A lot of work already happens inside AI assistants and across whole teams. You draft and research in one place, translation comes up, and the content has to travel somewhere else and back. September 2026 is about closing that gap.
The headline is Lara Translate in ChatGPT: the plugin is now published, so you can translate without leaving the conversation. For teams, a new Group Admin role makes Lara Translate easier to run as an organization grows. My Translations reached its first production release across web, iOS, and Android. And there is more across mobile and the developer tools.
Here are the Lara Translate September 2026 updates: what shipped, and why it matters.
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TL;DR
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Lara Translate is now available in ChatGPT
A lot of drafting, research, and content work already happens inside ChatGPT. Until now, translating any of it meant leaving that flow, running the text through another tool, and bringing the result back.
The Lara Translate plugin for ChatGPT is now live. It maps Lara Translate’s existing MCP tools into the OpenAI environment, so you can use Lara Translate’s context-aware translation directly inside a ChatGPT conversation, as part of your research, writing, and content work.
You can find and install Lara Translate from the ChatGPT Plugins Directory. Once installed, you can invoke it directly in a conversation, including through an @ mention or from the + menu where available. Availability can depend on your plan and workspace settings.
This is the first of several. The Lara Translate integrations for Claude, Slack, and Make are currently going through their respective marketplace review processes.
Open Lara Translate in ChatGPT.
Bring Lara Translate into your workflow
Use context-aware translation where you already work, and see how Lara Translate handles your terminology and context.
What’s new for teams: the Group Admin role
As a team grows, one person often ends up managing everything: who belongs where, which glossaries and translation memories each part of the business can use, and how usage breaks down by department. That becomes hard to sustain in larger, more distributed organizations.
Groups were introduced to address two recurring needs from larger customers: keeping linguistic resources separated, and reporting usage by organizational unit. With Groups, an organization can keep Translation Memories and Glossaries separated between different parts of the business, for example so a Legal team does not draw on resources meant for Marketing. Group-level usage reporting then gives clearer visibility into how Lara Translate is being consumed across teams or departments.
September adds the Group Admin role for Team accounts, including Enterprise accounts, which run on Team plans with additional needs. A Team Owner can now delegate the day-to-day management of an individual Group to a dedicated Group Admin, while keeping ownership of the overall Team account. The difference is one of scope: a Team Owner owns and controls the entire Team account, while a Group Admin manages a single Group on the Owner’s behalf. This makes Lara Translate easier to operate as responsibilities spread across a larger organization.
See how Groups and resource sharing work in Lara Translate.
My Translations, now across web and mobile
You translate a paragraph, refine it until it reads right, then move on and lose it. The next time the same text comes up, you start over.
My Translations reached its first production release, and it is available across the web app, iOS, and Android. You can save a text translation, including the source, the translated content, and any edits you made, then reopen it, edit it again, or remove it when you no longer need it. It gives you a persistent personal library of useful translation work to return to without repeating the original workflow.
On mobile, you can save directly from the Text view and open your collection from the bookmark entry point or from Account, then Resources. This first milestone focuses on the core save, browse, retrieve, edit, and delete experience across every platform.
Learn how My Translations works.
What’s new for image translation: Generative mode in the web app
When you translate an image, the new text rarely fits the old space. A short phrase runs long, a caption shifts, and the layout can end up looking patched together.
Generative Image Translation is now available directly in the Lara Translate web app. You can choose between two modes depending on the result you need. Inpainting replaces the original text while keeping most of the image unchanged. Generative mode recreates the image around the translated content, adapting typography, spacing, and layout for a more natural and visually consistent result.
This brings a capability previously available through Lara Translate’s developer ecosystem directly to web-app users, and gives you control over the trade-off between cost, visual fidelity, and how much of the original image is modified.
And it’s also available on our mobile apps!
Get Lara Translate on your phone
Save translations, use Meaning in Context, and sign in with SSO, all from your phone.
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What’s new on mobile: SSO on iOS and Meaning in Context
Two mobile updates stand out this month, one for organizations and one for anyone working with an unfamiliar text.
Single Sign-On is now on iOS. Eligible users can access Lara Translate with their organization’s company credentials. Alongside SSO, we improved sign-up and login reliability, including authentication flows that could unexpectedly end an active session.
Meaning in Context is now live on both iOS and Android. You can view the meaning of an individual word directly within the text you are translating, with the explanation generated from the surrounding context. It is most useful for ambiguous words or expressions whose meaning depends on the surrounding context, thereby extending Lara Translate toward contextual language understanding.
See how Meaning in Context works.
What’s new for developers: TBX glossaries and EPUB
Professional localization and publishing teams work with formats of their own, and moving into a new tool should not mean converting all of them first.
Glossaries now support native TBX. Lara Translate supports TBX (TermBase eXchange) for Glossary import and export through the SDK, so you can bring existing terminology databases into Lara Translate and export Lara Translate Glossaries in TBX format without first converting them to CSV. This improves interoperability with CAT tools and existing localization workflows. Support in the web app is planned for release in the next few days.
EPUB is now a supported Document Translation format. Document Translation supports EPUB files through the SDK, in addition to the Lara Translate web app. Developers can integrate EPUB translation directly into automated publishing and localization workflows without first converting files into an intermediate format, which makes EPUB a first-class format across both interactive and programmatic workflows.
Explore the Lara Translate developer documentation.
What to expect next
September’s shipped updates, the ChatGPT plugin, the Group Admin role, My Translations across web and mobile, Generative Image Translation in the web app, SSO and Meaning in Context on mobile, and TBX and EPUB support in the SDK, are built around one theme: making Lara Translate available in more places and easier to run at scale.
A few more things are already moving. The Lara Translate integrations for Claude, Slack, and Make are in marketplace review, TBX import and export is planned for the web app in the next few days, and work has started on a new Lara Translate web app design. You can follow the full changelog on the What’s New page.
FAQ
How do I use Lara Translate in ChatGPT?
Install the Lara Translate plugin from the ChatGPT Plugins Directory. Once installed, you can invoke it directly in a conversation, including through an @ mention or from the + menu where available. Availability can depend on your plan and workspace settings.
Are the Lara Translate integrations for Claude, Slack, and Make available yet?
Not yet. The ChatGPT plugin is published, and the Claude, Slack, and Make integrations are currently going through their respective marketplace review processes.
What is the Group Admin role, and how is it different from a Team Owner?
The Group Admin role, available for Team accounts, including Enterprise accounts that run on Team plans, lets a Team Owner delegate the day-to-day management of an individual Group to another person. A Team Owner owns and controls the entire Team account, while a Group Admin manages a single Group on the Owner’s behalf.
What is Generative Image Translation?
Generative Image Translation is a mode in the Lara Translate web app that recreates an image around the translated text, adapting typography, spacing, and layout for a natural result. You can choose it instead of Inpainting, which replaces the text while keeping most of the image unchanged, depending on the balance you want between cost, visual fidelity, and how much of the image is modified.
What is My Translations and where can I use it?
My Translations is a personal library where you can save text translations, including the source, the translated content, and your edits, then reopen, edit, or delete them later. It is available across the Lara Translate web app, iOS, and Android.
What is Meaning in Context?
Meaning in Context, available on iOS and Android, lets you view the meaning of an individual word directly within the text you are translating, with the explanation generated from the surrounding context. It is most useful for ambiguous words whose meaning depends on the sentence around them.
What is TBX support for Glossaries?
Lara Translate now supports TBX (TermBase eXchange) for Glossary import and export through the SDK, so you can move terminology databases in and out of Lara Translate without converting them to CSV first. Web app support is planned for the next few days.
Can Lara Translate handle EPUB files?
Yes. Document Translation supports EPUB files in the Lara Translate web app and through the SDK, so you can translate e-book and digital publishing content without converting it to an intermediate format first.
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This article is about
- The Lara Translate plugin for ChatGPT, now published in the ChatGPT Plugins Directory
- Lara Translate integrations for Claude, Slack, and Make in marketplace review
- The new Group Admin role for Team and Enterprise accounts, and how it differs from a Team Owner
- My Translations, now live across the web app, iOS, and Android
- Generative Image Translation in the Lara Translate web app, alongside Inpainting mode
- Single Sign-On on iOS and Meaning in Context on iOS and Android
- Native TBX support for Glossaries and EPUB support through the SDK
