Translate to French Instantly on Your Mac

You need to send a message in French — an email to a client in Paris, a reply to a colleague in Montreal, or product copy for a French-speaking audience. You open Google Translate, paste your text, copy the result back, and hope the phrasing sounds natural. It usually doesn't. Browser translators give you grammatically correct French that reads like it came from a machine.

The bigger problem is the workflow itself. Every translation means switching contexts: copy, open tab, paste, wait, copy again, switch back, paste. For a single sentence, it's annoying. For a day of multilingual communication, it's a productivity drain.

How WunderType Handles It

WunderType sits in your Mac's menu bar and lets you build Custom Prompts — AI text actions with keyboard shortcuts. A "Translate to French" prompt takes your selected English text, translates it into natural-sounding French with correct grammar, verb conjugations, and gender agreement, and replaces the original text in place.

Select text, press shortcut, done. No tab switching, no copy-paste chains, no browser required.

See It in Action

Here's an English draft for a client email:

Before

I need to send this email to my client in Paris. It's really important that I get the details right. 'We're looking forward to discussing the project further and hope to hear from you soon.' Sounds a bit clunky, doesn't it? I'm not sure if 'nous' is the correct word here. And 'details' feels a little informal.

Select the text, press ⌥⇧⌘T, and WunderType transforms it to:

After

Nous sommes impatients d'aborder le projet plus en détail et espérons avoir de vos nouvelles prochainement.

Clean, professional French that a native speaker would actually write. The hesitation and meta-commentary are gone — just the polished translation.

What Makes a Good French Translation

French has nuances that trip up generic translators: formal vs. informal "you" (vous/tu), gendered nouns affecting adjective agreement, and idiomatic expressions that don't translate word-for-word. WunderType's Custom Prompts let you specify the tone and context in your instruction — so you can tell it to use formal French for business correspondence or casual French for social media.

Set It Up in 30 Seconds

1. Click the WunderType icon in your menu bar and open Custom Prompts
2. Create a new prompt named "French Translation Boost" with this instruction: Translate selected English text into fluent, professional French with natural phrasing and correct grammar
3. Assign a keyboard shortcut — now it works in any app on your Mac

Works in Mail, Slack, and Every Other App

Because WunderType works system-wide on macOS, your French translation shortcut is available everywhere — Mail, Slack, Safari, Pages, Google Docs, or any other app. No per-app extensions, no browser plugins. One shortcut, every app.

Download WunderType from the Mac App Store and start translating to French without leaving your workflow.