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Updatesv1.49.0
Custom AI Actions, upgraded: every answer is a card you design
Sentence Analysis marks up long sentences the way a teacher would, and your own actions become cards: what they say, how they look and what a click does are yours to decide, and your AI can set them up for you.
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Dealsv1.47.2
TOKEN FLASH SALE: $50 gets you $80 — stacks with model discounts. 🌶️
Sept 30 only: top up $50+ and get 60% back in credits. Then Oct 1–8: up to 60% bonus on every top-up, with GLM-5.3-Flash at 50% off and DeepSeek-V4-Flash at 40% off.
v1.49.0
Translate X Videos Without Leaving the Timeline
Read Frog 1.49.0 brings bilingual subtitles to videos on X — on single posts, in replies, and right in your timeline.
Built-in AI translation is now powered by GPT-6 Luna
A model upgrade for clearer translations that can make Ultra's weekly allowance go about twice as far.
v1.47.2
GLM5.3 at 20% Off, DeepSeek at 30% Off — Limited-Time Deals, Now Live!
⏰ Valid September 16–25 only. Grab them before they're gone! 🚀 New model discounts announced every week — stay tuned!
v1.47.0
Your words, every time: glossaries in Read Frog
Give a term the wording you want once, keep names and handles untouched, and scope each list to the sites where it belongs.
v1.46.8
Read the paper. Keep the formulas.
Read Frog 1.46.8 fixes missing and garbled formulas in bilingual translations, keeping the notation you need to follow methods, figure captions, and experimental settings.
v1.46.1
Read Frog × Jalapeno Cloud: $2 Free Credit, Half-Price GLM-5.2, and a 20% Top-up Bonus
Read Frog users can stack three Jalapeno Cloud campaign perks through October 20, 2026, and use the same API key in Read Frog, other agents, coding tools, or their own apps.
v1.46.5
Custom CSS for Subtitles: Start with a Preset, Make It Yours
Read Frog 1.46.5 adds custom CSS, live preview, and stackable presets to video subtitle styles. Blur a translation for listening practice, dim the original, or build your own look.
v1.46.0
No Captions? AI Subtitles Are Here
Read Frog 1.46.0 can transcribe YouTube videos that have no captions at all — AI listens to the audio and renders bilingual subtitles. Available on Pro and Ultra plans.
v1.44.0
Microsoft Stopped Offering a Free Endpoint. Read Frog Steps In.
Microsoft's free translation endpoint has stopped working. Google Translate still works, and 1.55.0 opens early access to Built-in AI translation for everyone who cannot reach Google.
v1.40.2
A Cleaner Bilingual Reading Experience on X
Read Frog 1.40.2 keeps X posts easy to scan: translations follow each paragraph, compact labels stay inline, and trailing emoji stay with the original text.
v1.39.5
Translation-Only Pages Are Now Up to 14.9× Faster
Read Frog now sends far less hidden page clutter to translation providers, making translation-only mode faster and cheaper on complex websites.
v1.37.4
A New Read Frog Landing Page for the Way We Learn Now
Read Frog's new landing page shows the product as a complete AI language-learning system: translation, dictionary lookup, Notebase, flashcards, YouTube subtitles, TTS, and custom AI actions.
v1.30.0
Custom AI Actions - Build Your Own Reading Tools Inside Read Frog
Turn any selected text into summaries, rewrites, explanations, and structured results with Custom AI Actions in Read Frog.
v1.25.0
Translation Hub - Compare AI Translations Side by Side
Meet Translation Hub, your personal translation lab where you can compare translations from multiple AI providers simultaneously and find the best result.
v1.22.1
YouTube Video Subtitles with Real-Time Translation
Watch YouTube videos in any language with instant subtitle translation. Read Frog now brings bilingual subtitles to your favorite videos.
v1.21.0
Read Frog 2025: 20K Weekly Active Users & 3,000+ Stars
Looking back at an incredible year - from first commit to 20,000 weekly active users and a thriving open source community.
v1.20.1
Sync Your Settings Across Devices - Google Drive Configuration Sync
Keep your Read Frog settings synchronized across all your devices with one-click Google Drive sync. Never reconfigure again.
v1.18.0
Introducing Smart Context Translation - AI That Truly Understands Your Articles
Experience dramatically more accurate translations with our new Smart Context feature that uses article summaries to help AI understand domain-specific terminology.
v1.16.0
Style Your Translations Your Way with Custom CSS
Take complete control over how your translations look with our powerful custom CSS editor featuring syntax highlighting, color picker, and live validation.
v1.15.0
Track Your Savings - New Statistics Page Shows How Much You're Saving
Visualize your batch translation savings with charts, metrics, and trend analysis. See exactly how much API cost you're cutting.
v1.13.0
Listen to Any Text on the Web with Text-to-Speech
Select any text and have it read aloud instantly. Read Frog now supports Text-to-Speech powered by OpenAI's voice models.
v1.11.0
Batch Translation & Beta Experience - Save 60-80% on API Costs
Try our new batch translation feature in Beta Experience and save up to 80% on API costs while avoiding rate limits.
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