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About GTranslate app

Selling into a second language used to mean a second storefront, a second set of product pages and a translator on retainer. GTranslate app is the packaged answer to that problem, the vendor's translation service wrapped as an install-and-go listing inside a platform app store rather than a script a developer drops into a template. Our record points at the app store listing rather than at a generic snippet, and that distinction shapes everything the count below can be used for.

GTranslate Inc. has shipped the product on a Freemium model since 2016, so the free tier does the visible work of swapping the interface language while paid tiers cover indexed translated URLs and the hreflang plumbing that search engines need. The split is commercially useful. A merchant on the free tier is experimenting. A merchant paying for indexable translated pages has decided a second language is a channel worth budget, and that decision usually arrives alongside wider international ambitions, new payment methods, new shipping lanes and support hours in another time zone.

Detection here is a front-end matter. The app writes JavaScript into the rendered page and our crawler sees the result, so the honest claim is that the storefront was loading the app's client code at the moment we visited. We cannot see the merchant's plan, the language pairs configured, or whether the widget was installed once and then forgotten. As of October 2026 the figure stands at 38 sites, which is smaller than the population of shops translating anything at all, because the general service and the platform app are recorded as separate fingerprints.

The gap between those two counts is the point rather than a defect. A researcher who wants every site touching machine translation should be reading several fingerprints together. A researcher who wants merchants that chose a platform app to solve internationalisation has a far sharper target, and the sharper target is the one that sells. Localisation agencies, cross-border logistics firms, international payment providers and marketplaces recruiting sellers for a new region all want the narrow list.

A per-domain lookup answers one question at a time, namely whether this particular shop translates. The downloadable file inverts the question and hands over the whole population at once, sortable by top level domain, by country and by whatever else the store runs, so the segment can be approached as a market rather than as a series of one-off checks. Our catalogue files the product under Shopify apps, which understates what it does. Translation sits directly on the revenue path of a cross-border shop, and anything on the revenue path is both harder to remove and more expensive to get wrong than the one-click install suggests.