Loqi – Privacy-First Local Translation Tool

Users want to translate documents and text without sending sensitive data to Google Translate or DeepL. Loqi runs translation locally using Ollama or llama.cpp, giving full privacy control while maintaining quality through multiple translation engine options.

Local LLM tooling has matured enough in 2024-2025 that running decent translation on consumer hardware is genuinely feasible, which makes the timing reasonable for a privacy-focused wrapper. DeepL offers an on-premise enterprise tier but it's priced for large companies, leaving a gap for SMBs, law firms, and freelancers handling confidential documents who can't justify enterprise contracts. The revenue band is honest — this is a niche utility with low switching costs and easy replication, so $300–1.5k/month reflects a small loyal base rather than meaningful scale. The biggest risk is commoditization: anyone can wrap Ollama with a translation prompt in an afternoon, so without a strong distribution channel or workflow integration (think Word plugin, Finder extension), the tool stays a GitHub repo with 200 stars and no paying users.