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by gxara 530 days ago
I love the concept! I see a big potential in it (I haven`t heard or researched about competitors) I’ll give it a try for Dutch and French
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Thanks! Let me know if you have any feedback.

Toucan is the main competitor. The advantage is that it's free. The disadvantage is that the reason it's free is that it uses a dictionary to translate individual words, rather than Nuenki's method of using Deepl+Claude to include context and translate the sentence properly.

It's a matter of tradeoffs. Trying to translate single words doesn't work particularly well; single word "sentences" are actually disabled by default for Nuenki because the translations are so frequently incorrect.

Proper translation costs money, but the quality is a lot higher.