translation, Share, Choose a text translation model, and Send feedback.

Overall, the redesign makes Google Translate cleaner and more modern. However, as with many interface changes revealed before release, there’s no guarantee that this redesign will be implemented as shown or when Google plans to make it available.