Open a word: its meaning heads the card, and every sentence you met it in is numbered below, the word marked with a highlighter. The foot of the card says how often you have reviewed it and when it comes back.
Cards on new paper
Cards have softly rounded corners and one paler yellow. The reading record and the review card on a wide window carry a faint watercolour of someone reading in an empty corner.
Choose the languages you look up from and into
The Look up page on a phone chooses the language you look up from and the one it explains in, so a word or a passage can be explained in a language other than your own.
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Word trees: see how a word grows
A word’s page shows the parts it is built from; open its tree and the words derived from it and its synonyms grow up the branches. Tap any word on the tree to open it, and add it to your library even if it was not there.
Share a word tree as a picture
Share on the tree page turns the tree, with its pronunciation and meanings, into a picture to send to a friend or keep in your photos.
Dark appearance
When your system turns dark, the web app, the extension, the notes you read with and this website turn to charcoal paper and light ink together.
Look up words on your phone
Look up is the first tab on a phone. Type a word, a phrase or a passage to see its meanings, word tree and examples, and Add to library keeps the example with it.
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A word with several meanings is a pile of paper
A word you have met in several meanings is a pile of paper on its page, one sheet per meaning, and each meaning gets its own questions in review.
Meanings above the words you are learning
Turn on meanings above words in the extension’s settings, and as you read, each word you are learning shows its meaning in that sentence above it, without opening anything.
Grouped settings and a sidebar on wide windows
Settings is a grouped list. On a computer and a landscape iPad a sidebar leads the way, and the library lists words on the left with the chosen word on the right.
Translated subtitles in iPhone fullscreen
Translated subtitles stay on when a video goes fullscreen on an iPhone or iPad, and a word saved from a video links back to the second it was said.
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Subtitles translated on YouTube and Bilibili
A button in the player chooses both languages, the translation only or the original only. A word looked up in a subtitle is saved with the lines around it and the moment it was said.
Subtitles on more video sites
Subtitles translate on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, TED, Vimeo and more.
Live captions translated in meetings
Live captions in Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams translate as people speak, the translation under each caption, and you can look up any word in them.
The computer layout on iPad
On a landscape or large iPad, the web app and the app use the computer layout: a sidebar, and the library list beside the word.
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Your line
Every answer adds 1 cm to your line, in blue ink when it is right and in pencil when it is not. The first time you remember a word, the line ties a knot.
arXiv papers side by side in two languages
An arXiv abstract page gets a Bilingual link that opens the whole paper with its translation, terms kept the same throughout, and every word still yours to look up.
Translate a page in any language
Pages in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic and any other language translate whole, skipping the paragraphs already in yours.
Anyone can sign up
No invite code needed: create an account and WordLinea’s translation service is yours to use.
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Look up words in any language
Select a word on a page in any language and WordLinea knows which language it is, giving its pronunciation the way learners of that language write it.
Traditional Chinese
Traditional Chinese, in Taiwan’s wording, is a primary language of its own: meanings, quizzes and page translations are written in it.
Double-tap to look up on touch screens
On an iPhone or iPad, double-tap a word to look it up, or press and hold to select a passage.
Review on any device
Save words in a browser with the extension and review them on any device that opens a web page. The WordLinea app on iPhone, iPad and Mac opens on your library.
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Connect your library and translate
A browser connected to your library uses WordLinea’s translation service right away, with no API key to fill in.
Your library on a phone
On a phone the library is a list, and a word opens on its own screen. Search looks through every word and marks what it found with a highlighter.
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WordLinea in English
WordLinea speaks English, and the words you save are explained in the language you choose.
A note beside what you select
Select some text and a small yellow note appears just outside its top right corner, out of the way of the words; click it to translate and save.
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Translate text in the popup
The extension’s popup translates any text, and can quote what you selected on the page and take a note on what you mean.
Hear it spoken
Hear a word, and the whole sentence it came from, as you look it up.
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Translate a whole page
The extension translates a whole page and switches between the original, the translation and both side by side. Hold ⌥ or Alt over a paragraph to glance at the original.
Phrases and word forms
Running and ran count as one word, and looked … up written apart is recognised as look up.
