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Specially designed for computers running Windows 10, 8.1 and 8, My Translator is an easy-to-use app that aims to deliver accurate translations between two languages.

The app can be seamlessly downloaded from the Microsoft Store and integrated into the Start Screen of Windows 8 and 8.1, as well as the Start Menu of Windows 10.

As far as the interface is concerned, My Translator adopts the same Metro look that users have familiarized themselves with, ever since the release of Windows 8. It has a minimalistic appearance that contains two drop-down menus for selecting the source and output language, along with a button for performing the translation.

Text can be typed or pasted from the Clipboard into the dialog box, whether you're entering a complete article read somewhere online, a word, phrase, or sentence.

After picking the source and output language, you can perform the translation with the click of a button. The resulted text is displayed on the bottom part of the window. This task wasn't performed instantly in our tests, as we expected. Instead, it took a couple of seconds.

There are no special settings implemented for this tool. It doesn't integrate buttons for copying content to the Clipboard, printing it, or exporting it to file. Thanks to the options built into Windows, it's possible to share it via various platforms, such as messaging, Twitter and OneNote.

It worked smoothly in our tests, without triggering the OS to hang, crash or indicate errors. As expected from such a compact app, it left a small footprint on the computer's performance, thanks to the fact that it needed a low amount of CPU and RAM to work properly.

To wrap it up, My Translator comes packed with simple and straightforward options for translating text between two languages. On the other hand, it needs an active Internet connection and lacks richer options and customization preferences.