Piccard: Offline Dictionary, Bilingual YouTube Subtitles & Flashcards

Bilingual YouTube subtitles + offline English dictionary (KR/ZH/JA). Click any word for IPA + CEFR. Save as FSRS cards. No Anki.

Piccard is an offline, privacy-first dictionary that lives in your browser. Select any word on any web page and a clean tooltip shows the definition, IPA pronunciation, and CEFR difficulty level — then save it straight to a spaced-repetition flashcard with one click. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most "select to translate" extensions are thin wrappers around online dictionaries (Naver, Youdao, Google Translate): they need the network, track what you read, and stop at a definition. Piccard is built for learners who actually want to remember what they look up: • Offline. Dictionaries are bundled in the extension. No network call, no tracking, works on a plane or behind a firewall. • IPA + CEFR on every word. See pronunciation and difficulty (A1–C2) instantly — most en→Korean / en→Chinese dictionaries show neither. • One click → flashcard. Save a word to Piccard's FSRS spaced-repetition deck — nothing else to install, nothing running in the background. Most popup dictionaries either can't save a word at all, or only save if you keep a separate desktop app (Anki) and an add-on running. Piccard saves straight to your deck with one click. • Privacy-first. No account, no analytics, no ads. The only thing that leaves your browser is a normal click to piccard.app when you choose to save a word. LANGUAGES • English → Korean, Chinese & Japanese (with IPA + CEFR) — built for Korean, Chinese and Japanese speakers learning English. • Japanese → English (JMdict/EDRDG). Conjugated verb forms beyond the dictionary form are not yet handled. • Korean → English — coming soon. FOR LEARNERS WHO READ — AND LISTEN Built for reading-based vocabulary mining: English news and articles, JLPT reading practice, IELTS and TOEFL prep. Look up once, save once, and let spaced repetition do the rest. You can also mine YouTube: on a video page the Piccard caption panel opens automatically (closable, stays closed); turn on CC to show bilingual subtitles — English plus your language (Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French or German) rendered over the video — then click any caption line to save it as a flashcard that replays that exact moment. Translations are served by YouTube's own caption system; Piccard adds no translation service. Only the single line you click is sent to Piccard — no transcript export, nothing automatic, and the video is never downloaded. PERMISSIONS For word lookup, the extension reads only the text you manually select so it can show a definition; all dictionaries are bundled offline, so no network request is made to look a word up. On youtube.com only, on video pages, it reads that video's caption track (from data YouTube has already delivered to your page) to list caption lines, and fetches the caption text using your existing YouTube session. It never downloads the video, never bypasses any access control, and never calls the YouTube Data API. The only outbound action to Piccard is opening piccard.app when you click to save a word or a caption line. It does not scan pages, record browsing history, or collect personal data. ATTRIBUTION Bundles derived data from open-licensed dictionaries: open-english-korean-dict by jhseo1211 (CC BY-SA 4.0) and JMdict/EDRDG (CC BY-SA 3.0). Full attributions are included in the extension.