IG Translator for Instagram™ - Private AI

Translate Instagram DMs both ways with Chrome's built-in on-device AI. 100% private, free and unlimited.

A customer just messaged you in Portuguese. Your reply is due now, not after four tabs of copy-paste. If you sell, create, or manage a brand on Instagram, your DMs are where money actually happens. Product questions, collab offers, shipping issues, price negotiations. And the moment your account grows past your own country, those messages stop arriving in your language. You copy each one into a translator tab, read it, write your reply, translate it back, paste it, send. Every single message. Every single day. That workflow does not survive real DM volume. WHY LANGUAGE BARRIERS IN INSTAGRAM DMS ARE SO HARD Instagram connects you with buyers and followers in 190+ countries, but the web inbox gives you almost nothing to talk to them with. - Instagram's web DMs have no automatic conversation translation - Copy-pasting into translator tabs kills response time, and slow replies lose sales - Most translator extensions send every message to a cloud server, so your customer conversations travel through someone else's backend - The same extensions meter you: a free trial, then a subscription for every message - One inbox can mix Spanish, Arabic and Japanese in a single morning Most sellers end up answering international customers with one-word replies and emoji, or not at all. Every unanswered DM is a buyer who walks. This extension removes the barrier without sending a single message to the cloud. WHAT THIS EXTENSION DOES IG Translator adds two-way translation directly inside Instagram Direct Messages on instagram.com. It runs on Chrome's built-in on-device AI translation engine, the same technology behind Chrome's native page translation, so everything happens locally on your computer. No account. No API key. No message quota. No cloud round-trips. Here's what you get: Translate button on received messages - hover a message, click the small globe button, and the translation appears right under the original text with a language tag. The original stays visible, nothing is replaced. Auto-translate mode - turn it on and new incoming messages in foreign languages are translated as they arrive. Messages already in your language are left alone automatically. Outgoing translation - write your reply in your own language, press Enter, and it is sent in the language you chose. A small chip near the message box shows when outgoing translation is active, one click toggles it. Language detection - the source language is detected automatically per message. If your inbox mixes three languages before lunch, each conversation is handled on its own. 30+ languages - English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Russian and more, as supported by Chrome's on-device translation packs. Clean rendering - translations appear as a clearly tagged block under the original message and respect Instagram's layout. Only real message text is translated, timestamps and UI labels are ignored. HOW IT WORKS 1. Install the extension and open instagram.com direct messages 2. Hover any received message and click the globe button to translate it 3. Open the extension popup to pick your target language or enable auto-translate 4. Optional: enable outgoing translation and choose the language your replies should be sent in That's it. The first time you use a new language pair, Chrome downloads a small language pack once, then it works offline. WHY ON-DEVICE TRANSLATION Cloud translator extensions have two structural problems: your messages leave your machine, and every translation costs the developer money, which is why they meter you and sell subscriptions. On-device AI removes both. Your DMs are processed by Chrome itself, on your hardware. Business conversations with customers stay on your computer, and there is no counter ticking toward a paywall. Local translation is also fast. There is no network round-trip, so results appear in a fraction of a second even during a busy sales day. WHAT THIS EXTENSION DOES NOT DO - It does not send your messages, contacts, or any chat data to any server - It does not read or store your Instagram account information - It does not track you, no analytics, no telemetry - It does not automate your account, no auto-replies, no mass messaging, no follower actions. It only reads the messages already on your screen and writes into the message box when you ask it to The only permissions it uses: - storage - saves your language settings in your browser profile - Access to instagram.com - required to show translations inside Instagram web DMs That's it. No broad host access, no background network requests. FREE AND UNLIMITED Every feature described above is free with no translation limit. There is no trial period, no credit system, and no account to create. On-device translation has no per-message cost, so there is nothing to meter. REQUIREMENTS Chrome 138 or newer on desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS). The extension uses Chrome's built-in Translator API, which is not available in older versions or on mobile. Language packs are downloaded once per language pair, most are 20-40 MB. WHO THIS IS FOR - Cross-border sellers and dropshippers who close deals in Instagram DMs - Creators and influencers with international followers and collab offers - Social media managers running brand inboxes in multiple markets - Small shops using Instagram as their storefront and support channel - Anyone with friends or customers who message in another language GETTING STARTED Install, open your Instagram DMs in the browser, hover a message, click the globe. Your first translation takes about three seconds including the one-time language pack download. No account needed. No sign-up. No credit card. Just answer every customer.