NoaLingua Comparison
NoaLingua vs Immersive Translate: study tool or universal translator
Choose Immersive Translate when the job is understanding — websites, documents and video, across several browsers and a phone. Choose NoaLingua when the job is remembering, and every lookup should feed contextual vocabulary, speaking practice and spaced review. They overlap on screen, not in purpose.
Disclosure: NoaLingua is our product. NoaSolutions builds it and earns money when people buy it. Weigh this comparison accordingly, including the rows where we say we lose. How we research these.
Checked against Immersive Translate’s official pricing page on 21 August 2026. Some rows were confirmed against their official documentation , official PDF guide , official product page instead; each such row says so.
Immersive Translate's main source was readable, but it did not settle every criterion in this table. 4 of the 8 rows are therefore marked unverified rather than filled in from memory.
Our rule is that a claim about another product cites that product’s own page. When we cannot read the page, the honest answer is to say so and send you to check it yourself.
Research method
How NoaLingua checked this comparison
NoaLingua: checked against its product source and plain captures at version 0.2.36. Immersive Translate: checked against its own official pricing page on .
No logged-in competitor account was used for this revision, so it is an official-source comparison rather than a hands-on competitor test. There are no competitor screenshots presented as first-hand proof; behaviours the official sources did not settle remain explicitly unverified in the table.
- supported content and devices
- lookup, capture and review workflow
- account and data model
- free and paid boundaries
- speaking practice and stated limits
Side by side
| NoaLingua | Immersive Translate | |
|---|---|---|
| Browser and device coverage They win this | Chrome only, version 138 or newer. No mobile | The official documentation lists Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari extensions, plus iOS and Android options official documentation, 21 August 2026 |
| Primary purpose | Turn content into vocabulary you retain | Translate content while preserving bilingual context official documentation, 21 August 2026 |
| PDF handling | A bilingual reader up to 50 pages, plus a viewer that preserves the original layout with clickable words | The PDF guide says the free mode handles standard non-scanned PDFs, while PDF Pro adds scans, formulas and paragraph-level bilingual comparison official PDF guide, 21 August 2026 |
| Video subtitles | YouTube and Netflix with sentence rebuilding, clickable words, replay controls and shadowing | The official product page documents bilingual video subtitles, including YouTube and Netflix, across a much broader translation product official product page, 21 August 2026 |
| Pricing | Every feature free on every supported site; paid plans remove a deck-size cap. €3.99/mo, €29/yr, €49 once | Not verified on 21 August 2026. check their page ↗ |
| Vocabulary retention | 30 practice formats, spaced repetition, source context on every card, and export to Anki, CSV, spreadsheet or JSON | Not verified on 21 August 2026. check their page ↗ |
| Speaking practice | Shadowing and scored pronunciation feedback | Not verified on 21 August 2026. check their page ↗ |
| Account and data | Everything in your own Chrome profile; one licence-check endpoint, contacted once a day | Not verified on 21 August 2026. check their page ↗ |
Rows marked They win this are where Immersive Translate is honestly better. Every comparison on this site has at least one, because a comparison the author wins outright is one nobody should believe.
Choose NoaLingua if…
- You want retention built in, not just comprehension.
- You want a local deck and no product account.
- Your surfaces are YouTube, Netflix, PDFs and selected web text.
- You want speaking practice in the same tool.
Choose Immersive Translate if…
- You need Firefox, Safari or mobile — we have none of them.
- Full-page translation of arbitrary websites is the main job.
- You translate for work or research as much as for study.
- Breadth of document handling matters more than depth of practice.
Common questions about NoaLingua
Can I use both?
Yes, and for many people that is the sensible answer — broad translation for comprehension, NoaLingua on the specific videos and passages you want to turn into active material. Do not let both control subtitles on the same player at once.
Which is better for web pages?
Immersive Translate, for translating a whole page. NoaLingua is deliberately selective: a selection, a paragraph via Alt-click, or highlighting the words your deck has not met. Different jobs.
Does NoaLingua work on Firefox or Safari?
No. Chrome and Chromium-based browsers at version 138 or newer, which is the first with the on-device translation API it relies on. This is a genuine limitation and one of the clearest reasons to choose the alternative.
Other comparisons
Try NoaLingua on the next video you were going to watch anyway.
Free, with every feature. No account, nothing to cancel, and your deck stays on your machine.
Add to Chrome — Free Add to Chrome Opens the Chrome Web Store listing NoaLingua — beyond dual subs: video, web, PDF — free, no account, Chrome 138 or newer.- Free, and not a trial Every feature on the free plan — both PDF modes, shadowing, all 30 practice formats.
- No account, no email Nothing to sign up for and nothing to cancel. There is no login screen at all.
- Two dropdowns to set up Pick what you are learning and what you want translations in. That is the whole setup.
- Your words stay yours Export to Anki, CSV, a spreadsheet or a full JSON profile — free on every plan.