ScreenCloud is primarily an English language product, yet it still supports multi-language content on your screens. Some apps include a Language setting you can choose from directly, and any app or feed that pulls content from a connected service will display that content in its original language. This guide explains which feeds and apps offer a Language setting, which languages they support, and where to find the option.
Which ScreenCloud Apps Support Multiple Languages?
The apps below let you choose a display language from the app's own settings. In ScreenCloud, all of these are Layouts apps, so they appear in secondary layout zones such as sidebars and tickers rather than in the main content rotation.
Clock
Date
Soccer Scores
Sports Live Scores
Weather
To learn more about how apps are used in Collections and Layouts, see Creating Collections for Your Screens.
Which Languages Does each App Support?
Clock, Date, and Weather support the following languages:
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
English
French
German
Polish
Portuguese
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Serbian
Spanish
Spanish (Latin America)
Soccer Scores and Sports Live Scores support the following languages:
Dutch
English
French
German
Spanish
Where can I Find the Language Option?
The Language setting sits inside the app's own settings. If the app does not appear under Apps in a Collection, select Layouts from the left-hand bar and look for it under the Layout Apps section. Select the app in its zone, then choose your language from the Language option in the app's settings.
Can other ScreenCloud apps display content in other languages?
Yes. Many ScreenCloud apps can display content in other languages, as long as the language comes from the text you enter or from the connected third party service. These apps do not translate content. They show the original language supplied.
For example:
Collection Posts (Quick Posts) will display whatever language and text you enter when creating the post.
Canva, Google Slides, Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel display the language already used in the connected file.
Embed app displays the language served by the embedded page.
RSS feed app displays the language from the connected feed
Any app that pulls or receives content from an external source will display that content in the language it was supplied in.
Language support for connected feeds
Feeds create posts automatically from your existing content sources, such as Slack, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Unily or an RSS feed. By default, posts pulled in through a feed appear in whatever language they were published in at the source, and ScreenCloud does not translate this content automatically.
The following feeds also support other languages at the source, as long as the connected intranet and the article itself provide the language option:
Unily
Simpplr
Translating feed content with AI Instructions
You can use an AI Instruction to translate a feed's content into another language before it reaches a screen, without needing to change anything at the source. This is separate from the default behavior above: it's an active translation, not just displaying whatever language the source happens to publish in.
Write your own instruction, for example "Translate from English to German," or choose a ready-made template such as Translate to French or Translate to Spanish from the AI Instructions template library.
Translation instructions can be combined with other instructions in the same feed, such as a filter, for example "Translate from English to Thai and remove any posts about animals."
You can preview the translation using Test Run before saving. Translated posts show a note on the language they were translated from, with a Show original toggle to check the source text.
Filtering instructions that don't mention translation, such as "only show announcements," control which posts are shown and won't change the language they're shown in. To translate content, the instruction needs to say so explicitly.
For more on writing and testing AI Instructions for feeds, see Connecting Feeds to Your Screens.