When comparing Lingoes vs QTranslate, the Slant community recommends QTranslate for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop dictionary (translation + definition lookup) programs? ” QTranslate is ranked 2nd while Lingoes is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose QTranslate is:
QTranslate allows the user to select the translation service they would like to use from within the app.
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Pros
Pro Ability to translate any word under cursor
by pressing ctrl + right click.
it is not stated, if this word may be a part of system's UI
Pro Appendices System (conversions and so on)
Pretty unique and nice feature: it includes Currency Converter, International Dialing Codes, International Time Zone Converter, Weights & Measures Converter and more.
Pro Text translation, not just words/phrases
The online translation service offered by Lingoes integrates the most advanced text translation engines in the world, including Systran, Promt, Cross, Yahoo, Google and Altavista, etc, which makes text translation unbelievably easy. You can freely choose these engines for your translation and compare the different results generated by different engines to help you understand the texts in languages which you are not familiar with.
Pro Supports 8 different translation services
QTranslate allows the user to select the translation service they would like to use from within the app.
Pro Has full-text translation in contrast to one-word translation of many other contestants
QTranslate offers full sentence or paragraph translation through selecting as many words as one wants.
Pro Supports setting shortcut keys for double-clicks
Such as double-clicking Ctrl , which is very convenient.
Cons
Con Doesn't support XDXF format.
Has a collection of dictionaries on its site, but doesn't support many formats (if any).
Con Windows platform only
QTranslate is not cross-platform, which limits the usefulness of the app for those that use multiple operating systems.
Con Hasn't been updated in years
Con Supports only XDXF format
QTranslate supports only XDXF dictionaries and on-line search.
Although it's not a big problem, as their number is huge.