What VocabKit does

It explains words in the sentence you are reading: on web pages, in YouTube captions and inside images. Then it keeps the words you choose, ready to review in the extension or in Anki.

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A Spanish article with the word madrugada selected. The VocabKit panel shows the translation early morning, marked as a noun, three Spanish example sentences, and two other meanings: dawn and small hours. — Selecting *madrugada* in a Spanish article.

Meaning in context

Select a word, a phrase or a short sentence of up to 25 words. A small VocabKit button appears next to it. Click it, or press Alt+T, and the panel opens beside the text.

The panel gives the meaning that fits this sentence, its part of speech and example sentences. Other meanings are listed below it. Press the speaker to hear the word, or Save to keep it.

More about translating on a page

YouTube captions you can select

Turn on captions and select a word in them, the same way you would on a page. The translation opens next to the player, and the video stays where it is.

You can switch this off in the extension settings if you prefer YouTube's own captions.

A Spanish YouTube video with captions on. The word aprender is translated as to learn, a verb, with example sentences.

Text inside images

Press Alt+O and drag a box around text in an image, a screenshot or a subtitle burned into a video. You can also right-click an image and choose Translate with VocabKit. VocabKit reads the text, lets you correct it, then translates it.

10 image translations a day on Free, 100 on Premium.

More about text in images

A photo of tiles reading Buenos días on a Spanish travel blog. VocabKit has read the text from the image and shows it in an editable box with a Translate button.

Your vocabulary

Every word you save keeps its translation, part of speech and examples. Open the extension to search your list, star words, filter by part of speech and sort by date, alphabet or how often you looked a word up.

Add a note to any word, listen to it again, or export the list as a CSV file on any plan.

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Anki decks

On Premium, export your words as an Anki deck (.apkg) and import it in Anki with File, Import. Each card has the word and its translation with audio, the part of speech, the examples and the other meanings.

Export everything, only your starred words, or the words you select.

The picture is a deck exported from VocabKit, open in Anki.

A VocabKit card in Anki. The front reads Buenos días with a play button for its audio. The back shows good morning, a phrase, three Spanish example sentences, and the other meaning hello with its own examples, above the Again, Hard, Good and Easy buttons.

The smaller things

Keyboard shortcuts: Alt+T translates the selection, Alt+O reads text in an image and Alt+L opens the extension. Change them at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
Click or hover: Open the panel by clicking the VocabKit button, or set it to open when you hover over the selection, with your own delay.
Examples at your level: Choose a level from A1 to C2 in the settings, and example sentences are written for it.
Translate from the toolbar: Open the extension and type a word to translate it without selecting anything on the page.
Saved to your account: Your vocabulary and settings are stored in your account, so they are there when you sign in on another computer.
40 languages: Translate between any two of them, or let VocabKit detect the language of the page. See the list.
Light and dark: The panel matches the page you are reading. You can also fix it to light or dark.
Free and Premium: Free has 30 translations a day with one example per word. Premium is €6.99 a month with no daily limit, all examples and Anki export. Compare plans.

Try it on the next page you read.

Free to install. No card needed for the Free plan.

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