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By day I'm a Laravel developer building a SaaS for Germany. Working with German every day, I got tired of copying words into Google Translate, so I built Tipword: hover any word on your Mac and see what it means. Always happy to talk Laravel, SaaS or Mac apps.

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Maker History

  • Sleke
    SlekeAn iPhone alarm that rings between sleep cycles
  • Tipword
    TipwordHover to translate any word on your Mac
    Sep 2026
  • Pullr
    PullrCloud download, hide IP, stream videos & mount WebDAV
    Aug 2026
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    Joined Product HuntFebruary 16th, 2022

Forums

Tipword v0.9.60: more bug fixes

Hey all, a few more fixes today:

  • Words on a second monitor now translate properly

  • Chinese text is now detected correctly

  • Idioms get picked up even when the word appears twice in a sentence

  • Updates install properly when you quit the app

  • "Report a Problem" now opens an email

  • If your license key stops working, the app now tells you why

Thanks for all the reports, keep them coming!

Tipword v0.9.59: fixed words not translating sometimes

Hey all, spent today chasing a bug where Tipword would sometimes just do nothing when you hover a word. Some of you probably hit it. It was random and hard to catch, but I think I got it.

What s fixed:

  • Chrome: words inside scrollable areas (like Gmail or chat apps) didn t translate at all. They do now

  • Chrome: sometimes it translated the first word of the line instead of the word under your pointer. Fixed

  • Buttons and labels with more than one word now translate the word you re actually pointing at, not the whole label

  • The language picker closed by itself right after a fresh launch. It stays open now

Hide translations for languages you already know?

Do you want Tipword to stop translating words in languages you already know?

Example: you know English. You want help with German and French words, but not English ones.

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