Web pages
News, forums, comments. Point at a word and a card opens beside it. The page itself is never recoloured.
The browser extension
Understand Mandarin wherever you read it.
Point at a word on any web page or YouTube subtitle. A card shows what it means in that sentence, how it sounds and what it’s made of.
Desktop Chrome and Edge. Free.
菜市场砍价On youtube.com
老板，太贵了，便宜一点吧。
Your first minute
Four moves. Then you’re set.
No setup and no account to look things up. Add it, open any page with Chinese on it, and point.
01Point at a word.Tap a word.
02Stay for the parts.
03Press M or K.Tap Mine or Know.
04Meet it in Review.
How it works
It works where the Mandarin is.
YouTube subtitles
Where a video has Chinese captions, the MTW layer takes their place. Switch back any time. Looking up never pauses the video.
- MineKeep it to learn, in Backpack and Review
- KnowKeep it as known, out of Review
- PinHold the card open to see the parts
- CloseClose the card, back to the page
M, K, Enter and Esc are the defaults.
Your keys
M keeps a word to learn, K marks one you know. Enter pins the card, Esc closes it. Change any key; none fire while you type.
Privacy
It reads the page you’re on. It keeps only what you choose.
What leaves your computer, and what we keep- No browsing history
- It reads only the Mandarin on the page in front of you, and keeps no list of the pages you visit.
- No account to look things up
- The card, the parts and the sound work signed out. An account is only for keeping words.
- Pause on this site
- One switch in the toolbar menu, naming the exact site, like news.example.cn. Everything else stays as it was.
- Kept only when you press M or K
- Then the word, the paragraph it came from and the page’s address and title go to your account, so it’s in your Backpack with a way back.
Questions
Before you add it
Do I need an account?
Not to look things up. The card, the parts and the sound all work without one. A free account lets you keep words with M and K, so they’re in your Backpack and Review on any device.
Does it work on my phone?
Not yet. The extension is for desktop Chrome and Edge. On a phone, the Library and the web demo work in your browser, and you can keep the setup link for your computer.
Which pages and videos does it work on?
Web pages with Chinese text, and YouTube videos that have Chinese captions. It can’t read words inside images. On a video with no captions, a free account lets you make them from its sound.
Is the meaning always right?
Not always. The card gives the likeliest meaning in that sentence, and it can be wrong. The pinyin and the parts are there to check it against.
Will it change the pages I read?
No. It never recolours or underlines a page. Only the word you point at is tinted, and only while you point at it. On YouTube, it reads the captions YouTube already shows, as they appear, and leaves them as they are.
What happens to my words if I remove it?
Words you kept with an account stay in your Backpack; removing the extension doesn’t touch them. Settings kept only in this browser, like paused sites while signed out, go with it.