ZhongwenHover

Education

Only for Mac

$4.99

Mac

Read Chinese anywhere on your Mac. Zhongwen Hover is an on-device dictionary for learners of Chinese. Move your cursor over any Chinese character on your screen in a website, PDF, eBook, social feed, video subtitle, or chat and then popup shows pinyin and an English translation in under half a second. Powered by Apple's Vision framework, all OCR runs locally on your Mac. No screen content, no characters, no lookups ever leave your device. There is no account, no telemetry, no analytics. PRIVACY FIRST On-device OCR. No cloud. No tracking. No data collection. Requires macOS 13 or later. Chinese text recognition is provided by Apple Vision.

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• Expanded dictionary added more specific words and niche vocabulary. • Better code cleaner and less buggy overall. • Example sentences every dictionary entry now includes 3 example sentences, so when you run into an unknown word, it's easier to see how and where it's used. • Fully tokenized every word is now tokenized, so you can tap anything in the word lookup sheet and keep following the rabbit hole.

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    Seller
    Matthias Holl
    Size
    42.3 MB
    Category
    Education
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © 2026 Matthias Holl