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Change the Wavebox Language

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Change the Wavebox Language

🆕 Wavebox now lets you use the interface — menus, settings, buttons and dialogs — in your own language. Because Wavebox is built on Chromium, changing the display language works exactly the same way as it does in Chrome.

Currently in Beta: UI language support is rolling out on the Beta channel first whilst we iron out any bugs!

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Available languages

Alongside English, the following translations are available now on the Beta channel:


English (UK), Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), German, Italian, French, Danish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Polish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål, Finnish, Czech and Welsh — with more on the way.


If your language isn't there yet, let us know which one you'd like to see!

What's the difference between this and Wavebox Translate?

It's worth a quick clarification, as these two features are easy to mix up:

  • Wavebox language (this article) changes the language of Wavebox itself - the menus, settings and interface.
  • Wavebox Translate translates the content of web pages you visit into your chosen language.

This guide covers the first one — changing Wavebox's own interface language.

Choosing your language

Pick the instructions for your operating system below.

🪟 Windows

On Windows, you choose your language from inside Wavebox's settings

  1. Open a new tab and open wavebox://settings/languages
  2. Click Add languages, find the language you want, tick it and click Add
  3. Next to your newly added language, click the ⋮ (three dots) and tick "Display Wavebox in this language"
  4. Click **Relaunch** to restart Wavebox in your chosen language.
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Tip: You can drag languages up and down the list to set your order of preference. The one marked "Display Wavebox in this language" controls the interface.

🍎 macOS

macOS can set a preferred language per app, which Wavebox will follow:

  1. Open macOS System Settings → General → Language & Region
  2. Under Applications, click the + button.
  3. Select Wavebox from the application list, then choose your preferred language.
  4. Click Add, then restart Wavebox when prompted.

🐧 Linux

On Linux, Wavebox follows your system locale. There are two ways to change it:


Option 1 - Launch with a language flag
Start Wavebox with the LANGUAGE environment variable set to your language code, for example:

LANGUAGE=fr wavebox

Replace fr (French) with the code for your language — e.g. de (German), es (Spanish), pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese), ja (Japanese).

Option 2 — Change your system language
Set your preferred language in your distribution's settings (e.g. Settings → Region & Language on GNOME), then log out and back in. Wavebox will pick up the new system locale the next time it launches.

Spotted a translation issue?

Sometimes, the odd clunky phrase or stray English string can slip through. If you find one, we'd love to hear about it via the in-app support button!