Free Translator in this March 25, 2009 article was a CoDesign application with App Store ID 293855167. The archived review describes an iPhone interface to Google’s translation service. It was a separate client, not the present-day Google Translate app.
This is a newly researched historical guide. The old download’s availability, its connection to the translation service and its compatibility with a current iPhone have not been established.
A simpler route to a translated phrase
The reviewed app let a user select source and target languages and send translated text through email. The review also described promotion of the developer’s separate offline products. That does not establish that Free Translator itself worked without a connection.
This distinction remains useful when comparing translation tools. A pleasant typing interface and a translation engine solve different problems. The interface affects how easily you enter and reuse text; the engine determines the transformation being requested. A product can improve one experience while depending on another service for the result.
Start with a small, clear sentence
For an informal message, separate unrelated ideas before translating. Names, dates and quantities deserve a second look because a small change can alter the practical meaning. Keep the original text alongside the result so that another person can see what you meant to communicate.
If a translation looks confusing, simplify the original sentence rather than repeatedly changing isolated words in the output. Ask whether an expression is literal, a joke or an idiom. Those are different tasks for a reader, and a short phrase with no surrounding context can leave the intended meaning unclear.
Displaying text is not the same as speaking it
The original review noticed that a translation could be shown in a script the user could not pronounce. That is an important usability distinction. Decide whether your task is to show a message, copy written information or hold a spoken conversation before judging an interface.
An archived feature list also cannot establish how the service handles specialized or high-stakes documents. For material where exact wording matters, the point is to understand the result, not merely to obtain fluent-looking text.
CoDesign’s Free Translator records an early attempt to make a web service more convenient on iPhone. Its numeric App Store identity keeps this history separate from the many later apps that share the same generic name.