Phrase Collector

An Anki card maker with AI analysis

Phrase Collector helps you keep the expressions you meet while reading foreign-language pages. Select a phrase or a long sentence in any language (English, Spanish, Japanese…), let AI explain it in the language you choose using the surrounding paragraph, and turn the result into an Anki card with audio in one click. SELECT AND UNDERSTAND • Phrase in Context (Alt+Z): meaning in this context, nuance, register and reusable patterns. • Sentence Decode (Shift+Z): the core of a long sentence, its chunks, its logic, and where readers tend to misread it. • Results stream in as they are generated. The panel can be dragged, pinned, copied and read aloud. ONE CLICK TO ANKI • Cards are added through AnkiConnect. Note types and designed card templates are created for you, or you can map fields to your own note type. • The page title and link are written by the extension itself, not by the AI, so they are never made up. • Audio from Anki's built-in TTS, or downloaded from Youdao or Google. The audio language follows the detected language of the text. • Cards support Anki's night mode and follow the extension's color theme. BRING YOUR OWN AI PROVIDER • Use your own API key with most AI providers (any OpenAI-compatible API works), or a model running on your own computer. • The language of the text is detected automatically, or you can set it. Explanations are written in your Explanation language (Simplified Chinese by default; English, Japanese and others are available), and the built-in prompts, panel labels and card labels switch with it. • Prompts, output fields, panel layout (HTML + Liquid), shortcuts and decks are all editable, and you can create your own actions. ONLY ON THE SITES YOU CHOOSE • Site whitelist: add and grant access to the current site from the toolbar popup in one click. The extension runs only on those sites, or you can switch to all sites. • Selecting the same text again shows the cached result without spending tokens. If you delete the card in Anki, you can add it again. LOOK AND LANGUAGE • Two color themes, Dusk and Lagoon, applied to the panel, settings, popup, icon and Anki cards. • English or Chinese interface. PRIVACY • No server and no data collection. Your API key and settings stay in your browser. • At install it only asks for access to common AI providers, Anki on your computer and the audio services. Other sites are granted one at a time when you whitelist them. • Selected text is sent only to the AI provider you configure. Text for pronunciation is sent to Youdao or Google only if you turn on online audio. BEFORE YOU START 1. An API key from an AI provider (DeepSeek by default). 2. To create cards: Anki desktop with the AnkiConnect add-on (code 2055492159).