Support

Questions, problems or ideas? Email macapps.support@icloud.com. Messages go straight to the developer.

Setting up

Open Mailkin and follow the setup. It takes about two minutes:

1. Choose the language you want emails translated into.
2. Pick the languages you get email in. macOS downloads each one once from Apple.
3. In Mail, open Mail › Settings › Extensions and turn on Mailkin.

An email wasn't translated

• Check its language is on. Mailkin only translates the languages switched on in its Languages tab, and only once they're downloaded.
• Very long emails, over 20,000 characters like big newsletters, aren't translated automatically. Click Options on the email's banner, then Translate This Email.
• Wrong language detected? Choose the right one under Language in the same Options.
• Run Check Setup. Open Mailkin and click the stethoscope button at the top right. It checks each step and can open a test email in Mail to confirm translation works.

Showing the original

Click Options on the banner above a translated email, then Show Original. You can also set an email or a sender to Always translate or Don't translate.

Languages

Mailkin uses Apple's built-in translation, which supports 25 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Free translations and purchase

Your first 30 translated emails are free. After that, the one-time purchase Mailkin Lifetime unlocks unlimited translation, with no subscription. Emails translated before stay translated.

Bought it on another Mac, or through Family Sharing? Open Mailkin, click Unlock, then Restore Purchases.

For refunds, use reportaproblem.apple.com, since Apple handles all payments.

Removing Mailkin

Turn off Mailkin in Mail › Settings › Extensions, then move Mailkin to the Trash. Your emails are not affected: Mailkin never changes the emails in your mailbox.