Glowsary: Build Your Vocabulary as You Read Online

Highlight your saved vocabulary across the web and reveal your own definitions on demand.

Glowsary turns the web into your personal vocabulary notebook. When you read in English and look up a word, you save it once with your own meaning. After that, Glowsary quietly underlines that word everywhere it appears as you browse, and shows your saved definition in a small popup when you hover over it. It works like Word Wise on a Kindle, except the words are the ones you chose, and the meaning stays hidden until you ask for it. What you can do: - Save any word or phrase while you read. Select the text, right-click, and choose “Add word”, then type your own definition. You can also add a word by hand without selecting anything. - Recognize your words again everywhere. Saved words get a subtle underline on every site, so you notice them on sight. - Read without interruption. The definition shows only when you hover, then gets out of your way. - Keep more than one meaning for the same word. When a word has several saved meanings, the popup pages through them. - Hear how a word sounds. Click the speaker icon in the popup or on a word card to hear it spoken aloud. - Color your words. Tag each saved word with one of four colors to group and tell them apart at a glance. - Add alternate forms with aliases, so “version” and “versions” share one definition. - Stay in control. Turn highlighting on or off anytime, and exclude any site where you do not want it. - Manage everything in one place. Search, sort, edit, and delete your words, add words by hand, and export or import your list as a CSV backup. - Private by design. Everything is stored on your own device. No account, no sign-in, and your words never leave your computer. Glowsary is made for self-learners who read English online and want the effort of every lookup to stick.