Name: Leafy — Vocabulary Builder for Mac
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)

Leafy is a free macOS vocabulary app. Press ⌥A to scan any word on screen — in PDFs, ebooks, or images — get the definition instantly, and save it to your personal word library. No account, no ads.

You hit a word you don't know. Three tabs later, the paragraph is gone. Hold ⌥A, box the word, and Leafy answers for that sentence instead of the dictionary's first guess, over PDFs, ebooks, images, anything on screen. Every word saves itself, then comes back blanked out in the sentence you met it in. 10 languages.

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Jtobin, I built Leafy. **Leafy looks up any word on your screen without pulling you out of what you're reading.** For anyone who reads in a language they're still learning: papers, ebooks, subtitles, scanned pages, a screenshot someone sent you. **Here's how it works:** 1. Hold ⌥A and box a word. Anything on screen, images and PDFs included. 2. Leafy reads the sentence around it first. "Charge" in a legal PDF and "charge" in a physics paper get different answers. 3. It saves itself. No "add to deck" step. 4. Later that word comes back blanked out in the sentence you first met it in, and you fill in the gap. **Why I built it:** The unknown word was never the problem. The four seconds after were: switch to the browser, paste, scroll past the wrong meaning, come back, lose the paragraph. Ten of those and I've stopped reading. **New since the last launch:** - Review, built on your own sentences instead of someone else's wordlist - Greek, Thai and Arabic - A pile of small fixes from people who emailed me about them 10 languages. Your library exports to Anki, CSV, Excel, JSON and PDF whenever you want it somewhere else. I'm around all day. Tell me what's broken.

The cleanest macOS app I have ever used, Leafy saves the words + contexts while I look up words while reading papers, which saves the words I looked up so I can review them later, and the contexts save is so smart, thats the key to make the words list alive, and the AI responses are really fast and also give the words meaning in context, so I can understand immediately. It's best for building a personal word list and reviewing later

If there is a way to edit the words on the pop-up, that would be nice, because sometimes the scan can't be 100% accurate, but most of the time it is.

I choose leafy because leafy could save words while looking up and give explaination in the context,that helps me to remember the word and not just waste a look up

If there is a way to edit the words on the pop-up, that would be nice, because sometimes the scan can't be 100% accurate, but most of the time it is.

I choose leafy because leafy could save words while looking up and give explaination in the context,that helps me to remember the word and not just waste a look up

Leafy — Vocabulary Builder for Mac

Look up and save words on screen without leaving the page.

Look up and save words on screen without leaving the page.

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